Millions of Fortnite players watch Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice livestream a concert as part of a rap-themed Chapter 2 Remix that includes Eminem and a tribute to Juice WRLD
The Prelude to Fortnite's Chapter 2 Remix kicked off today and included a surprise Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice performance that was livestreamed from Times Square in NYC, and the season kicks off fully tomorrow and runs until the finale on November 30.
Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix will replace the original chapter's bosses with rappers including Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Ice Spice. Meanwhile, the "remixed and reimagined" Chapter 2 will also include a live celebration of the late rapper Juice WRLD and give players a commemorative outfit if they attend.
For the uninitiated, Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 5 has been titled Chapter 2 Remix, which is one way to say the game is bringing back old maps, events, and items and "remixing" them, in this case, with a rap theme.
That's right, Epic says on the official Fortnite website Chapter 2 Remix is bringing back the old Chapter 2 map but with "weekly location and loot drops inspired by the best of early Chapter 2 gameplay and some of the greatest music icons in history." Specifically, you'll now meet Snoop Dogg at the Agency (now "The Doggpound"), Eminem in the Grotto (now "The Spaghetti Grotto), and Ice Spice on Shark Island (now "Ice Isle").
If you manage to beat Snoop, he'll gift you the Snoop’s Drum Gun Mythic and he'll also join you as an ally. Snoop is also the icon for Fortnite Festival Season 6, meaning you'll be able unlock his LBC '93 Dogg Outfit by picking up the Music Pass, and you’ll find the Snoop Dogg Outfit in the Shop.
Meanwhile, Eminem brings with him the new Rap Boy Reloaded outfit, which will be added to the Shop in Week 2, and if you manage to beat him, he'll join your cause and give you his Mythic RG Minigun, which spits the lyrics to Eminem's hit song Rap God in the above trailer.
Ice Spice will be found in the "neon-lit, Y2K-dripped abandoned shopping mall with an ominous aura" that is the remixed version of Shark Island, and if you take her down you'll get Ice Spice’s Grappler and Ice Spice’s Rifle Mythics. Her
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