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Taylor Swift may have been the big winner at Monday night's Country Music Television Awards, but it was Snoop Dogg who stole the show. The rapper, wearing a black cowboy hat, black duster jacket and black zip-up ankle boots, was in high demand backstage.

Mr. Swift grabbed him for photos, saying "I'm a huge fan!" At another point, Snoop and Jason Aldean were spotted comparing cowboy boots. "Snoop said he liked my boots with the square toe, and then he said I was a pimp," boasted Mr. Aldean. "That's got to be the ultimate compliment, when Snoop calls you a pimp."

Snoop is a huge fan of Johnny Cash – thanks, he says, to the Man in Black's "heart, his soul, his music" – but he still has a bit to learn about contemporary country stars. He stopped in midsentence to gape at LeAnn Rimes, who was posing for pictures nearby, and ask who she was. He gushed, "She is beautiful! Wow, wow, wow."