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Memo to Snoop Dogg: Airport security guards—especially foreign ones—aren't, um, too fond of bullets as baubles.

The Doggfather wound up in the dogghouse after donning some blinged-out ammo at the Beirut International Airport. The star was on his way back to the U.S. following a concert in the Lebanon capital.

"It has nothing to do with U.S. customs; it was the security in Beirut that caused the issue," a source tells E! News.

The necklace, from the socially conscious Bullets 4 Peace collection promoting world peace, was confiscated.

The rapper clearly has a sour relationship with airports. He was arrested in 2006 for trying to board a plane with a collapsible baton, was banned from Heathrow Airport in London in 2006 for a fight and was arrested on drug and weapon possession charges from Burbank's Bob Hope Airport in 2007.

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Snoop Dogg paid tha cost and is now tha boss.

His Highness has been named the inaugural "creative chairman" of EMI Music's Priority Records.

Snoop's been charged with developing new talent for the legendary rap label, which is releasing his upcoming Malice N Wonderland. The rap superstar will also supervise special legacy releases to coincide with Priority's 25th anniversary in 2010. Aside from Snoop, the label and its ancillaries distributed seminal albums from the likes of Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Master P and Eazy-E.

"It's a new partnership, a new Priority Records and a new Snoop Dogg," says the rapper. "The Creative Chairman...the Boss Dogg...the Dogg Father."

We're not sure how Priority's new music will turn out, but the label will definitely be smokin'.

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Snoop Dogg's latest rap: denial.

Taking the stand in his ongoing civil trial, the hip-hop star testified Monday that he did not hit plaintiff Richard Monroe Jr. with a brass knuckle microphone during a 2005 gig in Seattle.

Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, said that he feared for his life when Monroe, who's suing the rapper for $22 million, hopped onstage—only to be swarmed by Snoop's bodyguards and other rappers, including fellow Los Angeles-area native The Game.

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A double whammy for Snoop Dogg.

Trial kicked off  today in Los Angeles in a civil case accusing the rapper and his posse of beating down a fan. If that wasn't bad enough, the Doggfather was outed as a tax dodger by state officials, who confirmed that a lien had been put on his SoCal homebase.

First, the lawsuit. Lawyers for Richard Monroe Jr., who filed suit against Snoop in April 2006 for assault, battery, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, began their opening statements by playing a video of the alleged incident to jurors.

The Kent, Wash., native claims he sustained serious injuries after hopping onstage during the rapper's rendition of "Gin and Juice" during a May 2005 gig in Seattle.

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Snoop Dogg is ready to do a rain dance after his family and staff were among 26,000 people forced to evacuate their homes Sunday due to Southern California wildfires.

"My family had to be evacuated. It's right in the area of where I live in, so I'm just praying for everybody, hopefully rain, and that firefighters get it done trying to bring an end," the rapper tells E! News.

The Grammy-nominated star was not home at the time his family had to clear out of his multimillion-dollar property in the Country Estates, an exclusive, gated hillside community in Diamond Bar, Calif. Snoop says his family is "cool" and are seeking shelter with other relatives.

As part of the "Triangle Complex" fire, the inferno has already scorched more than 10,000 acres and spans four counties: Orange, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside.

Snoop is the latest celeb to have his home imperiled by a spate of hellacious wildfires in Southern California over the weekend. Oprah Winfrey and Rob Lowe's digs managed to survive a blaze up the coast in Montecito, but neighbor and Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd wasn't so lucky, his place was among the 200-plus area homes destroyed.

(Originally published Nov. 16, 2008, at 3 p.m. PT.)

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"Without Rudy Ray Moore," Snoop Dogg once offered, "there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that's for real."

Moore was the "Godfather of Rap." It's true, he bestowed the title upon himself, but it's also true he was a touchstone for Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Busta Rhymes, 2 Live Crew and more who discovered the former R&B singer through his blaxploitation cult classic Dolemite, if not his X-rated comedy albums of the 1970s.

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Snoop Dogg has found himself an unlikely wizard of Oz: Russell Crowe.

The rapper has finally been granted a visa to enter Australia, allowing him to embark on a long-pending tour Down Under, after a full character assessment by the immigration department that included, among other things, a letter supporting Snoop's application by the Oscar-winning actor.

"I submit to you that Snoop Dogg poses no threat to Australia or to any individual in this country," Crowe wrote in his letter to officials.

While the Aussie's epistle no doubt gave the 36-year-old reality star's file an A-list boost, it wasn't the only piece of information taken into account by the immigration officials.

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The tour may be winding down for the final few shows in Texas, but KillahKev and the whole Snoop Dogg team are still all wound up. Check out the posse peeps getting wild and loose, dunking hoops and partying with Willie Nelson's crew. One dude even gets engaged! This is the next-to-last ep, so take a deep breath...and hold it. Enjoy!