

No sooner was Reincarnated in the can than word came from Jamaica that his commitment to Rastafarianism was being questioned. But his new move has certainly proved his most controversial no mean feat given that that R&B group was called Nine Inch Dicks.

We can but speculate what became of the band he announced in 2006, enticingly described as R&B "with a twist … we're basically a male chauvinist group". K een observers of the former Snoop Dogg's career may note that Reincarnated – on which he reinvents himself as Snoop Lion, Rastafarian purveyor of spiritual reggae – is not the first time the rapper has expressed dissatisfaction with hip-hop and attempted to change musical direction.
