Snoop Dogg

Ice Cube Debuts Web TV Site, Social Network UVNTV.com

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 8, 2008 - 1:58pm.

New York - Hip-hop artist Ice Cube and partner DJ Pooh on Tuesday announced the launch of UVNTV.com (U View Network Television), a broadband television site and social network. The beta version of the service, which uses Microsoft's Silverlight video distribution platform, features channels such as Ice Cube's Hip Hop 24/7 TV, Snoop Dogg's Snoopadelic TV, and fashion designer Christian Audigier's Live TV.

9 Squared Adds Snoop Dogg to Celebrity Text Message Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 19, 2007 - 1:32pm.

Denver, Colo. - Mobile media distributor 9 Squared, a unit of U.K.-based Monstermob, on Friday announced the launch of a celebrity text message service featuring hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg. The service will deliver three text messages weekly, and is available to Verizon, Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile and Alltel subscribers. Other celebrities featured on The In Crowd service include Xzibit, Andy Milonakis and John Salley.

Buzz Watch: Snoop Dogg Hides Bling-Bling in Album

Authored by Jay Baage on November 3, 2006 - 11:37am.

Hip hop icon Snoop Dogg employs an unusual marketing ploy in selling his new highly anticipated album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment being released on November 21st through Doggystyle/Geffen. Inside a random CD of the album will be a ticket for a diamond Ice Link watch worth $100,000. Now that’s some serious gangsta’ bling-bling you can get for going old school and ditching iTunes!

Snoop Dogg, Global Gaming League Launch Hip Hop Gaming League

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 2, 2006 - 9:03am.

Santa Monica, Calif. - The Global Gaming League, a producer of video game tournaments, announced on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg, to create a Hip Hop Gaming League. Snoop will serve as the first commissioner for the league, which has so far signed on performers including Method Man, BReal, Proof and Krayzie Bone, and pro athletes Jalen Rose and Cobi Jones. The league's players will be equipped with custom Xbox 360 consoles, and all competition will take place on the Xbox Live online gaming service. League matches will begin this month, and conclude in May with a live finals event held in Las Vegas -- with Snoop's youth football league receiving a substantial donation on the champion's behalf.

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Snoop Dogg Named Executive Producer of Hip-Hop for XM Radio

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 8, 2005 - 5:23am.

New York - XM Satellite Radio, a subscription radio service with 5 million subscribers, said on Thursday that it has named hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg as executive producer for its hip-hop channel, The Rhyme. The rapper already hosts a weekly radio show on XM, and will now provide creative direction and develop new hip-hop programming for the company.

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