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About
Snoop Dogg Blingee is an animated GIF featuring the rapper Snoop Dogg jigging from side to side, popularized by the image editing site Blingee.
Origin
The original GIF is taken from the video for Snoop Dogg’s video for his 2004 single “Drop It Like It’s Hot”. The video won the award for Best Hip-Hop Video at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. (The clip from which the GIF is taken from is seen at 0:27)
In 2006 Blingee, a site which allows you to add hip-hop culture themed pictures to images, was launched. It included the GIF of Snoop Dogg dancing taken from the video.
Spread
The GIF quickly became the most popular picture on the site. It is often placed in dark scenes for the contrast between the sene and his happy dance.
It is also associated with the phrase Smoke Weed Everyday, from the 2001 Dr Dre/Snoop Dogg single “The Next Episode”. It is often paired the GIF with videos of an original source in YTPMV Remixes of the phrase.