Fortnite introduces Snoop Dogg character to game with controversial 'Snoop Walk’

Fortnite has introduced a Snoop Dogg character to its game, as well as a controversial new “emote” which has caused some debate between fans, The Gamer reports.

In Fortnite: Chapter 2 Remix, the latest season of the battle royale-style video game released earlier this month, Snoop Dogg appears as a non-playable character (NPC) in his own dedicated location, The Doggpound.

Players must attempt to defeat Snoop Dogg in the game as a boss character, who’s backed up by Guard Doggs and Ghostly Henchmen. Other characters to be introduced to the game in the coming weeks include Ice Spice and Eminem.

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Snoop Dogg also comes with a controversial new “emote”, or dance move, which resembles the gang-affiliated dance of ‘Crip Walking’, or ‘C-Walking’, available to buy for 500 V-Bucks (around £3.25, per The Standard).

Though it’s long been a dance move that Snoop has inherited as a fan of The Rollin' 20s, a street gang who were part of the Crips alliance, fans are questioning whether the new emote is appropriate for a game played by children.

‘Snoop’s Walk’ was first revealed in a promotional video for the new character, which shows him shuffling his feet with his arms up by his side, similar to the ‘Crip Walk’.

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“I don't think saying "I'm doing the fortnite dance" is going to save you when you doing this in the wrong area,” one user said in the comment section of the video. Another said: “I remember we weren’t allowed to even pretend to goof like this if you grew up in the city. Ain’t no way.”

The Crip Walk was created in the 1970s by the Crips, a gang based in Southern California, in opposition to rival gang The Bloods, which also had its own dance move.

[Via The Gamer[

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