Last week, Snoop Dogg held a private screening for his forthcoming movie Reincarnated in NYC in association with Adidas Originals. The event was hosted by Bow Wow and attended by 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, A$AP Rocky, Stephen Hill and more. Below is a video recap of the screening. The documentary will arrive in select theaters on March 15th while the album of the same name hits stores in April.
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Rohan Marley has responded to the backlash against Snoop Lion for joining the Rastafari movement. Bunny Wailer, Rasta practitioner and original member of Bob Marley & the Wailers, initially criticized the rapper for exploiting the movement for personal gain. Now, Marley’s son has come to Snoop’s defense, telling TMZ that his father would have “embraced” him instead of publicly airing him out. “Our father’s name should not even be mentioned in this issue because like a true Rasta, he would have embraced Snoop’s reincarnation and welcomed the positivity,” he said. “Why condemn a man for his love of Rastafari and Bob Marley? We have been cool with Snoop before his transformation and he will continue to have our blessings and support.” Wailer publicly denounced Snoop after seeing his film Reincarnated, which documents his conversion to become a Rasta. “[His conversion is] outright fraudulent use of [the] Rastafari Community’s personalities and symbolism,” he said. “[Snoop has failed to meet the] contractual, moral and verbal commitments [of the Rastafarian religion].”
Last July, Snoop announced his official name change from Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion. He told HipHopDX, “It’s not Snoop Dogg on a Reggae track. I want to bury Snoop Dogg and become Snoop Lion. But I didn’t know that until I went to the temple. The high priest, when I walked in, he asked what is my name. I said, ‘Snoop Dogg.’ He said, ‘No more…You are the light. You are the Lion.’ From that moment on, I had started to understand why I was there. We hadn’t even recorded one song, but I was taking all of this information and spirit.”
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Snoop Lion is being threatened with a lawsuit by Bunny Wailer. The Reggae legend is accusing the Long Beach rapper recently turned Rasta of perpetrating a fraud to sell records and a movie. Last summer, Snoop Dogg announced he was now going by the Snoop Lion moniker after a long trip to Jamaica led him to an artistic epiphany. His next album, titled Reincarnated (accompanied by movie of the same title documenting his spiritual and musical journey), would be a Reggae project produced by Major Lazer. However, now Wailer believes that Snoop’s rapper turned Rasta shtick was just a ruse.
Bunny Wailer — an original member of Bob Marley and the Wailers — tells TMZ he’s heated about the docu-film “Reincarnated” … which documented Snoop’s immersion in the Rasta culture as he recorded his first reggae album in Jamaica last year.
Wailer claims Snoop has engaged in “outright fraudulent use of Rastafari Community’s personalities and symbolism” — and has failed to meet “contractual, moral and verbal commitments.”
Wailer isn’t the only one feeling a ways. The Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council sent Snoop a seven page letter demanding that the rapper stop using the “Snoop Lion” name, make an apology, and of course, fork over some cash that he allegedly promised. TMZ reports that a portion of the letter reads, “smoking weed and loving Bob Marley and reggae music is not what defines the Rastafari Indigenous Culture!” If Snoop… If the artist born Calvin Broadus doesn’t adhere to these requests, he will be sued. The “Deep Cover” rapper has yet to comment on this matter.
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