After a decade of marriage and three children later, rapper Snoop Dogg has a few words of advice for new husband and wife Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles.

“I told them to go home and make babies,” he told reporters at the Dodge Celebrity Event in Rosamond, Calif. “They should, that’s the next step as far as marriage, having kids … add on to the family, so hopefully that’s what they’ll do.”

When asked if he’d be planning on adding to his already full nest, he shook his head, grinning. “No. I’m good.”

Snoop’s key to lasting marriage? “Communication, and being able to fight and get back up,” he says. “To have misunderstanding and [then] get some understanding.”

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A California music festival featuring Snoop Dogg has been postponed over fears the rapper’s performance will attract gang violence.

The star was scheduled to play at The 2nd Annual Monterey Music Summit on May 30th.

But the festival has been delayed because members of the The Monterey County Board of Supervisors have demanded heightened security, fearing the star’s affiliation with the notorious Los Angeles Crips gang will cause violence at the event.

They have also called for metal detectors on the doors and that Broadus is searched upon arrival, reports AllHipHop.com.

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Snoop Dogg has signed up to work with actress-turned-singer Lindsay Lohan on her forthcoming album, according to reports.

The star – real name Calvin Broadus Jr. – has joined hip-hop artists such as Timbaland and Pharrell Williams to duet with the Mean Girls actress, who is working on her third LP.

And according to showbiz journalist Roger Friedman, the “amazing” collaboration has given her much-awaited album a massive “street-cred” boost.

He says, “(Universal Music Group) UMG is sparing no expense on this recording, bringing in all the usual suspects like Timbaland and Pharrell to make a good record for the rehabbed and revived Lindsay.”

Lohan’s last release was 2005′s A Little More Personal.

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LeAnn Rimes is keen to collaborate with hip hop superstar Snoop Dogg after she fell for the rapper’s charms at the 2008 Country Music Television Awards on Monday night.

The Drop It Like It’s Hot hitmaker was a guest presenter at the awards ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee, and was bowled over by the country star’s beauty – comparing her to legendary beauty Marilyn Monroe.

And Rimes was flattered by the kind comments, insisting she’d love to work with the flirtatious rapper in the future.

She tells People.com, “Snoop is really a gentleman and I loved meeting him. He made me feel like the most beautiful woman there with all of his flattering comments. You never know, there could be a Snoop and LeAnn duet sometime soon! I never rule anything out!”

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Snoop Dogg is set to release an illustrated children’s book series.

The Signs hitmaker – real name Calvin Broadus – is reportedly in the process of creating the Where’s The Cheese series of urban books.

Snoop is writing Where’s The Cheese, which will be illustrated by his cousin Joe Cool, to help city youngsters cope with the problems that can arise in their environment. The series will focus on a character called Lil Mouse and her constant quest for cheese, reports AllHipHop.com.

The website also claims an animated Where’s The Cheese TV show is in development – which may be narrated by Snoop’s daughter Cori ‘Choc’ Broadus.

Last month, Snoop announced his youth is to be turned into an animated series for America’s Comedy Central cable TV network.

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Snoop Dogg ended the first season of his new reality TV show by renewing his wedding vows. The rapper insisted the ceremony he hastily arranged for the finale of Snoop Dogg’s Fatherhood be kept a closely-guarded secret until the episode aired on Sunday night.

Snoop gave his management team just two days to set up a surprise vow renewal for him and his wife Shante, who thought the whole ceremony was being arranged for her husband’s best friend, the Gap Band star Charlie Wilson. Soul star Teddy Riley and rapper David Banner were among the celebrity guests at the ceremony and after-party.

Snoop recently revealed he “fell back in love with my wife and kids” after filing for divorce in 2004. He said, “A lot of times you get cloudy. The music industry is a mother, man, and it’ll take your vision and blur it. But I need my wife and kids in my life. So if you hear about a divorce, it’ll be my wife divorcing me. It won’t be me divorcing her.”

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Snoop Dogg certainly has a way with children.

On Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood, the 36-year-old rapper-turned-reality star can be seen rearing and playing with sons Corde, 13, Cordell, 10, and daughter Cori, 8, and wife Shante.

So as a father of three, what advice would he give Jennifer Lopez, who welcomed fraternal twins on February 22?

“One baby at a time,” he said at the Hip-Hop Summit Action Awards. “She’s going to have a good time with it. Babies are beautiful, especially having two at one time. I wish her luck, and how her babies remain to be safe and healthy and she enjoys her time with them.”

As for his own children, Snoop says he hopes to instill one important quality in them — drive.

“Ever since I was a youngster, I was a hustler,” Snoop says. “I sold newspapers, candy, I was always out of the house trying to make money, so I commend any kid that tries to go get something in life, whether he’s trying to wash cars or pump gas or help ladies to their cars with their groceries. Any sort of hustle is what I push on a kid because it shows a sign that you want to be something in life.”

Although he’s rich and famous now, Snoop remembers growing up in Long Beach, Calif., and has great respect for kids doing what he used to to — selling candy. In fact, he always buys from them.

“I was one of those kids who sold that candy,” he says. “Instead of me buying one bar, I might give them $30 and say, ‘I don’t even want no candy’ because I understand what it takes to have that showmanship to be able to go door-to-door, hand-to-hand and say, ‘Hi ma’am, would you like to buy some candy from me?’ That takes a lot to humble yourself, to have that in you to ask somebody to buy something from you.”

What’s his best piece of advice for kids? Listen to your parents.

“They are teachers. These are people who have knowledge and wisdom and they’re trying to pass it on to you,” Snoop says. “When they give you that, even if you don’t like it or understand it – take it in for what it’s worth because one day you’ll hear that voice again and you’ll be able to make a decision. You can say ‘I’m going to do the right thing or the wrong thing, but at least I know what’s right and what’s wrong.’”

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