Back in 1993 when Snoop Doggy Dogg first appeared on the scene with his name-laden-chorus-hook song "Who Am I? What's My Name?", I had the idea of doing a parody of that song about the comic strip "Peanuts", its main character Charlie Brown, and of course his dog Snoopy. I wrote the idea down in my notebook, but never started working on it mainly because I assumed that somebody somewhere was going to do the same idea. I figured everyone else was thinking the exact same thing that I was; that it was very, very silly that a supposedly big-bad, scary, tough gangsta rapper seriously named himself after a world famous cartoon dog.

17 or so years later, I'm going through my old notebooks looking for lost undone song ideas to talk about on my podcast, and I found "Snoopy The Dogg" written on my very first list of song parody ideas, and my mind boggled at the fact that to this day, still, nobody had ever recorded a comedy song tying "Snoop" to "Snoopy". And since Charles Schulz was such a huge inspiration to me both in art and comedy when I was very young, I figured it was time for me to stop being so wishy-washy and make this tribute tune a reality.

Backup vocals by Carrie Dahlby (the little red haired girl), cameo vocals by Chris Mezzolesta (beagle scout leader), Insane Ian (isn't he the cutest thing?), and the Stacey (naturally curly hair). Music by Jared Ringold (sly dog), additional instrumentation and mixdown by Bob Emmett (Daisy Hill Puppy Farmer).

SNOOPY THE DOGG
by the great Luke Ski
Download it now for free at the Funny Music Project
http://www.thefump.com