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Over the decades Snoop Doggy Dogg’s been one of the handful of golden era rappers that’s been able to keep himself relevant in the game and from the look of things that’s a trend that’s going to continue for a while.
A few days ago the Hip-Hop OG and host of TBS’s The Joker’s Wild sat down with The Breakfast Club and gave some interesting Hip-Hop history nuggets to the morning trio.
Chit-chatting with Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God, The Doggfather reveals some hidden history about Tupac’s street cred, his thoughts on Kanye West and getting a visit from authorities for his slander of Donald Trump in a music video.
Here are the 8 things we learned from Snoop Dogg on The Breakfast Club.
1. Man of God
Snoop said that the current climate of the world made him want to do a gospel album. He wanted to put some love in the air as opposed to him matching the energy that’s out there even though Whoa Vicky became the exception. He also says he’s very religious even though he doesn’t show it.
2. Next Gen Rapper
Snoop accepts the fact that he’s “sliding to the back” of the Hip-Hop game saying he’s been on top long enough and respects the young rappers in the game getting their shine. He also doesn’t mind becoming “Uncle Snoop” and taking this younger generation of rapper under his wing and teaching them some game.
3. Tupac
Snoop feels that had Tupac been alive and young in this era he wouldn’t be a social media clout chaser because he’d still let his actions speak for him. Snoop even reveals that back in the day some cats tried to jack Pac in LA and Pac “pulled that thing out and had to pop at some ni**as” to get out of that situation.
4. Military Days of Death Row
Snoop remembers that when Pac put him on to The Art of War and when joined Death Row he instituted a chain of command where his peoples would report to him and everyone in Snoops group reported to him. Pac really took that military minded ish to heart too. It got to the point where Pac and Kurupt almost started a brawl between The Outlawz and The Dogg Pound because Kurupt spoke to Pac without having the proper general credentials. Interestingly enough MC Hammer along with Suge diffused the situation.
5. Pac’s Lasting Influence
Snoop doesn’t have a problem with anyone comparing themselves to Tupac or even saying they’re the new Pac. He feels everyone has the right to emulate someone that they want to be, but if you do make that comparison it’s now on you to live up to that bill not only on a street level but on the social and even political level that Tupac was known for. Snoop even reveals that while everyone was telling him to dump his girlfriend for constantly arguing with him, Tupac told him to marry her and he did. 20+ years later their marriage is still holding up.
6. Kanye Kardashian
Talking about Kanye’s out of pocket “free thinking,” Snoop feels that his lack of Black women in his life to check him on what he says is partly to blame for him going off the rails. He also points at the “Kardishian Kurse” which has derailed the life of the men involved with the Kardashians while the women in that family flourish. He’s not wrong. He also warns Travi$ Scott to “get out now, ni**a!”
7. 90’s Snoop vs. ’18 Snoop
Asked if he regrets his sexist lyrics in the 90’s given the current climate of Me Too, Snoop Dogg stands by his younger self saying “Hell no, that was me. I loved every muthaf*ckin’ minute. F*ck them h*es.” While that sounds foul Snoop clears it up by stating, “I’m just sayin’ that’s me back then… at the time that I was making that music that’s who Snoop Doggy Dogg was,” and adds “I can’t change that… that’s not me anymore.”
8. Donald Trump
Apparently “dem peoples” from the Government paid Snoop Dogg a visit for his music video in which he shot Donald Trump. It wasn’t until the video director told them that he wrote the concept out and Snoop just acted in it that “dem peoples” decided it wasn’t a serious threat. That being said Snoop says he never partied with Trump, but he did “give me a whole lot of money to hang out with him one night, and I took it.” He even has a picture of himself shaking hands with Agent Orange hanging on his wall which baffles his homies.
