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| | CSIndy: Who Took the Angst Out of Gangster? (December 6 - December 12, 2001) |
 | | After slower sales on his second album, The Doggfather, in 1996 and increasing tensions between East and West Coast rappers, Snoop left Death Row Records, fearing for his life when label-mate Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas and business mastermind Suge Knight went to jail for nine years on racketeering charges. |
 | | Joining forces then with the up-and-coming Master P and his No Limit record label, Snoop made three albums, Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not Be Told in 1998, Topp Dogg in 1999, and The Last Meal, his last for No Limit, in 2000. |
 | | Though none of his albums have sold as well as Doggystyle, Snoop's countless vocal cameo appearances on friends' records also served to build his behind-the-scenes guru status. |
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