Snoop Lion might return to rap music.
The gangsta-rapper – formerly known as Snoop Dogg – claimed to be ‘born again’ back when he announced his Rasta conversion in 2012. He reinvented himself with his latest album ‘Reincarnated’ after embracing the Rastafarian culture and music on a trip to Jamaica. The second coming seems to have fizzled out, however, and ahead of the release of ‘Reincarnation’ on 23 April, Snoop has said that his next album probably won’t be on a reggae tip.
The laid-back icon told NME magazine: “I don’t know if I want to repeat the same process as far as going to Jamaica and making a reggae album.
“I may wanna go to another country and make a reggae album. I may wanna make a rap album. I don’t know.”
The ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ hitmaker could also be contemplating yet another radical overhaul and is open to the idea of travelling to a foreign country to immerse himself in a new sound and image.
He added: “I definitely feel like I’m gonna make more music, but I don’t know if I’m gonna go to Jamaica, I may wanna go somewhere else. I may wanna venture into another part of the world.
“Some things you let them be what they are. That was a priceless moment. I may wanna do something different next time.”
It could be that he’s not welcome back in Jamaica after his falling out with the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millenium Council, who claimed Snoop was using the ‘Lion’ moniker to profit from Rastafarian culture.
Legendary Reggae singer Bunny Wailer and the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millenium Council issued a seven-page letter to Snoop Lion in January outlining their grievances with the artiste.
Wailer told TMZ of his belief that Snoop Lion is only using the Rastafarian moniker to sell records and his Reincarnated movie while insisting the converted Reggae crooner has failed to meet the “contractual, moral and verbal commitments” of being a Rasta.
The Council also questioned Snoop’s motives for making the switch, demanding he drops the ‘Lion’ off his name immediately. Smoking weed and loving Bob Marley and Reggae music is not what defines the Rastafari Indigenous Culture!” they said in their statement.
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