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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I guess so many people noticed him that they had to create a narrative.
“No interest in anything relating to this pothead or any other celebrity at events. They take tickets that should be sold to fans.”
Then why did you post this?
I am honestly surprised the Olympic torch wasn’t in the shape of a giant butt plug.
Maybe the next Summer Olympics will be held in a First World Country.
Rodman’s daughter is on the soccer team.
I wish her luck. Champions come fron all sorts of backgrounds. Maybe she has inherited some of his good traits.
A drug dealer. A gangster A pornographer. Perfect for the woke Olympics.
He’s hard on the eyes.
Apparently, she’s quite good.
Despite being a lifelong stoner, Snoop is a good person.
Pot head is the least of the epithets this POS is deserving of!
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