Rapper Snoop Dogg has changed his name after he says he underwent a spiritual and artistic rebirth in Jamaica.
While recording his album Reincarnated in the Caribbean country, he developed a traditional reggae style. The result is a three-part project: a reggae album, documentary and coffee-table photo book, all under the name of Snoop Lion.
according to The New York Times. “I have always been a Rastafari.” (Marley’s son, Rohan, gave his blessing at the news conference, which was held at Miss Lily’s, a Caribbean eatery in New York.)
So will Snoop (real name: Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr.) turn his back on rap completely? Not likely. “I could never become Snoop Lion,” he says, “if I wasn’t Snoop Dogg first.”
“It’s not that I want to become Snoop Dogg on a reggae track. I want to bury Snoop Dogg, and become Snoop Lion. I didn’t know that until I went to the temple, where the High Priest asked me what my name was, and I said, ‘Snoop Dogg.’ And he looked me in my eyes and said, ‘No more. You are the light; you are the lion.’ From that moment on, it’s like I had started to understand why I was there.”
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It also sounds like the rapper is maybe not so much interested in being a rapper – at least for now. Snoop explained, “Rap is not a challenge to me. With no disrespect to other rappers, but they can’t fuck with me in rap… I’ve won every accolade you can get in rap, they call me ‘Uncle Snoop’ in rap. When you’re an uncle, it’s time to find something new… I want to feel like a kid again.”
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