Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg: The Dogg Is Unleashed

Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg has the No. 1 album in America. He's also facing murder charges. In a face-to-face interview, he speaks.

In the Los Angeles offices of Death Row Records someone is singing, "If you don't give a f--- about a bitch/ Then you're rolling with the Row." The lyrics are from Doggystyle, the debut album by gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, the label's star. Doggystyle, released Nov. 23, sold 800,000 copies in its first week and enters this week's Billboard charts at No. 1. Associates of Snoop lounge around Death Row, loose and jovial. Snoop, 22, smiles along, autographing posters of himself. Despite the happy mood, he has grave legal troubles. Police say that in West Los Angeles one evening in...

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!