So many memories for this song...
First time I heard it was at a club, back in the days when DJs used to actually break new music. Months before the video dropped. A couple DJs around my way would play it.
I was like "This new Pharrell goes. The hell is this beat?"

I didn't even know it was a Snoop record at first because
a) Pharrell went first
b) the DJs wouldn't play the full thing and
c) this is around the time Pharrell did "Clones"/NERD so I just thought it was a continuation of whatever the Neptunes were doing.
People acted weird with the song at first. I remember a couple of people like me being

but mostly everyone else was

They didn't hate it but it didn't get a huge reaction.
I go to Jersey to hang with family right before the video drops. I catch the video on 106, the shyt has me like

"this is one of the best videos I've ever seen".... I come back to Canada and suddenly everyone's going

over the record.
Never underestimate the power of an appealing video.
anyway.... fukking classic. A perfect song.