Retro Video of the Week: "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" by Snoop Doggy Dogg

Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Snoop Doggy Dogg's second studio album, Tha Doggfather.  It would be hard for Snoop to top his debut album, 1993's Doggystyle, but in the meantime, Snoop had a lot going on.  He was charged with murder in 1995, but was acquitted in early 1996, after which he went to work on Tha Doggfather.

Like Doggystyle and his next album, 1998's Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, Tha Doggfather topped the Billboard album chart and the Billboard R&B album chart.  It has since gone double platinum in the U.S.

The debut single from the album was "Snoop's Upside Ya Head," which went to #5 on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart, as well as the Top 10 on the pop charts in Belgium and New Zealand.  The song sampled The Gap Band's "I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Oops)," and it also features The Gap Band's lead singer, Charlie Wilson.

The video features Snoop escaping from the electric chair, only to drive a Hummer to a concert, where he was promptly arrested by a SWAT team and returned to jail, where he continued to perform live music.  It also stars lovable character actor Vincent Schiavelli as the dumbfounded prison warden.  At the very end of the video, there is a flash forward to, gasp, the year 2021.  Snoop is still alive and in jail, but thankfully, the real 2021 version of Snoop Dogg hasn't aged nearly as much as the video 2021 version of him.