Critics Unhappy About Snoop Dogg Releasing a Gospel Album
Iconic artist and entertainer, Snoop Dogg, has just released his first gospel album, the much anticipated, Bible of Love (All The Time Entertainment / RCA Inspiration). However, not all his critics are happy with the release. This is because the rapper has had an alarming history of crime and sexual exploitation.
Though a married man, Snoop Dogg has revealed in a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone that he was a former pimp. He had sex with women and prostituted them in his nationwide Playboy tour. He also won four porn industry awards for working with Hustler to film two hard-core porn movies. In 2004 he settled a lawsuit in which he was accused by 17 and 18-year-old girls of offering alcohol, ecstasy and marijuana at a "Girls Gone Wild" party in exchange for taking off their clothes.
Moreover, while recording Doggystyle in August 1993, Snoop Dogg was arrested in connection with the death of Philip Woldemariam, a member of a rival gang who was shot and killed by Snoop's bodyguard, McKinley Lee; Snoop was charged with murder along with Lee as he was driving the vehicle from which the shooting took place. Snoop and Lee were defended by Johnnie Cochran. Both Snoop and Lee were acquitted; Lee was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, but Snoop Dogg remained entangled in the legal battles around the case for three years.
Further, some even doubt if Snoop Dogg is truly a born-again Christian. In 2009, it was reported that Snoop was a member of the Nation of Islam. On March 1, he made an appearance at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day holiday, where he praised minister Louis Farrakhan. Then in 2012 he switched gears and became a Rastafarian after a short stint as a reggae artist. Now he claims to be a born-again Christian.
"The devil is a liar. I thought church was supposed to welcome sinners," he told TV One after taking the stage at the Stellar Gospel Music Awards. "If you find someone trying to find their way back home, the natural thing would be to accept him with open arms. We not gonna throw stones while you trying to get right and walking back into the church house.
"That's what's running people away from church right now as we speak: We're trying to get people back in church with a different perspective of come as you are, show love. We show love, we give love," Snoop added. "What about you? Have you checked your status? Are you going to Heaven? Why are you judging me? How much have you done for the Lord?"
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