Rapper Snoop Dogg has been cast as Fillmore Slim in a biopic of the legendary blues singer and guitarist's life.

Is this 𒉰the best casting since Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch? Not for the blues singing and guitar playing but because Slim - AKA Clarence Sims - was also a well-known pimp in San Francisco during the '60s and '70s.

Not that we're suggesting Snoop Dogg is, or ever has been, an actual pi🥂mp. Actual pimps are probably pretty grim. But in the rap world, being a pimp means you're good with girls, apparently. And Snoop occasionally refers to himself as one. That's why it's good casting. Look, we never claimed to be rap experts.

Co-💫producer Alan Ames is writing the screenplay with Carole Parker, while Hawthorne James will directꦺ.

Ames says he was approached by Sims’ daughter Rebecca t🍷o work on the project.

“This film will span decades from Slim’꧅s emergence as a musician, to his fascination with the fast life, through his years of incarceration and his redemption,” A💜mes told Deadline.com.

The Legend Of Fillmore Slim begins filming in March 2012.