Snoop Dogg

Born Calvin Broadus on October 20, 1971, the soon-to-be-christened Snoop Doggy Dogg grew up in Long Beach, California. He received the nickname "Snoop" from his mother, who used to lovingly tease him about his likeness to Snoopy of the Peanuts comic strip.Delving into the porno scene, Snoop directed Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle (a top seller) and then appeared in Girls Gone Wild Doggy Style. Going back to the studio, he churned out more hits with Paid Tha Cost To Be Da Bo$$ and enjoyed time on the Top 10 charts with "Beautiful." Diverting back to film (again), Snoop landed a significant role in 2003's Starsky & Hutch as the pimp/street informer Huggy Bear, appropriately enough. He also played a pilot in the comedy Soul Plane in 2004. He also proved he could do TV, as the host of MTV's Doggy Fizzle Televizzle (2003) and an episode of SNL in 2004. Following the release of a best-of album entitled Tha Dogg: Best of the Works, Snoop filed for divorce from his wife Shante. Amid reports he reneged on his apparent vow to stop smoking weed, Snoop is currently attempting to gain custody of his three children. The future holds more rap albums for this legend, as well as increasingly more face time on the big screen. In February 2009, Snoop Dogg had left Geffen Records (Interscope-Geffen-A&M) his recording home for over 10 years. At press time, Snoop has declined on divulge his next possible label home.