SNOOP DOGG PLEADS NOT GUILTY

Snoop Dogg held a press conference in New York City to explain his transformation from hip hop and Snoop Dogg to reggae and Snoop Lion, and he claimed that h…

Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg entered a plea of not guilty to a felony charge of possessing a deadly weapon last week. The charges stem from an incident when the rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, attempted to board a plane at Orange County’s John Wayne airport while carrying a collapsible police baton. After officers spotted the baton in his carry-on luggage, Snoop Dogg said that he was unaware that the baton was illegal and that he was using it as a prop in a new video.

The rapper wasn’t arrested during the September 27th incident but several weeks later authorities decided to press charges and on November 6th, Snoop Dogg turned himself in. The rapper was later released on $150,000 bail and he faces up to three years in jail if found guilty.

“Luc is the man. I mea I got off into his work a couple of years ago when I started watching the Professionals and the other couple of movies that he did. And I liked the gangster movies that he did but he had got at me about the animation. So I was like, ‘I’m cool with that but I really, really want to work him on a drama style movie.’ But in the meantime, we gonna do the Arthur thing and make a couple a hundred million dollars off this movie right here. The kids are gonna love it and we gonna do part two. My version where I’m the star of the movie, you undertsand me. So that’s what it is.”

Snoop Dogg was represented by his lawyer last week but he is due back in court on April 5th for a pretrial hearing.

In related news, Snoop Dogg is one of the stars of the animated moive, Arthur & The Invisibles. He explained that he got involved with the movie because he wanted to work with director Luc Besson. The rapper explained,