I would probably give anything — well, maybe $5 — to see Snoop cleaning toilets and picking up trash at a park as part of his court-ordered 160 hours of community service. Most of the money would go toward the cleaning toilet viewing, I think. Too bad for me none of us will even see pictures.
The name of the park will not be disclosed to prevent disruptions.
The rapper will be part of a crew supervised by a park ranger. “I pointed him to a website of places that were all probation-approved,” Manssourian said. “He picked the place. And once you pick the place, the job description is set in stone.”
Not even a hint?
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• Favorite headline of the morning: “Bowling Not Always An Option For Blacks.” What if it’s an option, but it bores you to tears every time you do it? [DFP]
• Your 401(k)? Please don’t forget about it. []
• And now for the obligatory Beyonce. She and her mom are launching a line of House of Dereon prom dresses. Oh no yay!
• John Edwards isn’t giving up on black voters. It’s a good thing, because we’re all going to die or go to jail if he doesn’t get elected. [CNN]
• Kim Fields got married, and Us Weekly didn’t even notice. I wonder why. [People]
It’s quite a rarity to have so many hip hop luminaries in one room, or one (Hammerstein) ballroom, as it was. But VH1 managed to cram as much talent as possible into their Hip Hop Honors show, which taped last night but airs Monday at 10 pm. Yes, there was a lot of talent there, but I don’t count Tracy Morgan, who hosted the awards and couldn’t quite get that teleprompter thing down. Could his SCRAM have been going off right about that time? No worries, I’m sure they’ll have that all cleaned up by Monday.
I had the pleasure of spending the evening in the press room, where the honorees and presenters came back to chat. In fact, so many VIPs were in attendance, I decided to write up my experiences in a handy superlative format. Check out the Best and Worst, plus lots and lots of pictures, after the jump.
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• Like the Game yesterday, Snoop got out of his weapons possession charges with a slap on the wrist. And Australia thought they were criminals! [E!]
• Republicans are pretty pissed at the candidates who won’t go to Tavis Smiley’s debate, too. [EUR]
• Five hundred people silently protested BET’s portrayal of women outside network head Debra Lee’s house recently. In response, she stood on her lawn and did the Beyonce booty bounce. []
• Laura Bush is like, “Look! I have African American art! It’s colorful!” [WP]
• George Bush claims that the GOP has a lot to show for itself re: blacks. I wonder if he’s talking about his wife’s painting. []
• Compared to the population of blacks in Detroit, there are very few holding construction jobs in the city compared to whites. It’s more important than it sounds. [DN]
• They really hit the nail on the head with this headline: “As minorities increase, student bodies change.” I never would have thought that! [AJC]
• Racism catches you off guard on occasion. [HP]
• Far more frequently, it doesn’t surprise you at all. [AP]
• Snoop will host the MTV Europe awards if, of course, they let him in the country. [BBC]
Usually in Rewound, I take a video from an artist who is still famous today and talk about how different they are now and how much things have changed since his or her heyday. But Snoop? Fourteen years later, I still kind of feel like he’s that same guy. Sure he is older, richer, and coaches little league football, but at his core he’s the same old Snoop. Anyway, enjoy “Gin & Juice” and check out a miniature (actually, he’s still kind of miniature) Bow Wow in the opening skit.
Snoop just sold the house featured in this Cribs clip for $1.8 million. Even though he hasn’t lived in the Claremont, CA, mansion since 2000, locals probably think the sale of his house is the best thing to ever happen to them.
The newly remodeled house sits on an acre of land, contains 6500 square feet of living, 8 bedrooms, a swimming pool and spa, a pool house, a basketball court and a tennis court.
“There were regular parties, and they were loud,” Claremont Capt. Gary Jenkins told the Claremont Courier. “So we would receive a lot of noise complaints. There were a lot of cars in the neighborhood and people loitering around in the streets, but no major problems.”
See, no major problems. Those Claremont denizens will miss the billows of weed smoke rising from the chimney and the sing song bark of pit bulls lulling the neighborhood to sleep.
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The only people who will ever really know what happened at Flavor Flav’s Comedy Central roast this weekend are the ones who were in attendance, because the comedy network can’t air a lot of it during the August 12 broadcast.
For example, they won’t hear the N-word which was used 11 times by presenters including Snoop Dogg, Ice-T and comedian Katt Williams, The Post’s Mandy Stadtmiller reports. The rowdy roast in Los Angeles over the weekend also saw the word “bitch” used 16 times; “pimp,” 14 times; “ho,” 12 times; “whore,” seven times, “crack,” five times, and “hookers,” three times.
I didn’t know pimp, crack, and hooker were off limits, but in these post-wardrobe malfunction days I’m not surprised at censorship. I am surprised that Snoop, Ice-T, and Katt Williams only said the n-word 11 times. The NAACP would be proud of their restraint! If, of course, they hadn’t been attending the roast of a guy who’s TV show does the opposite of advancing colored people.
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Who’s the latest fading star to allow television cameras to invade their family’s privacy in the name of money and fame? Snoop and co. just announced he’ll have an reality show on E! before the year is out. Something tells me this won’t be much like Run’s House.
The as yet untitled half-hour show, slated for a late 2007 debut, will follow Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, and his family as the Doggfather goes about his daily business, which has expanded over the past decade to include producing, acting, hosting a radio show, helming a youth football league and tacking -izzle onto the end of every other word.
On the home front, Snoop and his wife of 10 years, Shante, have two sons and a daughter.
I can just imagine the Cosby Show-esque family scenes now, like Mr. Broadus explaining to his daughter that, although he “don’t love dem hoes,” she will always have a special place in his heart. Or when he lectures his oldest son about drinking as they share a blunt in his Escalade. This will be a must see.
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