SNOOP DOGG: FROM GANSTA TO GOOD

[CIAA-FAN]

FIRST OFF, LET ME STATE THE OBVIOUS, IN THAT I AM NOT A MEMBER OF THE "HIP-HOP" GENERATION. I AM A PROUD BABY-BOOMER. I CAN'T HELP BUT FIND IT VERY AMUSING THAT I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN SNOOP DOGG WAS CHARACTERIZED ROUTINELY BY THE MEDIA AS EVERYTHING YOU DID NOT WANT YOUR KIDS TO LOOK UP TO OR BECOME. HE WAS THEN CHARACTERIZED AS A GANGA-SMOKING THUG WHO WAS SO ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT THAT HE BELONGED IN JAIL. I STILL FIND IT INTERESTING THAT HE SUSPOSEDLY HOOKED UP WITH MARTHA STEWART. WITH HIS BEING EVERYWHERE AND IN ALMOST EVERY OLYMPIC SUPPORTING TV SEGMENT ON NBC AT THE OLYMPICS, HE WAS ESSENTIALLY A BLACK VERSION OF RYAN SEACREST, PAT BOONE or PAT ROBERTS. MY HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

I ANXIOUSLY AWAIT YOUR COMMENTS.

 

[ECSU_NCCU_Christopher]

It is pretty simple, they found that they can make money off of him.

 

[CIAA-FAN]

It is pretty simple, they found that they can make money off of him.

YOU MAY KNOW THAT AND I MAY KNOW THAT....BUT I CAN GUARANTEE THAT THE MAJORITY OF FOLKS 30 YEARS OLD AND UNDER KNOW VERY LITTLE OF THE SNOOP DOG FROM THE LATE 70s AND EARLY 80s. I WISH SOME "HIP-HOP" GENERATIONS FOLKS WOULD CHIME IN HERE!

 

[The Founder]

When Snoop hung with Willie Nelson smoking weed that was the moment where they realized he (Snoop) is a money maker. Then the friendship with Martha Stewart. Now Snoop owns Death Row Records.....I bet Suge wishes he would have treated Snoop differently.