La’el Johnson
January 4, 2018
Period 8 Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr. known professionally as Snoop Dogg has influenced millions of people through his music with back-to-back hit albums and platinum records. He challenged people’s beliefs beyond their simplistic ways of thinking and broadened other people’s mindsets with hope and courage of having a better life. Like most other celebrities, Snoop Dogg donates to a variety of charities and has his own foundations that help thousands of people every day. One of his more significant ways of impacting people’s lives more physically rather than just emotionally and mentally, was his involvement and donations to The Habitat for Humanity organization …show more content…
Snoop Dogg got involved with this organization over a decade ago when he auctioned off an hour of “hang time” with him in the studio to raise funds for the Operation Home Delivery, which is a specific disaster relief program operated by The Habitat for Humanity after the disasters of The Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.
Cordozar was born on October 20, 1971 in Long Beach California. Before he became what people refer to as a West Coast legend, he was a young boy whose mom thought he looked like the cartoon character Snoopy from the children’s movies “Peanuts”. He grew up with the nickname Snoopy but eventually changed into Snoop Dogg. While he was a young kid, he played piano and sang in a local Baptist church near home, after the sixth grade his passion for rap increased and he spent lots of time pursuing his star born dream. Once he got to high school, he became an active participant in a gang for the Crips and started becoming in and out of jail for the possession of drugs. To …show more content…
They also believe that children and families should have just as good of a chance to be in a safe environment and have a welcoming home as well as everyone else. Millard Fuller and Linda Fuller founded the Habitat for Humanity in 1976. They believed that if they could build non-profit houses for people, it would give people a great opportunity to have an affordable and decent living home. The couple started the idea in the United States and decided to help build savings from the community; they then took their idea to Central Africa where they shared their plans with the Republicans. Now that their idea was expanding, they packed their bags and headed back home to North America to start The Habitat for Humanity as an official global organization and change lives forever. Since then the company has greatly increased and is currently being distributed almost