Wrestlemania to Feature Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Men in Tights

With the Grammys in the rearview mirror and the summer festival season still in the not-too-distant future, it's time to focus on the next big event in pop music: Wrestlemania XXIV. The WWE's annual fiasco, held this year at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL, will feature a bevy of musical performers and guests. John Legend will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" to open the show, while Snoop Dogg will preside over something called the "BunnyMania Lumberjack Match," which will involve four female wrestlers and possibly some woodcutting.

It was also reported that 50 Cent will be in attendance as part of boxer Floyd "Money" Mayweather's entourage. Mayweather uses 50's "I Get Money" as his entrance music and will take part in a match against a gigantic man called the Big Show. Finally, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have provided the official song for the event: their "Snow (Hey Oh)," from 2006's Stadium Arcadium, has been scoring promos for the show since January. Wrestlemania has a long tradition of musical guests, as groups like Motorhead, Limp Bizkit, Run-DMC, Salt-N-Pepa and P.O.D. have played the gig.

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“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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