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Make it a Double: Two Renditions of “Gin and Juice” Reconsidered

The popular rap song ‘‘Gin and Juice’’ was co-composed by Snoop Doggy Dogg and included on his debut album Doggystyle in 1993. The song was at once a commercial success and touchstone of popular culture, becoming unavoidable at house parties and dance clubs, helping the album sell four million copies, and solidifying the cultural significance of Death Row Records. A Billboard Top 10 hit and nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award in the category of ‘‘Best Rap Solo Performance,’’ the song helped to establish Snoop Dogg’s celebrity. But the song has been no less career-defining for the Austin-based indie band The Gourds, who included a cover of ‘‘Gin and Juice’’ on their lesser-known 1998 EP Gogitchyershinebox. The Gourds played ‘‘Gin and Juice’’ rather differently, transforming Snoop Dogg’s tale of sex, friendship, and intoxication into an exaggerated bluegrass stomp. Their ‘‘Gin and Juice’’ is a tongue-in-mandolin rendition of Snoop Dogg’s hit; by remaining faithful to Snoop’s lyrics but not his genre, they open a comic gap between the lyrics and the musical arrangement, exploiting listener expectations about racial identity and musical performance. Despite the limited release and sales of Gogitchyershinebox, The Gourds’s rendition of ‘‘Gin and Juice’’ became something of a popular culture sensation: thanks to peerto-peer file-sharing networks, such as the original Napster, by the earliest years of the twenty-first century hundreds of thousands of