The legend who declined to play Snoop Dogg in ‘Straight Outta Compton’

From Wu-Tang: An American Saga to The Defiant Ones, because the Nineties change into a distant reminiscence, extra documentaries and dramas are being made in regards to the period and a few of its most vital acts. One of many figures that emerged within the early Nineties was Snoop Dogg, and in 2015, one legend was approached to play him within the movie Straight Out Compton however rejected the supply.

Produced by South Los Angeles native Ice Dice (actual title O’Shea Jackson), the movie’s manufacturing group meant to solid West Coast natives to play the varied members of NWA, Jackson’s son performed his father, and the casting administrators approached the late Nipsey Hussle to play Snoop Dogg. Nonetheless, the emcee rejected the supply.

Throughout an look on the 85 South Present with DC Younger Fly, Karlous Miller and Chico Bean, Snoop defined how he discovered about Nipsey (actual title Ermias Asghedom) getting the supply. Recalling the second, the Doggystyle rapper remembered, “They was doing Straight Outta Compton movie right? So Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, all them n*ggas calling me. [They said,] ‘Man, we trying to get Nip to play you in Straight Outta Compton! He ain’t getting back to us!’ [I’m like] ‘Aight, let me holla at the lil homie.’”

He continued, “I hit him up. “[I said,] ‘Nip, lemme holla at you! Pull up on me!’ He come over to the spot. ‘Cuh, they want you to play me in the Straight Outta Compton movie!’ I’m happy as fuck to tell him.”

Nonetheless, for private and profession causes, Asghedom respectively declined. Snoop (actual title Calvin Broadus) unveiled what Nipsey, disclosing to the hosts, “He was like, ‘No disrespect big homie, but I can’t play you in the movie ’cause then people just gon’ know me for being you. I gotta be me. All that’s with all due respect.’ And I was like damn, that was gangsta. I [called Dre and Cube back and] said, ‘Y’all gotta go find somebody else!’”

Following the late musician’s rejection, a then-unknown LaKeith Stanfield would go on to play Snoop within the movie. He rose to fame the next 12 months together with his function in Donald Glover’s iconic Atlanta sequence.

Straight Outta Compton polarised many, with some saying it was poorly made. Nonetheless, the movie in the end inspired Dr. Dre to produce his album, Compton, which was launched later that 12 months.

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