New Snoop Lion X Major Lazer - 'Lighters Up'
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The recently rechristened Snoop Lion dishes out a laid back dancehall jam with extra swagger courtesy of Major Lazer.
Snoop is no stranger to toking anthems, but “Lighters Up” is a decidedly different beast than his previous odes to every rapper’s favorite herb – more Peter Tosh than Nate Dogg.
The tune is yet another in a line of Lion/Lazer jams from Snoop’s upcoming album Reincarnation, and it solidifies this collaboration as a match made in heaven. Snoop Lion’s comfortably numb hook flows effortlessly across Diplo & crew’s deep brassy dub beat.
Snoop recently admitted that friends like Dr. Dre were having a hard time accepting his recent transformation, but now that they see that he’s not just fooling around with this reggae business, they’ve got his back. “Now [Dre] understands that I’m fully with it and I’m all in it to win it. So he gets it, and I got his support. He just didn’t understand it because I didn’t explain it to him. I wasn’t tryna keep it a secret; it just wasn’t time to unveil until now.”
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