Snoop Dogg, now a grandfather and once the most influential gansta rapper in America, traded rhyming for new passions: painting and designing socks. With a teaser video, he is already teasing the collection of socks he designed for the Swedish brand Happy socks.
"This collaboration allows me to explore certain emotions that I couldn't express through music or acting," declared the once hard-hearted Snoop Dogg, who discovered a new passion in a different artistic expression than we are used to, in painting. We will soon be able to see his painting talent on his feet all over the world, as Snoop is behind the Swedish brand Happy Socks designed The Art of Inspiraton sock collection, which aims to encourage and explore creativity and artistic expression. Yes, we're still talking about socks. These will be special because of the design on the socks, which are actually pictures painted by Snoop Dogg himself. So abstract patterns and vivid colors will dominate...
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The question is, will he be able to top the last surprise with the socks, when he was seen in his hot music video Saint Tropezappeared perhaps the coolest man in high fashion, Karl Lagerfeld. But surely Karl would at least agree that the concept of inspiration is too similar to the concept of perspiration, at least when it comes to a sock collection.
