Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion just released the teaser for “Lighters Up” the new official music video featuring Mavado & Popcaan for their famous new collaborative song.
While some Rastafarians including Bunny Wailer have criticized him, Snoop Lion is holding tight to his rasta flag!
Posted below, the teaser for his latest “Lighters Up” new music single, debuting in his upcoming reggae album “Reincarnated”, which is something different from his usual repertoire.
Snoop Lion new album ‘Reincarnated’ will hit stores in April 2013 and you can get “Lighters Up” or the whole Snoop Lion reggae album clicking on the banners posted below.
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After already releasing a couple of songs like “La La La” and “Lighters Up” with Diplo/Major Lazer, that features the shocking collaboration with Mavado and Popcaan, as previously reported here, and after already being questioned initially about his intentions by Sizzla Kalonji, than later changed his mind on the matter, many aren’t still too proud of his reincarnation into Snoop Lion and him converting into the Rastafarian religion.
For many he still has to prove he has the heart of a real lion.
Bunny Wailer, an original member of Bob Marley and The Wailers and leaders of the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council – aka Rastafari Millennium Council, feels that Snoop becoming suddenly a rasta is a lie and it is just for profit.
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At the Rasta Council they are not happy with the docu-film, which shows Snoop’s immersion in the Rasta culture.Bunny Wailer says Snoop has engaged in for profit
“outright fraudulent use of Rastafari Community’s personalities and symbolism” and has failed to meet “contractual, moral and verbal commitments.”
With the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union, Wailer wants Snoop Dog to stop referring himself as Snoop Lion, “pay up financial and moral support” they claim he committed, and issue a public apology.