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A hip-hop family man who's evolved from the consummate thug to the ultimate mack

SNOOP DOGG

America's Most Lovable Pimp

December 14 2006

". . . in 2013 he claimed to be smoking approximately 80 marijuana blunts a day. . .

That duality -- sometimes gangsta, sometimes smooth, cuddly and pimpish -- defines Snoop and has allowed him to have a long career in which he's loved by both gangbangers and soccer moms. He's proud of his achievements as a youth-football coach, but he also brags about his stint in 2003-04 as a real-life pimp.

Snoop says his friend the Bishop Don Magic Juan, the legendary Chicago pimp-turned-religious man, was crucial in keeping the beef from turning homicidal. "Bishop kept saying, 'I don't like that situation. Y'all need to talk.' I was like, 'Fuck talking. Fuck that nigga.' But after hearin' him say it so many times, it got to the point where I was on peace, like, 'OK, I ain't tryin to fuck cuz up.' A lot of niggas put fuel to the fire. Bishop put water. It takes a grown man to do that."

"I was flexin' my pimp muscle and lettin' people see how real pimps do it," he says. "If you really a pimp, you should be able to get two bitches to walk on a leash with you down the red carpet and be yo ho's for the night. And when I did it, it really was pimpin'." I had thought it was all for show, metaphorical pimpin', but Snoop says it really was pimpin' with so much feeling, I can't help but think that he was a professional pimp. Indeed, for two years, he was.

"I wouldn't even say a real pimp," he says. "I'd just say I had it like that. See, that shit was my natural calling and once I got involved with it, it became fun. It was like shootin' layups for me. I was makin' 'em every time. 'Cause pimpin' ain't a job, it's a sport. I had a bitch on every exit from the 10 freeway to the 101 freeway, 'cause bitches would recruit for me. I had barracudas -- seven or eight of 'em. When a bitch recruits for you, she goes out into the club or the environment and brings back other bitches and makes 'em my ho's. That's pimpin'."

Bishop says, "I encouraged him to be more of a man. More conscious about who he was and that he was a playa so he could step up his playa game. And the change is apparent. Then you seen him dressing with mink coats to the floor and the pimp music he was makin'."

The afternoon before football practice, as he waits to go onstage for a miniconcert sponsored by Power 106, sitting in a locker room surrounded by blunt-smoking friends, from Bishop Don Magic Juan to B-Real to his homeboy Soopafly, Snoop eases a blunt from his mouth and calls out to everyone in the room in a serious tone, "Don't do drugs!" Everyone looks up from their fat blunts and big bags of weed and gives him quizzical looks. Then he cracks a big smile. "I don't mean y'all, I just mean the kids." He takes a toke, and everyone laughs and goes back to doing drugs. A moment later, he suddenly begins crooning that Fifties classic, "Under the boardwalk/Got my first piece of head/Under the boardwalk/I was late for school. . . ."

got further into the life that had been his childhood dream. "When I stepped away, that's when the pimpin' was really heavy," he says. "I was goin' to all the Players Balls." Eventually, he says, he took twelve women with him to one Players Ball . . . but in late 2004, he said, some of the pimps told him to go back home to his wife. . . though it meant Snoop had to accept a different relationship. "Before, I would never listen to her," he says. "Everything I say is law. But on the comeback, I'm more of an ear instead of a mouth, instead of a hand. Sometimes it irritates me to hear her talk shit to me, but when it's right, that's the way it supposed to feel."

He admits he's far from a perfect husband, but he's left pimping behind because he cares about his family and because, well, been there, done that. "If you dream of riding the Colossus at Magic Mountain and you get a chance to ride it, you gonna get on it," he says. "But I had enough. That pimping shit was cool 'cause I needed to do it -- it's in me; but I'm into the family, I'm into this now."

He doesn't believe in retiring from music. "Look at the forefathers who did it before me," he says. "Stevie, Marvin, Curtis, Teddy. In groups in the Sixties, solo in the Seventies, hits in the Eighties. C'mon, cuz! Talk to me! Only way they retire is through death. That's how I'm-a retire. Through death, nigga. I ain't fittin' to quit." And why should he retire? He survived Cripping in the wild streets of L.A. and survived Death Row. He outlived the gangsta-rap era and morphed into the most lovable gangsta in the country, an MC so popular people love him and his style and his cool more than his music."

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