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Trivia
Birth name: Calvin Cordozar Broadus
Date of birth: 20 October 1971
Place of birth: Long Beach, California, USA
Height: 6' 3˝" (1.92 m)
Foot size: 10 in Converse All Stars, 11 in regular shoes and 12 in dress shoes.
Credited As: C. Broadus, Calvin Broadus, Bigg Snoop
Dogg, Snoop Doggy Dogg
Spouse: Shante Taylor (12 June 1997 - present) 3 children.
Frequently works with Dr.
Dre.
Won 2 AVN [Adult Video News] awards for Best
Music soundtrack & Top Selling Tape for the X-rated film, Snoop
Dogg's Doggystyle (2001) (V).
Former Crips member
Hip-hop MC.
Known for using a unique form of
doublespeak, adding "-izzle" to the end of words whenever he
can.
Wears various braided hairstyles.
Always includes a cover (remake) of an older
song on every album.
Snoop Dogg Appears as a hidden character in the "True Crime: Streets Of LA" Video Game, which was released for the Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube. He can be unlocked in a special mission known as "Dogg Patrol" in which he literately patrols the streets of LA as an undercover cop.
Filed for divorce from wife Shanté, citing
irreconcilable differences. He is seeking joint custody of their
children: Corde, Cordell, and Cori (21 May 2004). Has since reconciled
and withdrawn the divorce papers.
Was rumored to be the cousin of popular R&B singer Brandy.
Served as the offensive coordinator for his
son Corde's team in the Chino Hills Junior All American Football League.
He played eight years in Pop Warner and two years at Long Beach Poly
High. A cousin, Deshaun Hill, played defensive back for the New York
Jets in 2003.
Snoop Dogg made a cameo appearance in Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff", as well as Eminem, and
Dr. Dre.
Snoop Dogg made a cameo appearance in P. Diddy's "Bad Boy For Life" alongside with Ice Cube and
Xzibit as a symbol of peacemaking between east coast and west coast flow and at the time it put an end to the rivalry era.
Was good friends with slain rapper Tupac
Shakur both before and while the two were label-mates.
Graduated high school from Long Beach Poly
in Long Beach, California.
Snoop Dogg made a cameo appearance in Nelly's "Errtime" video like a part of their mutual participation in duets in each others recently released albums.
Nephew of Bootsy Collins, legendary funk
bassist and member of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Was originally chosen to play the role of
L.J. in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), but left the project.
Is a member of Rollin' 20 Crip
A fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Often works with Pharrell Williams from The
Neptunes.
Born on the same day as Australian pop
singer Dannii Minogue.
Shares a Birthday with Viggo Mortensen and
Tom Petty.
Die hard fan of USC Football.
He tried to launch his own clothing line called "Snoop Dogg Wear", but after some distribution and transport problems it bankrupted (even the internet site was shut down), though has never been gone off the market, because Snoop always and exclusively wears SD monogram-trademarked gear in TV broadcasted events.
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