Rap star Snoop Dogg.
He's been a rapper, an actor, a porn movie mogul and, most recently, a terrible reggae singer called Snoop Lion. How many lives has this Dogg used up already? Six? Seven?
He's about to use up another one, because the lion is a dogg again - but that doesn't mean
Snoop's returning to hip-hop. Bush, his 13th album, is something else entirely: a throwback album of old school soul jams that finds Calvin Broadus Jr spending more time singing than rapping. The barely believable result is a Snoop Dogg album that - gasp - your kids could enjoy.
It's a dramatic turnaround from his last effort as Snoop Lion, with the 2013 shocker Reincarnated finding Snoop rebelling against his gangster rap past on songs like No Guns Allowed with little sense of irony. At least Bush finds Snoop in a playful mood.
"She's DTF," he croons on the laidback, Neptunes-produced lope of R U A Freak - but he's not referencing the popular acronym for sex. "She's DTF - cos she' Down to Feel," he finishes, sounding less like a pimp and more like a spiritual guru dressed in white robes.
It's an image cemented by the funked-up fun of Awake, as Snoop sings: "My planet's Krypton / Home of the freaks / Come get your moon rocks / I am a G" like he's on an episode of The Mighty Boosh.
