LOS ANGELES -- The Long Beach, Calif., rapper Snoop Dogg has several iconic traits -- a laid-back and menacing flow, evocatively violent lyrics and a deep affection for cannabis sativa among them.

Snoop Dogg wants you to know he's tired of hip-hop, is Bob Marley reincarnated and is embracing reggae instead of the culture of guns he once rapped about. Also, he's got a new name: Snoop Lion. The ...

Drake, Rita Ora and Chris Brown are among the artists to feature on Snoop Lion's new album. The rapper will release his first reggae album Reincarnated on April 23, with Diplo and the Major Lazer ...

That Snoop Lion Reincarnated album was... interesting. While I watched the documentary and understood Snoop 's need and desire to hit Jamaica and reinvent himself as an older man, I just wasn't hugely ...

Rapper Snoop Dogg's image makeover, including a name change to Snoop Lion and a reggae album already in the works, is the most recent of a number of image transformations in the world of entertainment ...

The artist known for gangster rap is releasing a reggae album called "Reincarnated" in the fall. The West Coast rapper held a news conference in New York on Monday. Later he played five songs for a ...