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He is now Snoop Lion....King of Beasts :rofl:
"I want to bury Snoop Dogg."
That's not the bitter pronouncement of a disgruntled music critic. Those words come straight from Snoop Dogg, who has changed his name to Snoop Lion.
Snoop, 40, finally explained the sudden shift during a confab Monday night. He says he was hit with a thunderbolt from above during a visit to a Rastafarian temple in Jamaica.
"The high priest asked me what my name was, and I said, 'Snoop Dogg,' " the artist formerly known as Dogg is quoted as saying by the Huffington Post. "And he looked me in my eyes and said, 'No more. You are the light; you are the lion.' " Goosebumps, right?
It's not just the moniker he's changing. "Rap is not a challenge to me," says the newly minted reggae man, who has called himself Bob Marley reincarnated. "I've won every accolade you can get in rap . . . it's time to find something new."
What does Marley's son, Rohan, make of all this? "Music is universal," he said. "Jamaica is just a part of music, so we were open to Snoop."
"I want to bury Snoop Dogg."
That's not the bitter pronouncement of a disgruntled music critic. Those words come straight from Snoop Dogg, who has changed his name to Snoop Lion.
Snoop, 40, finally explained the sudden shift during a confab Monday night. He says he was hit with a thunderbolt from above during a visit to a Rastafarian temple in Jamaica.
"The high priest asked me what my name was, and I said, 'Snoop Dogg,' " the artist formerly known as Dogg is quoted as saying by the Huffington Post. "And he looked me in my eyes and said, 'No more. You are the light; you are the lion.' " Goosebumps, right?
It's not just the moniker he's changing. "Rap is not a challenge to me," says the newly minted reggae man, who has called himself Bob Marley reincarnated. "I've won every accolade you can get in rap . . . it's time to find something new."
What does Marley's son, Rohan, make of all this? "Music is universal," he said. "Jamaica is just a part of music, so we were open to Snoop."
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