![]() Unlike dogs, lions hold a place of pride in Rasta theology, explained Edmonds, author of a forthcoming history of the religious movement. The new documentary, "Reincarnated," captures the rapper's conversion in Jamaica last February. The priest, a member of the most traditional branch of Rastafarianism, Nyabingi, rechristened the rapper Snoop Lion. Little surprise, then, that a Rasta priest in Jamaica shook his head and said "no more" when the man born as Calvin Broadus introduced himself as Snoop Dogg. ![]() It expresses how the corrupt world - Babylon, in Rasta theology - had distorted the rapper's true spiritual nature. "Rastas would probably see calling yourself a dog as an indication of lack of self-knowledge," Edmonds said. But the faith was born in Jamaica, where calling someone a dog is deeply insulting, Edmonds said. ![]() The religious movement doesn't require converts to change their names. So, did the onetime gangsta rapper have to drop the "d-o-double-g" when he became a Rasta? Yes, and no, said Ennis Edmonds, a scholar at Kenyon College and an expert on Rastafarianism. "I want to bury Snoop Dogg and become Snoop Lion," he said at a press conference. Announcing his conversion to Rastafarianism on Monday (July 30), the rapper unveiled a new answer to that lyrical question. (RNS) Snoop Dogg scored a huge hit with the hip-hop anthem "What's My Name?" back in 1993.
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