Snoop Dogg is now embracing his newly
found Rastafarian faith, by changing his name to Snoop
Lion. Snoop whose real name is Calvin Broadus, Jr., spoke to reporters at
a press conference on Monday, that he was rechristened Snoop Lion by
Rastafarian priests on a recent trip to Jamaica where he was filmed for a documentary,
Reincarnated Snoop also as an upcoming album of the same name, from Vice
Records in the fall, followed by a book.
Snoop Dogg said he's not completely retiring from
hip-hop but is "tired" of the genre because it is no longer
challenging
"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. You are the light; you are the
lion.' From that moment on, it's like I had started to understand why I was
there," he said at a press conference.
"I didn't want to be Snoop Dogg on a reggae track ... I wanted to bury
Snoop Dogg and become Snoop Lion, but I didn't know that until I went to the
temple and received the name Snoop Lion from the Nyabingi priest," the
rapper said.
Snoop Lion has already been introduced onto social
media platforms to promote the rapper's latest single, "La La La,"
along with his upcoming album and documentary, which will premiere at the
Toronto International Film Festival in September.
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