Last week, Twitter was all aflutter when Corde Broadus, Snoop Lion‘s (formerly Snoop Dogg) son, released photos of him smoking marijuana with his father. On Wednesday, Snoop explained his laissez faire philosophy toward parenting and discussed why he feels he is actually the best one to teach his kids how to smoke, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Eighteen-year-old
Corde put up a number of controversial pictures that sent the Twittersphere
buzzing: Both he and his father smoking marijuana together in a number of shots
that would even make Jamaican legend Bob Marley envious.
Not
surprisingly, blogs criticised Snoop’s parenting, saying he was a bad role
model for his kids: Mom
Blog Cafe Mom called Snoop’s family toking a “parenting fail”:
“I know
what you’re thinking. Snoop Dogg/Lion/Hippopotamus smokes weed? I’m so … not …
surprised! But here’s what is surprising, y’all. This is a guy who has bragged
about giving his kids a “normal existence” despite their dad’s fame. I’m not
sure where “smoking a bong with dad” is considered normal, but it’s not the
United States. It makes you wonder what his kids really think of him, doesn’t
it? They certainly don’t respect him.”
Hollywood
Life’s William Earl blamed Snoop for derailing Corde’s college ambitions by
turning him into a weed head:
“Snoop: I know you’re a rap superstar, but Corde will not have a
happy life if he just lives off all of your money doing nothing.
“He seemed to be so
ambitious and college-bound, but now he’s smoked it all away.To us, smoking pot
with your teenage son is no way to set a good example, and you shouldn’t derail
his collegiate dreams just because you love weed. I love your music, Snoop —
but this is truly heartbreaking. I hope your other younger kids – Cordell and
Cori Broadus — have more ambition. After all, Cori is already developing a
singing career of her own!”
Just in case you were
wondering, Snoop doesn’t really care what others have to snoop dogg son weedsay
about his parenting style. In fact, Snoop feels that — unlike deadbeat Dads out
there — he is cementing his relationship with his children by not being a
hypocrite:
“My kids can do whatever
the hell they want. “For me to say otherwise would be hypocritical. A lot of
motherf–ers don’t have a relationship with their kids, and that’s when they get
on drugs and have suicidal thoughts and drive drunk. Me and my son is mellow.
I’m his father, so I wanna show him the proper way because he looks up to me.”
Not surprisingly, Snoop
also believes that the legalisation of marijuana would have a positive impact
on our society:
“There would be less
high-speed chases, less robberies, less crime,” he says. “Go to Amsterdam or
the Netherlands where it is legal and you see that the crime rate is
nonexistent, the murder rate is probably under 10 percent, people learn to get
along! There are people riding on bicycles being happy and it’s because of the
environment that’s provided by the legalisation of marijuana.”
In July, Snoop changed
his name to the aformentioned Snoop Lion, after going on a trip to Jamaica and
being exposed to Rastafarianism. According to CNN, Snoop said that going to a
Rasta temple changed his life:
“I want to bury Snoop
Dogg and become Snoop Lion,” he said at a Monday press conference. “I didn’t
know that until I went to the temple, where the high priest asked me what my
name was, and I said, ‘Snoop Dogg.’ And he looked me in my eyes and said, ‘No
more. You are the light; you are the lion.”
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