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The multiplatinum-selling rapper was handed a desk appearance ticket on Wednesday night, lawyer Donald Etra said.

The hip-hop star wasn't arrested, said Etra, who declined to identify the club.

"We are contesting the ticket," Etra told the newspaper. Police could not immediately provide information on the incident.

Snoop Dogg has had brushes with the law going back nearly two decades. He was convicted of cocaine possession in 1990 and pleaded guilty to gun possession in 1997.

In September last year, he pleaded guilty to a felony weapons possession charge that arose after a collapsible baton was found in his luggage at an airport in California. He said it was a video prop, but authorities saw it as a dangerous weapon.

Known for making words his own by adding an "-izzle," the 36-year-old rapper is poised to release his latest album, Ego Trippin,' on March 11.

Sean "Diddy" Combs says he wants to move to Hollywood and become a full-time movie star.

The East Coast-based entertainment mogul aims to get top billing on the big screen.

"Yeah, leading man kind of stuff; you know, jumping off of buildings," Combs says in an appearance scheduled to air on Friday on CBS' Late Show With David Letterman. Besides action-packed adventure, the rapper-producer's ideal film roles would also include "making love to beautiful women" and "very emotional, heart-wrenching scenes." Letterman advises Combs to start doing a smaller, independent movie rather than a big-budget picture that could bomb.

"Oh, no, no, no, I'm going to take my time with it," said Combs, who has a clothing line, Sean John, and heads Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment and its record label.

Combs, 38, has had small roles in Monster's Ball and Made. He headlined a Broadway revival of Raisin in the Sun in 2004, and co-stars with Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald in an ABC film version.

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