The Backstreet Boys knew exactly what a momentous occasion it was when Kevin Richardson and Snoop Dogg crossed paths at Sunday’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie red-carpet premiere.
On Tuesday (Aug. 4), the BSB social accounts shared two photos of the encounter — one of the pair embracing and the other of them shaking hands — with the caption “It finally happened… iykyk.”
The inside-joke caption is in reference to viral memes dating back to 2024 suggesting that Richardson — a founding member of the boy band — “looks like a white Snoop Dogg,” with three side-by-side sets of photos as evidence. Some fans said the comparisons go back even further, recalling that BSB’s Nick Carter and Brian Littrell told Richardson he resembled Snoop when the similarly lanky boy bander sported cornrow braids during the group’s Black & Blue Tour in 2001. (You can read all about Kevin’s full hair-volution here.)
The comments section under the new photos of Kevin and Calvin (Snoop’s real name is Calvin Broadus) didn’t disappoint, with *NSYNC’s Lance Bass sharing four clapping emojis on Instagram and Muni Long commenting on Threads, “So ya’ll was separated at birth or what?”
It took Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie — the upcoming sequel to 2023’s Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie — to bring these two look-alike music stars together. Snoop voices the character of Dave in the Aug. 16 movie, while the Backstreet Boys recorded the new song “Bottle Up” for the film.
Richardson and the Backstreet Boys are still in the midst of their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere, with dates set through Aug. 29, while Snoop is currently getting the biopic treatment, with a Universal Pictures film about his life set to hit U.S. theaters next year, on Aug. 6, 2027.
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