huge underground hit, as explains its guest rapper Kurupt, "was one of the things that helped sell The Chronic the most." Interviewed, asked her sentiments on "Bitches Ain't Shit," one young woman, incidentally black, echoed many women's view by commenting, "I shouldn't like it, but I love the song 'cause it's the jam." In October 1993, rap journalist Dream Hampton, remarking aside the controversy over it, called it, in the rap genre, "the best song on the best album of a pretty slow year." Surveying the genre across 1993, music critic Alan Light called the album a "sonic masterpiece." Since the November 1992 release of "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang," the album's singles, lyrically mild, pervading popular radio, shifted the rap genre's spotlight, for the first time, from the East Coast or New York to the West Coast. The Chronic, rapidly, "recast hip hop in the mold of L.A. rap." Snoop was charged with involvement in a homicide in August 1993, but was bailed out continued becoming one of America's biggest superstars. "Bitches Ain't Shit" was notorious, but began reshaping popular music's culture. But meanwhile, even some rap fans still disputed that rap songs, being strongly rhythmic, often sampling other songs, and allegedly not melodic, are in fact music. "Bitches Ain't Shit" critique usually exclaimed either "the beat" or the "flow"—end of the analysis—or anxiety and allegation at its lyrics written in prose format. Expert analysis of the musicality in rap songs' construction, including metric and rhythmic structures within Snoop's style was mostly beyond a "poorly conversant music public," reading about controversial lyrics. Public opposition The runup All in 1990, many rap records gained the Parental Advisory label, Newsweek smeared rappers as, in one reading, "ignorant black men who scream obscene threats," and in Florida a federal judge, triggering ban laws, ruled a rap album, As Nasty as They Wanna Be, obscene, US history's first in music. But, hearing the lewd party music in court, jurors laughed, and acquitted the group, 2 Live Crew. By contrast, recorded amid the 1992 Los Angeles riots, The Chronic reflects this climate—anger, angst, and mayhem, present in Dre's life, too—interspersed by visions of leisurely life for a West Coast rap "G." For the December 1992 album release by Death Row Records, its intermediary label, Interscope Records—cued by its own parent, Time Warner's major label, Warner Music—had Dre remove the track "Mr. Officer," whose hook