Snoop Dogg says he didn’t endorse a candidate within the 2024 U.S. presidential election as a result of he doesn’t “believe in separating people” — to the frustration of his followers.
“I’m not looking for separation, I’m not looking for division — I’m looking for people to come together,” Snoop says in a clip that went viral on social media Saturday. “And I just want to say this: When all of the hoopla was going on with the voting, notice how I was nowhere to be seen?”
“I wanted it to be like that,” he added. “’Cause I don’t believe in separating people. I believe in bringing us together. … If you’re picking and choosing, now I gotta make people mad at me, because I chose this or chose that. I don’t choose neither one.”
Snoop argued that he doesn’t “represent the Republican Party or the Democratic Party,” and concluded with a reference to his 1996 music with Tupac Shakur, “2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted”: He stated he represents “the motherfucking gangster party.”
The footage was taken Wednesday in Hollywood, California in the course of the unveiling of Snoop’s new jewellery line, Lovechild. The viral clip is undated, however the rapper’s outfit within the video matches what he’s carrying in Getty press pictures taken in the course of the occasion, and the entrepreneur Carolyn Rafaelian, who collaborated on the jewellery model with Snoop, will be seen beside him in each the clip and the Getty pictures.
Whereas onlookers on the occasion enthusiastically reacted to Snoop’s feedback, followers on social media weren’t so completely happy.
“Snoop Dogg held a gun to the head of a Donald Trump lookalike in a music video a few years back,” wrote one consumer on X, previously Twitter, in reference to the 2017’s “Lavender,” by which the rapper factors a gun at a clown dressed like Trump. “He’s a liar.”
A protracted record of fellow entertainers, from Beyoncé to longtime Snoop collaborator Eminem, got here out in favor of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris forward of the November election. However Snoop has backed off of his Trump criticism not too long ago. He issued a stern message to all “punk motherfucker” Trump voters in 2019, solely to renege earlier this yr.
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“He ain’t done nothing wrong to me,” Snoop informed The Sunday Instances in an interview in January. “He has done only great things for me. He pardoned [Death Row Records co-founder] Michael Harris. So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”
Some commenters guessed that Snoop, along with his number of companies, might need had monetary causes for not endorsing a candidate.
“Just like other celebrities and politicians or media folks… walk back your previous stance because it will impact future earnings and PR,” wrote one consumer on X. “I’m not buying it from these people anymore.”
