Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg has been toying with the thought of an anthology of his life for years, and he says it is finally in the making.

Additionally, the West Coast rap icon is pushing more and more towards TV with an upcoming comedy show with Kevin Hart, according to Deadline. Hart revealed during his NBCUniversal's Upfronts presentation that the show is currently in development.

Many significant rappers in history have had their own biopics hitting the large screen. While Snoop Dogg has always been portrayed in supporting roles in these films, he is however to have his character play the atomic number 82. In a new interview with Yahoo, Snoop talked about his desire for his own characteristic. Instead of just a 2-hr film, nonetheless, Snoop would dear to have an anthology serial that could produce a number of seasons documenting his story even before his conception.

On the topic of his own biopic, the rapper began, "It depends on whose eyes is told through," he said. "You know, if it's told through the correct eyes, through the right lens, and it makes the most sense for me. Just I think what makes the virtually sense to me is the 'Snoop Dogg anthology,' the life story of Snoop Dogg, where it starts with my mother and father meeting each other earlier I was even born, to me being born, to me growing through the '70s and '80s and the '90s. Me being the 'Black Forest Gump,' so to speak, seeing me in all of these highlighted moments in American history."

The Long Embankment rapper goes on to share that his team is already developing the series and ironing out the details. "I don't want to rush to it but because [Direct Outta Compton] was successful, only to come up backside it," said Snoop. "I desire to take my time and make certain that I've put together the right infrastructure of how I became me — you know, the people that inspire me, my upbringing, my mother, my father, my friends, community influences, inspirations that shaped and molded me. I don't come across it beingness a biopic, because I tin can't give all of this great information and entertainment in two hours. Just if I requite information technology to y'all in an album, you're likely to get vi or seven seasons of this."

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In the past, Snoop has had some great actors play him in biopics for other rappers. Oscar-nominated histrion Lakeith Stanfield played the rapper in the N.Due west.A biopic Direct Outta Compton in 2015. Earlier in 2009, rapper and actor Anwan Glover portrayed Snoop in the Biggie biopic, Notorious. In the Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me in 2017, Snoop was played by Jarrett Ellis. For his anthology series, Snoop would desire someone as dedicated as Jamie Foxx to accept on the role. In a previous interview with the Associated Printing, Snoop said the histrion who gets to play him would have to win him over.

"I don't know who could play me," the rapper admitted. "I recollect it's gonna have to win me over. When I think of someone playing yous, I think of how Jamie Foxx played Ray [Charles]. That was similar, spot on. So I would take to notice me a Jamie Foxx or somebody that tin can actually become Snoop Dogg on screen and give me all of that element.

Elsewhere in the Yahoo interview, Snoop said the upcoming series would depict the transition between the '70s and '80s when the environment went from i of love and community, even amongst various ethnicities, to an era riddled with drugs and violence. "Definitely my babyhood in the '70s, seeing how people loved each other, seeing how racism really didn't exist to a maximum, how I grew upwardly in school with different nationalities, teachers with different colors, and we loved them," Snoop said nearly what would be portrayed in the series.

"That era of the '70s taught the states how to beloved and how to be kind to people. Then the '80s era, that'south when the cocaine, drugs, violence, my teenage years and all of the things that were brought to our community by the regime and the C.I.A. — that has been revealed at present," he added.

While at that place is no ETA on the "Snoop Dogg anthology" just withal, the rapper has fans excited to see his life story told in a whole series that could go along and on rather than the usual biopic. Even so, the possibility for a film might not exist completely out of the film. After the success of Straight Outta Compton, the rapper said he's not quite set for his own pic only still. "Nah, I'm still creating the Snoop story," he said in an old interview. "It'due south still happening as we speak…I don't feel like I'm ready for that. I feel like I got more to exercise. And when I'1000 able to settle down and expect at it and then say 'Okay, I wanna document my life and my career and whatnot' then I volition practise information technology."

Could we exist getting both or has Snoop settled on the thought of his anthology serial alone?