Despite his remarkable blunt habit, Snoop Dogg’s brains works overtime. He’s a rapper/songwriter/producer, actor, presenter, director, sports coach, entrepreneur, and winemaker. He doesn’t let the grass grow, but he probably does.
He is a spiritual traveler who has practiced Islam, Rastafarianism, and Christianity, as well as a vegan who wears fur. One constant in a life full of change and progress is vehicles. Two constants: vehicles and cannabis. His life slogan is: “If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.” He bought. To celebrate the Doggfather’s 49th birthday on October 20, we look at his most iconic cars.
This beauty is tragic. Snoop handed Kobe Bryant his beautiful yellow-and-purple Pontiac Parisienne with a hood featuring the team’s greats when he retired in 2016. Shaq, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bryant were highlighted.
Snoop, the meek and retiring wallflower, is front and center in a Lakers shirt with a Superman emblem. The trunk included a hydraulic system that raised and lowered the car’s riding level.
This automobile is neither restrained nor low-key. This metallic brown Caddy with chandeliers above the back seat is the greatest hip-hop object ever. The car bears “Snoop Dogg” on the hood and a design of Snoop and his sons Corde and Cordell on the trunk.
In a world where most superstars want to go anonymously, you have to admire the man who wants to proclaim his arrival. This amazing automobile is on exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. Snoop’s automobiles are almost all customized by Big Slice, a 6’6″, 295lb former.
Snoop has two vintage Buick Rivieras. This 1968 second-generation automobile is longer, broader, and 200lb heavier than the first. The car has pink wheels and appears in Snoop’s music video for “Vato”. A hood decal depicts Snoop with his wife and infant daughter, with the words “Me and my girls” and “Dogg’s Angels” below. The latter is unlikely to become a popular nickname.
Another Big Slice invention, this car’s stickers portray Snoop, clothed in white and praying beatifically, surrounded by his family, under the words “My First Ministry”. Below them are “Matthew 6: 9-13” (the Lord’s Prayer) and “2 Corinthians 5: 14-21” (no idea). Is this Bible school?
Lowriders, which are customized cars to inches from the road, wouldn’t get far on San Francisco’s mountainous streets or the Midwest’s dirt tracks. However, since Eazy-E and Dr. Dre popularized it in the 1990s, it’s popular in LA hip-hop. Known for his love of lowrider culture, Snoop’s automobile is striking with its lime-green paint, lemon trim, and wheel rims. Also available as a remote-controlled toy.
In the 2000s, Snoop was employed as a Chrysler spokesperson, which boosted sales. Snoop received a Chrysler 300C, a popular car owned by Dr. Dre and Barack Obama, as a thank you. Snoop had to make the car his own (enter Big Slice), so he lowered it, put chrome rims, blacked out the taillights and windows, and wrote “DUB” on the windows and trunk. Overall, Snoop was cautious and low-key.
