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Snoop Dogg has psychotic episode, changes nickname to Snoop Lion

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 1 10:11:13 2012, in response to Snoop Dogg banned from Norway for two years after trying to sneak marijuana in, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 28 19:24:56 2012.

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Posted: Wed, Aug. 1, 2012, 3:01 AM

Sideshow: No longer a Dogg, but king of the beasts

By Tirdad Derakhshani
Inquirer Staff Writer

"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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