{"id":167347,"date":"2025-09-25T04:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167347\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:27:17","slug":"where-is-he-in-melbourne-apart-from-the-mcg-press-conference-and-afl-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167347\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is he in Melbourne apart from the MCG press conference and AFL grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baker Boy, who will be playing his second grand final (the first was in Perth in the COVID-affected 2021 season), was still trying to work out what to wear. \u201cI\u2019m probably not going to wear the full Gucci tracksuit,\u201d he said, referring to his attire four years ago, \u201cbut I\u2019m definitely thinking about trying to top it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tash Sultana, who has been drafted by Mr Dogg to play some guitar licks during his set, almost stole the show.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The pre-game line-up in full (l-r): Vera Blue, Baker Boy, Snoop Dogg, Tash Sultana, Mike Brady.Credit: Wayne Taylor<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, it\u2019s not hard work, but it\u2019s honest work,\u201d they said of the invitation to perform with one of the biggest hip-hop artists in the world. \u201cYou get Snoop Dogg give you a call up and say, \u2018Hey, I love your stuff. Can I have some options for guitar\u2019. Well, that\u2019s what I do. So I said, \u2018Sure thing, mate\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

They had got to know each other a little. \u201cWe\u2019ve been hanging out,\u201d Sultana she said, before offering a tantalising glimpse through the smoky haze of the MCG dressing room in which Snoop and co have been holed up between rehearsals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got invited into the lair to acclimatise to the Grand Final,\u201d they said. \u201cHe extended me a very, very special invitation that I\u2019m sure many people would love to have the invitation for. I\u2019ll leave that out. You can speculate all you want.<\/p>\n

Though he\u2019s ostensibly here for this gig only, Snoop isn\u2019t keeping his powder entirely dry. He\u2019s doing a couple of DJ sets, at St Kilda\u2019s Espy and at the city venue Ms Collins, on Thursday and Friday nights, under his DJ Snoopadelic alias.<\/p>\n

But for the artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg, Snoop Lion (during his brief flirtation with reggae), Snoopzilla and more, the main game is, well, the main game.<\/p>\n

And what can we expect?<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, classic Snoop Dogg,\u201d he said. No song titles, but you\u2019d guess that means Gin and Juice, Young, Wild & Free, and Drop It Like It\u2019s Hot are likely to feature.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, I love this culture, and I appreciate y\u2019all for allowing me to perform,\u201d he added. \u201cSo I have some special guests that will be performing with me, to make it feel like it\u2019s supposed to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s played the Super Bowl, he\u2019s performed at the Olympics, and now he\u2019s adding Australia\u2019s biggest annual sporting event to the list. How, McLachlan asked, does that make him feel?<\/p>\n

\"Snoop<\/p>\n

Snoop kicks a goal from the boundary at the MCG on Tuesday as Nick and Josh Daicos, who coached him, look on.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are dreams come true for me,\u201d said Snoop. \u201cI was a kid that dreamed of getting to meet athletes, and now I\u2019m actually able to perform for the biggest sporting events in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact he gets to do shows like this, he added, should serve as \u201cinspiration and motivation for the next [generation] that comes behind me \u2026 because it\u2019s happening for me so why couldn\u2019t it happen for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as for the likely winner of the game?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d said Dogg when asked to pick between Cats and Lions. \u201cYou know what I\u2019m not going to do? I\u2019m not going to split half the people that love me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baker Boy, who will be playing his second grand final (the first was in Perth in the COVID-affected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-167347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}