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fans.”
    Snoop believes that the hip-hop/porn connection benefits both industries.
    â€œThe adult video world is so much what rap music is all about,” he says in Adult Video News , “about expressing ourselves and having fun, and a lot of times radio and TV don’t understand that so they censor us. So I feel like we’re doing each other justice by being hand-in-hand and working with each other. I mean, a lot of people be in the closet about it, but they all listen to rap music or watch adult videos one way or another.
    â€œI always wanted to do it because I felt like I had a lot of records that would never get no airplay or never get no visuals, and I just wanted to make some type of video where I could do these songs and have naked ladies in them and doing that type of shit. And then when I figured out that I could make a whole movie, I got with the right director and then put my ideas down and made it happen.”
    Speaking of his follow-up to Doggystyle , titled HUSTLAZ, Diary of a Pimp , he expounds, “It’s just basically the day in the life of a pimp, everything he’s got going on with all the ladies in different rooms in the house and different situations that occur. And videos. So it’s just like a live, put-together movie. It’s a diary. It’s like a documentary in movie fashion. We made three new records [‘Break These Hoes for Snoop,’ ‘Doin’ It Too’ and ‘Pussy Like This’] that were just specifically for this, where we could make records that was hot and we knew they were X-rated and they would fit the movie, fit the theme. This shit is hot. When it’s all side-by-side, the videos and the acting and the music all comes together.”

    Apparently, Snoop Dogg’s family—those three kids, his wife and his mother—are all completely supportive of his current activity. And so he maintains a hard-on all the way to the bank. Snoop’s new public agenda can be summed up in four little words: “Porn, sí . Pot, no .”

PORN AND THE MANSON MURDERS
    The recent TV movie, Helter Skelter , perpetuated the myth of Charles Manson. In 1969, when the news broke about the massacre of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her house guests, there was a sudden epidemic of paranoia in certain Hollywood circles. Actor Steve McQueen fled to England, for example, and I wondered why. After the trial of Manson and his brainwashed followers, I began my own private investigation, if only to satisfy my sense of curiosity about the case.
    I corresponded with Manson, visited Charlie’s Devils in prison, including Susan Atkins, and—in a classic example of participatory journalism—I took an acid trip with a few family members, including Squeaky Fromme, who is now behind bars for the attempted assassination of then-President Gerald Ford.
    Ed Sanders’ book, The Family , had mentioned that Los Angeles police had discovered porn flicks in a loft at the crime scene, the home Tate shared with her director husband, Roman Polanski (who was in London at the time of the murders). And yet, the prosecutor in Manson’s trial, Vincent Bugliosi, denied in his book, Helter Skelter , that any porn flicks had been found. It was possible that the police had indeed uncovered them but lied to Bugliosi.
    I learned why when I consulted the renowned San Francisco private investigator, Hal Lipset, whose career had been the basis for an excellent film, The Conversation , starring Gene Hackman. Lipset informed me that not only did Los Angeles police seize porn movies and videotapes, but also that individual officers were selling them. He had talked with one police source who told him exactly which porn flicks were available—a total of seven hours’ worth for a quarter-million dollars.
    Lipset began reciting a litany of those porn videos. The most notorious was Greg Bautzer, an attorney for financier Howard Hughes, together with