"Vapors" is a single

Single (music)

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 by West Coast rapper

West Coast hip hop

West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music that originates in the westernmost region of the United States, as opposed to East Coast hip hop, based originally in New York alone...

 Snoop Doggy Dogg from his 1996 (see 1996 in music

1996 in music

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) album Tha Doggfather

Tha Doggfather

Tha Doggfather is the second studio album by American rapper Snoop Dogg; released by Death Row/Interscope Records on November 12, 1996. The album was re-released July 11, 2005. Snoop spent much of 1995 preparing for the case, which finally went to trial in late 1995. In February 1996, he was...

. The song features Charlie Wilson

Charlie Wilson (musician)

Charles Kent "Charlie" Wilson is an American R&B singer-songwriter-producer and the former lead vocalist for the Gap Band. As a solo artist he has been nominated for four Grammy awards, received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005...

 and Teena Marie

Teena Marie

Mary Christine Brockert, better known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer, songwriter and producer...

. It is produced by DJ Pooh

DJ Pooh

DJ Pooh is an American record producer, rapper, screenwriter and film director.-Biography:...

. The song contains an interpolation from "Vapors" by Biz Markie

Biz Markie

Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name, Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, comedian, singer, reality television personality, and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single "Just a Friend", an American Top 10 hit in 1989...

, 'Blind Man Can See It", and "Papa Don't Take No Mess

Papa Don't Take No Mess

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" both by James Brown

James Brown

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. It reached number 18 in the UK singles chart. It was also featured in Snoop Dogg's greatest hits album, Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg at His Best

Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg at His Best

Snoop Doggy Dogg's Greatest Hits is a Greatest hits album that includes his hits and also includes 6 never before released songs from Snoop Dogg's Death Row Records days. It was released on October 23, 2001 by Suge Knight. It was re-released on March 20, 2006.Threat appeared courtesy of Da Bomb...

.

The remix version of Snoop's Upside Your Head uses the lyrics of the radio edit version.

Music video

The music video shows that a man is in a room surrounded by security camera screens watching Snoop, Nate Dogg

Nate Dogg

Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...

 and Daz

Daz

Daz may refer to:*Daz Dillinger, an American record producer and rapper.*Daz Sampson, a British dance music producer and vocalist.*Daz , a laundry detergent sold in the United Kingdom....

 with scenes showing their previous lives (rags to riches). In the first verse Snoop (as a rich gangster) shows the life of Nate Dogg and how far he came along. In the second verse Snoop shows himself dressed in khakis, a black sweater that reads 213

213

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, and a blue bandana showing how far along Daz came from being a simple thug to a now rich millionaire.

On his third verse he shows how Warren G

Warren G

Warren G , is an American West Coast rapper and hip hop producer. He is also Dr. Dre's half-brother.His biggest hit is the song "Regulate" with Nate Dogg released in 1994...

 has progressed from trying to get a job as a DJ at the V.I.P. Records store to now having sold a multi-platinum (although he makes no appearance in the video). On the last verse Snoop shows how he himself struggled to join a gang (getting rejected) and to make money, later showing himself as his "Doggfather" image in a zoot suit

Zoot suit

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. In the end it shows the city of Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 at night with the man gone from the room. Biz Markie

Biz Markie

Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name, Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, comedian, singer, reality television personality, and commercial spokesperson. He is best known for his single "Just a Friend", an American Top 10 hit in 1989...

, Nate Dogg

Nate Dogg

Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...

 and Dat Nigga Daz all made cameo appearances in the video.

Reception

The song was unranked in the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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, although it did get ranked fairly well on the Hot Rap Tracks

Hot Rap Tracks

Rap Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets. From 1989 through 2001, it was based on how much the single...

 and U.K. Singles Chart at #18.

Track listing

#	Title
1	"Vapors (album version)"
2	"Vapors (live)"
3	"Snoop's Upside Ya Head Snoop's Upside Ya Head "Snoop's Upside Ya Head" is the second European hit and the first single release of Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1996 sophomore album Tha Doggfather... (remix)"
4	"Vapors (album instrumental)"