The Big Dog – Snoop Dogg Live in Baltimore

With ten solo records, cameos in over 25 films, and a couple realty TV shows, he’s morphed from a member of the Crips street gang while in high school, to a music and media powerhouse.

As a leader in the ’90s gangsta rap style, he quickly became one of, if not the most recognizable rap artists in the county.   His lyrics reflected the violence of the inner-city streets, and after being charged as an accomplice in a murder, his street-cred boomed, launching his debut CD to a number one spot in the rap category.

Snoop’s next record “stalled”, selling only two million copies which caused him to start to reinvent himself away from the thug gangster image.  He started to reposition himself as more mainstream by wordsmithing his lyrics to be less violent.

His most recent CD, Ego Trippin’ has been generally reviewed as a mediocre effort, noting that he did not even write his own lyrics on this recording effort.  As one reviewer mentioned “…Snoop is no longer that rapper from Deep Cover, he’s that creepy old guy at the club, acting like he still 21.”

Yet the Dogg is still the undisputed king of hip hop.

Snoop Dogg with Devin the Dude, Method Man and Redman
Rams Head Live
20 Market Place at Power Plant Live
Baltimore, Maryland  (map it)

Dates & Times - Tuesday, October 27, 2009 – 7:00 p.m.

Tickets - $46.00 and are available online.

Parking – Limited metered street parking and area paid garage/lot parking is available.

Images – Flickr – Snoop Dogg with mic, Snoop Dogg in Millionaire shirt