Snoop Dogg has said he’d love to start the “Hood Olympics” in LA ahead of the city hosting the 2028 games
The legendary Doggfather has been in recent headlines for his time at this year’s Paris Olympics, where he was one of NBC‘s television correspondents. While attending the red carpet for the film premiere of the thriller 1992, Entertainment Tonight asked Snoop about his plans when the Olympics come to his home state of Los Angeles in four years.
“One thing I wanna do is have the Hood Olympics,” the Long Beach star said. “There’s a lot of homies from the hood that could run a 10.2, that could high jump, throw the javelin, backflip, swim good, jump over gates and hurdle, you know what I’m saying?”
He added: “I just wanna make it available for the athletes from the hood that didn’t make it that probably have certain ramifications but they still were athletic and they still were good. So, I want to bring that component in and, hopefully, we’ll be able to make it make sense.”
Snoop Dogg had a large presence at the 33rd Summer Olympics. He was the final torchbearer and walked down the streets of Saint-Denis to the Stade de France stadium – where the sports events were being held.
The 52-year-old also was seen swimming with esteemed Olympic gold medalist 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.
He became a fan of equestrianism while at the Olympics, attending an Olympic dressage event in matching equestrian gear to celebrate his best friend Martha Stewart’s birthday, despite being “scared of horses”. He also did a dressage-inspired freestyle over the beat to ‘Gin & Juice’ after seeing a clip of Polish rider Sandra Sysojeva and her horse Maxima Bella doing a routine to his seminal 1994 track.
Snoopand his longtime friend and collaborator Dr. Dre performed ‘The Next Episode’ at the Olympic closing ceremony last month. While there, Dr. Dre spoke more about ‘Missionary’ – the long-awaited sequel to Snoop’s history-making debut album ‘Doggystyle’. The album is expected to be released this November and has a feature from Sting.
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