Snoop Dogg may be a talented and influential rapper, but no one could ever accuse him of being overly careerist. Which may help explain Smokefest 1996, a potentially illegal, clumsily filmed, amateurishly packaged home video of Dogg's 1996 world tour to promote the release of Tha Doggfather. At one point in this oddly fascinating 54-minute video, an Asian man gives Snoop Doggy Dogg a large sum of money, but it's never clear whether he's being paid for the tapes that would become Smokefest 1996 or for something else. What is abundantly clear, however, is that while touring, Dogg and his Dogg Pound associates enjoy smoking superhuman quantities of marijuana and hash. What is also abundantly clear is that Dogg's flunkies and sycophants find everything he says to be highly amusing. Whether this is due to Dogg's position in the rap hierarchy or the fact that everyone around him is stoned out of their minds is likewise never made clear. Such ambiguity permeates Smokefest 1996, a cinema-verite hip-hopumentary that's both hypnotic and staggeringly tedious. Dogg is credited as Smokefest 1996's writer, director, and executive producer, though it wouldn't be a surprise if Dogg not only leaves the film off his resume, but barely remembers making or appearing in it.