The Bite Magazine - Autumn/Winter 2021 - Issue 30

bitemusicceleb and become more independent and responsible. He even quit smoking weed for six months and adopted the alias Big Snoop Dogg to demonstrate his new mature persona. In 2009, the rapper changed his name to Niggarachi and pro- duced the Back To Tha Chuuch Vol 1 album under this name. He wanted a name that was iconic and strong like 2Pac’s Maka- veli alias. In 2012, Snoop changed his stage surname fromDogg to Lion but changed it once again a year later to Snoopzilla. Here, he went in a funk direction and released the 7 Days of Funk album, a funkafied version of Snoop, featuring Tha Dogg Pound members, Kurupt and Daz Dillinger. He then changed his name briefly to DJ Snoopadelic in 2014 for a six-date show, ‘Snoopadelic Cabaret’ in Las Vegas which was a 1920s inspired event. The following year, we saw the rapper with another alias Uncle Snoop, which signified his position as a role model and a mentor for younger artists. At the same time, he released the album Bush . Although he had coached youth football for years, he became known as Coach Snoop when he got his Netflix series of the same name. From Doggystyle in 1993 to From Tha Streets 2 Tha Suites in 2021, Snoop Dogg has released 18 studio albums, 17 compi- lations albums, 175 singles, four soundtracks and five collabo- rative albums as well as selling over 23.5 million records in the United States and at least 37 million worldwide. His platinum albums include Doggystyle (1993), The Doggfather (1996), Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told (1998), No Limit Top Dogg (1999) and The Last Meal (2000). https://snoopdogg.com