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He wanted to set the record straight about his feud with American gangster rapper-turned-reggae artiste Snoop Lion.
Wailer — who is releasing a 50-track commemorative album entitled “Reincarnated Souls” next month — is fuming that the artiste formerly called Snoop Dogg “illegally” used footage of their meeting in February 2012 as a launching pad for his film “Reincarnated” which was released in the United States last Friday.
Wailer is a founding member of the Wailing Wailers which included Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
The “Blackheart Man” singer explained that his requests were set out in a contract, which the artiste signed, in addition to a subsequent letter.
Wailer said the 41-year-old Snoop Lion, whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jnr, breached their contractual arrangement when footage of their meeting was released. According to Wailer, the get-together “should not have been filmed” and anything done would be the “private property” of both artistes.
Wailer and Snoop Lion have recently been embroiled in a war of words. The American publication, The Huffington Post, last week reported that Wailer “is the most notable sceptic” of Snoop Lion’s conversion.
In response, Snoop was quoted as saying: “If I was Snoop Dog: (Expletive) Bunny Wailer. But I’m Snoop Lion right now, so I’m chilling.”
“I don’t mix up in any slimy argument,” Wailer told the Observer. “All I did was to call him a lion.”
He explained how Snoop’s new moniker came about.
“We in Jamaica nuh glad fi call nobody dog. Although he had this name and was internationally known as a dog, I could not relate to him as dog. So I related to him as a lion. And, I’m still going to be relating to him as a lion,” Wailer said. “I didn’t know he was in motion of getting involved in reggae music and in the Rastafarian faith. So when I called him a lion, it added to his aim and objective of being a Rastafarian.”
He said he made several calls to the artiste and they have all gone unanswered.
“When I called Snoop a lion, I left it at that. I did not go to say to Snoop, ‘now you are called a lion I want some money’,” said Wailer, who turns 66 in April. “If he’s involved in the Rastafarian faith, he must make contributions to the development of the faith.”
The hierarchy of the Rastafarian Millennium Council also has a bone to pick with Snoop. – Jamaica Observer.
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