![]() When the star landed at Glasgow airport, he was met by a bagpiper performing Still DRE at him. Somehow, Broadus has parlayed a set of quite staggeringly antisocial attributes – a 1996 acquittal on a murder charge claiming to have actually been a pimp circa 2003 – into a new USP: lovable rogue. His stoner icon status belies his herculean work ethic. There aren’t enough hyphens to describe Broadus: special needs kids’ football coach, ganja-preneur, cookbook author, Def Jam exec. Snoop Dogg has turned out to contain multitudes. ![]() Snoop’s ‘stoner icon status has belied his herculean work ethic’. Not only was he a “G” (a gangsta), he was the “D-O- double-G”: really quite gangsta. His calm implied a latent capability for consequences you did not want to trigger. Snoop spoke-rapped non-committally, “laid back”, as per his anthemic hit, Gin and Juice. NWA – the LA act Dr Dre had previously powered into notoriety – were far livelier too. In contrast to a great deal of the rapid-fire hip-hop coming out of the east coast, the young Calvin Broadus brought a leisurely froideur to 90s west-coast gangsta rap. Less intrinsic, perhaps, is a cover of House of Pain’s 1992 hit Jump Around, not least because the excitable track is so off-brand for Snoop. Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, two huge west coast figures, are memorialised early on. The set runs riot through a playlist of Snoop’s greatest hits, plus high-profile guest verses – Katy Perry’s California Gurls is just one – and an unnecessary number of covers. At the end of tonight’s show, Snoop thanks fans effusively for keeping the faith. Announced in 2019, just after Snoop’s 48th birthday (marked by a flower arrangement with 48 blunts in it), the tour has been delayed multiple times over the past three years. This tour – to mark Snoop’s 2019 album, I Wanna Thank Me – might be up for two accolades: the most indoor smoking tolerated since the ban, and being the longest-running Covid delay in pop. His enthusiasm for cartoon NFTs takes the form tonight of Dr Bombay, a heavy-lidded chimp toking on a red-tipped joint
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