Famous singer forced to wear wig for 5 months after drastic haircut failed
We’ve all had bad hair days, but Reba McEntire, was made to wear a wig for five months to cover hers, although it may not be all that it seems. The music star, known for her signature long red locks, made a drastic change in 1996, which became a marketing plan for her album, What If […]
We’ve all had bad hair days, but Reba McEntire, was made to wear a wig for five months to cover hers, although it may not be all that it seems.
The music star, known for her signature long red locks, made a drastic change in 1996, which became a marketing plan for her album, What If It’s You. However, we all know the wait from production to release can be a long one. In this case, five long months.
Reba McEntire hid ‘hair transformation’ with wig for five months
Snoop Dogg’s three years in hell after murder charges
Snoop was one of America’s up-and-coming rap artists at the time the crime took place. In August 1993, gang member Philip Woldemariam died at a park. District attorneys charged the celebrity with first and second degree murder charges. His bodyguard McKinley Lee was also charged with conspiracy to commit assault in connection to the case.
Prosecutors claimed Woldermariam died in cold-blooded murder, alleging he was shot in the back and buttocks by Snoop. They told the court he attempted to flee after getting into an argument with rival Snoop and his bodyguard at Woodbine Park.
However, the defense argued the gang member reached for a weapon he was carrying when Lee fired in self-defense from a car he was in with Snoop. Under testimony, it was heard that a weapon from Woldermariam was removed.
Jurors acquitted the star, who was only 24 years old at the time, as well as his bodyguard. But the jury of his peers couldn’t come to a decision on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter against each of the men, as well as a charge of conspiracy after the fact against Snoop.
The judge sent them back to the jury room to deliberate further. They had already spent six days talking it over. When they finally came back in, the not-guilty verdicts were being read out.
Snoop’s life was in limbo for almost ‘three years’
The Los Angeles Times reports supporters of Snoop – real name Calvin Broadus – and Lee erupted in the courtroom.
Snoop, head down, held his hands in prayer as his bodyguard signed in relief. The moment was broadcast on TV.
He left the court smiling while holding onto his two-year-old son, Corde. Snoop drove away to return to his life in a Rolls-Royce.
“They made the right decision, you know what I’m saying?” said Snoop.
“This has been an ordeal that has affected our lives for the past 2 1/2 years. I was just trying to figure out if I was going to be here to raise my son.”
He changed how he wrote about death – even if it cost him success
The case had a long-lasting effect on Snoop, who spoke with Fatman Scoop on an Instagram Live in January 2021.
He pivoted how he rapped and the topics he talked about after believing his words had more power than just engaging fans.
He said: “Around that time, me, Tupac, Biggie, [Ice] Cube… all of the rappers that was rapping around that time; we was writing what we was living,” he said.
“Some of us was writing life and some of us was writing death, but that’s what we was living.”
“On my second album, Tha Doggfather, when I beat my murder case, I redirected my pen to write life because I felt like I had wrote death all up until that point.”
He no longer wanted to “glamorize and glorify” death, and instead wanted to focus on “living”. But it did cost him fans and success.
He admitted: “I lost a lot of fans; I lost a lot of homies because they wanted me to keep it gangsta after beating the murder case.”
Snoop said he felt “remorse”, and his life “changed” – “This was a real situation”.
You can watch the inspiring clip here.