Celebrities are so like us, in some ways, and yet, in others, couldn’t be more different. If I tried to make art out of my mug shot (I don’t have one) and an old blunt (I don’t smoke), and sell said art for literally any amount of money, I would be laughed out of the VFW swap meet. When Snoop Dogg does it, though, that shit goes for a whopping amount of money.

AllHipHop reports that, on Monday, an art collection dubbed Ashes to Art sold for $148,100. The centerpiece of the collection is “Snoop Doggy Dogg Genesis Burn”— which, alone, sold for $70,000 — a piece that features the iconic rapper’s “1993 LAPD mugshot scorched with marijuana ash and sealed with a roach” that Snoop smoked, as well as a rare autograph.

The “Snoop Doggy Dogg Genesis Burn” is described as “a raw, reverent flashback

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