Snoop Dogg responds to ‘all the hate’ over Trump…
Snoop Dogg has a blunt response to followers who criticized him for performing during Donald Trump’s inauguration celebrations.
In an Instagram dwell broadcast on Sunday, which he later posted to the important web page of his account, the rapper and former Trump critic, 53, spoke about “all the hate” he’s been receiving these days. Though he didn’t point out the president by title, Snoop’s feedback got here a little over a week after performing in Washington, DC, on Jan. 17 at the Crypto Ball for one of Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration festivities.
“It’s Sunday I got gospel in my heart,” the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” hitmaker stated in the clip, wherein he’s seen smoking and listening to gospel music in his car.
“It’s Sunday I got gospel in my heart,” Snoop stated. Snoop Dogg/Instagram
“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 in the video, Snoop stated, “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.”
“For all the hate I’m going to answer with love, I love too much.” Snoop Dogg/Instagram
“We gotta learn to pick each other up instead of pulling each other down,” Snoop added. Snoop Dogg/Instagram
“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 during an look on “R&B Money Podcast” over the weekend.
President Donald Trump is applauded after delivering his inaugural handle on the day of his Presidential Inauguration at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. REUTERS
“You ‘gon deal with hate when you get to the top, no matter who you are,” he stated. “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 solely massive title to carry out at the Crypto Ball. Rick Ross and Soulja Boy additionally took the stage. Other celebrities, together with Carrie Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus and Nelly carried out at different inauguration occasions.
Following his efficiency, Snoop misplaced a vital quantity of social media followers — more than 500,000 on Instagram and almost 20,000 on X.
Snoop Dogg performs onstage at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on August 28, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. Getty Images for MTV/Paramount G
The musician and mogul was as soon as a fierce critic of Trump.
In September 2018, the “Sweat” rapper spoke out in opposition to Kanye West and everybody who supported Trump, 78.
While discussing West’s help for the former “Apprentice” host during an interview on DJ Suss One’s SiriusXM show, Snoop had a fiery response when the DJ talked about that some of his followers may back Trump.
“I tell them straight up motherf–ker, if you like that n—–, you motherf–king racist. F–k you, and f–k him.”
Donald Trump and Snoop Dogg attend the COMEDY CENTRAL Roast of Donald Trump at the Hammerstein Ballroom on March 9, 2011 in New York City. FilmMagic
Snoop additionally stated Trump fanned strife between people of completely different backgrounds and “drew the lines.”
“Before him, there were no lines,” he stated. “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 Death Row Records co-founder Michael Harris, who had who served 30 years on costs of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide.
“He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me,” Snoop stated of Trump in a January 2024 interview with The Sunday Times.
“So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”
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