
Wailer claims Snoop has engaged in "outright fraudulent use of Rastafari Community's personalities and symbolism" - and has failed to meet "contractual, moral and verbal commitments."Īnd it's not just Bunny who feels burned - leaders of something called the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council (aka Rastafari Millennium Council) - fired off a 7-page demand letter to Snoop. which documented Snoop's immersion in the Rasta culture as he recorded his first reggae album in Jamaica last year. and now they're threatening to sue.īunny Wailer - an original member of Bob Marley and the Wailers - tells TMZ he's heated about the docu-film " Reincarnated".
SNOOP DOGG OR SNOOP LION MOVIE
Prince - his legal name - changed his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol dubbed “The Love Symbol,” and was referred to as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.” He returned to using “Prince” again in 2000.Snoop Lion, nee Snoop Dogg, has done the seemingly impossible - pissed off a bunch of ganja smoking Rastafarians - who claim he lied about becoming a Rasta just to make a movie and sell records.

She wore chaps and released the single “Dirrty,” and her image suffered as a result of the abrupt change. Snoop Dogg, byname of Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr., also called Snoop Doggy Dogg and Snoop Lion, (born, Long Beach, California, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became one of the best-known figures in gangsta rap in the 1990s and was for many the epitome of West Coast hip-hop culture.


You are the light you are the lion.’ From that moment on, it's like I had started to understand why I was there.” “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. “I want to bury Snoop Dogg, and become Snoop Lion,” he told reporters, according to. Snoop told reporters that he was rechristened Snoop Lion by a Rastafarian priest. Snoop Lion has been working on a reggae album, ”Reincarnated,” the recording of which is being chronicled in a documentary film that premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. No more Doggfather or Dogghouse or “Woof!” - which, presumably, will be replaced with a roar. Rapper Snoop Dogg, now Snoop Lion, performs in Norway.
