Snoop Dogg announced that his mother, Beverly Tate, died on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, after a long battle with an undisclosed illness.
Snoop, who was born Calvin Broadus in Long Beach, California, posted a series of tributes to his late mother for his 65 million Instagram fans.
“Thank u god for giving me an angel for a mother TWMA,” the 50-year-old hip hop icon captioned a picture of his late mother, Sunday afternoon.
“Mama thank u for having me,” he added in another.
Her cause of death has not been revealed. But Snoop had posted a photo on Instagram back in June, sharing that Tate had been hospitalized since May 2021 with a serious but unnamed malady.
“Happy Sunday me and my brothers went to c mama today and she opened up her eyes to c us and let us know she still fighting,” Snoop penned on IG at the time.
Captioning a photo of himself, Snoop wrote on Sunday: “Walk by faith not by sight smile snoopy that’s what U would say when it was time to take a picture TWMA”