![]() Recent gospel-rap albums like Kanye’s The Life of Pablo and Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book didn’t devote much time to actual gospel artists. The album’s crammed to the gills with guests-some old friends like Daz Dillinger, a few big names like Patti Labelle and Jazze Pha but mostly artists unknown outside of Christian circles. It’ll probably be most effective as a primer to gospel. ![]() Maybe it’s a light-side answer to his porn VHS. It’d be more convincing as a genre experiment if Snoop served as more than just a host. Interviews suggest BIble of Love is a cry for sanity in turbulent times, but there’s no clear social justice angle besides platitudes about love. Why would Snoop do this? Snoop isn’t known as a man of God, and he hops between faiths with Dylan-like frivolity he was a member of the Nation of Islam around 2009 before his almost-certainly-facetious conversion to Rastafari in 2012. It’s just an extremely niche product, and it’s the first release of the rapper’s increasingly weird late career longtime fans could be forgiven for skipping. In fact, it contains some of the most powerful moments in the Doggfather’s recent catalog. ![]() If that appeals to you, you’re either a scarily devoted Snoop fan or one of the 5,000 that bought it in its first week-low numbers by Snoop standards, but enough to get it to #1 on the gospel charts. Bible of Love is 134 minutes long, Snoop Dogg’s voice is on maybe a tenth of it and the whole thing’s about Jesus. ![]()
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