Gawker: Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg Named America's Musical Ambassador To India

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:15:48 EDT

When a business has completely saturated one market, it can either die out or expand into another market. I think it's safe to say that rap-as-pop-music has reached its tipping point in terms of US commercial appeal. Luckily there's a billion people in India who have yet to embrace pimpology! Rappers in America have been stealing Indian music for beats for quite a while now, but the relationship hasn't been reciprocal. Snoop Dogg is on the kizzle, though, coming to Mumbizzle with a suitcase full of mizzle (marketing strategies). His main obstacle? India's current old-ass musical tastes:

Western musicians have come to India for inspiration and new sounds for decades, but finding an enthusiastic audience among the country’s billion-plus population has not always been easy for modern musicians. Western music of a generation ago still tops India’s album charts: top albums sold in India included the Eric Clapton compilation “Complete Clapton” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for the month that ended June 15, according to Rolling Stone’s July India edition.

Ridiculous. Indians have just as much responsibility to support the modern schlock pop music market as we do. Snoop's breakthrough project is a new song called "Singh is Kinng," which will be the title song for an upcoming Bollywood flick. He's probably not the guy you want introducing pure hip hop culture to the subcontinent, but he does know how to sell albums. And hey, at least you can't knock the accompanying dance number. Unless you can:

[NYT]

Celebrity Jesus: Original Gangster Version

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:30:14 EDT

Hey kids: you think Catholicism is all about musty old churches and child-molesting priests? Think again, yo! Everything that you think is cool came from a man named g-o-d—including blunt-smoking gangster rapper Snoop Dogg. Deify him! But he's not the only one of you young peoples' false idols who came from the Godmeister. That's right, Sienna Miller did too! These two ads from the Australian version of Marie Claire are supposed to promote the Catholic Church's upcoming World Youth Day. 1-8-7 with a gat in your mouth, Jesus! Gaze upon the full versions of two [REAL] horrifying ideas of youth outreach:

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Willie and Snoop: Together at Last!

ian spiegelman — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:30:37 EDT

Stoner heroes Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson got together in Amsterdam to perform "Superman." Video after the jump.

Akon Calls T-Pain

Nick Douglas — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:12:17 EDT

The two artists who turned Autotune from an embarrassing musical crutch into an embarrassing musical technique meet for lunch in this cartoon with a rewarding third act.

Does Suge Knight Have a Reality Show or Not?

ian spiegelman — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:11:11 EDT

A trailer for Unfinished Business, which seems to be a reality TV show starring Death Row founder Suge Knight, is online today. It looks kind of good, with plenty of fighting, F-Bombs being dropped all over the place, and one youngster talking tough and following it up by running off in a panic. But where is this thing going to air? And when? I've watched it a few times and those little details just don't seem to exist. Trailer after the jump.

Okay, I don't actually know how to post video. But it's here. And if you thought the Veronica Webb comments were mean, check the crazy thread beneath the video.

Ashley Alexander Dupré's "What We Want," Snoop Dogg Remix

Nick Douglas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:53:52 EDT

Ashley "Alexandra Dupré" "Kristen" "Google Keywords" Youmans's MySpace song got mixed with Snoop Dogg's "Sensual Seduction," and it works well, especially if you really liked Dupré's original. I smell a future Gnarls-Barkley-esque duo.

The Ultimate Analysis of Snoop's "Sensual Seduction"

Nick Douglas — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:24:27 EST

"Snoop seems to have singlehandedly snatched the is-he-or-isn't-he irony confusion crown from R. Kelly," says tech exec Anil Dash, the blogger who appeared in the New York Times in a Goatse t-shirt. Dash figures that R. Kelly's "Trapped In The Closet" got boring when the artist realized the inanity of his own multi-part R&B drama. But in his 2007 song "Sensual Seduction" (or "Sexual Eruption," as Dash explains with 200 actually worthwhile words), Snoop is "both ridiculous and completely sincere." Read Dash's 8-point analysis and an examination of the breath tube, which Snoop uses instead of a vocoder or Auto-Tune. After the jump is the song itself, in the best music video ever.

Dash's post falls into the "academic analysis of black music" genre most significantly shaped by the Village Voice's ""This Is Why I'm Hot": A graphical dissertation on the number one song in America."

Snoop And Larry King's Fried Chicken Date Surprisingly Charming

Ryan Tate — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:44:06 EST

Larry King, the friendly bumbling TV interviewer, goes for grits and chicken wings with rapper Snoop Dogg and schools him on the specifics of an "Arnold Palmer" (no gin but a little juice). Instead of being weird/awkward, it ends up being sort of weird/awesome. Also, Snoop invents a new mocktail.

Is this the "long, lean, perfectly rolled ...

Pareene — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:15:22 EST

Is this the "long, lean, perfectly rolled blunt" belonging to Snoop Dogg that got New York mag reporter Jada Yuan high the other night? Complex says maybe! [Complex]

Jizzle Yizzle And Nizzle Shizzle Smoke Weed With Snoop Dogg At The Bowery

Joshua Stein — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:40:41 EST

Speaking from experience, the life of an After Hours reporter can sometimes be tedious. There's only so much free Belvedere vodka one can drink (just kidding! There's no limit. Please drink responsibly); so long you can feign interest in the pap vaguely interesting people are feeding you; and so many canapes you can cram down your throat the whole time thinking, "Fuck, I'm going to be too drunk to have a proper dinner." Which is why Jada Yuan's job at New York magazine remains a thing to be marveled at but not envied. But then there are times when one's relentless faux-enthusiasm for all things nocturnal pays off. Like, for instance, when you are Jada Yuan and you run into Snoop Dogg at the Bowery Hotel and a swarthy Radar-employed enabler named Neel Shah convinces you it's a good idea to get high with him. And so you do.

Neel: [Attempting to regroup] You have to go in there. Jada: Why me? Neel: It's got to be a girl. Jada: Yeah, I'm sure Snoop Dogg is really into hanging out with nerdy half-Chinese chicks who dress like librarians. You're brown. You have a beard. You go. Neel: I look like a terrorist! Go up to him and say, "It's been my dream since I was 5 years old to smoke pot with Snoop Dogg." Jada: But that's not my dream. Neel: It's like one of the top-three most impressive things you can possibly do in your life! Play ball with LeBron James. Have sex with Jenna Jameson. Smoke pot with Snoop Dogg. I can guarantee there are men on this earth who have done all three, but they are way cooler than me. You HAVE to do this. Jada: Well, I guess it does lead me one step closer to sex with Jenna Jameson.
[Jada hops into a group of passersby, then out again at the center of Snoop Dogg's circle. D-O-Double G passes a long, lean, perfectly rolled blunt to a woman nearby.]

Jada: [Mumbling to self while backing away] Oh, well, looks like I missed my chance.
Snoop Dogg: At what, sugar?
Jada: Uh ... it's been a dream of mine since I was 5 to smoke pot with Snoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg: [Laughs, pulls out an identical long, lean, perfectly rolled blunt, lights it, and puts it in her tiny hands] Has it been that long?

So kudos, seriously, to Jada and note to Neel: there are a lot more impressive things to do than those three things. Or at least I pray there are.

In which we smoke weed with Snoop Dogg