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At the Paris Olympics, Snoop Dogg is NBC’s ‘ambassador of happiness’
The Washington Post ^ | July 31, 2024 | Ben Strauss

Posted on 07/31/2024 5:50:17 PM PDT by KingofZion

During one prime-time broadcast of the Olympics gymnastics competition this week on NBC, Simone Biles finished a vault and the camera panned around Bercy Arena in Paris to find reactions. Biles’s parents politely clapped. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo cheered with a bit more gusto.

Then the camera found Snoop Dogg, who lifted his glasses up toward his forehead, to reveal eyes wide in astonishment.

“Snoop can’t believe what he saw!” said NBC’s Terry Gannon.

There has been no better hype man for U.S. Olympians this week than Snoop, who has been everywhere in Paris for NBC — and, as a result, everywhere across the internet. Billie Jean King, a fellow Long Beach, Calif., native, snapped a photo with him; he did a swim lesson with Michael Phelps; and he narrated highlights of a spirited badminton rally. “It don’t stop till the casket drop,” Snoop said, as the shuttlecock flew back and forth.

Since Snoop first made his mark on American culture as Dr. Dre’s running mate and then a rap star in his own right in the early 1990s, he has been many things: a boogeyman to White America, a reality TV star, Martha Stewart’s buddy, a pitchman for brands such as Skechers and Corona. Still, these Olympics have elevated Snoop to perhaps a new role.

“I’m not sure who was betting on Snoop to be America’s sweetheart in the 1990s,” said Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of African and African American studies at Duke University. “No one saw this coming then.”

Or as Jeff Chang, a cultural historian who has written several books on hip-hop, said: “He went from ‘Murder was the case that they gave me’ to ‘What’s up, Mike Tirico?’”

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No interest in anything relating to this pothead or any other celebrity at events. They take tickets that should be sold to fans.
1 posted on 07/31/2024 5:50:17 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

“Ambassador of happiness.” Is that a new euphemism for “drug dealer?”


2 posted on 07/31/2024 5:53:45 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: KingofZion

I suppose we should be grateful it wasn’t Dennis Rodman.


3 posted on 07/31/2024 5:54:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: KingofZion
Better than Steve Kerr or Steph Curry.

But he's an odd role model.

4 posted on 07/31/2024 5:55:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: lee martell

5 posted on 07/31/2024 5:56:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: KingofZion

Just how gross can they make these Olympics? The more I hear, the more I gag.


6 posted on 07/31/2024 5:57:04 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: KingofZion

It would have been cool if he showed up there with Martha Stewart


7 posted on 07/31/2024 5:58:19 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: KingofZion

how that friggin mutt got mainstreamed is beyond me...


8 posted on 07/31/2024 5:59:11 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: noiseman
I think so. Leafs by Snoop is his brand apparently.


9 posted on 07/31/2024 6:01:04 PM PDT by xp38
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arcticle: Snoop Dogg is NBC's ‘ambassador of happiness venereal disease.’

Fixed that for you!

10 posted on 07/31/2024 6:03:04 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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I’m sure SD’s weirdly odd, yet high profile presence during NBC’s broadcasting of the Olympics has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he has been named a singing coach on the highly promoted show named The Voice, which yes, that’s right, happens to be airing on the very same NBC network.

These people are shameless in their promoting of whatever they see fit, and in whatever manner, regardless of it’s appropriateness.

11 posted on 07/31/2024 6:06:16 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: KingofZion

Snoop is today’s Stepin Fetchit paid by NBC to provide entertainment between events to try to keep the low attention span/IQ audience off of their phones. Notice how NBC has to split screen the commercials with the coverage to keep the eyeballs on it.


12 posted on 07/31/2024 6:12:12 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: KingofZion

He is DISGUSTING to look at!!


13 posted on 07/31/2024 6:13:06 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Monsieur Freaky le Deeky.


14 posted on 07/31/2024 6:13:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Mr. K

HE IS ONE OF THE JUDGES ON “The VOICE” THIS COMING SEASON.


15 posted on 07/31/2024 6:26:36 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Chode

I SUSPECT HE IS A LOT SMARTER THAN WE THINK.


16 posted on 07/31/2024 6:28:01 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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This hype is only because he is joining the cast of The Voice this season.

What astonishes me is that NBC had enough clout to get the IOC and France to defile tradition and let Snoop (Calvin Broadus) be a torch bearer.

-PJ

17 posted on 07/31/2024 6:32:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ridesthemiles

and the public is a lot baser...


18 posted on 07/31/2024 6:36:22 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: KingofZion

Just when you think NBC can’t diminish its reputation any further................


19 posted on 07/31/2024 6:37:19 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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How did Mister Dogg get his particular kind of happiness through Customs?

Well, maybe since he is an “Ambassador” it came through in a “Diplomatic Pouch”.


20 posted on 07/31/2024 6:49:51 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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