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Social and economic issues (including race/religion/gender). Recent political issues and politicians. This includes (but is not limited to) submissions related to: No politics, soapboxing, or agenda based submissions. Any sources (blog, article, press release, video, etc.) with a publication date more recent than two months are not allowed. No personal opinions, anecdotes or subjective statements (e.g "TIL xyz is a great movie"). Videos are fine so long as they come from reputable sources (e.g. Images alone do not count as valid references. Please link directly to a reliable source that supports every claim in your post title. Submit interesting and specific facts that you just found out (not broad information you looked up, TodayILearned is not /r/wikipedia). They are also demanding “financial and moral support” and an apology for spreading the idea that “smoking weed and loving Bob Marley and reggae music is … what defines the Rastafari indigenous culture”.You learn something new every day what did you learn today? The group has reportedly written a lengthy letter to Snoop threatening legal action if he doesn’t stop using the name ‘Lion’. Those agreements, it seems, are with the Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council, an organisation which represents various churches within the Rastfarian religion and seeks to ensure that it is properly represented worldwide. He adds that Snoop has failed to meet “contractual, moral and verbal commitments”. 
So, when he says that Snoop has engaged in “outright fraudulent use of the Rastafari community’s personalities and symbolism”, he’d probably know.
Though not, if Bunny Wailer gets him way.Īlongside Bob Marley, of course, Bunny Wailer was a founder member of The Wailers, who brought the idea of Rastafarianism to a global audience. And now there’s a forthcoming album, ‘Reincarnated’, and a documentary about its making (featuring Snoop and Diplo visiting Jamaica) to sell, so the Snoop Lion project continues. Still, he forged ahead telling people that he was a Rastafarian now, and occasionally people remembered to call him Snoop Lion, rather than Snoop Dogg. When Snoop Dogg held a press conference back in July to announce that he was leaving hip hop behind and reinventing himself as a reggae artist called Snoop Lion, I don’t think anyone actually took him at his word. And Finally Artist News Beef Of The Week CMU Beef Of The Week #142: Bunny Wailer v Snoop Dogg By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 25 January 2013
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