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Dave WielengaWed. November 11
 

Nearly two decades on, Snoop’s Doggystyle endures

Who could have imagined that Doggystyle would be such an enduring fashion? Certainly not the young Calvin Broadus, who way back in 1993 was already marveling over his mysterious ability to “somehow, someway, keep comin’ up with funky-ass shit, like, every single day!”

By now, we take it for granted. Snoop Dogg has become such a familiar icon of cool that his current ESPN commercial with square-root football coach Mike Ditka, while good for a laugh, doesn’t transmit a bit of shock. Then again, it’s already been four years since Snoop did that Chrysler commercial with Lee Iacocca, in which he addressed one of America’s most lionized superexecs as “I-ka-zizzle.”

Although Snoop’s music has taken a back seat to his celebrity, that’s more a consequence of his pervasive renown than diminished skills. While his musical output has been uneven in a stretched-too-thin sort of way, it has been prolific—the newest collection, Malice N Wonderland, drops Dec. 8—and every CD features at least a couple of cuts that prove he’s still a long way from being somebody who is famous only for being famous.

If anything, Snoop’s deft use of his fame to attract a series of producers at their peak has enabled him to maintain some relevance while symbiotically providing the currently-hottest studio masters with an invaluable reference on their resumes. In the early part of this decade, he had the Neptunes working his sound. On the first single from Malice N Wonderland, Snoop employs the services of wunderkind-of-tha-moment The-Dream to rhapsodize about raps on “Gangsta Luv.” Well, actually, to rhapsodize about The-Dream, too: Snoop name-drops the producer at the start and finish of each verse.

Seventeen years later, there’s still a lotta drama in the LBC. But it’s probably never been better to be Snoop Dee-Oh-Double-Gee.

SNOOP DOGG AND DJ QUIK WITH NIPSEY HUSSLE AND THE HUSTLE BOYS THE GROVE OF ANAHEIM • 2200 E KATELLA AVE • ANAHEIM 92806 • 714.712.2700 • WED NOV 18 • $49.50-60 • GROVE-OF-ANAHEIM.COM

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  • Dwight K Snider
    While the jury is still out on the subject of Mr. Goodhue being a racist his numerous comments posted here are more than enough evidence to qualify Mr. Goodhue as being illiterate. According to Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary: illiterate (adjective) 2a: Showing or marked by a lack of familiarity with language. 2b: Violating approved patterns of speaking or writing.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    To be sure,clicking something over in draft form when time does not allow other
    wise, is not ideal.However in the majority of cases,though certainly not all,
    consideration is given to lack of cognitive skills of the author of the post
    engendering the reply.

    If the author of the post has a well documented history of shooting off their
    mouth without checking facts with an equal record of demonstrating
    the mindset of a mental twit-why bother with anything but a draft.That is
    especially so if their views are directly repugnant to the wide spectrum of
    un diseased minds.
  • You would be well advised to take the extra minute or two to proof read and add any needed verbs and prepositions before "clicking something over."
    ...And occasionally placing your thoughts in a cohesive order, that would help too. For example, that sex dog story...WTF?
  • howardx
    sounds to me like he solicited an officer for sex in an alley and got busted for it. might explain his obsession with the public restrooms at marine stadium as well. diseased mind indeed.
  • Think he was looking for doggy style?
  • get it...because the original post was about Snoops's album, "Doggystyle?"

    okay I know it's not funny, I just didn't want anyone to think I was really this vulgar. I apologize for the bad double entendre.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    Howardx's hearing is a lacking as his cognitive skills and knowledge of the facts.In the above matter the efforts were
    supported by the:

    Those that use the venue for purpose for which is was designed.
    The residents facing the area.
    The Planning Commission.
    The City Council
    The Coastal Commission
    The Governor
    It should be noted responsible members of the gay community
    joined in the effort.

    Prior to the Community effort the" traffic:" which the decent
    and thoughtful would have to wade through reached to would
    reach 25-35 cars per hour!!!

    Because of the design of the venue;the use patterns of those
    that use the venue for the purposes for which it was designed;
    in was in the public eye 15 hours a day,seven days a week.LBPD
    advised said location was even listed in a publication used
    by such-that served as a--travel guide" for those seeking such
    activity.

    Indeed,one day a then well placed individual member of PRM
    who had never had been in the area,but who had heard about
    the problem,and had always dismissed-called me the next day
    and said..."Geesus"..".there really is a problem down there."

    The City Attorney had was down circa 50 feet from ground zero in an on site meeting with then pending developer--standing in
    the internal roadway as the traffic was circulating in and out---
    exclaimed.. "What the hell is going on"--it was not unlike trying
    to swipe flies off garbage.

    It is interesting to note;though because of the community effort
    the problem has moved elsewhere allowing people to bring their
    families down there--there are still some vestiges of the activity
    which captures the attention of the CDC el al.

    Fortunately helping to keep the problem in check is a resident
    in the area;who happens to be gay;a member of a police dept
    that routinely walks her dog in the area;she and that dog have
    some "interesting conversations with the"vestiges" of the
    problem.

    Indeed,the issue was -and continues to be a PUBLIC HEALTH
    ISSUE OF THE FIRST ORDER--even at its very reduced level.
  • howardx
    yes, as i said above, im aware of your interest in the homosexual activities that take place in the public restrooms at marine stadium. thanks for confirming in spectacular fashion.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    The above is manifest evidence of the lack of cognitive
    skills ever present in howard X:

    It is the activity regardless of gender.It is a public
    health as well as a serious crime issue.

    We have had young women-attacked while in the showers after work outs.There have been young
    school kids stalked by those that travel to the area
    from a far.

    We have young men and women that move here from
    all over the country to live,work and train.Many train
    twice a day and would have to walk through a gauntlet
    of the diseased activity.

    The diseased mind of howard x might not have a
    problem with such activity--but those listed earlier
    do.

    The only thing Howard X is aware of is the Box of
    Fruit Loops he munches on.
  • howardx
    again thank you goodhue, i couldnt have done justice trying to explain the level of knowledge you have on the subject of illicit sex in public restrooms.
  • Laurence B. Goodhue
    Indeed,as those will cognitive skills
    realize it is the driving factor of
    why Long Beach is one of the epi centers in the nation in filling body bags with those enaged in such and pick up the tab for those soon to fill such @
    cost of circa $100,000 per year per
    victim--inclduing the innocent unwitting whose partner(regardless of
    gender) brought the disease home.

    All of said information has been front
    mape news of ebvery media outlet for a
    decade or more--but obviouis has not
    captured the attention of the Fruit
    Loop Howard X.
  • howardx
    i'll bet you remember the good old days when you could frequent that restroom without worrying about aids.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    The above is manifest evidence of the lack of cognitive
    skills ever present in howard X:

    It is the activity regardless of gender.It is a public
    health as well as a serious crime issue.

    We have had young women-attacked while in the showers after work outs.There have been young
    school kids stalked by those that travel to the area
    from a far.

    We have young men and women that move here from
    all over the country to live,work and train.Many train
    twice a day and would have to walk through a gauntlet
    of the diseased activity.

    The diseased mind of howard x might not have a
    problem with such activity--but those listed earlier
    do.

    The only thing Howard X is aware of is the Box of
    Fruit Loops he munches on.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    Again he with the diseased mind so void of cognitive skills save that to
    open his box of Fruit Loops-HOWARD
    shoots of his mouth with out checking
    facts.

    The building in question was not at
    time a restroom.It had been converted
    to a women's locker room for those
    training for the 1976 national and
    Olympic Teams.

    The unwanted activity took place out
    side in the bushes;under the grand
    stands that were the time--all in view
    of the public;or in cars with car doors
    flung open as the general public,
    including school kids rode or walked
    by.

    On the other side of the stadium where the road way is two inches from residential windows--it was not
    uncommon for those engaging in such
    activity to stop their car and proceede
    with what only a sick mind would find
    to be appropriate in said area.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    Little Girl:Check the earlier response --going to issue--that it is a
    function of post that engenders the replies....
  • Dave Wielenga
    I'm not defending or attacking anybody here, but there are gangs and there are gangs---there are the Crips and there is the Harbor Commission, just to name the two I've most-recently written about---and the members you praise or insult, and the damage they wreak (whether it's neighborhood terror or lung cancer) just depends on your perspective.
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  • Laurence B. Goodhue
    There is of course a major distinction,as DW and any other of an
    undiseased mind having the cognitive abilty to discern such
    understands when looking at the felonious culture whose hallmark
    was displayed in the Press Telegram(A3) and A4 of the Los
    Angles Times this past Sunday and that of the Port Commission.

    The distinctions are so obvious they need not be dicusssed in any
    reasoned community of minds.
  • I think you miss the point entirely when you keep bringing up PTA3 & LTA4. The tragedy here isn't just that Melody Ross lost her life at far too young an age, but there is also two other young men and all their loved ones whose lives are permanantly altered, and sadly. It is a tragedy for the whole community. If instead of just judging the suspects and their lives harshly(in many ways they are victims of their circumstances), what are you willing to do to help? Were you willing to come down out of your castle next to Marina Stadium and drop some cash on their educations? When you wasted taxpayer money with frivolous lawsuits--you may very well have had a hand in the fact that the funds that may have made a difference weren't there when they were needed.
  • Esteemed Mr. W: Perspective is, indeed, important and it would be very nice if more people who post here could try just a little bit harder to maintain some of it.

    The Harbor Commission is a quasi-governmental body duly-appointed by officals we have elected. If we do not like who our Mayor and Council appoint to Commissions like these, we have very clear legal and Constitutional options for making definitive changes in that area.

    Violent criminal street gangs, on the other hand, are not appointed and not elected. They purely and simply prey upon some of the very people that look to them as role models. They sell drugs to our children and they rob us at gunpoint and they degrade women and vandalize the property of others and they shoot blindly into crowds outside football games and commit all manner of despicable acts that do **nothing** to uplift and develop a community and **everything** to corrode and poison and destroy it. They create nothing but pain and misery and they leave nothing in their wake but shattered lives, decimated families and tortured neighborhoods.

    Perspective, sir? Oh yes, I have a ton of that!
  • Dave Wielenga
    Look, it's a stretch, I know, this comparison I made. But until we recognize that our heroes and villains and their consequences are largely a matter of perspective---and largely misunderstood by those on opposing sides---we're not going to get anywhere. You choose to evaluate and judge Snoop Dogg totally on your terms and that's really not going to get you anywhere. You choose to evaluate the Harbor Commission on your terms---their presence sort of an error of omission on the part of those opposed to them. I'm not saying that personal responsibility can't make a difference in either case---but to ignore the reality of the ensconced forces that created these conditions and the long odds of the everyday citizen to affect real change is to place the blame on the victims, I think. I cringe as I post this because I am almost certain you are going to parse my language and pick on its details rather than open up to my larger point, but here goes.
  • No cringing necessary, good sir. I should be a very great fool indeed to not listen to all you have to say and consider it well.

    I don't happen to think the odds are quite as long as you do for the everyday citizen to affect real change. I see clear evidence of it happening every single day in this great city. Perhaps I see more of it because I literally drive through, walk in and work in every single geographic portion of our city throughout each and every work week.

    I feel truly blessed to have that opportunity, because through it I see a lot of bad, but a lot less bad than there used to be. And I see a great deal of good. And the good seems, at least to me, to be expanding, where the bad is shrinking.... reluctantly.... petulantly.... but shrinking nonetheless.

    Let not your heart be troubled, good sir! Everyday citizens...like you and like me and even like Mr. x and Mr. Ruehle...are affecting real change here all the time. And not just change for its own sake, but the truly constructive and positive sort.

    I dearly love this, the town of my birth, and I want only the best for all of it, and for all of those who live, work and visit here.
  • ahah money is dirty no mater WHERE it comes from. I really want to see a debate why didnt anyone comment on THAT? No have the balls to actually say all this shit in person? to their face? IM DOWN!
  • Okay Mr. Shizzle, I'll comment on your comment just because a fresh face is so...well, refreshing. I'd love to face off with Mr. Goodhue in person, but unfortunately, I don't have the same kind of excess time on my hands he has, as I have to work for a living.

    Though it would be priceless to see the look on his face when he sees how voluptuous I am, that I am definitely not a little girl.
  • Laurence Goodhue
    ..yet your thought process is that of a little girl--and there in is the problem...
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