For a rapper with such a laid-back delivery, Snoop has always kept himself incredibly busy. Over the past 20 years or so he has appeared on over 120 singles, made 20 mixtapes, released twelve hip hop albums and one reggae album, made 3 TV shows and been in nearly 30 movies. He’s collaborated with everyone from Dr Dre to Damon Albarn (in Gorillaz), from Katy Perry to Korn. He’s been a Doggy and a Lion, he’s been DJ Snoopadelic, film-maker Snoop Scorcese, one of Tha Eastsidaz, a 213, the most notorious of Tha Broadus Boyz. The kids on his high school American football team call him coach, and his mum named him Calvin.
He’s also been a guest on almost every Radio 1 show, from Annie Mac to Scott Mills, he even freestyled the news, thanks to an inspired moment from Westwood. And he’s single-handedly responsible for the global popularity of that thing where people hide the second half of their words under an -izzle suffix (technically known as an izzizzle suffizzle) while trying to look street tough. In fact the one notably unticked item left on his gargantuan To Do list is surely ‘Rocking the INMWT Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend’. Until now, that is.
For a rapper with such a laid-back delivery, Snoop has always kept himself incredibly busy. Over the past 20 years or so he has appeared on over 120 singles, made 20 mixtapes, released twelve hip hop albums and one reggae album, made 3 TV shows and been in nearly 30 movies. He’s collaborated with everyone from Dr Dre to Damon Albarn (in Gorillaz), from Katy Perry to Korn. He’s been a Doggy and a Lion, he’s been DJ Snoopadelic, film-maker Snoop Scorcese, one of Tha Eastsidaz, a 213, the most notorious of Tha Broadus Boyz. The kids on his high school American football team call him coach, and his mum named him Calvin.
He’s also been a guest on almost every Radio 1 show, from Annie Mac to Scott Mills, he even freestyled the news, thanks to an inspired moment from Westwood. And he’s single-handedly responsible for the global popularity of that thing where people hide the second half of their words under an -izzle suffix (technically known as an izzizzle suffizzle) while trying to look street tough. In fact the one notably unticked item left on his gargantuan To Do list is surely ‘Rocking the INMWT Stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend’. Until now, that is.
