Snoop Dogg, it would seem, is getting ever more anxious to shed that bad-boy image of his.
Let's face it: that's going to be a tall order. After countless years of inspiring legions of lower middle class Colchester teenagers to believe that smoking the odd joint makes them 'street' and that their 10-year-old Vauxhall Nova is actually some sort of pimpmobile, it's a long rocky road to salvation he faces.
So who has he dragged in to help? Which brain-bulging luminary has old Dogg decided will provide him with the best chance to turn his life around?
David Beckham, that's who.
Apparently Snoop and Becks are teaming up to help 'save lives' in California's poorest and most crime-ridden areas. Ignoring the most obvious way to achieve this – by strapping on those Batman and Robin costumes and launching their own brand of vigilante justice – they reckon that the way to cure the ghetto's laundry list of social ills is to introduce kids to 'soccer and American football'.
Snoop explained:
"We're going to be trying to save lives. We will be going in to do different things and I hope someone cares. I hope this proves I do other things than go to jail, smoke weed and go back to jail. With me, the media is usually most concerned with conflicts and altercations."
Now, hecklerspray can't really fault the motivation behind all of this. Seems that both celebs genuinely want to make a social difference. But Christ, trying to tackle a culture of violence by introducing kids to football – a game played entirely by Neanderthal cretins – is like trying to discourage obesity by hurling KFC Buckets into the Magic Numbers' dressing room.
Oh well. At least their hearts are in the right place, even if their sense of logic or reason isn't. And hopefully the scheme will be more successful than that time hecklerspray boldly wandered through Brixton with an Atmosfear board game hoping to discourage the locals from a life of crime by introducing them to the majesty of The Gatekeeper.
We never did get that dice back.
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Snoopfan says
Fuck you bitch! Snoop’s just trying to help people, do something good and don’t compare his young days, and when he’s 36 years old with 3 kids.
(your review made me really angry)