This is one of the most interesting celebrity memoirs I've ever read. And - if we can assume that the ultimate purpose of any such book is to increase our affection for the author - one the most successful.

Now I've never considered Snoop a particularly exemplary rapper. The enjoyable flavor [I'm white, okay? If I wrote "flava", I'd deserve to have my car radio stolen] of his stoned drawl aside, I just don't see how big a claim you can make for an annunciatory couplet as banal as "One, two, three, and to the four / Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door". But even if Mr. Broadus does pull his punches when it comes to Suge Knight's reign of terror [hey, are *you* prepared to tweak the guy off?], he is as honest about his coming-up as anyone could ask for. And his descriptions of both the good times and the bad times in the L.B.C. are truly evocative. His concise account of how life in the ghetto and life in jail reveal themselves as opposite sides of the same coin is worth 100 books full of pedantry from (white) TV talking-heads about "the problem of the underclass". Frankly, if his raps were as educational as this book, Snoop would actually accomplish what Chuck D. was trying to pull off for so many years. I hope he goes for it instead of minding his scrilla with unchallenging panegyrics to blunts and booty.

THIS IS ONE OF THA MOST INTERSTING BOOKS I EVA EVA READ IN MY LIFE.. I AM A LONG TIME DEATHROW/ SNOOP FAN.. U MAY THINK U KNOW SNOOP DOGG WHEN U LISTEN TO HIS TRACKS BUT AS A FAMILY MAN AND A CHILD OF GOD THIS BOOK MOVED ME FROM THA INTRODUCTION.. FROM WHEN TALKS ABOUT THE LIFE LIVEN ON THA EASTSIDE OF LONG BEACH, TO SELLEN DRUGS TO JOINING UP WIT THA ROLLEN 20'S CRIP GANG AND THA TOUCHIN STORY OF THA BOND BETWEEN HIM AND HIS MAMA AND HOW HIS MAMA LUV FOR HIM SHOWES HIM TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY WITH , AND REALSTIONSHIP HE HAD WITH GOD AT A YOUNG AGE.. I RECOMMEND THIS MASTERPIECE TO ANYONE WHO LOVES TO READ.. THIS TOUCHING BOOK MOVED ME IN A REAL WAY.. A LOT OF THA MEDIA LOVES TO JUDGE SNOOP DOGG THA RAPPER BUT AS THA MAN CALVIN BROADAGE IS TRULY A REAL AND HUMBLE PERSON.. SNOOP'S BOOK CAN GIVE ANY YOUNG NIGGA LIVEN IN THA GHETTO A POSITIVE INVLUENCE DAT ANYONE CAN MAKE AND THA WORLD IS YOURS.. SNOOP IS BLESSED HE GOT A BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND 3 KIDS AND IS THA OWNER OF A BIG RECORD COMPANY.. HOW HE GOT THERE WILL AMAZE U.. ANY AVERAGE CAT WHO HAS LIVED AND GONE THREW WHAT SNOOP HAD SHOULD BE DEAD BUT SNOOP WAS BLESSED AND TOUCHED BY GOD IN A REAL WAY.. 1LUV TO SNOOP FOR WRITING THIS MOVING BOOK AND PROVEN THAT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF U PUT GOD AND YO HEART AND SOUL INTO IT..

ME, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A SNOOP DOGG FAN. BUT AFTER READING SNOOP'S BOOK I THINK THAT I BECAME AN EVEN BIGGER FAN. I LOVED IT. NOT ONLY WAS IT DETAILED AND ALL ABOUT SNOOP, IT WAS BY SNOOP. SO ME BEING A READER I GOT TO SEE WHAT SNOOP THOUGHT ABOUT VARIOUS THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO HIM IN HIS LIFE. AND IT WAS NOT A BORING BOOK IN SOME PARTS IT WAS FUNNY. SO IF YOU WANT TO READ ABOUT SNOOP, BUT YOU WANT TO READ A GOOD BOOK THIS IS THE ONE BOOK THAT I'M TRULY RECOMMENDING. ENJOY!