Snoop Dogg Research Paper

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Imagine going from selling drugs to selling millions of records and becoming a huge name in the music industry. Snoop Dogg is a huge name in the music industry today. You can ask anyone on the street who Snoop Dogg is and they will know who he is. Now you must be wondering how you can go from nothing to something from selling drugs to selling records.

Snoop Dogg went through some tough times when he was younger. Snoop and his family lived on the eastern part of long beach. The eastern part of long beach was a scene of a lot of crime and drugs (Britannica). By the time Snoop was fifteen years old he was selling every type of drug you could ever think of in North Long Beach (“Snoop Dogg”). For several years Snoop was in and out of prison after

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