Snoop Dogg is now Snoop Lion: Lamest celebrity nickname?

Snoop Dogg is now Snoop Lion (AP)

Oh no -- another ridiculous celebrity nickname has been born. Snoop Dogg -- who long ago traded in his real name, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. -- has decided to go by Snoop Lion from now on.

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What happened to the Dogg pound? Well, Snoop has decided to ditch rap for reggae, and the name change is part of that. "It's not that I want to become Snoop Dogg on a reggae track. I want to bury Snoop Dogg, and become Snoop Lion," he said, according to The Huffington Post.

"I didn't know that until I went to the temple, where the High Priest asked me what my name was, and I said, 'Snoop Dogg.' And he looked me in my eyes and said, 'No more. You are the light; you are the lion.' From that moment on, it's like I had started to understand why I was there." Um, for realz?

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In other celebrity nickname news, "Twilight" temptress Kristen Stewart is fast becoming known as "Trampire" -- as if K-Stew wasn't bad enough. From Snoop Lion to Trampire to Kimye, let us know: What's the lamest celebrity nickname?