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Snoop's 'gangsta rap' show cancelled in Las Vegas

Monday, April 3, 2006
By: Kenny Rodriguez


snoopA private Las Vegas party that was to feature headline act Snoop Dogg was canceled this week due to growing anti-rap sentiment among Nevada authorities.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Snoop was booked to host an event held by Molson Coors Brewing at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. But the hotel’s parent company, Harrah’s Entertainment, requested that Coors cancel the show due to pressure from local authorities and Nevada’s Gaming Control Board.

Sheriff Bill Young, of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, sent a letter to state gambling regulators asking that they discourage casinos from booking rap acts. Meanwhile Nevada's State Gaming Control Board states it is leery of "gangster rap" following the deaths of four local rappers last June, and the recent murder of a police officer by an aspiring Las Vegas rapper.

The Wall Street Journal quotes sources who say Snoop would have pocketed about $150,000 for the gig.


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Damn these ppl is stupid..........there is alwayz gonna be "gangsta rap" (thats how they put it) idk y ppl are trying to stop this......its all just ignorance
Posted by spazzmatik101
F**k that
Posted by JdaG
Lol..man c'mon. We good enuff to blow our money in the dayem casinos, but we aint good enuff to make money their unless your suffling your feet sweeping,cleaning, in the kitchen or scared to look a man eye to eye. Dayem.
Posted by Kalliope4eva
Wtf....how did snoop have anything to do with all the other bullsh*t mentioned in the article? they using him as a scapegoat or somethin'? they wanna flex a little muscle on the hip-hop industry, so to prove that they have the power, they shut it down jus like that....sad sh*t...
Posted by Spiltmilk
Stupid the people involved are obviously using rap to cover up their own c*ck ups.
Posted by Spider bloke
Thats bull yo. No prob when it come to sex drugs and gambling but gangsta rap is offensive? come on man. Racism at its finest.
Posted by JT1
All i wanna say is that they dont really care about us,(michael jackson) they will never accept our culture
Posted by Eric young Infinite
Co-sighn jt1. This is the state were u can bye p*$$y. I smell bullsh*t.
Posted by Sir Hip Hop
Well if yall really looked into the article, they were kinda lookin out for snoop in a way. If they didnt cancel the show and snoop got shot, they would say the police aint doin their job when they know that four rappers got killed shot recently. I'm not sayin its right but understandable if they were lookin out for his safety.
Posted by geezus16
It's always more to the story in vegas
Posted by PAIN5150
Shit is ridiculus. How many people have lost their possessions, families or even been killed in las vegas over gambling debts and sh*t like that, and gangster rap is the F*ck*n problem? i dont think so. Music never F*ck*n killed nobody, people kill people, besides the whole F*ck*n las vegas was built by gangsters.
Posted by BROOKS
You said it all brooks
Posted by FreshNigg
Yep, ever seen the movie casino?
Posted by Eric young Infinite
Real talk brooks..............
Posted by STORMSHADOW06
Kallipo thats wut it is fam....
Posted by harlem146st
Eyo i agree wit kalliope and brook.........keep it real yall.....yall da truth
Posted by spazzmatik101
I can tell you all this and you all know its true. It isn't the music you are right. But the fact of the matter is that nobody wants to follow the rules. If it's a 21 and over show there will be countless minors there trying to get in past security and when security turns you away you just stand there at the front of the line with your mouth hanging open, playing stupid. Like you didn't know it was 21 and over. Or maybe it's because you are broke and you spend all of your money on the cover charge (which you Bia'ched about because you handed the door guy an expired free pass and he refused to honor it) and have no money for drinks or to tip the bartender so you sneak your bottle of hennessy in under your jacket (that is 3 sizes too big, and way too hot to be wearing) and the club loses out on the revenue that would be generated by someone who actually had money and was actually buying drinks. On the flip side of that if you do actually have money to buy drinks, you don't tip your waitress or bartender then get pissed off at them wondering why they refuse to serve you. In the absence of a server, staring down the empty bottle of hennessy, you decide to smoke a joint that can be smelled throughout the entire room. When you are approached by security and asked to leave you feel like you have to put on a show in front of your "homiez" so you don't go out like a punk. You say," i ain't smoking no mutha F*ck*n' weed you rent a cop mutha F*cka! your boys stand up wanting to join the fray(because thats
Posted by FaceIt
Thats some bullsh*t . It's bullsh*t las v. Is the sh*t to get laid.
Posted by mynuts

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