Question: Snoop Dogg is part of which music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast of the United States?

 The mixtape contains appearances from Nate Dogg, Ice Cube, Young Jeezy, Game, Xzibit, Flavor Flav, B. Real, Warzone, Western Union, Daz Dillinger, E-40, Goldie Loc, Kurupt, MC Eiht, Swizz Beats, Lil Wayne, Big Daddy Kane and Katt Williams. Tha Blue Carpet Treatment Mixtape is a mixtape by American West Coast hip hop artist Snoop Dogg; it was released on November 18, 2006.  "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment Mixtape" was released as a prelude to his eighth studio album, "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment". <SEP> Meech Wells (born Cecil D. Womack, Jr.) is a music producer from the United States.  He works primarily on hip hop music, and has produced or co-produced for artists Snoop Dogg and Shaquille O'Neal.  Wells is also the son of Motown singer Mary Wells and musician/songwriter, Cecil Womack.  Being the son of Motown legend Mary Wells may have helped jumpstart Meech Wells' career, but the West Coast rap producer quickly proved his talent and eventually aligned himself with Snoop Dogg, another relationship that definitely didn't hurt his career.  Before being Snoop's producer of choice during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Wells began his career as part of a funk band called Trey Lewd that also featured Tracey Lewis, George Clinton's son; this provided him with the opportunity to work with Clinton himself.  By 1993, Wells found himself working alongside producer/rapper Def Jef; the two's production on Shaquille O'Neil's "I Got Skillz" (a surprise hit single) won them instant credentials.  Throughout the mid-'90s, he continued to hone his craft, working on a number of remix projects before eventually being introduced to Snoop through a friend.  Before long, the two were working together as a potent duo, beginning with "Still a G Thang," one of the better songs on Snoop's Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told.  Wells produced a few No Limit songs featuring Snoop—Tru's "It's a Beautiful Thang," Silkk the Shocker's "Get It Up"—before playing a major role in bringing a West Coast sound to Snoop's Top Dogg album in 1999: "In Love With a Thug," "Better Days," "Gangsta Ride," among others.  In 2000 he reprised his role as one of Snoop's producers of choice, producing tracks for Tha Eastsidaz' self-titled debut and Doggy's Angels' Pleezbalevit, as well as Snoop's own Tha Last Meal ("Go Away," "Issues"). <SEP> West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music subgenre that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast region of the United States.  The gangsta rap subgenre of West Coast hip hop began to dominate from a radio play and sales standpoint during the early 1990s with the birth of G-funk and the emergence of Suge Knight and Dr. Dre's Death Row Records. <SEP> Doggystyle is the debut studio album by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg.  It was released on November 23, 1993, by Death Row Records and Interscope Records.  The album was recorded and produced following Snoop's appearances on Dr. Dre's debut solo album "The Chronic" (1992), to which Snoop contributed significantly.  The West Coast style in hip-hop that he developed from Dre's first album continued on "Doggystyle".  Critics have praised Snoop Doggy Dogg for the lyrical "realism" that he delivers on the album and for his distinctive vocal flow.  Despite some mixed criticism of the album initially upon its release, "Doggystyle" earned recognition from many music critics as one of the most significant albums of the 1990s, as well as one of the most important hip-hop albums ever released.  Much like "The Chronic", the distinctive sounds of "Doggystyle" helped introduce the hip-hop subgenre of g-funk to a mainstream audience, bringing forward West Coast hip hop as a dominant force in the early-1990s.