Who Is Snoop Dogg And The Habitat For Humanity

Snoop Dogg and The Habitat for Humanity
La’el Johnson
January 4, 2018
Period 8 Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. known professionally as Snoop Dogg has influenced millions of people through his music with back-to-back hit albums and platinum records. He challenged people’s beliefs beyond their simplistic ways of thinking and broadened other people’s mindsets with hope and courage of having a better life. Like most other celebrities, Snoop Dogg donates to a variety of charities and has his own foundations that help thousands of people every day. One of his more significant ways of impacting people’s lives more physically rather than just emotionally and mentally, was his involvement and donations to The Habitat for Humanity organization
that provides people with an equal opportunity to have an affordable and nurturing home.
Snoop Dogg got involved with this organization over a decade ago when he auctioned off an hour of “hang time” with him in the studio to raise funds for the Operation Home Delivery, which is a specific disaster relief program operated by The Habitat for Humanity after the disasters of The Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.
Cordozar was born on October 20, 1971 in Long Beach California. Before he became what people refer to as a West Coast legend, he was a young boy whose mom thought he looked like the cartoon character Snoopy from the children’s movies “Peanuts”. He grew up with the nickname Snoopy but eventually changed into Snoop Dogg. While he was a young kid, he played piano and sang in a local Baptist church near home, after the sixth grade his passion for rap increased and he spent lots of time pursuing his star born dream. Once he got to high school, he became an active participant in a gang for the Crips and started becoming in and out of jail for the possession of drugs. To
rescue him from permanently being behind bars and keep him out of trouble with the law he started making music and recording with his older cousin Nate. Shortly after he started recording, Snoop booked an audition and was soon discovered by the multi-platinum songwriter and producer Dr. Dre who ended up having huge success on the album that Snoop was featured on. Later in 1993, Snoop released his first solo album that was called “Doggystyle” which went number one on Billboards and had multiple singles that also reached success including his hit songs “Gin and Juice and Who am I?” Not only was Snoop a major recording artist, but he also took on some acting jobs and played supporting and soon co-leading roles in a few movies. His most well-known roles are from his movies “Soul Plane, Baby boy and Starsky and Hutch” Snoop later than became a reality star on his show “Snoop Dogg’s Fatherhood” which was filmed back in 2007, that starred him and his wife along with their three children (Snoop Dogg Biography.com). Although Snoop may rap about parties and the more explicit side of things, he started a family of his own at a young age and is a big family man. He met his wife in high school and has been married to her ever since 1997, her name is Shante Taylor and they were high school sweethearts. Before they were officially married the birth of their first son was in 1994, his name is Corde, next was his son Cordell, then his son Julian who people referred to as his “secret son” because his mother was from an affair with another woman back in high school, and finally was his youngest child and only daughter Cori. His daughter Cori was diagnosed in 2011 with Lupus, which was extremely hard for Snoop and Shante but she is strong and still fighting the battle (Heightline Snoop Dogg’s son, daughter and wife). The reason Snoop Dogg does so much to help is because he understands the hardships that life throws at you from his own experience, and he is willing to help make a difference so people don’t have to face some of the same things he’s had to or the things that he sees other people going through. He once said, “It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics” (Snoop Dogg Quotes). He wants to change the world and he believes the younger generation is one of the best ways to start, which is exactly why he got involved with multiple organizations like The Habit for Humanity.

The Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that operates in over 1,300 communities in North America and 70 countries around the world (Wikipedia).
They also believe that children and families should have just as good of a chance to be in a safe environment and have a welcoming home as well as everyone else. Millard Fuller and Linda Fuller founded the Habitat for Humanity in 1976. They believed that if they could build non-profit houses for people, it would give people a great opportunity to have an affordable and decent living home. The couple started the idea in the United States and decided to help build savings from the community; they then took their idea to Central Africa where they shared their plans with the Republicans. Now that their idea was expanding, they packed their bags and headed back home to North America to start The Habitat for Humanity as an official global organization and change lives forever. Since then the company has greatly increased and is currently being distributed almost
everywhere. The best part is that they open the door for younger people to also get involved. Anyone who is over 16 can come to a local location where they can set up a meeting and ask for assistance on how to help either build back up, or restore the loss that people have had from growing up without a place they can truly call home. In an old article when someone was asked what their job experience was like when it came to the organization, the interviewer said multiple times that somedays he felt everyone had an individual task to do that most people wouldn’t realize was all connected until the final product was ready. He also said that other days he felt he couldn’t get some time alone if he wanted to, because everything happening was entirely a team effort. Though it may sometimes seem like the little things don’t count, those are the times where everything is even more crucial. Snoop Dogg not only donates to this organization but he also helps in little ways that go long distances for other people’s lives. For example, one year he delivered over 1,500 turkeys to families for thanksgiving (Ortiz, Yesi The 6 Most Charitable Rappers). He did that out of the kindness of his heart because just like over half of these organizations, he wants to make a difference.
When you hear the words Habitat for Humanity, or you hear the name Snoop Dogg, the biggest similarity between the two is the impact they have both had in this world. Neither one of them has failed to change this world for the better. One of the easiest things to do in this world is get involved, by finding connections to simply asking someone if there is anything you can do to help them it’s not that hard to make change. However, what is a little more difficult is making an entire difference throughout the world that sticks, yet The Habitat for Humanity and the West Coast Legend Snoop Dogg has done beyond that.

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