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Snoop Dogg is nice but forgetful

By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 2 April 2019

Snoop Dogg is a pretty laidback guy. So laidback he can sometimes be forgetful. Like, he might leave a bag lying around by mistake. As he did when he performed at Exeter venue Timepiece in 2014. No biggie though, it only contained several hundred thousand pounds in cash.

The rapper played the small venue after performing at the Boardmasters festival in Cornwall, and he and the show are remembered fondly by its owner, George Sloan.

“Snoop was the most laid back person I think I have ever met”, he recalls in a new interview with Devon Live. “I spent about 20 minutes with him and all I got was ‘cool’. The evening was ‘cool’, the club was ‘cool’, the crowd was ‘cool’. He posed for photographs and signed autographs. There was nothing outrageous on his rider, just a specific type of gin. He was very charming”.

It wasn’t until Sloan was on his way home in the early hours of the morning that things became more dramatic. Snoop and his entourage had decamped to a nearby Travelodge and noticed that they were one bag short, prompting a phone call to the venue owner.

“They said: ‘We’ve left a large rucksack upstairs behind the DJ box, could we come and pick it up”, says Sloan. “I said I’d left for the night but I’d see if I could arrange for someone to go and have a look”.

“Now, Snoop Dogg had played the night before at Boardmasters in Newquay as part of a mini tour we’d organised and he usually insisted that he’s paid in cash”, he explains. “So there was this bag which we just assumed had the usual in it, but what we didn’t realise was that it had all the money he had been paid from the events he had played so far. I reckon there must have been around £300,000-400,000 in there. I could have retired that night!”