The Artist Formerly Known As Dogg....

[Lord Jim]

Snoop Dogg changes name to Snoop Lion, says he is Bob Marley reincarnated

Snoop Dogg wants you to know that he's tired of hip-hop, is Bob Marley reincarnated and is embracing reggae instead of the culture of guns he once rapped about.

Also, he's got a new name: Snoop Lion.

The artist said at a news conference Monday in New York that he was "born again" during a visit to Jamaica in February and is ready to make music that his "kids and grandparents can listen to."

The former gangster rapper is releasing a reggae album called "Reincarnated" in the fall. He said that in Jamaica, he connected with Bob Marley's spirit and is now "Bob Marley reincarnated."

Bob Marley's son Rohan attended the conference and gave Snoop his blessing.

"I feel like I've always been Rastafarian," Snoop said of the spiritual Jamaican movement. While there, he said, he visited a temple, was renamed Snoop Lion and was also given the Ethiopian name Berhane, meaning "light of the world."

Snoop didn't explain why he was switching from "Dogg" to "Lion," but it's likely a reference to the Lion of Judah, a religious symbol popular in Rastafarian and Ethiopian culture.

Later, he played five songs for a small crowd, including one called "No Guns Allowed." It features his daughter and includes the lyrics, "No guns allowed in here tonight, we're going to have a free for all, no fights."

"It's so tragic that people are doing stupid things with guns," he said.

Snoop, best known for hits like "Gin and Juice" and "Drop It Like It's Hot," is an avid supporter of marijuana rights and has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount last month.

He said that in Jamaica, where he stayed for 35 days, he grew closer to his wife, who saw his transition. He added that he's excited to perform music that his family and children can listen to.

"As a 40-year-old man ... I've got to give them something," he said. "That's what you do when you're wise."

Snoop Dogg said he's not completely retiring from hip-hop but is "tired" of the genre because it is no longer challenging.

"Reggae was calling ... it's a breath of fresh air," he said. "Rap isn't challenging; it's not appealing."

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[Rick]

Lion my foot.

He's Babbling alone.

[Gob]

Wow, so as well as being an untalented rapper, he's now going to be a talentless reggae man!

[dales]

Time to lite up a fattie!

[Scooter]

I can't say that I could name a Snoop Dogg song, or that I would recognize him singing if I heard it. Can't say that I feel I've been missing out as a result.

[loCAtek]

Well, I'm glad he's turning his lyrical talents to a more melodious genre. Snoop has always shown skill with poetry, it was just the crass subject matter common to Hip-Hop/Rap, that was disagreeable.

[Gob]

"Drop It Like It's Hot"
(feat. Pharrell Williams)

[Intro]
Snooooooooooop..
Snooooooooooop..

[Chorus - Snoop Dogg]
When the pimp's in the crib ma
Drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
When the pigs try to get at ya
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot
Park it like it's hot
And if a nigga get a attitude
Pop it like it's hot
Pop it like it's hot
Pop it like it's hot
I got the rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon
And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on

[Verse - Pharrell Williams]
Uh! I'm a nice dude, with some nice dreams
See these ice cubes, see these Ice Creams?
Eligible bachelor, million dollar boat
That's whiter than what's spilling down your throat
The Phantom, exterior like fish eggs
The interior like suicide wrist red
I can excercise you, this can be your Phys. Ed
Cheat on your man ma, that's how you get ahizzead
Killer wit the beat, I know killers in the street
Wit the steel that'll make you feel like Chinchilla in the heat
So don't try to run up on my ear talking all that raspy shit
Trying to ask me shit
When my niggaz fill ya vest they ain't gon pass me shit
You should think about it, take a second
Matter fact, you should take four B
And think before you fuck wit lil skateboard P

[Chorus]

[Verse - Snoop Dogg]
I'm a gangsta, but y'all knew that
Da Big Bo$$ Dogg, yeah I had to do that
I keep a blue flag hanging out my backside
But only on the left side, yeah that's the Crip side
Ain't no other way to play the game the way I play
I cut so much you thought I was a DJ
[scratches] "two!" - "one!" - "yep, three!"
S-N double O-P, D-O double G
I can't fake it, just break it, and when I take it
See I specialize in making all the girls get naked
So bring your friends, all of y'all come inside
We got a world premiere right here, now get live!
So don't change the dizzle, turn it up a little
I got a living room full of fine dime brizzles
Waiting on the Pizzle, the Dizzle and the Shizzle
G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo

[Chorus]

[Verse - Snoop Dogg]
I'm a Bad Boy, wit a lotta ho's
Drive my own cars, and wear my own clothes
I hang out tough, I'm a real Bo$$
Big Snoop Dogg, yeah he's so sharp
On the TV screen and in the magazines
If you play me close, you're on a red beam
Oh you got a gun so you wanna pop back?
AK47 now nigga, stop that!
Cement shoes, now I'm on the move
Your family's crying, now you on the news
They can't find you, and now they miss you
Must I remind you I'm only here to twist you
Pistol whip you, dip you then flip you
Then dance to this motherfucking music we crip to
Subscribe nigga, get yo issue
Baby come close, let me see how you get loose!

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Snooooooooooop.
Snooooooooooop..

Keats eat your heart out.

[loCAtek]

Snoop Dogg and Bob Dylan Are More Similar Than You Think


June 14, 2011Joey Bien-Kahn





It is easy to gaze upon the world with a divisive eye; to slice schisms between us and them, between this or that. It is easy only to notice the space between lyrics like “The ghost of ‘lectricity howls in the bones of her face” and “Bikinis, tankinis, martinis / No weenies / Just to get in betweeny.” It is all too easy to ignore the striking similarities between Bob Dylan and the artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg.

But in the formulation of their distinctive styles (which are all too often referred to as original), these two men followed an extremely similar process. Both picked a great musician of the past, borrowed from him in sound and style, and ultimately, became that man’s representative in a generation that was not his own.


In 1922, T.S. Eliot wrote an essay called “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” The final conclusion of the piece is that the personal history of the poet is irrelevant because great poets work within tradition. He argues that the actual text of the poem should be the only aspect of the work that we judge.

Before Eliot reaches this final conclusion, he explains the process by which a poet should create art. And whether or not they are aware of Eliot, two of the great poet-musicians of the last half century — Dylan and Snoop — followed this process to a tee.

Source


Know your prose.

[Gob]

Did you actually read the article?

Do you know what prose is?

Do you really believe that if one person says it is so, then it is so?

[loCAtek]

His first single;

[loCAtek]

Style and rap skills

Kool Moe Dee ranks Snoop at No.33 in his book There's a God on the Mic, and says he has "an ultra-smooth, laidback delivery",[69] and "flavor-filled melodic rhyming".[70] Peter Shapiro describes Snoop's delivery as a "molasses drawl"[71] and Allmusic notes his "drawled, laconic rhyming" style.[9] Kool Moe Dee refers to Snoop's use of vocabulary, saying he "keeps it real simple...he simplifies it and he's effective in his simplicity".[72]

Snoop is known to freestyle some of his lyrics on the spot for some songs – in the book How to Rap, Lady of Rage says, "Snoop Dogg, when I worked with him earlier in his career, that's how created his stuff... he would freestyle, he wasn't a writer then, he was a freestyler,"[73] and The D.O.C. states, "Snoop's [rap] was a one take willy, but his shit was all freestyle. He hadn't written nothing down. He just came in and started busting. The song was "Tha Shiznit"—that was all freestyle. He started busting and when we got to the break, Dre cut the machine off, did the chorus and told Snoop to come back in. He did that throughout the record. That's when Snoop was in the zone then."

Peter Shapiro says that Snoop debuted on "Deep Cover" with a "shockingly original flow – which sounded like a Slick Rick born in South Carolina instead of South London"[74] and adds that he "showed where his style came from by covering Slick Rick's 'La Di Da Di'".[71] Referring to Snoop's flow, Kool Moe Dee calls him "one of the smoothest, funkiest flow-ers in the game".[70] How to Rap also notes that Snoop is known to use syncopation in his flow to give it a laidback quality,[75] as well as 'linking with rhythm' in his compound rhymes,[76] using alliteration,[77] and employing a "sparse" flow with good use of pauses.[78]

Snoop re-popularized the use of -izzle speak, particularly in the pop and hip-hop music industry.[79]

In rapping and poetry, multisyllabic rhymes (also known as compound[1][2][3][4] rhymes, polysyllable[1][5][6] rhymes, and sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multies[1]) are rhymes that contain two or more syllables[1][7] (e.g. “Touch her not scornfully, / Think of her mournfully”[7]).

Multisyllabic rhyme is used extensively in hip-hop, is considered a hallmark of complex and advanced rapping,[8] and artists are often praised for their multisyllabic rhymes by critics[9][10] and fellow rappers.[3][4] This is in contrast to its use in the majority of other forms of poetry, where multisyllabic rhyme is rarely used, apart from in comic verse where it is used for comic effect[5] by poets such as Ogden Nash[5] and Gerard Manley Hopkins.[6]

Usage in Hip-Hop

The book How to Rap breaks multisyllabic rhymes down extensively[1] - in it, Kool G Rap gives an example of this kind of rhyme, rhyming "random luck" with "handsome fuck", and "vans and trucks".[11] Other examples in the book include two syllable rhymes such as rhyming “indo” with “Timbo”,[12] three syllable rhymes such as “murderous” and “curious”[13] and rhymes with irregular numbers of syllables such as “handle it” and “candle to it”.[14]

How to Rap shows that multisyllabic rhymes are used by the following artists – Big L, Canibus, Inspectah Deck,[1] Big Daddy Kane,[11] Kool G Rap,[11] Eminem,[11] Big Pun,[11] Arrested Development,[11] Masta Ace,[11] Lady of Rage,[15] Snoop Dogg,[16] Jay-Z,[17] Beastie Boys,[14] Esoteric of 7L & Esoteric,[12] Game,[12] Busta Rhymes,[13] Method Man,[18] Nas,[18] and Notorious B.I.G.,[19] although there are many more not specified throughout the book.

Multisyllabic rhymes are one of several rhyming devices which have increased in usage throughout the history of rapping,[20] along with such devices as internal rhymes and offbeat rhymes.[20] Music scholar Adam Krims, writing in 2001, noted the following artists as exemplifying the increased complexity in rhyming, including use of multisyllabic rhyming - “members of the Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, AZ, Big Pun, Ras Kass, Elzhi, and DMX just to name a few”.[20]
Usage in Poetry

Ogden Nash (1902-1971) used multisyllabic rhymes in a comic, satirical way, as is common in traditional comic poetry.[5] For example, in his poem ‘The Shrimp’ he rhymes "translucence" with "nuisance", and in his poem ‘The Axolotl’ he rhymes "axolotl" with "a bottle" and "whaxolotl".[5]

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) is one of few poets who used multisyllabic rhymes to convey non-satirical subject matter.[6] An example of this is ‘The Bugler's First Communion’,[6] where he rhymes "boon he on" with "Communion".

[rubato]

I have never heard Snoop Dogg that I know of and have no opinion about his ability.

But Bob Marley was something of an enigma. If you listen to interviews with him he was really NOT articulate at all. Just amazingly incoherent. But as a songwriter and musician he could capture the cry of the human heart in a way that resonated with people all over the world. I saw him perform live in Santa Cruz twice and he had the kind of presence which just dominated the room the moment he stepped on stage.

yrs,
rubato

[Joe Guy]

Snoop Dogg and Bob Dylan Are More Similar Than You Think

I’m just average, common too
I’m just like him, the same as you
I’m everybody’s brother and son
I ain’t different from anyone
It ain’t no use talking to me
It’s just the same as talking to you

[Rick]

Just an observation but Snoop must actually be possessed cause he was born 10/20/71 Marley didn't die until 5/11/81.

Making reincarnation an impossebility...

[loCAtek]

..personally, I think he was just high.

[loCAtek]

I'm not big into Snoop, but I'm aware of he and his music, because my BF's brother is into the whole Hip Hop culture scene. Lil' Bro also really looks like the rapper, and braids his hair into cornrows. If he were to say to someone he was Dogg's son, I bet they would believe him. ( Pues si, my BF and his bro, are both darker skinned Latinos; they can't confirm it, but I'm willing to believe they have black roots.)

Earlier this year, Snoop also performed a landmark concert at Coachella 2012; with an incredible synchronized hologram of 2pac;