re: That society embraces Snoop Dogg as mainstream is shameful.

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Anaximander

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They put this unrepentant thug on kid's shows.

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I love this bothers you.

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He seems absurdly peace-loving to me. What is he doing that's "thuggish"?

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He was a Rollin' 20s Crip in Long Beach.

He was arrested for possession of cocaine.

He was arrested in connection with the drive-by shooting death of Phillip Woldermarian. According to the charges, the rapper's bodyguard, McKinley Lee, shot Woldermarian as Snoop drove the vehicle; the rapper claimed it was self-defense.

Snoop claimed in a 2006 interview with Rolling Stone magazine that unlike other hip hop artists who had superficially adopted the pimp persona, he was an actual professional pimp in 2003 and 2004, saying, "That shite was my natural calling and once I got involved with it, it became fun. It was like shootin' layups for me. I was makin' 'em every time."

One of the more memorable and bizarre moments in Snoop's career came in 2003 when he walked the red carpet at the MTV Awards with two women on leashes who had looks of deference that suggested they were real prostitutes.

"I was flexin' my pimp muscle and lettin' people see how real pimps do it," he says. "If you really a pimp, you should be able to get two bitches to walk on a leash with you down the red carpet and be yo ho's for the night. And when I did it, it really was pimpin'.

In 2009, it was reported that Snoop was a member of the Nation of Islam. On March 1, he made an appearance at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day holiday, where he praised minister Louis Farrakhan. Snoop said he was a member of the Nation, but declined to give the date on which he joined.

He's been arrested numerous times at airports for charges such as possession of an illegal twenty-one-inch collapsible baton, and possession of weed and a gun.

On Suge Knight: "I had to let him know I didn't give a frick about none of that fake-arse power shite you was supposed to be on, and all this money and all these Bloods you hidin' behind," he says. "I felt like challenging him would either expose his hole card or I would have to kill the ****. And I was ready to do it."




Not to mention his catalog of music is not very peace-loving.

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Oh dear god that list of capital offenses we should lock him up forever

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Did anyone say lock him up, jackhole? Just that PERHAPS he should not be made into an acceptable fixture of mainstream entertainment.