April 21, 2006
Snoop Dogg Writing a Novel
Snoop Dogg is writing a novel, and getting it published by Simon & Shuster, no less. Okay I know one of y'all blogger/freelancer people is ghostwriting this bad boy, so you might as well just fess up now. Anybody? Bueller?
Rapper Snoop Dogg writing his first novel
Los Angeles-based rap superstar Snoop Dogg is writing a novel for Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, it was reported Thursday.
'Love Don`t Live Here No More' is expected to hit U.S. store shelves in October, The Book Standard reported on its Web site. It is expected to be the first in a series of 'street lit' offerings from the rapper. The story follows a young Southern Californian`s struggle to make it out of the mean streets and into the world of hip-hop.
'Snoop, by nature of what he does, is a storyteller,' Atria`s Kathleen Schmidt told The Book Standard. Schmidt said the rapper should be able to broaden his audience by putting his words on paper.
'Books speak more to a female audience than does his music, so these novels give him an opportunity to show, particularly his female fans, another side,' she said.
Posted by jsmooth995 at April 21, 2006 05:50 AM
Posted by: MAN TO THE MAN at April 21, 2006 11:06 AM
Hmm.. has our first commenter just leaked Snoop's novel, in its entirety?
Posted by: Jay Smooth at April 21, 2006 02:51 PM
You know.....I answered a classified ad to ghostwrite an "urban novel" for an unnamed party but they didn't call me. Could it be?
Posted by: Anne at April 21, 2006 03:21 PM
Hmm.. has our first commenter just leaked Snoop's novel, in its entirety?
well, they tried, they just couldn't get it out in time. Fortunately I have the rest.
page 2
PLEASE
-fin-
Posted by: Gandalf Mantooth at April 21, 2006 05:38 PM
I knew there was comedy in here before I even clicked the link. This is one of this situations were you try to say something serious (like a link to Snoops writing debut) and you just wait with a straight face for the first person to bust out laughing. FYI, I am gonna copyright all of the book titles that this brand of 'literature' is gonna want. Starting with:
I can do bad all by myself.
Nothing going on but the rent.
I aint sayin shes a gold digger...
How you callin a bitch? (the ghetto feminist novel)
Ghetto Love (clearly someone has beaten me to this one already)
Keepin it Gangsta
etc.
Posted by: Kai at April 23, 2006 12:40 AM
There's a writing job I'd kill (or at least maim) for. . . I don't think he ever read his "autobiography" and when I asked him and Nate Dogg about a couple things I read in there, they said they weren't true.
Posted by: teemoney at April 24, 2006 12:55 PM
snoop dogg dogg my name is collin beverley I'm 13
years old.I'm black. I would like to say your novel is fantastic, which really improves on how the life style is about the thug life of what your speaking in your novel. I think it's real great to express yourself on thoughts you think are valuble, especially in your novel. PS. I Think and everybody else thinks I should start a rap carerr
Posted by: collin beverley at August 13, 2006 05:17 AM
