| "What's My Name?" | ||||
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| Single by Snoop Doggy Dogg | ||||
| from the album Doggystyle | ||||
| Released | November 11, 1993 | |||
| Genre | G-funk[1] | |||
| Length | 4:06 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Calvin Broadus | |||
| Producer(s) | Dr. Dre | |||
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| "Who Am I? (What's My Name?)" on YouTube | ||||
"Who Am I? (What's My Name?)" (commonly titled "What's My Name?") is the debut solo single by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, released on November 11, 1993, as the debut single from his first album, Doggystyle (1993), with the record labels Death Row and Interscope Records. The song, produced by Dr. Dre, features samples and interpolations from George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" in its chorus and throughout, the bass line from Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep," and an interpolation from Parliament's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" in its bridge. The song contains additional vocals by Jewell and Edward Tony Green, and its intro contains a sample from the Counts' "Pack of Lies." A vocal sample ("the bomb") from Parliament's "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" can be heard throughout.[citation needed] The accompanying music video was directed by Fab Five Freddy.
The song and video were parodied in director Rusty Cundieff's film, Fear of a Black Hat (1993).[citation needed] In the UK in 2014, the song was used on an advert for MoneySupermarket, which featured Snoop Dogg.[2] It was ranked number 456 on NME's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[3]
- ^ "DMX vs. Snoop Dogg in 'Verzuz' Battle of the Dawgs: See Our Scorecard & Winner". Billboard. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ Stubbs, David (March 2014). "Snoop Dogg's Money Supermarket advert". the Guardian.
- ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time - 500-401". NME.