{"id":81227,"date":"2024-01-24T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=81227"},"modified":"2024-01-24T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T03:30:49","slug":"snoop-doggs-new-film-the-underdoggs-gives-long-beach-a-starring-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/snoop-doggs-new-film-the-underdoggs-gives-long-beach-a-starring-role","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg\u2019s new film \u2018The Underdoggs\u2019 gives Long Beach a starring role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famed Long Beach rapper-turned-actor Snoop Dogg is starring in a new sports comedy that takes place in his hometown, which\u00a0premieres Friday, Jan. 26 on Amazon Prime<\/p>\n

An\u00a0official trailer<\/a> of \u201cThe Underdoggs\u201d dropped in December and features shots of prominent locations around the city like the massive “LONG BEACH” lettering, that welcomes drivers into the city after exiting the 710 onto W. Shoreline Drive in Downtown.<\/p>\n

A Long Beach native himself, Snoop\u2019s new film will “prominently feature<\/a>” his alma mater,\u00a0Long Beach Polytechnic High School, as first reported by the Long Beach Press Telegram. The film is inspired by the Snoop Youth Football League, dedicated to giving underprivileged kids opportunities to participate<\/a> in football and cheer.<\/p>\n

In the movie, Snoop (Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.)\u00a0plays washed-up ex-pro football star Jaycen \u201cTwo Js\u201d Jennings, who is mandated to community service coaching an \u201cunruly pee-wee\u201d youth football team through the Long Beach Recreations Department.<\/p>\n

The cast features<\/a> stars like Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, Kandi Burruss, George Lopez, Andrew Schulz and Kal Penn.<\/p>\n

The rapper also recently starred in \u201cDay Shift,\u201d a 2022 action comedy film about vampire hunters, starring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco.<\/p>\n

“The Underdoggs” is R-rated and will be available to stream on Amazon Prime on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long Beach Poly High is featured prominently in the film, which premiers Friday, Jan. 26 on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3255,"featured_media":70708,"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":[32253],"class_list":["post-81227","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\/81227","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\/3255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81240,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81227\/revisions\/81240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81227"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=81227"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=81227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}