As spotted on XXL, Universal Pictures’ Snoop has cast Camron Jones as Tupac Shakur, SwayvoTwain as The Notorious B.I.G. and Myles Bullock Be as Dr. Dre. Jonathan Daviss will play the Long Beach rapper, born Calvin Broadus Jr., and Lauren London will play his mother, Beverly Tate.

Daviss broke out as Pope Heyward, the book-smart member of the Pogues on Netflix’s Outer Banks, and also appeared in Do Revenge. “Jonathan is the whole thing, man,” Snoop told Entertainment Tonight at the 2025 BET Awards. “He’s a dynamic actor. He’s a great spirit and he’s a learner.”

Daviss told Who What Wear that Snoop invited him to shadow him so he could pick up on his mannerisms and see how he joked around. “I didn’t want to do a Snoop Dogg impression,” Daviss said. London and Snoop go back to 2004, when she appeared in the video for “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and helped cast it while working as the director’s assistant. “I cast half of my friends,” she told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, adding that her cousins made it into the video, too. Two years later, she broke out as New-New in ATL and went on to appear in The Game and You People.

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