No more Snoop Lion? Snoop Dogg changes name to Snoopzilla

Just when you got used to calling him Snoop Lion, which never actually happened because no one got used to calling him Snoop Lion, Snoop Dogg has changed his name yet again in less than a year after renaming himself Snoop Lion.

He is now the one and only Snoopzilla. His new name reflects his new musical direction with funk project 7 Days Of Funk.

The 'Drop It Like It's Hot' hitmaker has formed a collective with Dam-Funk and the pair are releasing their debut album on December 10.

The newly-christened Snoopzilla said of the new band: "We're the babies of the Mothership. I've had funk influences in my music my whole career. Dam-Funk is cold. He's keeping the funk alive and I knew I had to get down with him."

Snoop has been known to invest himself fully in his transformations, converting to Rastafarianism for his reggae album, 'Reincarnated', under the name Snoop Lion.

Dam-Funk added in a statement: "Snoop knew what I was thinking without me having to articulate it. That's how you know when you gel artistically with someone.

"These beats were made for him and he laid down some of the smoothest harmonies and melodies I've ever heard. It's hip-hop, but you can also hear what we grew up on, from Zapp to Evelyn 'Champagne' King and Patrice Rushen."