Hey nigga, you're an asshole

This is the first entry of this blog and I thought it might be a good idea to use a faux racial slur plus a swear word in the title. I have no compunction about pinning them to the forehead of the man in question. A man, mind you, only in a manner of speaking. Because Mr.Snoop Dogg, is not quite a man. He is an obnoxious, spoilt and overgrown kid. And above all, he has no talent.

It is not so much that he walked through the airport with his shirt off that makes him comparable to a donkey's rear. Some superstars should be allowed their eccentricities and brushes with the law. Even a goody two shoes specimen like Paul McCartney was once caught trying to smuggle drugs and got off rather lightly. But of course, Sir Paul is a real superstar and that is why he never defined himself as such. Mr.Dogg isn't one, and that is why he does. The former will be a superstar for eternity. In a couple of decades, the latter will be remembered only by his children. But let us sigh, close one eye, and indulge Mr.Dogg. Let’s permit him to be a pretend superstar and saunter through Luqa airport baring his puny chest.

So what makes Mr.Dogg a genuine, real deal asshole? It's the way he treated The Times journalist at the ‘press conference’. On Wednesday, the hip hop moron did not bother to show up at a scheduled press conference, leaving the press corps twiddling their thumbs for two hours. When it was rescheduled a day later, he showed up another two hours late. That’s four hours waiting for a man with less talent than a Eurovision contestant from Azerbaijan.

When David Schembri, The Times journalist, got his turn at the press conference he asked Mr.Dogg why he had left everyone waiting. “Well nigga, you wait for another four hours, that’s what it is when you’re dealing with a superstar, you gotta wait, now, you just fucked your question up, get your ass outta here,” the talentless wonder told The Times. Doing their master’s bidding, the security men proceeded to escort the journalist out of the room.

This is the telling sign of a man whose massive popularity and bank account are still not big enough to hide his insecurities and false sense of superiority. This is what makes him an asshole through and through.

There was a way of bursting Mr.Dogg’s soap bubble ego. As soon as David Schembri was kicked out of the room all the journalists in attendance should have stood up and quietly followed him. That would have been the decent thing to do, showing that solidarity with a colleague is more important than reporting a press conference addressed by a boor.

It would have been deliciously wonderful to see Mr.Dogg sitting on that stupid kitsch chair of his not knowing what to do next. This time, instead of taking off his shirt he probably would have pulled his pants down to expose himself. Exactly what a toddler would do. So long Snoop, and let’s hope we’ll never see you again on these shores.