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Who Am I? (What's My Name)

Snoop found his way back home to New Brunswick last night.

It's a little known fact that Snoop Dogg (aka Calvin Broadus)was born in Saint John, grew up in Quispam and went to school at Rothesay Collegiate where he excelled at basketball and rowing. His real love was the flute though which he played with the school marching band. And it was that flute that took him to Los Angeles and the Long Beach Academy of the Arts where he met André Romell Young. He distinguished himself as a flautist at the Academy and Andre saw his style as a perfect match for his new sound. And thus the gangster flute was born and the rest, as they say, is history.

Last time he was here he told Saint John how much he loved coming home and this time he made it upriver to Freddy for a show at the Aitken Center. I missed Ice Cube, keeping my record of never seeing an opening band intact, but got there in time for Snoop. The crowd was young and hyped. The lights went down and the place lit up. He played a set of hits, which means he played 8 songs off Doggystyle, the 6 or 7 decent songs he's had since, and a kick ass version of P.I.M.P. The highlight, as you might expect, was Ain't No Fun (If My Homies Can't Have None) which was a real crowd pleaser. Incidentally, another highlight for me was Snoop's outfit. From my seat it looked like he was wearing a denim jumpsuit with black polka-dot patches. I thought that's what it was until I saw this picture. Him wearing double denim would have been the fashion equivalent of "What's up Fredericton!?!?", which he did say. Good to very good show.

After the show was the after party. Normy would have none of going home so we hit Nicky Zee's to hang with Snoop. Well it turns out Snoop ate a bad samosa and was a little under the weather. Ice Cube did show up and was nice enough to give me a cheers and shake Normy's hand (which, no, he has not washed). Good times, good times. I was hoping to be able to now unveil a picture of Snoop passed out on my couch but he plays by his rules not mine. Reminding me again that it's a Doggy Dogg World and we just live in it.

Uncle Junebug

Labels: Doggy Dogg World

posted by Vitamin S @ 10:53 p.m.