Word: snooped
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Gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle (Death Row/ Interscope) is by all odds the most anticipated release in the brief history of rap. Snoop, 22, was first praised by the critics for his performance on several tracks of rapper Dr. Dre's triple-platinum 1992 album The Chronic. He landed on the covers of Rolling Stone, Vibe and The Source even before turning out his first solo album. Snoop drew more attention, not to say notoriety, when police accused him of being at the wheel on Aug. 25 when his bodyguard shot another man from...
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...
...current charge against Snoop stems from an incident on Aug. 25. According to the Los Angeles Times, his friend Shawn Abrams allegedly argued with Philip Woldermariam, a probationer who Snoop's lawyer says had threatened the rapper with a gun on an earlier occasion. Police say Abrams, Snoop and his bodyguard McKinley Lee tracked Woldermariam down at a park in West Los Angeles, where Lee shot him. Lee says Woldermariam pointed his gun at a Jeep ; in which Snoop was at the wheel. Authorities say some witnesses claim Woldermariam was unarmed...
Tupac Shakur seems to be enjoying as much material success as Snoop. Besides racking up strong sales for his second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., last summer he played a postal worker who romances Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice, the film by Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton. But judging from his background, Shakur might have been a shooter no matter what career he had pursued. In a sense he was doing time even before he was born. His mother Afeni is a former Black Panther, one of a group accused in the early 1970s of conspiring to plant...
...soon to tell how it will play for the trio of rappers booked in recent weeks. Though Snoop is free on $1 million bail, his problems have delayed release of his solo debut, Doggy Style, which is widely expected to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. It's expected now to be out later this month. How much longer Snoop will be out is another question...