{"id":374,"date":"2018-11-19T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999927778"},"modified":"2018-11-19T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T00:42:22","slug":"snoop-dogg-receives-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/snoop-dogg-receives-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Snoop Dogg, a 16-time Grammy nominee, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, four days before the 25th anniversary of the release of his debut album \u201cDoggystyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, record producer Quincy Jones and hip hop\u00a0producer Dr. Dre were among those attending the ceremony in front of the El Capitan Entertainment Center on Hollywood Boulevard where Kimmel&#8217;s show is taped.<\/p>\n<p>After thanking friends and family, Snoop ended his acceptance speech by quipping, \u201cI want to thank me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank me for believing in me,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to thank me for doing all this hard work. I want to thank me for having no days off. I want to thank me for never quitting. I want to thank me for always being a giver, and trying to give more than I receive. I want to thank me for trying to do more right than wrong. I want to thank me for just being me at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His star is the 2,651st on the famed walk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blessed \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udfff \u2728\ud83d\udca5\ud83c\udfb6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HollywoodWalkOfFame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HollywoodWalkOfFame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dzglRsAhUP\">pic.twitter.com\/dzglRsAhUP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnoopDogg\/status\/1064663485945192449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Born Calvin Broadus on Oct. 20, 1971 in Long Beach, he got his stage name from his mother Beverly who joked he looked like the Peanuts character Snoopy.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dogg&#8217;s rap career began by making mixtapes with his cousins Nate Dogg and Lil 1\/2 Dead and friend Warren G. One tape was heard by Dr. Dre, who invited him to audition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoggystyle,\u201d released on Nov. 23, 1993, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and had sold more than 11 million copies worldwide through November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop&#8217;s memorable works include \u201cGin &amp; Juice,\u201d \u201cWho Am I? (What&#8217;s My Name?),\u201d \u201cNuthin&#8217; But A `G&#8217; Thang,\u201d \u201cNext Episode,\u201d \u201cBeautiful,\u201d \u201cDrop It Like It&#8217;s Hot,\u201d \u201cSigns,\u201d \u201cSensual Seduction\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Rock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snoop&#8217;s 16th and most recent studio album, \u201cSnoop Dogg Presents Bible Of Love,\u201d was released March 16, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts and stayed there for eight weeks. It was his first foray into the gospel music genre.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My mentor and big brother <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drdre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@drdre<\/a> much love . <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfd  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jsrohn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jsrohn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PYGFk75CKw\">pic.twitter.com\/PYGFk75CKw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnoopDogg\/status\/1064662217268826112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Snoop and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart have co-hosted the VH1 variety series, \u201cMartha &amp; Snoop&#8217;s Potluck Dinner Party\u201d since 2016. His other television projects have included the 2002-03 MTV sketch comedy series \u201cDoggy Fizzle Televizzle,\u201d the 2009 MTV talk show, \u201cDogg After Dark\u201d and the 2007-09 E! Entertainment Television documentary series, \u201cSnoop Dogg&#8217;s Father Hood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Snoop has had supporting and cameo roles in such films as \u201cTraining Day,\u201d \u201cStarsky &amp; Hutch\u201d and \u201cBruno.\u201d He has appeared on such scripted television series as \u201cOne Life to Live,\u201d \u201cEmpire,\u201d \u201cMonk\u201d and \u201cLas Vegas,\u201d and has been a voice actor on episodes of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d and \u201cKing of the Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He established the Snoop Youth Football League in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop&#8217;s&#8217;s brushes with the law began as a teenager and included his 1996 acquittal with his bodyguard of first- and second-degree murder charges in the 1993 shooting death of a gang member at a Palms park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snoop Dogg, a 16-time Grammy nominee, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, four days before the 25th anniversary of the release of his debut album \u201cDoggystyle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":65900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[227],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","tag-snoop-dogg","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}