Authorities in the antipodean country had initially been concerned about the rapper’s criminal record.
Snoop - real-name Calvin Broadus - withdrew a visa application after failing to pass a character test a month after pleading no contest to drugs and guns charges in the US.

The Long Beach rapper had help from Russell Crowe, after the actor wrote a letter asking immigration officials to support the MC’s visa application. After a brawl involving his entourage at Heathrow airport in April 2006, Snoop was banned from entering the UK until February this year. Snoop’s Australian tour with Ice Cube and Thugs-N-Harmony begins in October source.