Snoop Dogg isn’t only leaving the 2024 Paris Olympics as a torch bearer and a seasoned sports commentator. He might now be an art historian in the making, too.
The “Gin and Juice” rapper, 52, took part in a tour of the Louvre for the official NBC Olympics & Paralympics TikTok account in a video posted on Friday, August 2, and it went just about as one would expect from the hip-hop great — who provided hilarious commentary, called himself “Mona Lisa’s twin brother” and misidentified Cupid as a “lady.”
“You ever see Night at the Museum? Well tonight, you get to go in the museum with Snoop Dogg. And we’re gonna be snooping around,” Snoop began the clip, before joining a tour guide for a look at some of the iconic museum’s finest art.
Snoop’s first stop on the tour was the “Mona Lisa,” a painting whose subject he claimed to have a familial connection to. “Just found out I was Mona Lisa’s twin brother, Tony Lisa,” Snoop said, before further analyzing the painting.
“Let me walk over here and see if you looking at me,” he said, before moving to the opposite side of the Leonardo da Vinci artwork. “OK, I like that. That was hard. She smile real hard when I stand on this side.”
As Snoop and the tour guide progressed through the Louvre, Snoop then pointed out one piece of art in particular and asked, “Is that somebody’s head getting chopped off?”
The pair then walked closer to “The Winged Victory of Samothrace,” and the museum employee asked the “Drop It Like Its Hot” rapper to guess which wing on the monument was “real” and which was “fake.” Snoop ended up answering correctly, to which the museum tour guide celebrated with a “bravo.”
Snoop’s next stop was “Cupid and Psyche” by Francois-Edouard Picot, which from first glance he believed was a painting of “two ladies” in a bed. “That ain’t a lady? That’s a man,” he asked the museum employee, who confirmed he was staring at Cupid. “Cupid! I knew it was somebody I knew.”
The final painting in Snoop’s tour of the Louvre was “Liberty Leading the People,” which featured a glimpse of a “revolutionary cap.” When finding out, he joked, “she got on what I got on right now.”
Snoop has taken on plenty of roles while attending the Olympics this summer in France. Outside of reporting for NBC during the games, the hip-hop legend held the honor of carrying the Olympic torch through the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis last week, as he danced his way through the streets and waved at onlookers.
Snoop revealed to NBC sportscaster Mike Tirico, per The Washington Post, that he thought back to when Muhammad Ali famously lit the Olympic cauldron during the 1996 Atlanta Games.
“It was emotional for all of us to see the champ holding that torch and walking up there. This is my own version of it,” Snoop said. “I don’t want to get too emotional, but I know that this is special.”
“This says a lot about America as far as where we’re at in this world,” he added. “At the same time, it says a lot about France as far as connecting the dots and allowing me to do this. I look at this as a prestigious honor and something I truly respect. I would have never dreamed of nothing like this.”
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