Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are giving us another taste of Missionary, Snoop’s upcoming album. On Thursday, the pair released “Outta Da Blue,” also featuring Alus, which will be included on Snoop’s album, due out Dec. 13.
“Some n—as is all bark, my n—as, we all bite,” raps Snoop in the fourth verse before Dre joins in: “You gambling with your life? Well fuck it, let’s roll the dice.”
In the chorus, Alus channels M.I.A.’s 2008 hit “Paper Planes” as she sings, “All I wanna do is bla-bla-bla-blaow/And then, and then, just take your money.”
The visual for the single sees Snoop looking into the distance as smoke (presumably from the rolled blunt in his hand) floats into the air. The cover art for Missionary is a cheeky, black condom wrapper. The new track follows Snoop and Jhené Aiko’s “Gorgeous,” which dropped earlier this month.
Demi Kointz, BoogzDaBeast, and FNZ are also credited as producers on the track.
The rapper announced the album with a playful trailer featuring two missionaries arriving at the door of a woman dressed in lingerie. “Your ad said you were dedicated to missionary work!” she complains.
Snoop has been teasing Missionary — the follow-up to Doggystyle — for several years. The new album will arrive on the 30-year anniversary of the legendary project, the last time Dre and Snoop worked on a full project.
Last month, Snoop revealed that Jelly Roll and Sting were set to be two features on the album. “We hung out and we chilled. Like a child that’s infatuated with somebody as a singer, and you get a chance to meet them and they give you everything you expected,” he said of Sting. “That’s what happens with me all the time: I meet people I’ve always wanted to meet and they’re everything I wanted them to be.”
The album is set to feature songs with Tom Petty, 50 Cent, Fat Money, Eminem, and Cocoa Sarai.
“We were kids at that time, you know what I mean? Snoop may have been like 18 or 19 years old, and I’m, I think, I’m six years older than him,” Dre said in August. “So we were kids at that time, and this one is gonna show a different level of maturity with his lyrics and with my music.”
“Outta Da Blue” was first teased during the trailer for Netflix’s Back in Action, starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz.
