Snoop Dogg News

New York, NY: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers will honor Top Dawg Entertainment rapper-songwriter Kendrick Lamar with the ASCAP Vanguard Award during its 26th annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards.

On Monday, Snoop Lion - formerly the rapper known as Snoop Dogg - posted a piece online calling for an end to gun violence.

Snoop Lion lets loose with his contribution of the Turbo soundtrack with "Let the Bass Go."

Has the veteran newsman traded the anchor desk for the recording booth? Several videos bouncing around the Internet last week made it seem like Williams was bringing his trademark gravitas to the hip-hop game, but it was actually just the latest viral success from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon .

Colorado is going to make it legal for anyone over 21 to possess an ounce of cannabis.

"He's a slick-talking, slow-walking son of a snail," Snoop Dogg tells Rolling Stone of Smoove Move, the mini mollusk character he voices in Turbo , the DreamWorks animated car-racing comedy to be released on July 17th.

Pieced together using key words from Williams' broadcasts, the edited clip of Williams "rapping" Dr. Dre's 1992 song "Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang" featuring Snoop Dogg aired on Wednesday's episode of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."

From the viral sensation " The History of Rap" which features Justin Timberlake, and " Slow Jam the News ", which has featured the likes of President Obama.

As the embodiment of '90s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

Before there was Snoop Lion there was Snoop Dogg aka the Doggfather, one of hip hop's most iconic figures.

If a classic hip-hop concert lands in the forests of Minnesota and no one is around to hear it, does it still happen? That question was answered in the affirmative Thursday night in Minneapolis, when the LL Cool J-led Kings of the Mic Tour rolled into Target Center and probably sent the concert's organizers into the financial negative.

Snoop Dogg, previously known as Snoop Dogg , released a smoke-filled music video for his new single "Ashtrays and Heartbreaks." Former Disney star Miley Cyrus is also seen in the clip, and let's just say she's come a long way since her days as Hannah Montana but in a good way.

Veteran rapper Snoop Lion has become one of the latest celebrities to team up with the Voices Against Violence campaign.

When Snoop Dogg started calling himself Snoop Lion last year, those who casually follow him collectively snickered.

Snoop Lion, formerly Snoop Dogg, was recently in Durban, South Africa, for the MTV All Star concert.

Rap Eve. "Lip Lock." From The Rib/RED. With her first studio album in 11 years, Eve returns with an unimpressive, unfulfilling new offering, "Lip Lock." The rapper's rhymes lack passion, her wordplay is too simple, her hooks come across as mundane and she fails to find a musical identity on the 12-track album - particularly on single "She Bad Bad" ... (more)

This is the Snoop I remember - Doggystyle, one of the greatest rap albums of the last 25 years - and if you want to toss in his scene in Old School, I'll give you that.

Nicknamed "the party starter," this animated, Los Angeles-based funny man specializes in impersonations and "off-the-wall" observations and social commentary.

Atmosphere and Snoop Dogg have contrasting aesthetics - indie, introspective Midwest stories from the former, and weeded-out G-funk from the latter - but they both fit within the elastic boundaries of Soundset.

It seems like every artist wants to be country now. We have had everyone from Elton John to Bon Jovi to Snoop Dogg to Kid Rock try their hand at country.