In the early 1990s, the world met Snoop Doggy Dog. He was a fresh-faced rapper from California whose popularity took off seemingly overnight. Snoop has given us some of the most memorable hooks in the rap game. For those born in the 80s and 90s, he helped create the soundtrack for our adolescence. When he and his buddy Dr. Dre opened the Super Bowl Halftime Show in 2022, Gen X gathered for our homecoming.
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As much as we don’t want to believe it, we’re all grown up now, and so is Snoop Dogg. He married Shante Broadus, his high school sweetheart, in 1997, and the pair share three sons, Corde, 30, Cordell, 27, and Julian, 26, and a daughter, Cori, 25. Believe it or not, he’s also a grandpa to seven. It’s Okay. Take a deep breath and a sip of water. We get it.
Snoop Dogg Has Started The Next Episode As A Grandpa
Way back when, he was sippin’ on Gin and Juice. But today, he’s filling sippy cups as “Papa Snoop.” Being a grandfather is an accomplishment, and he loves it, the rapper told People.
“Papa Snoop, that’s who I am, and I love being that,” he said. “I be dressing up for their birthday parties, like He-Man, Baby Shark or whoever. I be complaining, but I love it.”
In July, ahead of the Olympic Games, he told Jimmy Fallon that he now attends his grandkids’ birthday parties in costumes, so no one knows it’s him. He said parents always wanted pictures with him, taking the attention off the kids.
“So I had to figure out a way to take Snoop Dogg out of the party. So whatever the theme of the party was, I was going to come as that costume. As soon as the kids see me, ‘Oh, my God, it’s Buzz Lightworth, or whoever I’m dressed up as.”
Jimmy and Snoop laughed because, while he may be one of the biggest rappers of all time, to the kids, he’s Papa Snoop, and that’s enough.
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