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| Length = | Label = Stones Throw | Producer = |Last album = |This album = ''7 Days of Funk'' (2013) |Next album = | Misc = }} ''7 Days of Funk'' is the eponymous debut studio album by California-based funk duo 7 Days of Funk (rapper-singer Snoopzilla—better known as Snoop Dogg—and modern-funk musician Dâm-Funk). The album was released on December 10, 2013 by Stones Throw Records and is Snoop's first project with a single producer since his landmark 1993 debut album, ''Doggystyle''. Recording sessions for the album took place in 2013 at The Compound and at Funkmosphere Lab in Los Angeles, and it was mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. Guest appearances on the album came from Tha Dogg Pound members Daz Dillinger and Kurupt, along with former Slave frontman Steve Arrington. The album was supported by the single "Faden Away", along with the promotional single "Hit Da Pavement". Upon its release, ''7 Days of Funk'' was met with generally positive reviews from music critics with an average score of 74 at Metacritic, based on 19 reviews. It was named in HipHopDX's list of the top 25 albums of 2013. ==Background== Calvin "Snoopzilla" Broadus and Damon "Dâm-Funk" Riddick met in Los Angeles in February 2011 at the opening of The Dogg House—an art exhibition of Snoop—when the latter performed at a gallery party thrown for Joe Cool, the illustrator behind the cover artwork to several Snoop records including his landmark 1993 debut album, ''Doggystyle''. Impressed by Dâm's P-Funk-inspired beats, Snoop grabbed the microphone and started freestyling for more than an hour. "It felt like magic," Snoop recalls. After the initial meeting, the two first paired when the rapper-singer invited the funk vocalist to play keyboard and keytar onstage for a performance at the Pepsi MAX-sponsored ''Funk n Soul Extravaganza'' at the SXSW Music Festival in March 2011. They forged a mutual admiration; then unexpectedly, Snoop sent Dâm a cryptic SoundCloud message: "I need some of that heat." For Stones Throw Records founder Chris "Peanut Butter Wolf" Manak, "It made perfect sense for them to (). They're approximately the same age, and they both () Los Angeles funk the hardest."〔 In an October 2013 interview with ''Rolling Stone'', Snoop commented on their collaboration, saying "We're the babies of the Mothership. I've had funk influences in my music my whole career. Dâm-Funk is cold. He's keeping the funk alive and I knew I had to get down with him." Dâm-Funk echoed Snoop's sentiments as he elaborated: "These beats were made for him and he laid down some of the smoothest harmonies and melodies I've ever heard. It's hip-hop, but you can also hear what we grew up on, from Zapp to Evelyn "Champagne" King and Patrice Rushen." Snoop also spoke about re-branding himself as Snoopzilla for this project, which pays homage to Funkadelic maestro Bootsy Collins who sometimes used the moniker Bootzilla, saying "When I'm recording as Snoopzilla, I'm basically an offspring of Bootsy (). We're keeping that spirit alive with that tone, that delivery, that R&B/funk singing, like Rick James and Steve Arrington. And on this EP, I was on some relationship shit: being tired of the one that I'm with and trying to be with the one that I'm with—shit where I'm questioning the one that I love. I'm not even talking about nobody personally. Is it music? Is it my wife? I'm questioning something! I don't even know what the fuck it is. As time goes by, I get a clearer vision on why I'm saying what I said, because some of these songs are really affecting me right now emotionally. They were just songs I did out of the spirit of having fun, but when I write shit, it comes to motherfucking life." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「7 Days of Funk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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