Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik and Warren G will be hitting the road this summer to spread the good word of California Hip Hop across the Great White North.
On Tuesday (April 1), Tha Doggfather took to Instagram to announce his plans to tour the United States’ northern neighbor along with his fellow West Coast veterans on the Cali To Canada Tour.
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The 11-date tour will commence on June 3 with a performance at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, and will wrap up before the end of the month with a show at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on June 25.
“I’m bringin Cali to Canada!!!” the G-funk icon wrote on Instagram. “With special guests Warren G n DJ Quik. Get tickets startin tomorrow @ 10am local time with the code CALI2CANADA.”
As for his other alliances, Snoop recently attended Dr. Dre’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, since the two go way back. Soon after the gathering, the veteran producer made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and brought out his longtime collaborator as well.
At one point during the interview, the conversation shifted to the Compton native’s 1992 landmark album The Chronic, which also helped launch Snoop’s solo career. Both veterans, however, had entirely different explanations for how the LP’s title was conceived.
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“My first time smoking weed,” Dre began. “I was in the car in my driveway and I think we were halfway though the album, and there was a female […] It’s my first time smoking weed, y’know, and I asked what it was and that’s what she told me and boom — here we are.”
Snoop, however, has a different story as he subsequently explained: “Well, let me tell you my story. Me and my homies was in Long Beach, right, and it was a white guy that used to come through the apartments and bring us bud, and he had ‘hydroponic.’
“But we smoked it and started saying ‘hydrochronic’ and flipped it, and then that’s when we started saying, ‘Oh this weed is bomb — it’s the chronic,’ and Dre’s album was so bomb, it only was right for [us] to call it The Chronic.”
Check out the itinerary for the Cali To Canada Tour below:
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06/03 – Halifax, NS @ Scotiabank Centre
06/06 – Quebec City, QC @ Videotron Centre
06/09 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
06/11 – Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre
06/12 – Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena
06/14 – London, ON @ Budweiser Gardens
06/17 – Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre
06/19 – Saskatoon, SK @ SaskTel Centre
06/20 – Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
06/21 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome
06/25 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
