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Win And Juice: Snoop Gets A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame
Snoop Dogg takes the stage at his Walk of Fame ceremony (Screenshot via Hollywood Walk of Fame/YouTube)
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Snoop D-O-double-G got the 2,651st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Jimmy Kimmel and this guy ^^ (President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Leron Gubler) delivered the honor.
Snoop Dogg's star, given in the Recording category, will be located in front of Kimmel's studio at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard.
The Long Beach native and 16-time Grammy nominee pounded the music scene in 1993 with the release of his first album, Doggystyle, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
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He's released more than a dozen studio albums since then, including a 2013 reggae release under the name Snoop Lion (he's also said he's Bob Marley reincarnated) and a gospel album -- Snoop Dogg Presents: Bible of Love -- just this year.
The multi-talented entrepreneur has also appeared in dozens of films and TV shows, including the genre-bending VH1 program "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party," which the rapper executive produces and co-hosts with domestic oracle Martha Stewart.
Let's take a walk (of fame) down memory lane with some classic Snoop moments:
During his speech, the rapper turned himself into a viral meme by thanking his mother, father, aunties, wife, Warren G, Dr. Dre, battle rappers, and last but not least, himself.
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"I wanna thank me," Snoop told the crowd. "I wanna thank me for believing in me. I wanna thank me for doing all this hard work. I wanna thank me for having no days off. I wanna thank me for never quitting. I wanna thank me for always being a giver, trying to give more than I receive. I wanna thank me for trying to do more right than wrong. I wanna thank me for just being me at all times."
We couldn't have said it better.
UPDATES:
Nov. 20, 10:44 a.m.: This article was updated with quotes from Snoop Dogg's speech, in which he thanked himself.
This article was originally published at 12:54 p.m. on Nov. 19, 2018.
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