Snoop Dogg's latest reinvention is heaven-sent
A stream of tears cascades down Snoop Dogg's face. He takes a moment to exhale before continuing playback of his latest album, "Bible of Love."
It's the first time he's previewing the project - a 32-track compilation of gospel records that arrived earlier this month - and after a few songs he's overcome with emotion.
"A lot of times, you see me performing for thousands of people, filling their hearts with love and joy, not knowing that I'm going through so much pain," he says on a spoken-word track midway through the record.
A stunning admission from a man who helped create the blueprint for gangsta rap. But if you think Snoop D-O Double G is ditching street edge for vulnerability, the blue ball cap he's wearing inscribed with "Make America Crip Again" says otherwise.
And therein lie the virtuosity and complexity of the artist born Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., a performer who has reinvented himself perhaps more than any other pop star.
In the quarter-century since his groundbreaking
