Paul MacInnes 

Snoop Dogg at Glastonbury 2010

The Doggfather rocks Glastonbizzle ... but is it all a little too polished?
  
  


Who: Snoop Dogg.

Where and when: Pyramid Stage, Friday, 5pm.

Dress code: Braids. White vest. Baggy blue jeans. This is the uniform and it's all set off with a piece of microphone bling – a jewel-encrusted knuckleduster bearing the legend: Snoop Dogg.

What happened: Making his return to the UK for the first time since his Visa was restored earlier this year, the one man brand that is Snoop Dogg brought his game to Glasto. To be fair, he might as well have been playing Pyongyang for all the difference it made to his set. A foolproof combination of medley after medley – interspersed with requests as to where the ladies were at – it was a performance so road-tested you expect Snoop to bring out a crash test dummy for a duet. Instead, it was Tinie Tempah, and that was the highlight of the hour.

Who's watching: Loadsapeople. All roads leading to the Pyramid stage were blocked a good half hour before Snoop was due to come on. It took all your correspondent's cunning to find a spot with a good view (three quarters of the way up the hill next to the gents). Once again a rapper draws a huge Glasto crowd. Who would have thought, eh Noel?

High point: Pass Out. Snoop released his own reworked version of Tempah's No 1 recently and, with the grime star playing here tomorrow, it was probably only fitting he should make an appearance. Pass Out is a great song – Snoop's verses make it better – and Tempah was so obviously delighted to be on stage with a rap grandmaster that he bounced through his performance like Tigger with a payrise. The crowd lapped it up.

Low point: Setting aside the whole issue of whether someone whose most recurring lyric is about killing policemen should really be considered family entertainment, there was something about the slick, off-rote nature of the performance that removed the gloss a little. That, and the new tracks (especially Sensual Seduction!).

In a tweet: The d oh double gizzle brings his shizzle to Glastonbizzle and the crowd gets in a tizzle.

 

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