American rapper legend, music and fashion icon Snoop Dogg can boast of 35 million albums sold. This May, he released his thirteenth studio album, Bush, produced by Grammy winner Pharrell Williams. On July 22, he will present his new album at a concert in Vienna.
Calvin Broadus, which he is Snoop's real name, is his first debut album Doggy style recorded in 1993 and reached number one on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. It sold over a million copies in its first week and was certified quadruple platinum. His second album The Doggfather (1996) also reached number one on the aforementioned charts and went double platinum.
Albums followed with the new label No Limit Records Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998), No Limit Top Dogg (1999) and Tha Last Meal (2000). Already in 2002, Snoop Dogg changed his label again, this time he decided on Priority/Capitol/EMI Records, where he released the album Paid tha cost to be da boss (2002). He released albums with Geffen Records in 2004 R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2004), Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (2006) and Ego Trippin' (2008); Snack 'n Wonderland (2009) and Doggumentary (2011) was published by the label Priority. In 2012, after a trip to Jamaica, he became a Rastafarian and started working under a different name - Snoop Lion. He published under a new alias reggae album Reincarnated (2013) and made a documentary film under the same name.
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His last album Bush was released in May this year. The collected songs are a mix of retro-futuristic funk with "feel good" rhythms of R&B and pop. Snoop Dogg invited musicians with enviable careers to participate, so listeners have the opportunity to listen to the rapper in a duet with Gwen Stefani, Stevie Wonder, Rick Ross, Charlie Wilson, TI and Kendrick Lamar on one disc.
Snoop Dogg has appeared numerous times both on television screens and on cinema screens (Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood and Dogg After Dark). In addition to creating a fashion brand, he also dabbled in technology and sports, eventually founding Snoop Youth Football League.
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