{"id":596928,"date":"2026-08-26T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596928\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:06:09","slug":"snoop-dogg-biopic-finds-its-warren-g-in-algee-smith-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596928\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg Biopic Finds Its Warren G in Algee Smith (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAlgee Smith, best known for his work in the early seasons of Euphoria, is set to portray Warren G in Snoop, Universal Pictures\u2019 biopic of entertainment mogul and rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/snoop-dogg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snoop-dogg_1\" data-tag=\"snoop-dogg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snoop Dogg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJonathan Daviss, one of the stars of Netflix series\u00a0Outer Banks, is portraying Snoop Dogg, who emerged from Long Beach, Calif. in the 1990s to become one of the biggest names in\u00a0rap. The feature has been casting up in recent weeks and now has actors Myles Bullock Be as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/dr-dre\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dr-dre_1\" data-tag=\"dr-dre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Dre<\/a>, Camron Jones as troubled rapper Tupac Shakur, and Lauren London as Snoop Dogg\u2019s mother.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Production is due to start mid-September in and around Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA Grammy nominee, Warren G, whose real name is Warren Griffin III, \u00a0was a key member of the West Coast hip-hop scene with hits such as \u201cRegulate\u201d and \u201cThis D.J.\u201d The rapper was pivotal in Snoop Dogg\u2019s rise, forming a trio named the 213 in the early 1990s that also included Nate Dogg. Warren G ended up introducing Snoop Dogg to Dr. Dre, who then took the young rapper under his wing.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Craig Brewer is directing Snoop, which is being produced by Imagine Entertainment\u2019s Brian Grazer, the veteran producer behind the semi-autobiographical Eminem drama\u00a08 Mile, and the company\u2019s Allan Mandelbaum. Snoop Dogg and Death Row Pictures president Sara Ramaker are also producing.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Brewer, who recently directed\u00a0Song Sung Blue\u00a0for Universal\u2019s specialty studio Focus Features, wrote the latest draft of the script, which was initially written by Joe Robert Cole. The feature will incorporate music from Snoop Dogg\u2019s vast catalog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSmith played football star Chris McKay in HBO\u2019s Euphoria. He broke through with his performance portraying singer Ralph Tresvant in BET\u2019s highest-rated miniseries The New Edition Story and had roles in Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s Detroit and Shaka King\u2019s Judas and the Black Messiah. The latter two earned him NAACP Image Award nominations.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Smith will be a series regular in HBO\u2019s American Blue, starring opposite Milo Ventimiglia from showrunner Jeremy Carver and director David Ayer. He will also star alongside Jamie Foxx as boxing legend Pernell Whitaker in the upcoming Netflix drama Fight for 84. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Algee Smith, best known for his work in the early seasons of Euphoria, is set to portray Warren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96554,146,85,46,409,23098],"class_list":["post-596928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-dr-dre","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-snoop-dogg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}