Snoop Dogg has been granted an Australian work permit, which will allow the performer to appear at the Big Day Out festival on Jan. 19 on the Gold Coast as well as a few other shows.
This news comes after the Collective Shout group, a women's organization, petitioned to have the rapper banned from performing in the country, due to his misogynistic lyrics. The petition ended up getting 3,500 signatures, according to Billboard, but it wasn't enough to keep Snoop Dogg away.
"Snoop Dogg's lyrics glorify violence against women," the organization wrote in a letter posted on its Website and targeted at federal immigration minister Scott Morrison. "As a society which claims to be serious about eradicating violence against women," the letter finishes by saying, "there should be no place for recording artists who glorify misogyny and degrade women for entertainment. Welcoming artists like Snoop Dogg sends a message that we don't take our obligations to address violence against women seriously."
Morrison reportedly got the letter, but he's told reporters that Snoop Dogg does have a visa now.
The organization also previously targeted Tyler, the Creator in a different petition because they claimed his behavior was "creating a hostile environment for women and girls by engaging in vilification."
In 2007, Snoop Dogg had to cancel his U.K. portion of his European tour because the British government still wouldn't budge on preventing him from getting a visa following altercations with staff and police at Heathrow Airport in 2006, which resulted in numerous arrests.
Australian Snoop Dogg fans are likely pleased that the rapper got by this time.
