Just about anyone visiting Paris has the Louvre on their itinerary, but if you’re a VIP, you might just get an after-hours tour. 

Well, as of today, the person who seems to be having the absolute most fun at the Olympic Games, now taking place in the French capital, has had just such a visit: no less than Snoop Dogg appears on a video posted on X about his own exclusive night at the museum with a staffer. 

The elder statesman of hip-hop, who served as the opening ceremony torchbearer and continues in his role as special NBC Olympics correspondent, danced (at a distance) with Team USA women’s gymnastics stars Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles, took a swim lesson with Michael Phelps, and provided color commentary on a badminton match. 

But he tried his hand at a different kind of color commentary at the world’s most-visited museum. 

“Snooping around the Louvre with the one and only Snoop Dogg,” reads the post from the official NBC Olympics & Paralympics X account.

First up, Snoop visits the GOAT, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08), where he proclaims that he is La Gioconda’s twin, Tony Lisa. 

Snooping around the Louvre with the one and only Snoop Dogg. 🎨 @SnoopDogg x #ParisOlympics pic.twitter.com/4b9x8n1yTb

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 2, 2024

Walking away, he spots an artwork off-screen and blurts out: “Is that somebody’s head getting chopped off?” His guide’s answer is not recorded.

Then it’s on to the 18-foot-tall, 30-ton Nike of Samothrace (ca. 190 B.C.E).

“I love this,” says Snoop, gazing at the sculpture with real tenderness on his face. “This is beautiful.” His guide challenges him to name which of the statue’s glorious wings has been “nipped and tucked” (it went back on view in 2014 after a 10-month restoration). He gets it right. 

The Olympic torch with the Winged Nike of Samothrace at the Louvre. Photo by Nicolas Bousser, ©Musée du Louvre.

He’s not quite as on the ball while checking out François-Édouard Picot’s Amor and Psyche (1817), at first mistaking Cupid for a woman. “It’s two ladies in the bed!” he says. “One of ‘em’s flying away!”

“That’s not a lady,” his host mock-whispers, pointing out the God of Love. (But hey, even art historians make mistakes.)

Finally, it’s on to Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830), commemorating the toppling of King Charles X in the July Revolution of 1830. His host points out Liberty’s Phrygian cap, calling it the “revolutionary cap.”

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830). Courtesy of the Louvre.

“She got on what I got on right now!” Snoop exclaims. 

With a nod to Black Liberation poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, he concludes the video with a promise: “The revolution will be televised.”

In any event, the more televising of Snoop Dogg, the better.