Reddit reviews Tha Doggfather: The Times, Trials, And Hardcore Truths Of Snoop Dogg

in snoop's autobiography he says

1. he was called snoop basically from birth. so i think we can safely assume he was born a dogg
   
   
2. he smoked weed for the first time when he was 12 years old
   
   
3. he smoked about an ounce a day once he hit his stride
   
   Snoop turned 40 in October and turned into a lion in what? like June? to compensate for the fact that he def didn't start at an ounce a day, I'm gonna say he started smoking an ounce a day when he was 16. So that's 24 years and 8 months at an ounce a day. So that's about 563 pounds.
   
   So I'm gonna say, assuming that the effect is cumulative, you should force your dog to smoke about 570 pounds of weed, just to be safe, to turn him into a lion.

According to /u/Here_Comes_The_King's autobio (yes, I know), they actually got the name Crips from their original name Cribs (reference to the young age of the members), and an Asian market owner was reporting that he got jacked by a gang, in his accent, sounded like Crips.

The first part of that seems to be "Wikipedia true".