Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr.["Snoop Dogg will pick up trash as part of sentence". October 11, 2007. USA Today.] (born October 20, 1971), better known by his
stage name Snoop Dogg (previously
Snoop Doggy Dogg), is a
Grammy Award-nominated American
rapper,
record producer, and
actor. Snoop is best known as an
MC in the
West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer
Dr. Dre's most notable
protégés. His catch phrase is "-izzle," a slang term developed by
Oakland, California rap group
3X Krazy in the mid-1990s and popularized primarily by Bay Area rapper
E-40.
[ON LANGUAGE: Izzle]
His mother nicknamed him "
Snoopy" as a child because of the way he dressed and because of his love of the cartoon
Peanuts; he took the stage name Snoop Doggy Dogg when he began recording. He changed his name to Snoop Dogg in 1998, when he left his original record label
Death Row Records and signed with
No Limit Records.
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