When Snoop Dogg first scowled at the camera in Dr. Dre's "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" video way back in 1992, could anybody have imagined how well the rapper would be able to mainstream himself 17 years later? Few artists are versatile enough to drop a killer album like Malice in Wonderland, chat with Stephen Colbert and receive praise for his pee-wee football coaching skills all in the same week, but Snoop has managed to pull it off.

His latest crossover feat may be his best -- and most hilarious. Snoop is on today's episode of "The Martha Stewart Show," which will feature the rapper baking brownies with the erstwhile daytime host. During the segment, Snoop jokes about knowing his way around a kitchen because he worked at McDonald's, gets confused by the color of vanilla and, in the best moment perhaps ever captured on television, encourages Stewart to drop a special "green" ingredient into the brownie mix.

This isn't Stewart's first encounter with Snoop, as he has been on the show before to teach the host about street slang (he refers to her paring knife as "a shank"). This is also the latest in a line of otherworldly encounters with rap stars, a phenomenon that began at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, where she presented the prize for Best Dance Video (the Spice Girls won) with the help of Busta Rhymes. She also recently hobnobbed with hip-hop's elite at Diddy's birthday party (which had a guest list that also featured Jay-Z, Young Jeezy and Rick Ross). Now that we think about it, is it stranger that Snoop is on television baking brownies or that Stewart is down with the hip-hop elite? These are strange times indeed.