Snoop Dogg is barking again on the haters.
The beloved rapper confronted backlash after he carried out on the Crypto Ball throughout President Trump’s inauguration in January.
However the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” MC turned the controversy into creativity, inspiring his shock new LP “Iz It a Crime?” that drops on Thursday.
“That’s why I made this album,” Snoop, 53, informed the gang at an intimate non-public occasion at Privé Home in Manhattan on Wednesday, the place he previewed his new album and quick movie.
He then spit some lyrics in response to those that have been blasting him and questioning his credibility: “Too many n – – – as playin’ with my reputation/Step on my turf, you need an invitation.”
Snoop stated that the album’s title, “Iz It a Crime?” was impressed by what he was going by means of as he misplaced followers, together with over 500,000 Instagram followers.
“I felt like there was a lot of unanswered questions over the past six months,” he stated. “And I simply wished to reply them by means of my music.
“It’s therapy for me to be able to express myself [through] my art,” he added of the LP, which options collaborations with Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell and Sexyy Pink. “Therapeutically, I was able to get off some answers that may have people trying to figure out where I’m going from here.”
On Thursday morning, Snoop once more addressed the Trump inauguration backlash when he appeared on “The Breakfast Club” radio present.
“I don’t represent the Republican Party. I don’t represent the Democratic Party. I represent the gangster party. Period,” he stated, including that the 30-minute DJ set reserving wasn’t an endorsement of Trump however reasonably a deal made with longtime enterprise accomplice — and crypto czar — David Sacks.
“It was a crypto play meant to bring resources back to the hood,” Snoop stated. “That was the mission.”
Though he has been busy with all the things from performing as a particular commentator on the Summer season Olympics final 12 months to serving as a coach on “The Voice,” Snoop continues to be enthusiastic about making music.
He launched his album “Missionary” in December, then adopted that with a gospel LP, “Altar Call,” which dropped only a few weeks in the past.
“That came out for my mother’s birthday, in the spirit of my mother,” Snoop spoke about his mother, Beverly Tate, who handed away in 2021, to the Privé Home viewers. “When she transitioned, her spirit grew to become my spirit. So that is what she unfold, the phrase.
“And doing life and things in her name and her spirit, I chose that opportunity to do that … It was good for the heart, it was good for the spirit.”
Snoop additionally purchased Loss of life Row Data — the label that launched him to stardom with 1993’s “Doggystyle” — in 2022. However he now not desires the label to be related to “negative characteristics” corresponding to gang violence.
And whereas he can be supporting different artists signed to his roster, Snoop continues to be very a lot impressed to make his personal music, with three albums launched within the span of 5 months.
“I’m to the point in my career now where … I don’t just make music to make music,” he stated. “I do it when I feel it’s necessary, when I feel like it’s a void missing with my sound, my voice.”
