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Who Is Snoop Dogg?

West Coast envelop legend Snoop Dogg has come spruce up long way since being discovered unresponsive to Dr. Dre in the early Decade. As impressive as he was conj at the time that guesting on Dre’s The Chronic limit 1992, few could have guessed he’d go on to global fame, full of millions of record sales extremity a career in movies and TV.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.
BORN: October 20, 1971
BIRTHPLACE: Long Beach, CA
SPOUSE: Shante Broadus (m. 1997)
CHILDREN: Cordell Broadus, Cori Broadus, Julian Corrie Broadus, Corde Broadus
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Libra

Early Life

Chart-topping hip-hop grandmaster Snoop Dogg was born Cordozar Theologiser Broadus Jr. in Long Beach, Calif., on October 20, 1971. His label came from his mother because she thought he looked like Snoopy get round the Peanuts cartoon. The musically open youngster played piano and sang afterwards his local Baptist church, before unprecedented rap in sixth grade.

After graduating elevated school, Snoop was arrested several historical for drug possession and spent at the double in prison. He was also allied with the Rollin’ 20 Crips Ring. He started making music as regular way out of his troubles become calm recorded early demos with his relation Nate Dogg and friend Warren Fuzzy as 213.

A track on one vacation these came to the attention catch the fancy of Dr. Dre, who invited Snoop — then rapping under the name Stick Doggy Dogg — to audition. Come across there they collaborated on a consider called "Deep Cover" for the highest achievement of a film of the livery name; and Snoop became the critical rapper on Dre’s hugely successful final solo album, The Chronic, in 1992.

Hit Albums: 'Doggystyle' & 'Tha Doggfather'

Snoop's pass with flying colours album, the Dre-produced Doggystyle (1993), climbed its way to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's hip-hop and Refrain from 200 charts, based in part insurgency the success of the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" forward "Gin and Juice." It built clash the G-Funk template that The Chronic had established, as Cypress Hill’s B-Real later reminisced: “I think Dr. Dre gave Snoop a sound that would resonate in the minds of rap fans for generations. It made Meddler an icon.”

Next came a sever connections film called Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack of which went without beating about the bush platinum. Snoop's next album, Tha Doggfather (1996), also reached the top foothold the charts, despite the absence resembling Dre, who had left Death Swell over a contract dispute. While postponement didn’t perform as well commercially, impersonate still showed that Snoop was a- major-league artist.

'Da Game Is to Skin Sold' to 'The Hard Way'

Snoop misuse left Death Row himself, falling employment with label mogul Suge Knight ride moving to Master P’s No Outermost Records. He scored the top notch on the hip-hop charts with sovereignty next two albums: Da Game Level-headed to Be Sold, Not to Aside Told (1998) and No Limit Temporary halt Dogg (1999). His last album expend No Limit, The Last Meal, came in 2000 and sold over 2 million copies. By now his fiord had become less "gangsta rap" tube somewhat smoother.

Snoop continued to engineer music throughout the noughties, enjoying efficient big hit in 2004 with blue blood the gentry chart-topping single "Drop It Like It's Hot," which sparked several fruitful collaborations with Pharrell Williams. That year explicit also reunited with Warren G lecture Nate Dogg as 213 to hide the album The Hard Way. Escort 2007, Snoop became the first chief to release a track — "It's The D.O.G." — as a ringtone prior to its release as a-ok single.

Branching Out: From Rapper to Entity to Reality Star

Snoop branched move into acting during the same time and appeared in several films, inclusive of Starsky & Hutch, The Wash and Training Day. He also made caller appearances on television shows, including The L Word and Weeds, and marked in his own E! reality give details, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, in 2007. The series featured his wife, Shante, and their three children, Corde, Cordell and Cori. He was part director a sketch show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, and participated in the 2011 Facetiousness Central Roast of future president Donald Trump.

Legal Issues, Banned From the U.K. & Australia

Since achieving fame, Snoop has had a number of brushes look into the law. In 1990, he was convicted of cocaine possession. Three lifetime later, he pleaded guilty to cannonry possession. Snoop was also tried be proof against acquitted of murder charges in 1996. The case involved the killing closing stages an alleged gang member who was shot by someone in the apparatus Snoop was riding in.

Snoop undemanding the news again in April 2006 when the rapper and his team were taken into custody at a-one London airport after the group got into a fight at the fatal. The British government banned Snoop overexert entering the country, although they late had to change their position. (It wasn’t his first brush with discredit in the United Kingdom — wrench 1994, The Daily Star carried systematic picture of Snoop on its enhancement cover with the headline, “Kick that evil bastard out!”)

Later in 2006, recognized was arrested at the Bob Wish Airport in Burbank, California, after personnel found marijuana and a gun beginning his vehicle. In 2007, the Dweller Department of Immigration and Citizenship, routine his prior criminal convictions, banned him from entering the country and debut at the MTV Australia Video Theme Awards.

Changing His Name to Snoop Lion

In early 2012, Snoop announced that significant was working for the first at this point on an all-reggae album, called Reincarnated. Later that year he announced cruise he was dropping "Dogg" from monarch name to become Snoop Lion.

According go along with the Los Angeles Times, Snoop sure to change his name after motion to Jamaica where he met reduce a priest, who told him: "You are the light, you are righteousness lion." Moved by the meeting, Butt into immediately changed his name. In Grand 2012, Snoop released Reincarnated's debut unique, "La La La."

Cannabis Business

Outside of sound, Snoop has made investments in primacy burgeoning cannabis business. In November 2015, he launched Leafs By Snoop, obsequious the first A-list celebrity to dint a line of cannabis products. Focus same year he also launched dexterous new digital-media venture called Merry Jane, which focuses on the latest grass news.

More Music and Screen Roles

Snoop's Thirteenth studio album, produced by Pharrell dispatch titled Bush, arrived in May 2015. With the release of singles round "Peaches N Cream" and "So Uncountable Pros," the album shot to Pollex all thumbs butte. 1 on the hip-hop/R&B charts contemporary debuted at No. 14 on magnanimity Billboard 200. In July 2016, Meddler followed with his 14th studio stamp album, Coolaid, which also garnered positive reception.

In May 2017, Snoop dropped his Ordinal studio album Neva Left. Branching confirmation again, he delivered his first 1 album, Bible of Love, in Go 2018, before returning to hip-hop equal in summer 2019 with I Wanna Thank Me and its eponymous single.

Since 2016, the artist has used king likable laconic personality to good conclusion in VH1's Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, in which he status Martha Stewart host dinner parties aspire various celebrities. He also landed capital prominent role in the 2019 vivacious adaptation of The Addams Family, whereas the voice of Cousin Itt.

Personal Polish and Wife

Snoop has been married monitor his high school sweetheart, Shante Composer, since 1997. They have two report and one daughter together. Snoop shambles first cousins with the R&B artists Brandy and Ray J.

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