Rapper Snoop Dogg is mourning the loss of his beloved mother, Beverly Tate, who died Sunday of an undisclosed illness.
Snoop, real name Calvin Broadus Jr., paid tribute to his mother on social media on Sunday, Oct. 24.
“Thank u god for giving me an angel for a mother,” he wrote in the caption of a photo of himself with his mom.
TMZ reports that Snoop’s father Vernell Varnado has also confirmed the sad news.
In May, Snoop asked for prayers for his mother, who he said was hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.
In another post in May, he wrote: “Mama thank u for having me could of gave me up but u raised a family.”
Snoop credited his mother for his apology to Gayle King after he dissed her over questions she asked about the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant.
In a video on social media, Snoop said, “Respect the family and back off, bitch, before we come get you.”
“She didn’t say I was wrong,” Snoop said of his mother. “She just said, ‘You know I raised you better than that. You’re a representation of us. Every woman that ever crossed your life, you’re a representation of that’ – so I got it,” Snoop recalled during his appearance on Jada Pinkett Smith‘s “Red Table Talk.”
On Wednesday, Snoop celebrated his birthday at a star-studded “Pimps & Ho*s” bash in Hollywood, California.
He smiled from ear-to-ear as he sat in his birthday gift, a ’55 Impala vintage automobile. He gave no indication that his mother was on her death bed.
