Detroit Free Press — "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" is a documentary that explores the connection between hip-hop music and the crack cocaine epidemic. Narrated by Ice-T, the program features interviews with Snoop Dogg, B-Real, Raekwon and o... more info

Topix — Hip-hop fans were excited Thursday to hear that rapper Snoop Dogg has been cast in his first above-the-title starring film role: playing Clarence "Fillmore Slim" Sims in a biopic that will begin filming in March 2012. more info

MTV.co.uk News — Snoop Dogg is to star in the lead role in The Legend of Fillmore Slim, a biopic about the blues musician and pimp. The movie, largely set in the sixties and seventies, follows the life of Fillmore... more info

Perez Hilton — Snoop is on an acting roll! Yesterday, we learned that Snoop Dogg had been cast in his first big movie role since Soul Plane. Now, we're hearing that the rapper/actor has ALSO been cast in a family sitcom for Warner Bros TV! Pret-ty impressive! A TV ... more info

NME — Rapper cast in 'The Legend of Fillmore Slim' more info

Gigwise — About infamous pimp and blues singer... more info

ContactMusic — Rapper Snoop Dogg is in talks to star in a new family sitcom The Gin and Juice hitmaker will play the father in the show which is being developed with producers at Warner Bros according to the Hollywood Reporter Its the second small screen proje... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Snoop Dogg is set to star of the biopic of legendary blues guitarist Fillmore Slim. The film which will be released by Ames Universal and SRI Entertainment in late 2012 is called “The Legend of Fillmore Slim”, with filming starting in March. Acco... more info

ContactMusic — Snoop Dogg will take on the lead role in The Legend of Fillmore Slim The biopic follows the blues guitarist who began a music career in the 1950s but was lured away into a life of vice becoming a prominent figure in San Francisco in the 1960s an... more info

Perez Hilton — Been a while! Aside from some small video/TV gigs over the past several years, we haven't really seen Snoop Dogg in a big movie since Soul Plane. Those of you who have been going through Snoop withdrawal will be pleased to hear that he's officially ... more info