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“We’re having James Brown come in tomorrow,” says Snoop.Īlso on tomorrow’s schedule is a meeting with the people behind an upcoming movie version of ’70s TV cop show Starsky & Hutch. On a keyboard in the corner, there are action figures from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, made by Vital Toys, the company developing a line of Snoop-related action figures (Snoop in dreads, Snoop as an NBA star, etc.).Īnd this is the studio where many of the tracks on his sixth and latest album, Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss, originated and where Snoop records Bigg Snoop Dogg Radio, a weekly, four-hour mix of music and interviews that currently airs on 35 stations around the world. Amid a stack of videos, there’s a copy of the Girls Gone Wild episode hosted by Snoop (who drank Moët White Star from a rhinestone-studded goblet while young women celebrated Mardi Gras by showing him their breasts). Kane, artists signed to Snoop’s record label, Doggystyle. There are photos on the walls of LaToiya Williams and Mr. An engineer wears a sweatshirt with a Snoop Dogg Clothing logo. Indeed, evidence of the Doggfather’s business hustle is visible throughout the recording studio.

But it don’t hurt my feelings that they cut it out,” he says. We don’t feel an entertainer of that type is fit to be watched by children.” Snoop is nonplussed by such criticism: “Why do people even worry about what I do? It’s not one person who makes the decision on who I’m supposed to be or how I’m supposed to act. “He has been an advocate of drugs and alcohol use as well as music whose lyrics glorify gang violence and misogyny. “Snoop Dogg is a gangster rapper who has appeared in porno videos,” says Ali, a former gang member who now heads the Los Angeles-based organization Project Islamic H.O.P.E.

But it’s more likely that civil rights activist Najee Ali and Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly cowed the Muppet people. The official explanation: The special was running long. I wanted to do something for the kids, you know what I’m saying?” A few days earlier, the Jim Henson Company had announced that it was removing Snoop Dogg’s scene from its NBC Christmas special. Got me to fly to Vancouver, Canada–my first time flying since 9/11. “I didn’t ask them to be on The Muppets, they asked me. “Fuck the Muppets,” he says, leaning back in his chair as Frank Sinatra sidles up to his leg. His trademark braids poke out from beneath a black skullcap. Snoop is wearing a baby-blue velour warm-up jacket, matching sneakers, and, most impressive, a T-shirt emblazoned with a large photograph of his own face. He’s accompanied by a rapper named Daddy V, an engineer who’s working on some new tracks, a record-company publicist, a couple of bodyguards, and a few other indeterminate posse members. Snoop, 30, is currently holding court upstairs, where the bedrooms have been converted into recording studios. Downstairs, there’s forest-green carpeting, sports posters on the walls, a vending machine that dispenses sodas for $1, and a multilevel cat tree for the house’s only full-time resident, a small white feline named Frank Sinatra. Its not-quite-ready-for- Cribs decor is best described as contemporary frat house.

Tha Chuuuch, on the other hand, is strictly utilitarian. That place has panoramic views and its own full-size basketball court out back. Welcome to “Tha Chuuuch.” This is where Snoop Dogg hangs when he’s not enjoying the good life in his primary residence, a mansion in a much tonier Diamond Bar neighborhood. Also Read The Spin Top 40: The Most Vital Artists in Music, 1997
