*Snoop Dogg’s request to seal his 1993 murder charge has been approved, 28 years after he was acquitted.
The rapper, along with his bodyguard McKinley Lee, had been accused of fatally shooting gang member Philip Woldemariam in Los Angeles’ Woodbine Park in August 1993. Both faced second-degree murder charges before being acquitted.
Per The Express, after the trial, Snoop told the LA Times: “They made the right decision, you know what I’m saying?
“This has been an ordeal that has affected our lives for the past 2 1/2 years. I was just trying to figure out if I was going to be here to raise my son,” he added.
According to legal documents, Snoop Dogg filed a request in January 2024 to have his 1993 murder charge sealed, and the court approved it in February. This means the charge will no longer be visible to the public or appear on background checks for jobs, housing, or education.
Meanwhile, we published a CNN report that details how Snoop Dogg went from gangster to hip-hop icon to grandfather. Per the article: “Woldemariam’s death happened shortly before the release of Snoop Dogg’s debut album and brought a great deal of attention to one of the singles, “Murder Was the Case,” which Snoop Dogg later said was written a year prior and highly prophetic.”
The report goes on to state: “Famed O.J. Simpson defense attorney Johnnie Cochran represented Snoop Dogg and Lee Jr. when the case went to trial in 1996 and resulted in an acquittal.”
Here’s more from CNN:
He came up during a time when gang violence and crack were devastating inner-city neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Despite being a star athlete in high school, Snoop fell into that life, selling drugs and getting into trouble as a teen.
“I was always scared. That’s why I believe I survived because you have to have either fear or respect. And I didn’t understand respect, so I feared everything,” Snoop Dogg told Howard Stern in 2021. “A lot of times I got shot at; a lot of times I had a gun in my possession and could have shot back but I was too scared to shoot back because I was so concerned for my life. It’s either fight or flight and most of time when you’re out there, it’s flight.”
That “gangsta” persona would follow him when he first found fame in 1992 as the guest rapper on producer and NWA member Dr. Dre’s debut solo single “Deep Cover,” for the movie of the same title.
That led to working with Dre on his now iconic album “The Chronic.”
“They wanted me to keep it gangsta,” Snoop Dogg told Jemele Hill in 2019 during an episode of her “Unbothered” podcast. “They wanted me to, like, remain gangsta and still be, you know, f**king s**t up, but I just went through a murder case and I couldn’t.”
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