Lil Wayne announced today that he'd be taking an indefinite hiatus from rapping to dedicate himself to a pursuit that will (hopefully) give him much less overexposure: skateboarding. Oh yeah, and that thing with the Mars landing happened, too.
It's not quite the first of the month anymore, but it's close.
"Reanimated corpse" isn't entirely accurate. It's actually a hologram of the late, great West-coast rapper, which gave a surprise performance to finish off the first week of Coachella 2012. This proves that (a) industry executives can own your body as well as your soul, and (b) '90s nostalgia has gotten WAY out of hand.
If P. Diddy can change his name and Willie Nelson can release a reggae album, why can't Snoop Dogg do both? The 40-year-old rapper formally announced today that he would be changing his name to Snoop Lion and abandoning rap to focus on reggae.
At a recent press conference, the newly-christened Snoop Lion described his life-changing visit to a Rastafarian temple while in Jamaica recording for his new album:
"I didn't know that until I went to the temple, where the High Priest asked me what my name was, and I said, 'Snoop Dogg.' And he looked me in my eyes and said, 'No more. You are the light; you are the lion.' From that moment on, it's like I had started to understand why I was there."
We can't be sure that Busta Rhymes' fast rapping ability on "Look at Me Now' is the result of talent or of a tic developed from minor head trauma.
