Bing Worthington, the brother of Snoop Dogg, has passed away at 44. Snoop took to Instagram to pay tribute to his late sibling, sharing a photo of them in a dressing room and a clip of himself, Bing, and their brother Jerry spending time together in a cemetery.
Worthington, who was Snoop Dogg’s half-brother on their mother’s side, collaborated with Snoop throughout the years, initially working as a roadie on Snoop’s tours before eventually becoming the tour manager.
In the caption for the clip, Snoop Dogg wrote, “You always made us laugh 💙🙏🏾😢 now you’re back with moms.”
“We grew up in Long Beach together. Snoop, he was gonna put my album [called Lubrication] out himself,” Worthington told Vice back in 2016. “I actually turned him down. The reason why is because some business, you have a group and you have a team behind. With all the pressure, you have to figure out if you wanna lose your friends, your family, or do you want to keep things the same?”
“Sometimes you can’t just do everything you do cause it looks good. I didn’t wanna lose relationships with my brother, my friends, so I stopped.”
Worthington had spent a decade and a half performing various background roles in Snoop’s orbit. Though he had been serving as his brother’s tour manager, he had embarked on a business venture: a merger of his own Dogg Records with Canadian hip-hop label Urban Heat Legends.
“At the time I was selling skateboards. It was almost simultaneous,” Worthington said. “I did th at and then a year later it was skateboards, skateboards, skateboards. Snoop Dogg Skateboards was pretty cool, a good experience. Skateboards at the time were a big thing going. Snoop was part of that for real.”
Despite his largely undocumented professional history, Bing’s diverse endeavors included involvement in projects such as the Snoop Dogg Board Company for skateboards and snowboards, as well as the creation of foot-long hot dogs branded as “Snoop Doggs.”
“This was a proper match. Everybody from white, black, blue, green, they respected and accepted it. We made some money because the skateboard world loves Snoop too. Every grandma and uncle love Snoop.”
“After that it was being on the road with Snoop. I started from the bottom, I ain’t just become the tour manager, I was just the road guy. I worked my way to the top. Even though I’m his brother he didn’t give me a top-ranked position. You can’t just become a president without knowing anything about being the president. You have to learn.”
“I think the word to describe my career is ‘blessed,’” he said eight years ago. “The reason is because I’m still here. I’ve seen all these people’s careers. I’m not saying they made bad decisions but they lost themselves. And I think I still have myself.”
“That’s really the most important thing, you can’t lose yourself. It’s like when you’re a war vet and you come home all messed up in your head, but I was in the war and I ain’t get messed up at all. I’ve still got limbs, and my mind is still there.”
