What Would You Do (Tha Dogg Pound song)

Infobox Single
Name = What Would You Do


Caption =
Artist = Tha Dogg Pound featuring Jewell, Snoop Dogg & Jodeci
from Album = Murder Was the Case O.S.T./Natural Born Killers
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 1995
Format = 12" single EP
Recorded =
Genre = Rap
Length = 5:07 (4:12 video version)
Label = Death Row
Writer = D. Arnaud,
R. Brown
C. Broadus
J. Caples
D. Williams
Producer = Dat Nigga Daz
Dr. Dre
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Doggy Dogg World"
(1994)
This single = "What Would You Do"
(1995)
Next single = "Let's Play House"
(1995)
Misc = "What Would You Do" is the introductory debut single of Tha Dogg Pound from 1995 that has appeared in various compilations. It is also the first appearance of Snoop Dogg within the group. It never went solo, though it had been embedded in the "Let's play house" EP, that reached the 84th place during the year 1996 on the UK Chart. It was the first EP of Tha Dogg Pound and made a perfect introduction for the "Dogg Food" album with the tracks featured on both of them. It was also a part of the "Murder Was The Case soundtrack" which debuted number one on Billboard’s album chart. On the chorus vocals it features R&B boygroup Jodeci and Jewell. The video was shot a year later. In 2001 the track was edited into the Death Rows Greatest hits double package compilation.

It is considered to be a diss song towards B.G. Knocc Out, Dresta, Eazy-E & Cold 187um.
Eazy-E responded with the tracks Ole School Shit and his own version of What Would U Do called Wut Whould You Do.
B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta responded with DPGKillaz.

It was performed live at The 1995 Source Awards.

It was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group.

Music video

The introduction starts in a billiards saloon while Snoop wins a game and quits the place to have a shoe cleaning nearby. He is disturbed by an amateur-dancer seeking a career who tries to show Snoop Dogg his Electric Boogie skills. Then they are joined by the Tha Dogg Pound.

The main plot is short and incoherent. The lyrics is about introducing the Tha Dogg Pound and disgracing the east coast rappers. A street deal is shown that turnes out in a gang lynching, later followed by a car pursuit on the freeway with Daz and Kurupt escaping in a white Ford van (probably a police chase). There's a party in the billiards club with women and other locals jittering the police manhunt while watching its live aircam news coverage in the television.

The music video also features look alikes of Da Brat and Jermaine Dupri, who is told to "go back to Atlanta" by Big C-Style. It was directed by Dr. Dre.

External links

* [http://www.gfunkboards.com G-Funk Boards]
* [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=27672 Music Video Database]
* [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?aid=158379&cr=album&or=ASCENDING&sf=length&pid=684704&kw=Murder+was+the+case Billboard]