Snoop Dogg Takes You Behind His Biggest Hits: ‘Beautiful,’ ‘California Gurls’ & More | Chart History | Billboard

Snoop Dogg sits down to take us inside the stories of some of his biggest hits, including the real reason Katy Perry created “California Gurls,” his interactions in Brazil’s favelas, what he wanted to emulate in “Sensual Seduction,” morphing into a doberman in “Who Am I (What’s My Name)?,” working with Akon on “I Wanna Love You,” the impact of “Drop It Like It’s Hot” on his career and more!

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Snoop Dogg: 

What’s crackalackin? It’s your boy. Big Snoop D-O double G, and this is my Billboard chart history. I got a bunch of home girls that are like Katy Perry, so it was like for me to have a record like that that actually fits in their world. It was a treat. She had hit me because she was, you know, out and about, and she kept hearing the Alicia Keys and Jay-Z song. And she was like, “We need a song to represent West Coast California because I don’t hear nothing like that saying where we from when I’m in the club.” So that’s how that song came about. She was looking to have an answer to that record. I think she did an amazing job, like aiming at the target and hitting the target and delivering and picking the right tempo, the right style and the right person to combine it on the song with. One thing about a great collaboration, what it does is it brings two fan bases together. I think it brought both worlds together to where, you know, Katy’s fans and my fans were able to take a ride together, and that’s the beautiful part about a collaborative effort in the studio that translate to a video. I had to have that song on my playlist overseas. It was a couple of shows I did when that record came out, and I didn’t perform it. They was mad, like, very mad. And I was like, damn, I got all this gangsta sh*t. Y’all want me to do this song? So then I started adding it to my playlist, and I seen how when it would come on, they going crazy. So then I added a component where I have girls come out with beach balls, and they throw them in the crowd when that song come on. You can just see them. They just catching the beach- they love, they love catching balls.

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