American rapper and actor Snoop Dogg is once again flexing his muscle in support of Hollywood unions.
The rapper posted on Instagram on Tuesday that he would cancel two shows at ‘The Hollywood Bowl’ in Los Angeles in support of writers and actors striking with the Writer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.
“We regret to inform you that due to the ongoing strike and the uncertainty of when this will be over, we need to cancel the Hollywood Bowl show,” Snoop, born Calvin Broadus, wrote in a post.
“We continue to stand in solidarity with all of our brothers and sisters in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA during this difficult time and remain hopeful that the AMPTP will come back to the negotiating table with a REAL proposal and we can all get back to work.”
The two shows which were scheduled for 20 and 21 October had initially been set for June, but he opted to postpone them because of the Hollywood strikes.
In May, near the onset of the writer’s strike, he went on an expletive-laden rant about how low payments from streaming services hurt artists’ ability to make a living wage from their products.
“The money is not being translated and it’s not working for the artist right now and I just want to speak to that in the music industry like that’s fucked up. And we need to find a way to figure that out…,” he said at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference.
