I really enjoyed the song with your daughter Cori B., "No Guns Allowed," which I saw you perform on Conan as well. You always learn something new every time you're in the studio, and those were a few of the things I learned. Something was was wrong with it, and just having the ability to fine tune it and make it fit the way you want it to fit, those were some of the traits and characteristics I took from this experience. A lot of the songs, when we went in there, they weren't right at the beginning.
Snoop Lion: Yeah, definitely, the technique of just being able to fine-tune a song. Through your time there, and working with the producers and the studios, were there certain techniques that you will always take with you from that experience, as you move forward?
It was such a cool blend of reggae and dance music with some amazing beats. They played the whole album for us, and I really, really enjoyed it. When they lady put her hands on me, and said the prodigal son has returned, she's speaking biblical, and it really connected me with the spirit and where I need to be at. A lot of it was them giving me history, so I could understand what it was. To be able to be blessed with the spirit and the whole engulfment of rastafari. Snoop Lion: Yeah, that ceremony was deep, because it was one of my last days there. Was that really the culmination of that entire journey, that little ceremony? One thing about magic, when it happens, you've just got to sit back and let it do what it do.Īt the ceremony, when they named you "Berhane" ("The Light"), that looked like just an incredible moment that was very special to you. It didn't when I was doing it, but after we got the footage back, (director) Andy (Capper) looked at it and said, 'This is contrasting what you did 20 years ago.' I said, 'For real?' So many magical situations just happened. Was that going through your head in the moment, 20 years later, seeing these people in that same kind of gathering? That was the exact same thing I was thinking about. The first thing that came to my head was the video for "What's My Name?," and then they actually cut to that video. I loved that scene on the rooftop in Jamaica. Who's going to film it? Once we got that together, we all flew out there together, and we took it one day at a time. Once I got the musical side together, OK, we want to film it. I wanted to make it work, and put it in my schedule and get in contact with some producers and people who could set it up. Snoop Lion: I think it was probably three months before the date we actually went out there, that it all happened in my head. How long would you say that trip to Jamaica was in the works, before you actually went? Was that something you were thinking about for a long time, to just take a month or two off and head down there? It was, 'Lion! Snoop Lion!' It was just a natural way of conversation in the Jamaican lingo.
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The way we cut the movie up, it looked like Bunny was the first one to say it, but, in actuality, it was being said all through my visit to Jamaica.
Snoop Lion: Well, actually, I was hearing it all while I was in Jamaica. Can you talk about what your thoughts were, when (reggae legend) Bunny Wailer first called you that in the film? I remember last year when it was first announced that you were going to be called Snoop Lion, and it was really cool to see the inception of that in this film. I recently had the chance to speak with Snoop Lion over the phone about the documentary, and his reggae album, also entitled Reincarnated, which will be released on April 23. This fascinating journey lead to the musician changing his name to Snoop Lion, and gives fans a rare behind-the-scenes look at his life in and out of the recording studio. to Jamaica, where he makes his first all reggae album and shares stories about his time coming up through Death Row Records in the 1990s. After selling more than 30 million records, the 41-year-old musician takes his fans along for the ride as he embarks on a new phase of his career in the documentary Reincarnated, currently playing in limited release. Snoop Lion discusses his journey to Jamaica in the new documentary ReincarnatedĢ0 years ago, a young rapper named Snoop Dogg burst onto the music scene with his first solo album "Doggystyle," and immediately, a star was born.