Word: broadus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ACQUITTED. SNOOP DOGGY DOGG (CALVIN BROADUS), 24, rapper; on murder and related charges in the shooting death of a gang member; in Los Angeles. The jury deadlocked on a manslaughter charge...
After graduating from high school in Long Beach, California, Snoop Doggy Dogg -- real name Calvin Broadus -- spent three years in and out of prison on a drug charge and subsequent parole violations. "That was the key to my whole life," he once said. Snoop, now one of the most wanted new stars of gangsta rap, provided a good part of the lyrics and vocals on The Chronic, a 2 million-selling album by Dr. Dre, who pleaded no contest in June to battery for breaking...