Snoop Dogg’s Weed Behavior Will not Preserve Him From 2024 Olympics

Snoop Dogg isn’t frightened about France’s weed ban as he prepares for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The marijuana-loving rapper insists he’ll be high quality whereas protecting the video games for NBC.

“Belief me, I’m a really authorized man,” Snoop mentioned when a TIME interviewer talked about hashish is illegitimate in France.

NBC recruited Snoop for the community’s primetime protection of the 2024 Olympics. The Hip-Hop legend claims he’s prepared to take drug checks just like the Olympians throughout his stint in France.

“I plan on going on the market and doing NBC Olympic work,” he mentioned. “Being clear as a e book, clear because the athletes. They will check me in the event that they need to. I’m going to be on the market doing what I’m speculated to be doing to ensure I convey residence the gold. Which is me.”

Snoop was requested if he thought-about hashish to be a performance-enhancing drug since Olympians are banned from utilizing it. He scoffed on the notion, pointing to weed’s influence on his 200-meter run on the 2024 Olympic Trials.

“I simply ran a 34.44 within the 200 meters and I used to be smoking all night time,” he mentioned. “In order that s### ain’t acquired nothing to do with serving to my time in any respect. It f##### my time up, if something. Until they acquired some tremendous s### to get you quicker. Let me know the place it’s and I’ll be the primary to attempt.”

Snoop will cowl quite a lot of sports activities in the course of the 2024 Olympics, however he has a eager curiosity in basketball. The Doggfather advised TIME he “needs to roll with” the U.S. males’s basketball group and praised Canadian star Shai-Gilgeous Alexander.

“I feel he’s the Snoop Dogg of basketball,” Snoop mentioned relating to SGA. “I really like the way in which he performs, his fashion. The way in which he stays targeted and will get higher each time he will get out on the court docket. I really like his recreation. I respect it.”

The 2024 Olympics start in July. Snoop might be a particular correspondent for NBC’s Primetime in Paris.