Calvin Broadus Livin' Large

Calvin Broadus is everywhere. The famous rapper by the name of Snoop Doggy Dogg has made the mainstream....you see him on Chrysler commercials, teeing off with Lee Iacocca, and you read about his new youth football league, that's poaching all of the best coaches from the other kids leagues. His rail thin body is lithe and his stoned out visage is compelling.

Snoop is also an accomplished pornographer, he appears and produces films wearing clothes with women who are naked. Snoop has a demeanor that appeals to middle class whites, even though some of his songs such as "control yo ho" can grate on anyone's sense of woman's rights and feminists should probably hate him.

I find it fascinating that Snoop has climbed up to such a mainstream place that he can call up Chrysler and demand a free car...and they send him one!

While Googling the Snoopster I found a court case from 2001 where two recordings were sampled. Damn if that first one (the complainer) didn't sound just like Snoop's song (the defender). But they both took their melody from Otis Redding's Hard to Handle, published decades earlier.