In Honor of Snoop Lion, We Present the 9 Best Rap-Reggae Fusions
It's been a week since Snoop Dogg's big announcement that he's very sincerely looking to "bury" his old rap identity in favor of his new Rastafari self Snoop Lion, and we're still spinning "La La La" and thinking about the implication. Which also got us thinking, hey, isn't that single off the new Nas album built out of a reggae sample? And: Hey, didn't Nas make a whole reggae-tinged album with Bob Marley's son Damian? Before you know it, we were down the rap/reggae rabbit hole. Check out what we dug up.
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