Snoop Dogg hires Jelly Roll and Sting for Dr. Dre produced LP

Snoop Dogg's long-in-the-works reunion album with producer Dr. Dre will include some special guests who are a far cry from the world of hip-hop they helped create in the 1990s.

The multi-hyphenate revealed yesterday (October 10) during an appearance at the Bloomberg Screentime conference, which will feature both country upstart Jelly Roll and rock legend Sting missionaryfor which a release date has not yet been announced, but is expected before the end of the year.

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“I’m so glad that Sting and I have such a good record,” he said. “We hung out and relaxed. Like a child who is fascinated by someone as a singer and you get the chance to meet him and he gives you everything you expect. This happens to me all the time: I meet people I've always wanted to meet, and they're everything I wanted them to be.”

What the renewed collaboration with Dr. Dre, who was behind the legendary 1993 album Doggy styleenthused Snoop: “1993 was the last time he produced a full Snoop Dogg album. So this is a reunion and collaboration between two friends who really love each other. We know we are better together.”

Method Man, 50 Cent and Erick Sermon are among the other guest artists expected to perform missionarywhat Dr. Dre told Entertainment tonight in August would “show a different level of maturity with my music. I feel like this is some of the best music I've done in my career.”

During his Screentime interview, Snoop said missionary will hopefully “put me in a position to probably do that last big stadium tour” and also hinted at a separate project that's a far cry from his usual hip-hop sound.

“I made a jazz album that I haven’t released yet,” he said, adding that he worked with the late Clark Terry, Quincy Jones’ mentor, on the as-yet-untitled LP. “It’s more or less like spoken word about jazz music. It was a genre I always wanted to get into.”

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