Snoop Dogg New Name SnoopZilla, New Funk Album to Be Released?
From Dogg to Lion and now SnoopZilla. Snoop Dogg changed his name to SnoopZilla for his upcoming album, Rolling Stone reported.
The 41-year-old rapper has a new identity in honor of his latest musical project 7 Days of Funk where he collaborated with Dam-Funk. In a press release statement, Snoopzilla talked about this collaboration with Dam-Funk.
"We're the babies of the Mothership," Snoopzilla said in a statement issued to Time. "I've had funk influences in my music my whole career. Dam-Funk is cold. He's keeping the funk alive and I knew I had to get down with him."
"Snoop knew what I was thinking without me having to articulate it," Dam-Funk added in the statement. "That's how you know when you gel artistically with someone."
This is not the first time that the two collaborated. In 2011, Snoopzilla invited Dam-Funk onstage to rock out with him at the South by Southwest Music Festival.
Dam-Funk praised Snoopzilla in this album, "These beats were made for him and he laid down some of the smoothest harmonies and melodies I've ever heard," Funk continued. "It's hip-hop, but you can also hear what we grew up on, from Zapp to Evelyn 'Champagne' King and Patrice Rushen."
According to Ace Showbiz, Snoopzilla's 7 Days of Funk will be released on December 10. The duo's first single, Faden Away debuted on iTunes Thursday, Oct. 17 ahead of its album release.