Snoop Dogg had a number one US hit with Drop It Like It's Hot

The book - titled Love Don't Live Here No More - will be published in the US in October.

The book tells the story of a young man living the hard life in Southern California while struggling to make it in the world of hip-hop.

"Snoop, by nature of what he does, is a storyteller," Kathleen Schmidt, vice president and director of publicity for publishers Atria, told Billboard.

"Books speak more to a female audience than does his music, so these novels give him an opportunity to show, particularly his female fans, another side."