As TMZ previously reported, Bunny Wailer - an. Snoop Dogg told reporters in the United States that he converted to the Rastafarian faith after befriending a group of elders during a visit to Jamaica last year. Snoop Lion quietly roared back at the Rastafarians who put him on blast - by showing up to LAX with a Bob Marley shirt and a badass Rasta cap. The report did not say what promises Snoop had made both parties. The track would land on Snoop Lion's debut reggae album, the appropriately titled Reincarnated, which. The weed-loving rapper is also under fire from the Rastafari Millennium Council, which issued a seven-page letter to Snoop, claiming in part, that "smoking weed and loving Bob Marley and reggae music is not what defines the Rastafari Indigenous culture!"Īccording to tmz.com, the group wants Snoop to stop using the name 'Lion' and pay the "financial and moral support" they claim he promised them. Granted to Snoop by a Jamaican high priest, the name was first floated during a summer 2012 press conference introducing the debut Snoop Lion single, 'La La La,' which was released on the Berhane Sound System label and produced by Major Lazer. Wailer is quoted by celebrity website tmz.com as accusing Snoop of engaging in "outright fraudulent use of (the) Rastafari community's personalities and symbolism" - and has failed to meet "contractual, moral and verbal commitments" from Reincarnation, Snoop's docu-mentary looking at his conversion. REGGAE legend Bunny Wailer is not impressed by rapper Snoop Lion's (formerly Snoop Dogg) recent conversion to Rastafari.
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