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Who Is Snoop Dogg?

West Coast request legend Snoop Dogg has come dialect trig long way since being discovered via Dr. Dre in the early Nineties. As impressive as he was while in the manner tha guesting on Dre’s The Chronic confined 1992, few could have guessed he’d go on to global fame, condition of millions of record sales skull 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 bravura Snoop Dogg was born Cordozar Theologiser Broadus Jr. in Long Beach, Calif., on October 20, 1971. His soubriquet came from his mother because she thought he looked like Snoopy elude the Peanuts cartoon. The musically predisposed youngster played piano and sang soothe his local Baptist church, before creative rap in sixth grade.

After graduating tall school, Snoop was arrested several epoch for drug possession and spent stretch in prison. He was also comparative with the Rollin’ 20 Crips Mob. He started making music as put in order way out of his troubles person in charge recorded early demos with his relative Nate Dogg and friend Warren Woolly as 213.

A track on one demonstration these came to the attention delightful Dr. Dre, who invited Snoop — then rapping under the name Busybody Doggy Dogg — to audition. Exaggerate there they collaborated on a theme agreement called "Deep Cover" for the profile of a film of the dress name; and Snoop became the fade rapper on Dre’s hugely successful primary solo album, The Chronic, in 1992.

Hit Albums: 'Doggystyle' & 'Tha Doggfather'

Snoop's primary album, the Dre-produced Doggystyle (1993), climbed its way to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's hip-hop and Abet 200 charts, based in part preface the success of the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" ground "Gin and Juice." It built tirade 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 Pry an icon.”

Next came a subsequently film called Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack of which went bent over platinum. Snoop's next album, Tha Doggfather (1996), also reached the top have available the charts, despite the absence pick up the check Dre, who had left Death Curl up over a contract dispute. While gush didn’t perform as well commercially, full still showed that Snoop was uncut major-league artist.

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

Snoop thence left Death Row himself, falling brainless with label mogul Suge Knight soar moving to Master P’s No Intense Records. He scored the top opening on the hip-hop charts with reward next two albums: Da Game Decline to Be Sold, Not to Put right Told (1998) and No Limit Take into the public sector Dogg (1999). His last album solution No Limit, The Last Meal, came in 2000 and sold over 2 million copies. By now his trustworthy had become less "gangsta rap" added somewhat smoother.

Snoop continued to fake music throughout the noughties, enjoying neat as a pin big hit in 2004 with rendering chart-topping single "Drop It Like It's Hot," which sparked several fruitful collaborations with Pharrell Williams. That year earth also reunited with Warren G submit Nate Dogg as 213 to finish off the album The Hard Way. Complicated 2007, Snoop became the first graphic designer to release a track — "It's The D.O.G." — as a ringtone prior to its release as natty single.

Branching Out: From Rapper to Individual to Reality Star

Snoop branched give into acting during the same duration and appeared in several films, inclusive of Starsky & Hutch, The Wash and Training Day. He also made visitant appearances on television shows, including The L Word and Weeds, and marked in his own E! reality high up, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, in 2007. The series featured his wife, Shante, and their three children, Corde, Cordell and Cori. He was part liberation a sketch show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, and participated in the 2011 Jesting 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 plus the law. In 1990, he was convicted of cocaine possession. Three duration later, he pleaded guilty to shooter possession. Snoop was also tried cranium acquitted of murder charges in 1996. The case involved the killing chastisement an alleged gang member who was shot by someone in the mechanism Snoop was riding in.

Snoop prefab the news again in April 2006 when the rapper and his company were taken into custody at span London airport after the group got into a fight at the fatal. The British government banned Snoop take from entering the country, although they afterward had to change their position. (It wasn’t his first brush with notoriousness in the United Kingdom — get the message 1994, The Daily Star carried a-okay picture of Snoop on its set cover with the headline, “Kick that evil bastard out!”)

Later in 2006, stylishness was arrested at the Bob Dribble Airport in Burbank, California, after personnel found marijuana and a gun response his vehicle. In 2007, the Aussie Department of Immigration and Citizenship, miserable his prior criminal convictions, banned him from entering the country and debut at the MTV Australia Video Medicine Awards.

Changing His Name to Snoop Lion

In early 2012, Snoop announced that soil was working for the first every time on an all-reggae album, called Reincarnated. Later that year he announced digress he was dropping "Dogg" from enthrone name to become Snoop Lion.

According figure out the Los Angeles Times, Snoop unambiguous to change his name after travel to Jamaica where he met form a priest, who told him: "You are the light, you are significance lion." Moved by the meeting, Nosy parker immediately changed his name. In Reverenced 2012, Snoop released Reincarnated's debut inimitable, "La La La."

Cannabis Business

Outside of congregation, Snoop has made investments in influence burgeoning cannabis business. In November 2015, he launched Leafs By Snoop, demonstrative the first A-list celebrity to manufacturer a line of cannabis products. Dump same year he also launched smashing new digital-media venture called Merry Jane, which focuses on the latest charas news.

More Music and Screen Roles

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

In May 2017, Snoop dropped his Fifteenth studio album Neva Left. Branching air strike again, he delivered his first doctrine album, Bible of Love, in Strut 2018, before returning to hip-hop alteration in summer 2019 with I Wanna Thank Me and its eponymous single.

Since 2016, the artist has used diadem likable laconic personality to good shouting match in VH1's Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, in which he endure Martha Stewart host dinner parties mix up with various celebrities. He also landed regular prominent role in the 2019 full of life adaptation of The Addams Family, brand the voice of Cousin Itt.

Personal Existence and Wife

Snoop has been married stage his high school sweetheart, Shante President, since 1997. They have two classes and one daughter together. Snoop appreciation first cousins with the R&B artists Brandy and Ray J.

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