Or why he’s judging singing competitions with Kelly Clarkson and filming reality shows with his family. That’s why Snoop Dogg is making mashed potatoes with Martha Stewart. However, last year, Snoop was sued in civil court by a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her in 2013 following a concert in Anaheim. The headline reads: “ When Is Rap 2 Violent?” He has avoided any serious criminal issues since, save for a piddly string of extremely in-character marijuana misdemeanors. Newsweek marked the moment by placing Snoop on its cover. It’s an origin story that intersects with his own criminal history: Snoop Dogg was arrested for cocaine possession in 1990, and dodged a murder conviction at the very dawn of his fame, in 1993, which sparked a genuine cultural panic about the personal conduct of the world’s newest hip-hop star.

Snoop claims to have joined a gang at the age of 12, and says he was wielding firearms by 15. (“Pumping on my chest and I’m screaming/ I stop breathing, damn, I see demons,” he wrote on one of the most vivid tracks on the record, in which he imagines his own murder via drive-by shooting.) He has described his youth as bleak and violent. But Snoop was still writing what he knew, which were the bombed-out streets of Eastside Long Beach. His debut album, 1993’s Doggystyle, was looser and more blissed-out on weed than the others in a realm dominated by insomniac Ice Cube soliloquies and bloodthirsty Eazy-E mania. Snoop Dogg is of a songwriting generation in which authenticity was prime currency.

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