Manchester International Festival 2011: Snoop Dogg

As Snoop Dogg prepares to perform his 1993 debut album in full, we remember why it was such a rap game-changerIt proved that rappers could reinvent themselvesSnoop had been part of going-nowhere rap group 213 before he handed a tape of his own work to Dr Dre at a stag do. Dre invited Snoop to appear on his solo album The Chronic and on the theme song to the film Deep Cover. By the time Doggystyle dropped, Snoop was such a huge star that the album had presales of 1.5m. It went straight to No 1 in...

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