After appearing on Dr. Dre's The Chronic album, Snoop Dogg (nee Calvin Broadus) blew up on the hip-hop scene as a solo artist in 1993 singing "Gin and Juice": "Rolling down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice."

Born on Oct. 20, 1972 in Long Beach, California, Snoop did time for selling cocaine as a teenager, but ultimately decided marijuana was the recreational drug for him. He's appeared on the cover of High Times twice and was named Stoner of the Year in 2002.

In addition to his prodigious musical output, he's appeared in numerous movies, including The Wash, Soul Plane and Half Baked.

Snoop Dogg has been arrested for marijuana three times - twice in Burbank, California and once in Stockhom, Sweden. In Feb. 2008, Snoop was ticketed for smoking outside a club in New York. He was sentenced to 960 hours of community service for the Burbank charges.

In 2008 interviews, he told Larry King he was under the influence of medical marijuana and declared on The View: "I need to have medical marijuana in my life."

Snoop was featured in a 2006 episode of Weeds, rapping about the MILF weed. He's stars in his own reality show, Fatherhood, on E!, and in Dogg After Dark on MTV.

His 2008 album, Ego Tripping', featured "My Medicine" with Willie Nelson.

Snoop's latest albums, Malice in Wonderland, More Malice and Doggumentary came out in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Happy 40th birthday, Big Snoop Dogg!

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