Mr. D.O.G. from Tacoma, Washington, has been working hard at getting the Northwestern region on the Hip Hop map. Besides releasing a couple of albums he has also opened up for Luniz, E40, Ras Kass, Mac Dre, Killa Tay, Richie Rich and Dru Down. 

This album Wet is a very nice one, released in 1998 and worthy of a review on Africasgateway. I like this independent shit because in many ways you get a feeling that they are more real than the commercial 'plush' studio generated rap albums. The only way to describe Mr D.O.G.'s sound is to think of this as a mixture of the Bay Area (read: E40), that Dirty South and a West Coast twist. The first track on here Playa Playa is a dope kinda laid back track with some nice vocals by Mr DOG, YP, Squeek and Cool Nutz. You will find that Mr. D.O.G. has a unique style of rapping that is refreshing to the crap that we are accustomed to hearing today. Shit, I also liked that 4 Da Homies which is similiar to E40 rhyme wize, nevertheless the track is phat. Another phat track is Cold World and don't forget to peep Aquaman. 

Overall this is a straight up ghetto album, and keeping in mind that this is 3 years old, I think this is a decent effort, from what I can see, Mr. DOG deserves respect for bringing this shit out himself independently.


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