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Video: Snoop Dogg sends Lance Armstrong good luck message for Tour de France

Rapper hits Brussels the same day as cycling's biggest race arrives in town...

Hip-hop star Snoop Dogg has given a bizarre good luck message to Lance Armstrong ahead of what we now know will be the Team RadioShack rider’s final Tour de France.

In a brief video on YouTube, against a graphic of the Arc de Triomphe, the West Coast rapper tells Armstrong “I need to borrow that bike for a minute, man, I gotta do a few tricks down the street, you understand me?” – we think we do – although we’re a bit lost at his other request that a friend borrow “that Speedo suit you been wearing” for purposes that, perhaps mercifully, remain unexplained.

Dogg – born Cordozar Calvin Broadus – finishes his message with the words “Good luck in that tour, neffew!” shown on screen.

While the rapper is unlikely to be at Saturday’s Grand Départ in Rotterdam – he had been due to perform at a festival in the Netherlands last weekend before being uninvited by the organisers due to the perception he was a bad role model, a curious state of affairs given that the country is one of the few where marijuana can be bought and smoked openly, with Snoop known to enjoy the odd smoke himself – he is performing in Brussels this Sunday, the same day that Stage 1 of the race finishes there.

Perhaps he’ll be able to get his hands on that skinsuit and bike after all – although he might be well advised to give doping control a pretty wide berth.

 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Fish_n_Chips | 13 years ago
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Word up Homeboy I got your back Lance, go get them muthers and put them back in their hole Yar mean.  16

Translated= Good luck Lance...  26

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To win would be an awesome comeback and then retire? noooooo!

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JJ the Flying D... | 13 years ago
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Nice stereotype, but you forgot to mention the cheese, clogs and tulips  4 Cancelling the concert had nothing to do with marijuana...

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dave atkinson replied to JJ the Flying Dutchman | 13 years ago
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JJ the Flying Dutchman wrote:

Nice stereotype, but you forgot to mention the cheese, clogs and tulips  4 Cancelling the concert had nothing to do with marijuana...

must be hard to type with your finger shoring up that dyke, JJ  1

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JJ the Flying D... replied to dave atkinson | 13 years ago
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Yep, and the sound of those windmills is getting on my nerves too!

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