Hip-Hop Lives Here
Hip-Hop Lives Here
When you talk about characters in hip-hop, few stand out as singularly and toweringly as Snoop Dogg. Known for doing just about anything and everything (but nothing as good as rapping), the Long Beach legend is a treasure trove of experience, insight, hilarity, and idiosyncrasy. Ask Nardwuar, who recently linked up with Snoop for their eleventh interview, and hopefully there’s over eleven more to come. During their conversation, the Cali MC recalled a friend of his that he hasn’t seen in a long time, but was with him through the thick and thin. That friend is none other than his… pet cockroach, hilariously named “Gooch.”
“Gooch used to live with me,” Snoop Dogg told the legendary interviewer, journalist, and musician. “In my apartment, I had a roach that we couldn’t kill. We tried to kill the motherf***er when we first moved in and he wouldn’t die, so we called him The Gooch. We used to leave food out for him and everything. I stayed in that apartment for like about six, seven months. Cuz’ grew to the size of about a whole dollar bill.”
Snoop Dogg & Nardwuar’s 11th Interview
Elsewhere in their talk, Nardwuar and Tha Doggfather reflected on their ten previous interviews, many of which are among the media star’s most iconic. In one of them, he presented Snoop Dogg with a long-lost copy of his film Smokefest, which he thought he would never find again. When The Human Serviette said he heard that Snoop gave it up for a garage sale, the 51-year-old said that his wife Shante sold it.
“She’d be all in my s**t,’ he remarked. ‘Whenever you’re having them little yard sales and s**t that’s when I’m, like, on the road. Right now they probably having one right now selling all this s**t I don’t know they selling. I just gotta act like I’m cool with it.” Despite these disagreements, the couple lives quite happily together. Recently, they posted some pictures celebrating their 26th wedding anniversary. Regardless, stay up to date on HNHH for more on Nardwuar and Snoop Dogg.
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Gorillaz have revealed full details of their upcoming Tottenham Hotspur Stadium show, with everything fans need to know ahead of the event.
Damon Albarn and the rest of the group are preparing for their first ever stadium performance, set for this Saturday, June 20. A limited number of tickets are still available.
The concert will support Gorillaz’s latest album, ‘The Mountain’. The lineup of guest appearances already confirmed is extensive, with names including Johnny Marr, Shaun Ryder, Little Simz and others expected to take part.
The band have now released the full schedule for the night. Entry gates open at 17:00 BST, with opener Trueno beginning at 18:00 BST. Sparks follow at 18:55 BST, before Gorillaz take to the stage at 20:00 BST.
Alongside the performances, fans will be able to purchase exclusive event merchandise at the venue. Items on offer include shirts, caps, necklaces, posters and guitar picks, all available at the Tottenham Experience Shop.
Merchandise sales begin on June 19 between 13:00 and 18:00 BST, with further availability on June 20 from 10:00 in the morning until midnight.
General admission: 17:00
Trueno: 18:00
Sparks: 18:55
Gorillaz: 20:00
Damon Albarn, who supports Chelsea F.C., previously made a lighthearted comment about the band performing at their rival club’s ground during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
When Norton brought up their upcoming shows and specifically mentioned Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Albarn responded humorously, saying, “A large music venue in North London, yeah”, avoiding naming the club directly.
Gorillaz recently headlined Primavera Sound, an event that received a three and a half star review from NME.
Their set was introduced by Palestinian activist Aarab Barghouti, whose father Marwan has been detained since 2002. “My father is one of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, but for millions of Palestinians, he represents something that Israel cannot imprison: hope,” Barghouti told the audience.
We noted that despite difficult weather conditions leading to cancellations from acts such as Massive Attack, Gorillaz still delivered a strong and memorable performance.
Elsewhere, Damon Albarn has spoken about the cancellation of a planned Gorillaz Netflix film, explaining how parts of that project later influenced the creation of ‘Cracker Island’.
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