Now that he had reached the midpoint of his life – he turned 40 last year Jersey, Snoop held forth about positivity, good vibrations and being “called by the spirit” to begin singing reggae. Wearing a Rasta knit cap, sunglasses and a Kobe Bryant The news conference was to release the first single from the album “Reincarnated,” which was written and recorded over three weeks in Jamaica. I just didn’t have my third eye open, but it’s wide open right now.” He added: “I feel I have alwaysīeen a Rastafari. “I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated,” Snoop told a crowd of reporters at a news conference at Miss Lily’s, a Caribbean restaurant in New York. He shed the name and persona of Snoop Dogg and was rechristened Snoop Lion by Rastafarian priests. He abandoned rap as his preferred mode of expression, wrote more thanĪ dozen songs in a traditional reggae style and opened up to a documentary film crew about his long and sometimes violent journey from teenage gang member to a middle-aged hip-hop superstar. Snoop Dogg, the veteran West Coast rapper, says he underwent a spiritual and artistic rebirth while making a new album in Jamaica last February. Tor Erik Schroder/NTB scanpix, via Associated Press Snoop Dogg performing in Norway in June.
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