Lion Dogg
Snoop Dogg and Snoop Lion
Calvin Broadus better known as Snoop Dogg was born on October, 20, 1971 in Long Beach California. Snoop got his nickname because of his mom, she said she looked like a character from a TV show. After graduating from high school snoop got busted several times for possession of drugs. His first single was called hold on which was the first song hear by Dr. Dre. Dre taught snoop how to create better songs with verses, hooks, and chorus. Snoop has a very different tone than all the other rappers, he has a more mellow tone, while other rappers are very aggressive in their songs. Doggystyle was the first album release in 1992. This album made its way to the top with its biggest songs being “What’s my name” and “Gin n Juice.” He then released his next album called the Doggfather witch didn’t sell as good and it wasn’t one of his biggest album either. After this album was release Snoop had a big conflict with death row records and he stop giving the company song but he did produce one more song before his contract expire it was called “F**k death row.” Snoop Dogg however was moving away from his gangsta roots when he released his album no limit top dogg selling over a million copies of it. After being done with no limit he then sign into Capitol Records he released paid the cost to be da boss he stop being a G and he was becoming a pimp. Drop it like it’s hot was snoop’s first song to be number one. Snoop work with Warren G and Nate Dogg in the group 213 and released the album the hard way. On July 31, 2012, Snoop Dogg changed his stage name to Snoop Lion. Snoop decided to change his name after traveling to Jamaica where he worked in his reggae project and met with a priest who told him, “You are the light’ you are the lion.” After the meeting, Snoop immediately changed his name to “Snoop Lion.”. On February 4, 2012, Snoop Dogg announced his new upcoming album call Reincarnated. On July 20, 2012, Snoop Dogg released