The Rock’s Backpages Flashback: Snoop Does it Doggystyle

By Barney Hoskyns | Rock's Backpages – Fri, Jul 6, 2012 9:50 AM EDT

Paul Lester at home with the hippest (and tallest) gangsta on the block: rising star and Dre protégé Snoop Doggy Dogg. As published in Melody Maker on February 5, 1994——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages

Snoop Doggy Dogg is cleaning up. Literally. The number one gangsta rapper who, along with Michael Jackson, is the most controversial entertainer in the States, has a Rizla full of "chronic" in one hand and a soggy brown cloth in the other.

Yup, America's Most Wanted is doing the dishes.

"It looks like a cigarette, it burns like a cigarette, it even feels like a cigarette," drawls the six-foot-four hip hopper, dragging on the murderously potent reefer, putting down a soapy baking tray and pausing for comic effect. "But it sure don't taste like a cigarette."

Snoop Doggy Dogg grins, crosses the room to crank up the volume on his beautiful vintage Wurlitzer crammed with beautiful vintage hits (Cameo, The Isley Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Kool & The Gang,

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