Wondering who's playing Tupac Shakur in the Snoop Dogg biopic — it's a Panic actor

Here we go, then: Universal Pictures is marching on with its Snoop Dogg biopic, and let’s be honest, there’s no way to cover Snoop’s story without diving head-first into some proper West Coast hip-hop history — Tupac Shakur included.

Camron Jones, previously seen in Prime Video’s 'Panic,' will take on the role of Tupac in the upcoming Snoop Dogg film.

The Cast and Crew Line-up

First up, Craig Brewer is directing the whole thing, which I suppose makes sense if you’re after someone who can wrangle big personalities — he did 'Hustle & Flow,' after all. The production side is loaded too: Snoop himself is getting stuck in as a producer, alongside Brian Grazer, Allan Mandelbaum, and Death Row Pictures chief Sara Ramaker. On the executive end of things, Michael Beugg and Jeb Brody are keeping an eye on it all.

Jonathan Daviss, the bloke from 'Outer Banks,' is set to play Snoop Dogg. No pressure on that front. You’ve got Myles Bullock as Dr. Dre — so we’ll see how the on-screen chemistry works out there — and Lauren London as Snoop’s mother, which gives the family angle some proper weight. The screenplay’s been passed around a bit: Joe Robert Cole started it, then Brewer himself came in to finish things off. Expect classic Snoop tracks all over the soundtrack — apparently his full catalogue is up for grabs.

The Tupac Factor

Now, getting Tupac right is no small job, not least because his story is proper complicated. Camron Jones is the one picking up that gauntlet. In real life, Pac exploded out of New York and managed to be just about everywhere in the early and mid ’90s: California Love, Dear Mama, Hail Mary, 'Changes' — you get the idea. Bit of a renaissance man too, cropping up in films like 'Poetic Justice' and 'Gridlock’d', but always with some legal drama swirling around. Not exactly the easiest part to play.

Where it gets sticky — and why Tupac is crucial to the Snoop Dogg story rather than just a cameo — is their shared time under Death Row Records. Friends at first, even putting out '2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted' together, the relationship got tense as the so-called East Coast–West Coast feud started boiling over. Apparently Tupac wanted Snoop to pick a side with more conviction, and things soured from there.

Death Row Records in the '90s was less 'glamorous label' and more 'lively storm', if you catch my drift — and both Pac and Snoop were at the eye of it.

The Downbeat End

No biopic is going to dodge Tupac’s end. If you didn’t already know: in September 1996, after a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas, Tupac was in a car with Suge Knight when someone pulled up alongside and started shooting. Pac was hit several times. He hung on for nearly a week, but died at 25 years old. That particular moment changed hip-hop for good, and — predictably — will be a major turning point in the Snoop film.

So yes, that’s where we’re at: the Snoop Dogg biopic now has its Tupac — with Camron Jones set to step into what’s got to be one of the most high-pressure casting gigs in the genre.