In 1989, Snoop Dogg graduated from the Long Beach Polytechnic High School.
College/University
Career
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1993
1993 MTV Movie Awards: Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
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1995
Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States
Rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg backstage at the Source Awards which were held at Madison Square Garden on August 3, 1995, in New York, New York.
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1996
Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tupac Shakur.
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1999
Dr. Dre, Tom Arnold & Snoop Dogg at MTV's Rock'n'Jock Baseball game in 1999.
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2004
Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, New York, United States
Snoop Dogg during COMEDY CENTRAL's Bar Mitzvah Bash! - Show at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, New York, United States.
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2005
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Snoop Dogg performs 'Santa Baby' during 2005 Radio Music Awards - Show at Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
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2006
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, California, United States
Snoop Dogg during 2006 San Diego Street Scene - Day 2 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California, United States.
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2006
Bella Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kanye West and Snoop Dogg during 2006 MTV European Music Awards - Backstage at Bella Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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2010
Century City, California, United States
Shante Broadus and Snoop Dogg attend the 10th Annual Harold Pump Foundation Gala on August 12, 2010, in Century City, California.
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2014
The Forum, Inglewood, California, United Stated
Snoop Dogg attends the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 24, 2014, in Inglewood, California.
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2014
Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand
Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion performs live for fans during the 2014 Big Day Out Festival at Western Springs on January 17, 2014, in Auckland, New Zealand.
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2014
MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford City, New Jersey, United States
Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg attend Hot 97 Summer Jam 2014 at MetLife Stadium on June 1, 2014, in East Rutherford City.
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2015
San Francisco, California, United States
Snoop Dogg speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 21, 2015, in San Francisco, California.
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2015
Saban Theatre, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Recording artist Snoop Dogg attends the 2015 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards at Saban Theatre on August 28, 2015, in Beverly Hills, California.
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2015
Austin, Texas, United States
Snoop Dogg attends HBO Game of Thrones Presents: Snoop Dogg Catch The Throne Event At SXSW on March 20, 2015, in Austin, Texas.
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2015
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
Rapper Snoop Dogg performs onstage during the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on NBC from The Shrine Auditorium on March 29, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.
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2015
Sony Pictures Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States
TV personality Martha Stewart (L) and recording artist Snoop Dogg attend The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber at Sony Pictures Studios on March 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.
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2015
Dover, Delaware, United States
Rapper Snoop Dogg performs onstage during day 4 of the Firefly Music Festival on June 21, 2015, in Dover, Delaware.
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2016
SiriusXM Studios, New York City, New York, United States
Rapper Snoop Dogg visits the SiriusXM Studios on August 8, 2016, in New York City.
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2016
Lure Nightclub, Hollywood, California, United States
Snoop Dogg attends the ALL Def Movie Awards at Lure Nightclub on February 24, 2016, in Hollywood, California.
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2017
Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg attends the 2017 GQ Men of the Year Party at Chateau Marmont on December 7, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.
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2017
Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg performs onstage at night one of the 2017 BET Experience Staples Center Concert, sponsored by Hulu, at Staples Center on June 22, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.
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2018
Hollywood Walk Of Fame, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg is honored with a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard on November 19, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.
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2018
Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Snoop Dogg performs onstage during the 2018 Essence Festival presented By Coca-Cola - Day 1 at Louisiana Superdome on July 6, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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2018
Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg attends the NFC Wild Card Playoff Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons at the Los Angeles Coliseum on January 6, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.
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2018
World on Wheels, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg attends LL COOL J Celebrates the Launch of His Exclusive SiriusXM Channel 'Rock The Bells Radio' at World on Wheels in Los Angeles on March 28.
Achievements
2018
Hollywood Walk Of Fame, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg is honored with a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard on November 19, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.
Membership
Awards
MTV Video Music Awards
1994
Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York, United States
Snoop Dogg attends 11th Annual MTV Video Music Awards on September 8, 1994, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
American Music Awards
1995
Snoop Doggy Dog - American Music Awards, January 1995.
Soul Train Music Awards
1995
Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Doggy Dogg poses for a photo after winning 'Rap Album Of The Year' at the 1995 Soul Train Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in 1995.
BET Awards
2016
Kendrick Lamar presents Snoop Dogg with "I Am Hip Hop" Award, 2016.
MTV Australia Awards
Snoop Dogg, winner of Best Hip-Hop Video 'Drop it Like it's Hot', 2006.
Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Doggy Dogg poses for a photo after winning 'Rap Album Of The Year' at the 1995 Soul Train Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California in 1995.
Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion performs live for fans during the 2014 Big Day Out Festival at Western Springs on January 17, 2014, in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, United States
Rapper Snoop Dogg performs onstage during the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on NBC from The Shrine Auditorium on March 29, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.
Sony Pictures Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States
TV personality Martha Stewart (L) and recording artist Snoop Dogg attend The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber at Sony Pictures Studios on March 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.
Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg performs onstage at night one of the 2017 BET Experience Staples Center Concert, sponsored by Hulu, at Staples Center on June 22, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.
Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Snoop Dogg performs onstage during the 2018 Essence Festival presented By Coca-Cola - Day 1 at Louisiana Superdome on July 6, 2018, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg attends the NFC Wild Card Playoff Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Atlanta Falcons at the Los Angeles Coliseum on January 6, 2018, in Los Angeles, California.
World on Wheels, Los Angeles, California, United States
Snoop Dogg attends LL COOL J Celebrates the Launch of His Exclusive SiriusXM Channel 'Rock The Bells Radio' at World on Wheels in Los Angeles on March 28.
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, television personality, entrepreneur, and actor.
Background
Ethnicity:
DNA test read by George Lopez on Lopez Tonight revealed Broadus to be of 71% African, 23% Native American, and 6% European descent.
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. was born in Long Beach, California, the second of three sons. He was named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Sr. His mother is Beverly Broadus (née Tate). His father, Vernell Varnado, was a Vietnam veteran, singer, and mail carrier who was frequently absent from his life. As a boy, Broadus's parents nicknamed him "Snoopy" because of his appearance but usually addressed him as Calvin at home. His mother and stepfather divorced in 1975. When he was very young, Broadus began singing and playing piano at Golgotha Trinity Baptist Church. In sixth grade, he began rapping.
Education
In 1989, Snoop graduated from the Long Beach Polytechnic High School.
After graduating high school, Snoop was arrested several times for drug possession and spent time in prison. He was also associated with the Rollin’ 20 Crips Gang. He started making music as a way out of his troubles and recorded early demos with his cousin Nate Dogg and friend Warren G as 213. A track on one of these came to the attention of Dr. Dre who invited Snoop - then rapping under the name Snoop Doggy Dogg - to audition. From there they collaborated on a song called "Deep Cover" for the soundtrack of the film for the same name; and Snoop became the key rapper on Dre’s hugely successful first solo album, The Chronic, in 1992.
Snoop's first album, the Dre-produced Doggystyle (1993), climbed its way to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's hip-hop and Top 200 charts, based in part on the success of the singles "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" and "Gin and Juice." It built on 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 hip-hop fans for generations. It made Snoop an icon.”
Next came a short film called Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack of which went double platinum. Snoop's next album, Tha Doggfather (1996), also reached the top of the charts, despite the absence of Dre, who had left Death Row over a contract dispute. While it didn’t do as well either in sales or with reviewers, it still showed that Snoop was a major-league artist. Snoop then left Death Row himself, falling out with label mogul Suge Knight and moving to Master P’s No Limit Records. He scored the top slot on the hip-hop charts with his next two albums: Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998) and No Limit Top Dogg (1999). His last album for No Limit, The Last Meal, came in 2000 and sold over 2 million copies. By now his sound had become less "gangsta rap" and somewhat smoother.
Snoop continued to make music throughout the noughties, enjoying a big hit in 2004 with the chart-topping single "Drop It Like It's Hot," which sparked several fruitful collaborations with Pharrell Williams. He reunited with Warren G and Nate Dogg as 213 to drop the album The Hard Way in 2004. In 2007, Snoop became the first artist to release a track - "It's The DOG" - as a ringtone prior to its release as a single.
He also branched out into acting during the same period and appeared in several films, including Starsky & Hutch, The Wash and Training Day. He also made guest appearances on television shows, including The L Word and Weeds, and starred in his own E! reality show, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, in 2007. The series featured his wife, Shante, and their three children, Corde, Cordell and Cori. He was part of a sketch show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, and participated in the Comedy Central Roast of the future president Donald Trump. He also uses his likeable laconic personality to good effect in a new venture for VH1, Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, where he and Martha Stewart host dinner parties for various celebrities.
Since achieving fame, Snoop has had a number of brushes with the law. In 1990, he was convicted of cocaine possession. Three years later, he pled guilty for gun possession. Snoop was also tried and acquitted of murder charges in 1996. The case involved the killing of an alleged gang member who was shot by someone in the vehicle Snoop was riding in.
Snoop made the news again in April 2006 when the rapper and his posse were taken into custody at a London airport after the group got into a fight at the terminal. The British government banned Snoop from entering the country, although they later had to change their position. (It wasn’t his first brush with notoriety in the U.K. - in 1994 the British tabloid The Daily Star carried a picture of Snoop on its front cover with the headline “Kick this evil bastard out!”) Later in 2006, he was arrested at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, after officers found marijuana and a gun in his vehicle. In 2007, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship, citing his prior criminal convictions, banned him from entering the country and appearing at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards.
In early 2012, Snoop announced that he was working for the first time on an all-reggae album, called Reincarnated. Later that year he announced that he was dropping "Dogg" from his name to become Snoop Lion.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Snoop decided to change his name after traveling to Jamaica where he met with a priest, who told him: "You are the light, you are the lion." Moved by the meeting, Snoop immediately changed his name. In August 2012, Snoop released Reincarnated's debut single, "La La La."
His 13th studio album arrived in May 2015. Titled Bush, it was produced by Pharrell Williams. With the release of singles like "Peaches N Cream" and "So Many Pros," the album shot to No. 1 on the hip-hop/R&B charts and debuted at No. 14 on the Billboard 200. In July 2016, Snoop followed up with his 14th studio album, Coolaid, which also garnered positive reception.
Outside of music, Snoop has made investments in the burgeoning cannabis business. In November 2015 he launched Leafs By Snoop, becoming the first A-list celebrity to brand a line of cannabis products. That same year he also launched a new digital-media venture called Merry Jane, which focuses on the latest marijuana news. In May 2017 Snoop dropped his fifteenth studio album Neva Left.
For the Fall 2017 TV Season, Snoop hosted a reboot of The Joker's Wild (officially titled The Joker's Wild Presented by Snoop Dogg). It airs on TBS and was picked up for an initial run of 10 episodes.
In 2009, it was reported that Snoop was a member of the Nation of Islam. On March 1, he made an appearance at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day holiday, where he praised minister Louis Farrakhan. Snoop said he was a member of the Nation, but declined to give the date on which he joined. He also donated $1,000 to the organization.
Claiming to be "born again" in 2012, Snoop converted to the Rastafari movement, switched the focus of his music to reggae and changed his name to Snoop Lion after a trip to Jamaica. He released a reggae album, Reincarnated, saying, "I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated".
Politics
In 2012, Snoop Dogg endorsed Representative Ron Paul in the Republican presidential primary, but later said he would vote for Barack Obama in the general election, and on Instagram gave ten reasons to vote for Obama and ten reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney.
He endorsed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in May 2016, saying, "I would love to see a woman in office because I feel like we’re at that stage in life to where we need a perspective other than the male's train of thought ... [and] just to have a woman speaking from a global perspective as far as representing America, I’d love to see that. So I’ll be voting for Ms. Clinton."
Views
Dogg partners with city officials and annually gives away turkeys to the less fortunate in Inglewood, California at Thanksgiving. He gave away 3000 turkeys in 2016.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Snoop Dogg came out in support of same-sex marriage, saying, "people can do what they want."
Quotations:
"When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg."
"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."
"I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?"
"The revolution will be televised."
"Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time."
Personality
In 2014, Snoop Dogg claimed to have become a vegan, although he was filmed wearing fur less than a year later.
Although many rappers claim to be pimps, Snoop actually was a pimp from 2003 to 2004 saying it, “was my natural calling and once I got involved with it, it became fun. It was like shootin’ layups for me. I was makin’ em every time.” He gave up pimping to spend more time with his family because family comes first.
Physical Characteristics:
Height - 6 ft 4 in or 193 cm.
Weight - 85 kg or 187 pounds.
Build - slim.
Hair color - black.
Eye Color - dark brown.
Interests
Hobby: video games.
Favorite food – chicken wings
Favorite TV program – The Tudors.
Favorite color – black.
Sport & Clubs
baseball, football, basketball, ice hockey
Athletes
Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, USC Trojans, Pittsburgh Steelers
Music & Bands
Slick Rick, Ice Cube, himself
Connections
Snoop married his high school sweetheart, Shante Taylor, on June 12, 1997. On May 21, 2004, he filed for divorce from Taylor, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple renewed their wedding vows on January 12, 2008. They have three children together: sons Cordé (born August 21, 1994) and Cordell (born February 21, 1997), who quit football to pursue a career as a film maker, and daughter Cori (born June 22, 1999). Snoop also has a son from a relationship with Laurie Holmond, Julian Corrie Broadus (born 1998).
2006 - "Drop It Like It's Hot" (featuring Pharrell) - Best Hip Hop Video;
2007 - "That's That" (featuring R. Kelly) - Best Hip Hop Video.
2006 - "Drop It Like It's Hot" (featuring Pharrell) - Best Hip Hop Video;
2007 - "That's That" (featuring R. Kelly) - Best Hip Hop Video.
Source Awards
1994 - "Snoop Dogg" - New Artist of the Year (Solo);
1994 - "Snoop Dogg" - Lyricist of the Year;
1995 - "Murder Was the Case" - Video of the Year;
2000 - "Tha Eastsidaz" - New Artist of the Year.
1994 - "Snoop Dogg" - New Artist of the Year (Solo);