Snoop Dogg has a blunt response to followers who criticized him for performing throughout Donald Trump’s inauguration celebrations.
In an Instagram dwell broadcast on Sunday, which he later posted to the primary web page of his account, the rapper and former Trump critic, 53, spoke about “all the hate” he’s been receiving these days. Although he didn’t point out the president by title, Snoop’s feedback got here just a little over per week after performing in Washington, DC, on Jan. 17 on the Crypto Ball for one in every of Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration festivities.
“It’s Sunday I got gospel in my heart,” the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” hitmaker mentioned within the clip, by which he’s seen smoking and listening to gospel music in his automotive.
“For all the hate I’m going to answer with love, I love too much,” he added. “Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool. I’m together. Still a Black man. Still 100 percent Black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”
Later within the video, Snoop mentioned, “We gotta learn to pick each other up instead of pulling each other down. That’s what we great at as Black people. We great at tearing each other down.”
He continued, “You can be up one minute and they’ll try to pull you down the next.”
“But I’m a strong black man. I’m cut from a different cloth. You can’t tear me down. I’m one of God’s child [sic]. One of his children.”
Snoop closed his video saying, “Y’all stay strong. The only way to beat hate is with love. Learn from the Dogg. Teach you something every day.”
The “Gin & Juice” rapper additionally addressed the backlash throughout an look on “R&B Money Podcast” over the weekend.
“You ‘gon deal with hate when you get to the top, no matter who you are,” he mentioned. “Me, personally, I answer it with success and love. That’s my answer to any hate and negativity that comes my way, ’cause it’s the strongest force that can beat it.”
Snoop wasn’t the one huge title to carry out on the Crypto Ball. Rick Ross and Soulja Boy additionally took the stage. Different celebrities, together with Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus and Nelly carried out at different inauguration occasions.
Following his efficiency, Snoop misplaced a big variety of social media followers — greater than 500,000 on Instagram and practically 20,000 on X.
The musician and mogul was as soon as a fierce critic of Trump.
In September 2018, the “Sweat” rapper spoke out towards Kanye West and everybody who supported Trump, 78.
Whereas discussing West’s help for the previous “Apprentice” host throughout an interview on DJ Suss One’s SiriusXM present, Snoop had a fiery response when the DJ talked about that a few of his followers may again Trump.
“I tell them straight up motherf–ker, if you like that n—–, you motherf–king racist. F–k you, and f–k him.”
Snoop additionally mentioned Trump fanned strife between folks of various backgrounds and “drew the lines.”
“Before him, there were no lines,” he mentioned. “Everybody was everybody, we respected everything; we didn’t trip. But n—–, when you drew the line, n—– started pointing motherf–ker out … f–k you n—–.”
Snoop had a change of coronary heart about Trump in 2021 after he pardoned Demise Row Information co-founder Michael Harris, who had who served 30 years on expenses of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide.
“He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me,” Snoop mentioned of Trump in a January 2024 interview with The Sunday Instances.
“So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”
