On the anniversary of Ice Cube’s groundbreaking album Death Certificate, Snoop Dogg talked about how much it affected him after it came out in 1991. He said that the record even inspired his big break on Dr. Dre’s The Chronic the next year.

“This was the dopest shit in 1991,” he wrote in the title of a post on Tuesday (October 29) celebrating the album’s 33rd birthday. “Gave me ideas for a lot of the lyrics on my chronic album.”

He went on to thank Cube and two other artists who worked with Cube on the project: DJ Pooh and Sir Jinx. When Jinx talked to Soren Baker in 2020, she said that Pooh was the “captain” of the record.

“DJ Pooh took it to a whole new level because he was a pro,” Jinx said, adding that Pooh had already worked with Cali great King Tee at that point in his career. “It was like my older brother when he came in with the Death Certificate.”Just one day before he announced the release date for his new record Missionary, which was produced by Dr. Dre, Snoop paid tribute to Death Certificate.

Snoop told X in a post that the album will be out on December 13 with a funny video.

In the video, two nerdy Mormons walk up to a beautiful house thinking they are going to spread the word of God. When they get there, they are met by a curvy woman in lingerie who booked them for “missionary work” that meant something completely different.

Early this month, Snoop Dogg talked about Missionary’s star-studded supporting cast at the Bloomberg Screentime meeting in Los Angeles.

“This new record will place me in a good position to likely have that last big stadium tour, because it has a lot of features from big-name artists that I’m excited about,” he said.

“Jelly Roll and Sting sang about me.” I’m thrilled that Sting and I made a great song.

During the making of Missionary, he talked about how it was like the beginning of his career when Dr. Dre ran the studio.

He said, “In my mind, I made up that I’m going to go back to being Snoop Doggy Dogg.” “I want to be the kid, the student, or the passenger.” I want to be humble, go into the studio, and let him tell me what to do and crank me out.

“You found me when I was a rock and made this diamond, so I’ll let you shine it one more time.”