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Snoop Dogg went to the Long Beach Institute Polytechnic High School, where he coincided with Cameron Diaz, and his initial foray into public life was due to his involvement in drug trafficking, albeit a smaller scale. Snoop was a member of the local band Rollin ' 20 Crips. However, Snoop was pressured to integrate into the music world and put aside drug sales on the streets. Later, Snoop recorded some homemade tapes with his cousin Nate Dogg and his friend Warren G (half-brother of Dr. Dre who at the time worked for N.W.A.). In the beginning, Lil ' 1/2 Dead, cousin of Nate, and so of Snoop, was also part of the group called 213, named thus by that time was the local prefix of Long Beach. This was partly in homage to the group 413 of Richie Rich, known thus by the local prefix also of Oakland, California.Success with Death Row Records [edit]
Snoop Dogg at a concert.First on the main theme of the feature film Deep Cover, and after Criss Monstar in the solo debut album of Dr. Dre, the Chronic, along with other members of his old group, Tha Dogg Pound. The contribution of Snoop in the Chronic was considerable; His presence on the record is remarkable and he prepared the terrain for his solo release.While he was filming in August 1993, Snoop Dogg was arrested for the death of Phillip Woldermarian, a member of a rival gang who was shot and killed in an armed gang fight. Snoop was defended by Robert Kardashian, and his bodyguard McKinley Lee by Sniper. It is believed that Snoop Dogg or Suge Knight (owner of Death Row Records), or perhaps both paid the services of Cochrane to Lee. Both Snoop and Lee were acquitted; Lee was acquitted for self-defence. However, Snoop remains embroiled in legal battles for another three years. The video of the song "2 of Amerikaz Most wanted" of Tupac Shakur with Snoop Dogg deals with the difficulties of each rapper with their respective criminal processes, unrelated but concurrent.
He was finally released in November 1993 by Death Row Records, and became the first album on the west Coast and debuted in the foreground on the charts, further promoting the G-Funk of the West Coast. The singles "Who Am I (what's my name)?" and "Gin and Juice" hit the top ten on the U.S. charts and the album was kept on the Billboard charts for several months, even with the legal problems of the rapper and his allegedly violent and sexist lyrics raising blisters between parent associations and supporters of censorship across the country.
In the same way as in the Chronic, they collaborated in a multitude of rappers affiliated to Death Row such as Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, Warren and Lady of Rage, among others. This album is located by most of Snoop's admirers as the best of his discography, already the time to value place it at the same height of classics of Death Row like all Eyez on Me of 2pac, the Chronic of Dr. Dre and Dogg meal of Tha Dogg Pound.
A film about the murder trial against Snoop Dogg, as well as the soundtrack of it, was released in 1994. It was titled ' Murder was the case '.However, when his second album, Tha Doggfather was released, the gangsta rap was not going through his best time. His great friend Tupac Shakur had been killed and many blamed for organized crime the co-founder of Death Row Suge Knight. In addition, at the beginning of 1996, Dr. Dre left the death band for a contract dispute, so Snoop co-produced the album with DJ Pooh and Daz Dillinger (member of Tha Dogg Pound and Snoop's cousin).
This album saw a change of style compared with the "". Although the album sold quite well, it was not considered successful, and widely believed that its quality suffered the lack of participation of Dr. Dre. However, Tha Doggfather had a somewhat softer approach to the G-Funk style, and Snoop used a more charismatic and less energetic rhyming style, which the next would be incorporated and exercised throughout his career.After Dre's immediate march of Death Row, Snoop Dogg was under pressure to retain his credibility as an artist and to launch more albums. Due to the "order" of Suge Knight to Snoop to start recording, the rapper decided, risking his career, not produce more songs for Death Row until his contract expires. Later he would lose in terms of sales, but kept his credibility as a rapper until after the scene of the triangle is lost the bellows.
Later years
The artistic style of Snoop Dogg has evolved far from gangsta rap; He performed at the Lollapalooza Alternative rock Festival in 1997, and appeared in several films, such as the Wash, as well as producing and directing music videos for himself and other artists.
