- Snoop Dogg said he would no longer perform at the Hollywood Bowl in October.
- The move is meant to show solidarity with Hollywood strikers.
The Doggfather is once again flexing his muscle in support of Hollywood unions.
Rapper Snoop Dogg posted on Instagram 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, set for October 20 and 21, had initially been set for June, but Snoop postponed them because of the Hollywood strikes.
Snoop has been pretty outspoken about the two strikes — both of which have brought Hollywood to a standstill as workers demand better wages and job protections.
In May, near the onset of the writer's strike, Snoop 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…" Snoop said at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference.
Snoop then brought up how streaming services hurt TV and movie writers similarly: "I mean, can someone explain to me how you can get a billion streams and not get a million dollars?"
Representatives for Snoop Dogg did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.