Later that year he announced that he was dropping 'Dogg' from his name to become Snoop Lion.Īccording to the Los Angeles Times, Snoop decided to change his name after traveling to Jamaica where he met with a priest, who told him: 'You are the light, you are the lion.' Moved by the meeting, Snoop immediately changed his name. In early 2012, Snoop announced that he was working for the first time on an all-reggae album, called Reincarnated. In 2007, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship, citing his prior criminal convictions, banned him from entering the country and appearing at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards. Later in 2006, he was arrested at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, after officers found marijuana and a gun in his vehicle.

By now his sound had become less 'gangsta rap' and somewhat smoother. His last album for No Limit, The Last Meal, came in 2000 and sold over 2 million copies. He scored the top slot on the hip-hop charts with his next two albums: Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998) and No Limit Top Dogg (1999). Snoop then left Death Row himself, falling out with label mogul Suge Knight and moving to Master P’s No Limit Records. 'Da Game Is to Be Sold' to 'The Hard Way' While it didn’t perform as well commercially, it still showed that Snoop was a major-league artist.

Snoop's next album, Tha Doggfather (1996), also reached the top of the charts, despite the absence of Dre, who had left Death Row over a contract dispute. Next came a short film called Murder Was the Case, the soundtrack of which went double platinum. Dre gave Snoop a sound that would resonate in the minds of hip-hop fans for generations. 1 spot on Billboard's hip-hop and Top 200 charts, based in part on the success of the singles 'Who Am I (What's My Name)?' and 'Gin and Juice.' It built on the G-Funk template that The Chronic had established, as Cypress Hill’s B-Real later reminisced: “I think Dr. Snoop's first album, the Dre-produced Doggystyle (1993), climbed its way to the No. Hit Albums: 'Doggystyle' & 'Tha Doggfather'

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