YNOT – Thank heavens for rapper Snoop Dogg. Without his timely intervention, it’s unlikely adult entertainment would have survived this long.The current issue of London-based independent music magazine The Stool Pigeon carries an interview with the Doggster, whose foray into porn production earlier this decade barely even raised eyebrows. After all, finding a more controversial rapper — even of the gangsta variety — is a tall order.

Dogg caused a minor media frenzy in 2001 with the release of Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle, a video that mixed hip-hop and hardcore porn in a way that seemed modestly innovative at the time. He is credited with directing and producing the flick. The next year, he followed up with Snoop Dogg’s Hustlaz: Diary of a Pimp. Together, the videos won four AVN Awards. Having reached the pinnacle of porn success, Dogg bailed and went looking for other still waters to roil.

He told the Pigeon, “So I was like, ‘Fuck it. I’m gonna put together a coupla porno movies. I’m gonna direct and add a different flavor to the porno world just to change the game. I made a few. I know everybody like it, but everybody be afraid and ’shamed.”

Seven years later, Dogg claims once he scratched that itch, he tired of the game — but the game hasn’t tired of him.

“…[I] sold the most DVDs ever in porno, brought a new style of shooting, brought music to the porno world…. I changed the whole game, and they thankful for me,” he told the Pigeon. “They want me to do more, but I’m like, ‘I’m cool. That was a phase for me, and I don’t wanna do it no more.’ I had a wife and kids when I did it, that didn’t stop nothin’. I just didn’t wanna do it no more.”

So, uh…. Why bring it up?