Snoop Dogg is getting his own biopic.

The rapper, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., announced at CinemaCon on Wednesday (April 15) that a biopic based on his life is slated for release next year.

After kicking off the event with a live performance of some of his nostalgic hits, like “Drop It Like Its Hot” and “Gin and Juice,” Snoop introduced Outer Banks star Jonathan Daviss to the stage to announce he will be playing the rapper in the feature, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“After my brothers got to tell their story with Straight Outta Compton, now it’s my turn,” Snoop said after the performance. “My director, Craig Brewer, he just showed us how hard it is out here for a pimp from Hustle & Flow. And then last year, he got us all singing ‘Sweet Caroline.’ If we gonna do a Snoop Dogg movie, I gotta get gangster with it.”

Filmmaker Craig Brewer will be directing the biopic. He is best known for the 2005 movie Hustle & Flow, which won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp".

The script was originally written by Joe Robert Cole, best known for his work on the first season of the true-crime anthology series American Crime Story and for co-writing Black Panther. Brewer later revised the script.

Snoop’s biopic will tell the story of his early beginnings and roots that grew into a decades-long career spanning music, film, and television.

The film will be the first project from Death Row Pictures’ overall deal with NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios, per The Hollywood Reporter, with Snoop himself as producer, alongside Brian Grazer and Death Row Pictures President Sara Ramaker. Snoop promised that a trailer would be released by next year’s CinemaCon, according to Deadline.

Death Row Records released Snoop’s debut album, Doggystyle, in 1993.

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