Snoop Dogg: who could know about that?

Snoop Dogg was supposed to come to Japan at this weekend and do several live performances across the country. However, now it's cancelled due to performance fee unpaid. Snoop explains in the video beneath that all payment to him should be done before all the Japan dates but the promoter Positive Production didn't make it.

So here is the brilliant video:


It seems that his Japanese DJ friend @dj2high put Japanese subtitles on and uploaded the video to youtube on behalf of Snoop (great work!).

This thing is brilliant. In this sort of case, how a promoter explains the reason of an artist's cancellation is "due to unforeseen circumstance...". This is what Positive Production did as you can read here. However, the video was uploaded and the real reason was revealed. What happened to Snoop and what he has then brilliantly done should be openly discussed as it's a rare that such matter is revealed. Nevertheless, the most of the Japanese music media and music journalists haven't mentioned it as the promoter hasn't revealed it. They just don't want to get in trouble. Japanese music journalism is dying really. So I hope music fans who watched the video all understand it's a business matter and when a promoter says "due to unforeseen circumstance", it means something.

From a label point of view, the video is also nice as he explains that it's a promoter - booking agency matter. Mechanism of booking an artist for a gig is unique here in Japan (I'll explain if I have a chance to do so). Partly because of that I think many Japanese music fans believe that artist's record label in Japan is heavily involved in a concert deal but it's not. That's why his Japanese label EMI surprisingly put the youtube link on Snoop's feature webpage here, which no music online media did! To me it feels like EMI gets angry about the promoter's failure so that put the link...


I hope Snoop will find a better promoter and come to Japan in the near future.

*edit (10/10)
Here is a response from Positive Production:

Source: www.positiveproduction.com/cansel.html
Well, it seems a problem between the promoter and Snoop's agent. Is it going to court? Nobody knows...