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  Snoop Dogg Kindly Asks to 'Take Yo Panties Off' for 'This Is the End' Soundtrack

  May 17, 2013 – Snoop Dogg's latest album, the reggae-heavy Reincarnated, was recently slapped with a Worst New Music label from SPIN. …
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  Snoop Lion, 'Reincarnated' (Berhane Sound System/Mad Decent/Vice/RCA)

  April 24, 2013 – A pimp can have a midlife crisis too, you know. And yet, while Calvin Broadus may be married happily with three kids, he's already led the louche life that balding exurban plodders only flail toward from the wrong side of 40. …
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  Peanut Butter Wolf Drills Down on 'The Chronic': Plus, His Unreleased G-Funk Track!

  December 10, 2012 – When former N.W.A beatmaker (and sometime MC)  Dr. Dre released his solo debut, The Chronic, on December 15, 1992, hip-hop began to tilt Westward. …
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  Snoop Lion Influences Children in Ganja-Steeped 'La La La' Video

  November 1, 2012 – Snoop Lion, formerly known as Snoop Dogg, formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose name still seems not dissimilar to that of Charlie Brown's Peanuts beagle, has always had an insidiously child-friendly quality about him. In the rapper-ternt-sanga's first video under newest name, for his Major Lazer-assisted reggae debut "La La La," he hilariously makes that connection explicit. …
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  Hear Dave Sitek's Interstellar Salt-n-Pepa Remix 'Shoop Lion'

  August 15, 2012 – Plenty of you have likely snickered at the thought of Snoop's new name (after a religious experience in Jamaica, he traded in his Dogg for Lion) and his subsequent embrace of both reggae and — gulp — patois. …
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  Lion-Style: 5 Things You Need to Know About Snoop's Reggae Project

  July 31, 2012 – After heading to Jamaica (one of the shrinking list of countries where he's still welcome) and getting well-acquainted with Jah, Snoop Dogg decided to stir things up. Beginning with his forthcoming reggae (yes, reggae) album — aptly titled Reincarnated, due later this year on Vice Records — Snoop will move up on the food chain and replace "Dogg" with "Lion" in his name. …
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  The Best and Worst of New York's Inaugural Catalpa Festival

  July 30, 2012 –  …
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  Leader of the Banned: Snoop Dogg Adds Norway to the List of Places He May Not Visit

  July 30, 2012 – After getting busted for carrying eight grams of marijuana while trying to enter Norway in June, the country, which is the home to black metal, church burnings and really good lox, has decided to ban the rap icon from crossing its borders for the next two years. Snoop's lawyer told the Hollywood Reporter that the artist "can live with the decision." Presumably because he's faced this situation before. In April 2006, the U.K. …
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  Snoop Dogg Goes Reggae: Hear Snoop Lion's Major Lazer Team-Up 'La La La'

  July 23, 2012 – In March, omnipresent DJ-slash-producer Diplo revealed he had been working on a reggae album with none other than Snoop Dogg. Over the weekend, Snoop announced that the record — which he'll be putting out under the rasta-ready name Snoop Lion — will be titled Reincarnated and is on the way via Vice. …
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  Snoop Dogg Playing Full 'Doggystyle' at Catalpa NYC Fest

  May 24, 2012 – The last time Snoop Dogg took the stage at a festival, he was flanked by Dr. Dre and hologram Tupac for Dre.'s headlining Coachella set. Over the July 28-29 weekend he's scheduled to play all of Doggystyle at the first Catalpa NYC on New York's Randall's Island (a fest that also features the Black Keys, TV On The Radio, A$AP Rocky, Zola Jesus, Girl Talk, and many more). …
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