Mr. Monk and the Rapper

Just because Rap and hip hop were taking off, does there have to be an episode of Monk addressing it. A big time gangster rapper is killed and Snoop Dog is thought to be the killer. Granted, there is one scene where Monk is introduced to these guys that is pretty funny. The rest of it is ridiculous. Don't bother.

Hated the special theme song. Had to fast forward past it. But the episode was fairly solid, though not as funny as the episodes I prefer. Still some good guest appearances and takes on Monk's usual fish out of water.

I can't understand the lower review scores by some for this episode!

It's got Snoop Dogg for Pete's sake! And Snoop is always hilarious in anything he plays in. And of course he's so cool.

The reaction to him from Monk is priceless and so hilarious. Monk navigates the hip hop world in a fearful stupor but of course comes out on top and with mutual respect for each other.

It's a little quirky and different but is still pure Monk with a great whodunnit to negotiate.

The character minimum can be so annoying.

Really the only thing you need to know is this is a fantastic episode that you have to watch and enjoy.

When a fellow rapper is killed by a car bomb, Snoop Dogg (using another rapper name in this episode) and two of his associates show up at Monk's apartment to ask him to investigate the crime and thus prove Snoop didn't commit the murder. Monk is so nervous he forgets himself - actually he blacks out - shaking hands with everyone and not asking for a wipe and he agrees to investigate the crime. He later regrets this when all of the evidence points to Snoop Dogg being guilty. But now he doesn't know how to back out of his obligation, plus he is somewhat intimidated by Snoop Dogg and his entourage.

A parallel plot is Natalie being offended at Monk considering her a secretary rather than an assistant. She feels this way because he buys her a bouquet of flowers - they were on sale - for secretary's day.

This was better than I thought it would be considering I didn't like the episode with Willie Nelson very much. That's probably because there was just too much Willie Nelson music in "the red-headed stranger" episode. I did not care for the rap version of the Monk theme.

This episode is good fun, it actually copies quite closely the story of BadBoyRecords P-Diddy and Biggie smalls. Biggie died and many believe it was ordered by his own partner P-Diddy, maybe this was dome accidently who knows but reality aside the episode is fun, Snoop does well in his role, they'd part for me was probably the worst rap verses I've ever heard in my life and that is the scene with the rapper just repeating "its a celebration" its awful but the rest of the music is good, I like the changed theme song for this one too, I'm not writing spoilers but Monk and Snoop make a good pairing and in my opinion it's a shame they didn't include Snoop more in this episode.