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Snoop Dogg Joins SEGA’s Stranger Than Heaven as Voice, Co-Sings Theme with Tori Kelly and Japanese Artists
Snoop voices a character and joins Tori Kelly, Ado and Satoshi Fujihara on the theme for SEGA’s Stranger Than Heaven, arriving this winter.
Snoop Dogg isn’t just lending a name this time; he shows up in SEGA’s Stranger Than Heaven both as a voiced character and on the game’s theme, trading bars with Tori Kelly and Japanese artists Satoshi Fujihara and Ado.
Snoop Dogg as a character in ‘Stranger Than Heaven.’
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The trailer that dropped on May 7 stitches the song into a brutal, blood-soaked preview of the game’s world. Midway through, Snoop spits: “Don’t read between the lines/ Close your eyes and observe,” a line that sits somewhere between a hook and a taunt amid the violence on screen.
Tori Kelly appears on the track and also voices a character credited as Suzy Day. Japanese vocalists Satoshi Fujihara and Ado are likewise part of the musical and narrative lineup, and Snoop’s son, Cordell Broadus, is also given a role in the game’s cast.
Snoop voices Orpheus, a character introduced as a chain-smoking hand on a ship that ferries protagonists Yu Shinjo and Makoto Daito to Japan, handing them a chance at reinvention and a sliver of hope. “That right there, that’s the Japan you been dreaming about,” Orpheus says in the trailer, a line that sells the game’s blend of mythic escapism and gritty realism.
Stranger Than Heaven lays its action across five decades, from 1915 to 1965, dropping players into Osaka, Tokyo and Hiroshima as Makoto Daito, played by Yu Shirota, does what he must to survive and ascend. SEGA’s official copy describes the game as a “50-year, action-adventure saga of men with nowhere to go and their desperate struggle to find a home. Use extreme violence to survive, and musical talent to thrive as a showman across five cities and eras of modern Japan.” It’s an unusual sales pitch—violence and showmanship braided into the same survival mechanic—and the trailer leans into that theatrical brutality.
This isn’t Snoop’s first detour into gaming. In the early 2000s he attached his likeness to the short-lived Fear & Respect project, Fear & Respect, which never made it to production, and he was a playable fighter in Def Jam: Fight for NY. Stranger Than Heaven represents his latest cross-medium cameo, but one that folds his voice and persona directly into the game’s world.
Look for Stranger Than Heaven to arrive this winter on multiple gaming systems.
