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Snoop Doggy Dogg Caught In The Crossfire
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Rap sensation Snoop Doggy
Dogg, facing murder charges in an
alleged shooting by his bodyguard,
says he’s a target, just like M artin
Luther King and M alcolm X. In the
October issue o f Playboy maga
zine, Dogg, a.k.a. Calvin Broadus,
suggests that anytime a black leader
emerges to unify the community,
the authorities “ find some way to
bring you down.”
“ They killed M artin, they killed
M alcolm,” Dogg says in the Play
boy Interview, conducted by David
Sheff. “ You got two black fo lk rep
resenting us through the Sixties.
One o f them was for violence, one
was against it, and they both are
dead. What is that saying?
“ They had control o f the whole
black race,” he adds. “ One side or
the other, whether you were with
Malcolm or with M artin, you were
with the black race. Now there ain’t
any unity out there.” Dogg, whose
debut album, Doggystyle, has sold
4,5 m illion copies, says his a bility
to communicate the ghetto experi
ence through rap has made him en
emies both within and outside the
black community.
“ I f I had been a straight-A stu-
dent my whole life and had rapped
about Jesus coming back to save us
all, 1 wouldn’t get no media,” says
Dogg. “ But since I ’ m telling the
truth...and know what I ’m talking
about, I ’m a threat.
“ It doesn’t matter how they do
it,” the 24-year-old rapper says o f
his adversaries. “ They do it. They
pull you down, they set you up, they
arrest you.”
While he declines to comment
directly on the case, other than to
promise “ the truth w ill come out,”
Dogg’s upcoming trial in the Au-
gust 1993 shooting death o f Philip
Woldermariam (his co-defendants
are McKinley Leeand Sean Abrams)
is not the rapper’s first brush with the
law. Just after graduating from high
school Dogg served a year in prison
for selling cocaine to an undercover
officer. He spent additional time in
ja il fo r violating parole, and has since
been arrested twice for gun posses
sion.
“ When 1 [first] got arrested, I
thought that was wrong, crazy shit,”
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How could I go to jail for
selling some drugs?... I
didn't make the drugs. It
was just a job I had.
-Snoop Doggy Dogg
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says Dogg. “ How could I go to ja il
for selling some drugs? It didn’t make
sense. 1 did n ’t make the drugs, I
didn’t put them in the community. It
was just a jo b I had.”
However, Dogg says prison al
lowed him time to focus on his fu
ture.
“ It helped me go from a boy to a
man, to start to realize what I wanted
to do with myself,” he says. “ There
were brothers in there who weren’t
ever going to get out. I d idn’ t want to
be in that situation. I was given a
chance to bounce back, so I took it.”
Dogg went from making tapes in
the back o f a friend’s record store to
rapping on The Chronic, a hit solo
album by his mentor and producer, Dr.
Dre, a founding member o f seminal
West Coast rap group N. W. A. When
Doggystyle was released, Dogg cata
pulted to the top o f the charts. Songs
like “ Murder Was The Case,” a fanta
sy o f Dogg’s own death and funeral,
and “ Gin And Juice” made the rapper
an instant favorite on M TV , whose
audience is predominantly white.
“ They listen because it sounds
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good,” says Dogg. “ They are enjoy
ing life, like I do. And they are
listening. They want to know what’s
happening, too.”
More conservative forces, how
ever, including Senator Bob Dole
(R-Kan.) and C. DeLores Tucker,
head o f the National Political Con
gress o f Black Women, continue to
wage battle against gangsta rappers
and the companies that sell their
music. Dole, Tucker and othersclaim
gangsta rap should be silenced be
cause many lyrics glorify guns, drugs
and violence against women
“ It’ s old white ladies, old black
ladies, old black men, who don’t
even listen,” says Dogg. “ People
like it or they w ouldn’t by.”
D o g g ’ s la b e l, D eath Row
Records, recently filed a RICO suit
against Tucker and top executives at
Time Warner accusing Time Warner
o f conspiring w ith T ucker to make a
distribution deal w ith Death Row
co-owner, Suge Knight. The suit
contends that Tucker pledged to ar
range for Time W amerto pay Knight
$80m illionand distribute h is records
i f Knight agreed to tone down the
lyrics on his albums.
“ We are just doing our music,”
Dogg says o f the controversies.
“ N othing has changed. W e’ ll see i f
they can stop it when the people
want to hear it.”
On a personal note, Dogg re
veals that he and his fiancee, who
have a two-year-old son, are expect
ing anotherchild. Hesays he doesn’t
want his fam ily to grow up livin g in
fear as he did.
“ It makes you think,” he says.
“ We have to be good fathers to our
babies, so we can put a stop to that
pattern. N ow people think it’ s cool
to have a baby, but it ain’t cool to
take care o f it. We have to change
that. You make your life fo r that
baby. That’s the future.”
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