Snoop Dogg changes his name to....

[summer]

:-(

www.people.com/people/article/0,,20616875,00.html

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Snoop Lion.

Yes, the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg has renamed himself 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.

"I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated," Snoop, 40, told reporters at a news conference, 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."

[pixy0stix]

blink blink... Like this will stick.

[emmybean]

Nothing would thrill me more than to walk in to someone's house and see a snoop lion photo book on their coffee table.

[summer]

Where did he come up with that name? Why did he keep the "Snoop" part? It's so silly. Snoop Lion. I can't.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Rawr.

[marie427]

I was hoping he changed it to Snoopy Dogg Dogg like I remember some old news reporter pronounced his name as back in the 90s.

[summer]

Maybe he did have an artistic rebirth. Or maybe it's for the Mary Jane.

[wawa]

Oh snoop. Never change.

Except in the sense of changing your name to Snoop Lion and putting out a coffee table book.

I fully endorse that change.

Also I want to buy somebody the book for xmas just to say I did. I bet you it's like $80 though. It's a shame because I think my mom or brother would happily have that shit on their coffee table just for the conversation starting benefits.

[mexicali]

I think anything is better than telling people your MN is Cordozar

and LMAO ""I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated," Snoop, 40" I am not sure I can see it through the cloud of pot smoke, but yeah, no!

[Chirp]

He must have taken a few tokes with the "Bob Marley meditation rock" tour guide.

HaaaaHaaaa HaaaaHaaaa HaaaaaHaaaaa (It starts off a little slow, but it doesn't take long until he's entertaining himself quite nicely).

[thejackpot]

I had to stop following him on instagram, he smokes all.the.time. His son too. Crazy. He has been posting Lions for the past couple of months. Anything that gets him closer to his altered state is all that he is interested in.

[meg]

Jul 31, 2012 14:01:29 GMT -5 wawa said:

Oh snoop. Never change.

Except in the sense of changing your name to Snoop Lion and putting out a coffee table book.

I fully endorse that change.

Also I want to buy somebody the book for xmas just to say I did. I bet you it's like $80 though. It's a shame because I think my mom or brother would happily have that shit on their coffee table just for the conversation starting benefits.

I already told my sister that we should go in together to get that book for my brother for christmas... he would so totally love it.

[MrsAxilla]

Jul 31, 2012 14:01:29 GMT -5 wawa said:

Oh snoop. Never change.

Except in the sense of changing your name to Snoop Lion and putting out a coffee table book.

I fully endorse that change.

Also I want to buy somebody the book for xmas just to say I did. I bet you it's like $80 though. It's a shame because I think my mom or brother would happily have that shit on their coffee table just for the conversation starting benefits.

Ditto! I'm totally buying you that if I get you as Secret GBCNer this year!

[ESF]

Jul 31, 2012 13:57:09 GMT -5 lyssbobiss, Command, B613 said:

Rawr.

:-(

[smock]

He could always just go by what FIL thinks his name is: Scooby Doo Dundee.

[Deleted]

I love his music, but snoop LION!?!?!

Ridiculous.
Andalsoplus, it will never stick.