If Diddy can do it then so can Snoop Dogg!

Get ready to complete erase the name Snoop Dogg from yourmemory because the rapper has official changed his name to… wait for it… SnoopLion. No, this isn’t a joke.

“I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated,” Snooptold reporters at a news conference in New York. “I feel I havealways been a Rastafari. I just didn’t have my third eye open, but its wideopen right now.”

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Snoop Dogg at the premiere of Marley in Hollywood wearing a blue shirt sunglasses and Jamaican hat

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Snoop decided on the name change after he returning from aspiritual and artistic rebirth in Jamaica. He recorded his new albumReincarnated, which will showcase his new reggae style. Along with this, he’salso working on a documentary and a coffee-table photo book.

As long as the Lion still keeps the saying “Fo shizzle mynizzle” then we’ll all be happy and accept this name change. For real.

What do you think about Snoop’s new change? Could he begoing through a midlife crisis? Let us know your thoughts in the commentssection below!

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