Snoop Dogg has given gymnast Simon Biles’ dad a Death Row Records chain as a 75th birthday present.
This year, the hip-hop legend is an Olympic correspondent for the US TV network NBC, and it seems he’s become friendly with Biles — who has won three gold medals and one silver this year — in the process.
Biles and Snoop linked up yesterday (August 9) to watch the Track event, with Biles’ sister now revealing that Snoop gifted their dad a Death Row Records chain for his birthday.
On her Instagram story, Adria Biles shared a photo of her father wearing the chain, alongside the caption: “Snoop gave him a chain and now he don’t know how to act.”
Link up wit a
@Simone_Biles
watching track
@NBCOlympics pic.twitter.com/to0lwG0amI
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) August 9, 2024
Snoop took over the iconic label Death Row Records in 2022 and vowed to “restore the label to its former glory, championing artists, hip-hop, and cannabis culture”. Recently, he fulfilled part of this mission by opening his first marajuana dispencery in Los Angeles which will stock the Death Row Records Cannabis brand he launched in January 2023.
New Nepo Dad on the Block: Snoop Dogg gifted Simone Biles' dad a gold 'Death Row' chain for his 75th birthday.
More: https://t.co/Fi0z5d6u6Z pic.twitter.com/GSQkO2awr9
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 9, 2024
Snoop has been a prominent figure at this year’s Olympics in the French capital. He was the final torchbearer and strutted down the streets of Saint-Denis to the Stade de France stadium – which is where the sports events are being held.
He also was seen swimming with esteemed Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps. In a video, the Long Beach rapper compared physiques with the legendary swimmer and then tried to learn the correct pool technique from him.
Last weekend, Snoop and Martha Stewart attended an Olympic dressage event in matching equestrian gear to celebrate the food extraordinaries’ birthday. While at the competition, he revealed that he is “still scared of horses”.
He said in a video: “I am interested in the horses that dance and I want to give them some carrots and apples […] make sure they’re fed before they do their thang.”
Earlier this week, the rapper dropped a dressage-inspired freestyle after watching a video of a horse named Maxima Bella doing a dressage routine to his 1994 seminal hit ‘Gin & Juice’.
Back in 2021, Snoop commented on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics dressage event with comedian Kevin Hart for the streaming service Peacock. At the time, he was mesmerised by a horse “crip walking”.
“This horse is off the chain,” Snoop laughed. “I’ve gotta get this motherfucker in a video.”
In other news, Snoop Dogg recently claimed that the late Queen Elizabeth II “was a fan” of his. When Capital FM host Jordan North told him “the future King, William, is a huge Snoop fan”, the Doggfather replied: “Well, the Queen was a fan too.”
He added: “Rest in peace to the Queen, that was my girl. You know what I’m saying? So, just may want to go up and, you know, see what you do… if they let me in or not.”
In other Olympics news, Charli XCX has teased a performance with Billie Eilish at the closing ceremony tomorrow (August 11).
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