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Snoop Dogg Gets No Love From the Brits

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Britain really, really doesn’t want Snoop Dogg in their country.

Britain’s Border Agency said Friday it would appeal a court’s decision to reverse an earlier ruling that had banned Snoop Dogg from entering the country after the rapper and his entourage started a fight at Heathrow Airport in April 2006.

He and five others were arrested at Heathrow on charges of violent disorder for instigating a brawl in a nearby duty-free shop after their 30-person posse was denied entry into British Airways’ first-class lounge because not everyone in the group was holding first-class tickets. Seven officers were injured in the melee.

I’m sure it all seemed very cute and unimportant at the time, but Britain didn’t feel that way. They banned Snoop from entering the country, and it meant he had to cancel a British Isles tour with Diddy, so now he’s looking to make it all better.

“Snoop and his team are mystified at the decision and are hoping that the British government will reconsider this decision,” says his rep. “He has asked how he can help rectify the situation and would happily talk to and give assurances to the officials.”

Snoop is also currently banned from Australia, where their prime minister said that “he doesn’t seem the sort of bloke we want in this country.”

Heh. It does kind of seem like Britain’s making an unfair example of him, but I can’t say I blame them. Like, it’s neither cute nor badass to start fist fights in international airports in a post-9/11 world. You have to be pretty fucking dumb to pull that crap. Save that shit for the playground, boys.

Like even this photo — which was taken at his album release party in late March — kind of pisses me off. I know you have a reputation to protect, Snoop, but you also have children of your own, and you’re actively glorifying gun violence by wearing that necklace. I know you rap about much worse shit, and you absolutely have that right, in much the same way you absolutely have the right to wear that necklace, but really? Do you have to? You’re 36 years old now. Doesn’t it ever just get exhausting to define yourself with violence?

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  • “Snoop and his team are mystified …” Oh, they’re mystified, are they? Seven people were injured because some idiot rapper’s hangers-on couldn’t do something they weren’t entitled to do?

    The phrase “grow up” takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to celebrities.

    Anyway, good for GB and Australia.

  • shut up ricardo. gangsters don’t have to be such jackasses. do you know how many gun related deaths there are in this goddamn country????? he is so NOOOOT badass. i must agree with beet…

  • Anonymous I beg to differ. The guy portrays himself to be a gangster.

    Gangster means to be a member of a gang of criminals. Since the 1880’s it has been so.

    After all, in just this picture he’s wearing a t-shirt with a freakin mobster dude on it and an ostentatious to a comical degree pistol necklace.

    I think it is pretty obvious that it is an act to pretend like he’s a thug to sell music to a disaffected segment of the population. (Primarily children)

    However, I can imagine they don’t want someone that portrays this image in their country.

  • And what if the revolver around the neck was just mock of a cross?
    Which, of course, does not excuse his violence.