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CALVIN BROADUS acquired his nickname because of his resemblance to that
popular Peanuts character Snoopy the Dog. His father said that Snoop
"had a lot of hair on his head as a baby and looked like a little dog."
His parents split up when he was still a boy; he lived with his mother
and two half-brothers, and spent his free time rapping with a friend,
Warren Griffin, who would later find fame as rapper Warren G. Snoop was
a good student and athlete in high school--several basketball programs
recruited him--but he fell in with the L.A. Crips gang, started selling
drugs, and wound up in jail soon after he graduated high school. Snoop
claims that fellow inmates told him to get his life together because he
had talent.
Over the next three years, Snoop bounced in and out of prison, but he
eventually decided to devote himself to rap. His buddy Warren G. gave
Snoop his first break. Warren played Snoop's tape for his brother, who
just happened to be the grandfather of rap, Dr. Dre. Dre loved Snoop's
tape, and put him on the soundtrack of the film Deep Cover and on his
1992 album The Chronic.
This album went on to become one of the
top-selling rap albums in history, and Dre and Snoop scored a megahit
with "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang," with the chorus, "Bow wow wow, yippee yo
yippee yay." By this time, Snoop's reputation as a rapper was so great
that his first solo record, Doggystyle, released in 1994, spawned several
hit singles, including "Gin and Juice," "Doggy Dogg World," and "Who Am I
(What's My Name)." He was voted best rapper by Rolling Stone readers and
critics in their annual poll, and he won an MTV award for best rap video
with "Doggy Dogg World."
In the midst of all this success, Snoop was arrested and charged with the
murder of Philip Woldermariam, a rival gang member, who was gunned down
on August 25, 1993, in a drive-by shooting in L.A. Snoop and his bodyguard,
McKinley Lee, were both charged in the murder. Ironically, right around
the time the charges hit, Snoop released a single and a long-form video
entitled, "Murder Was the Case." Snoop and Lee were both found not guilty
of murder. Snoop's 1996 release, Tha Doggfather, showed that his scrape
with the law did little to tone down his gangsta cockiness.
Source: Mr. Showbiz (StarWave)
