This story is part of the 2025 TIME100 . Read Hoda Kotb’s tribute to Snoop Dogg here . Maybe it’s the constant intake of weed, or surviving in some mean streets, but Calvin Broadus—known to his associates as Dogg and the rest of the world as Snoop —is a very peaceable guy. His mother gave him that nickname Snoopy after noticing the similarities between her son and the happy-go-lucky puppy in the Peanuts cartoons and she nailed it. He hands out hugs, even to reporters he’s just met. He declines