American rapper Snoop Dogg is reportedly making $500,000 per day at the Paris Olympic Games.
Snoop Dogg was hired by NBC and Peacock as a correspondent for the Olympic Games, working on both the live broadcasts and on social media. NBC has held the exclusive broadcasting rights for the Summer Olympics within the US since 1988 and expanded it to the company’s streaming service Peacock for the first time for the 2020 Olympic Games.
The report on Snoop Dogg‘s earnings at these Olympics first surfaced in a post by X (formerly called Twitter) user @henrylmcnamara. In the Tweet, the user reports that he sat next to an unidentified NBC executive who disclosed Snoop Dogg‘s salary for the Olympics, stating it to be around $500,000 per day.
Sat next to an NBC exec at dinner, he said Snoop gets paid $500k a day plus expenses to be here promoting Olympics. From Gin and Juice to a few million to be a celebrity at the Olympics – what a world
— henrylmcnamara (@henrylmcnamara) August 4, 2024
With the Olympic competition stretching over 16 days, Snoop Dogg would be making around $8 million based on that estimate.
Snoop Dogg‘s presence at the Paris Olympics has been a hit with viewers. The 16-time Grammy nominated rapper has already been shown at several different sporting events, including the swimming finals where he sat with Caeleb Dressel‘s wife Meghan and his son August. According to Dressel, Snoop Dogg nicknamed August “Augie Dog”
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Snoop gets half a million a day, top athletes get E.coli.
Awesome…..🙄
This is giving NCAA vibes. Large corporation making money off the backs of athletes who need to find alternative means of income just to train and compete at the biggest athletic stage in the world just to make the rich richer. Imagine an NIL-like deal at the Olympic level. It’ll never happen but fun to dream about.
This is ridiculous. Nobody is watching the Olympics for Snoop. We watch for the athletes. Pay the athletes more for their achievements.
He’s earned it. If you want to complain about wasted money, how about focusing on the bureaucracy in sport and the highly paid administrators and executives. The money Snoop is making was never earmarked for athletes or their support, unlike the fortunes spent by the bureaucrats.
Oh there’s that too…much to detest about the whole surroundings.
If they put recidividt felony offenders as their spokesperson, you’ll hear about it.
Snoop Dogg must be pinching himself. When he started as an entertainer he was the one who horrified elite culture, who rapped about killing cops and dealing drugs. His albums were the ones that kids hid from their parents.
Today, apparently he’s as American as apple pie. He is embraced by elite culture, and the same kind of people who regarded him as a sign of cultural decay are today lining his pockets. And it all happened in a few decades.
Disgusting, isn’t it?
And we have a convicted felon running for President! And it all happened in a few years…so there’s that!!!
Good for you Snoop, but SHAME on the organization for not distributing the wealth. Are we really going to act like having Snoop around made more people tune in? Like really? No shot. Give the actual stars of why we watch these games their paydays for brining in the viewers. We watch the Olympics because we have medal contenders in the sports, not because we have Snoop or anyone else with a microphone. The races/competitions for gold is what brings us to tune in so pay those chasing the golds their due earnings.
Snoop Dogg was the cherry on the ice cake after the “grandiose” opening ceremony at the OG.
He was a great motivator for the young Olympic generation. Tell your kids not to Google his criminal record.
P.S. Did the US run out of distinguished Olympians to be the face of Team USA?
And he contributed to the Olympic Games…exactly how?