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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“Ambassador of happiness.” Is that a new euphemism for “drug dealer?”
I suppose we should be grateful it wasn’t Dennis Rodman.
But he's an odd role model.
Just how gross can they make these Olympics? The more I hear, the more I gag.
It would have been cool if he showed up there with Martha Stewart
how that friggin mutt got mainstreamed is beyond me...
Fixed that for you!
These people are shameless in their promoting of whatever they see fit, and in whatever manner, regardless of it’s appropriateness.
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.
He is DISGUSTING to look at!!
Monsieur Freaky le Deeky.
HE IS ONE OF THE JUDGES ON “The VOICE” THIS COMING SEASON.
I SUSPECT HE IS A LOT SMARTER THAN WE THINK.
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
and the public is a lot baser...
Just when you think NBC can’t diminish its reputation any further................
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”.
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