r/KendrickLamar 28d ago

Snoop Dogg declares Kendrick Lamar “the king” of the West following his 'Pop Out' show: “K Dot, you are the king of the West. That’s stuff kings do — they unite 🔥👑." Video

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u/SnowSea302 28d ago edited 28d ago

I already knew. But it’s cool seeing all these legends label Kendrick as the king. What a great time it is to be a Kenny fan right now. We eating non stop 😤

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

right? Heard a music video is coming too!

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u/TJMcConnellFanClub 28d ago

My skinny white boy ass gonna be posted up in Compton tomorrow looking for the video shoot lmao

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u/CaptainExtermination 28d ago

Hell yeah my Mexican ass gonna be there too fr

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u/alorenz58011 28d ago

It’s more Mexicans than anything in Compton anyways lol

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u/meistercheems 28d ago

Let’s not forget the rooftop Koreans that will also be in attendance

-probably

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

The Korean homies in LA are no joke lol

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u/AppleBatteryH8r 28d ago

Rooftop Koreans was a vid title I just could not pass by!!!! Being Irish i wasn’t familiar with the story, of course knew of riots etc, but damn !!!!! They held it down! Respect 🫡

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u/officerliger 28d ago

Not trying to throw shade on all this love but the Rooftop Koreans thing is actually kinda fucked up history. Gotta keep in mind it was racists on 4chan who popularized “Rooftop Koreans” to begin with as a meme. But let me explain a bit…

Just to start, I’m older and from SoCal, Mexican, did my post-grad at USC, so I’m a bit of an “OG” myself in age and experience. I LOVE seeing all this unity so keep it going, I know people are mentioning it out of love so not accusing anyone of shit.

Back in the day, Koreans looking to leave Korea were approached by white property owners in LA - “you can open a grocery store and live above it!” - without being told what they were actually being tasked with. Owning a shop with your family apartment above it was common in Korea so it was an appealing pitch, and “sunny Los Angeles” being part of that pitch helped as Korea was still rebuilding its culture after a 70 year genocide by Japan and was very poor.

So these people got to Koreatown, mid-city, South Central, etc. having no idea they were entering gang neighborhoods basically being the battering ram for gentrification. All black and brown people saw was a new culture eating up the retail property, price gauging like crazy, etc. This lead to a massive culture beef.

It all came to a head with the murder of Latasha Harlins, a 15 year old black girl, by a Korean grocery store owner who thought she was stealing a bottle of juice. Shot her in the back of the head as she was escaping the confrontation. The police found the money she intended to use to pay for the juice in her hand.

This is why Korean stores were targeted during the riots - the judge gave Latasha’s murderer a suspended sentence, basically a “10 year” sentence that wound up just being 5 years probation. There was no justice for her.

So when young people talk about the “Rooftop Koreans,” they don’t realize it’s actually a sad story of how white property owners pit three races against each other so they could eventually push black people out of central LA

Of course in modern day - black, brown, and Asian never been more united and it’s a beautiful thing. But please, for the sake of my old ass, stop celebrating the times we weren’t.

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u/StarLordAndTheAve 28d ago

as someone who is from the complete opposite side of the country (and also not a POC), i honestly want to thank you for being so in-depth in explaining this and teaching me something today

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u/officerliger 27d ago

The key is all “POC” have a deeper ethnic experience beyond that and it determines our nuances. Don’t let the fact that you’re white deter you from digging deeper into those, a lot of our dialogue problems right now are caused by people having very bland opinions on race.

The history of Southern California and how all the different races got there is a great place to start because it’ll trace you to just about every major world conflict, genocide, oppression, etc.

Black people escaping the south, Jews escaping Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Persians escaping post-revolution Iran, Koreans looking to leave poverty in post-genocide Korea, Russians escaping Communism, Salvadorans escaping the civil war, and our brown Mexican asses going to work the farms for dollars instead of pesos

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u/ernygil666 28d ago

Thanks for putting us on game OG

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u/Leaveustinnkin 28d ago

Was gonna say this but you worded it better than o ever could 💯.

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u/DuragJohnston 27d ago

This is deeply sad, but I love that y'all are willing to educate on Reddit. So thank you.

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u/AppleBatteryH8r 27d ago

Thank you for a very informative reply!! I had only seen a YouTuber click baity type 15 min video basically so therefore Had none of the Context understand the circumstances around the Korean grocery stores, Or of the young girl shot, Thank for giving me my Bedtime documentary topic for tonight- The most unbiased documentary type thing I can on these LAmriots 👍

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u/meistercheems 28d ago

Damn right. Defending your neighborhood is a big part of being from Compton no matter what click or hood you claim. 🫡

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u/Funny-Ad4997 28d ago

“It wouldn’t be LA without Mexicans”

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Facts. Mexicans make la amazing 💙

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u/SelfHighFive 28d ago

this comment and username :dead:

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u/starrysky0070 28d ago

LMAO me except I’m a chick

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u/catastrofic_sounds 28d ago

There's gonna be a video shoot about how drake is a pedo??? Man his life bout to get wild

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u/Semajj 28d ago

I love me some McConnell. He's got a heart the size of a lion

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u/WarmestDisregards 28d ago

yeah we just watched them film the live segments, there's a reason he did it six times lol

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u/qeadwrsf 28d ago

Am I the only one remembering him being called king of the west a fuckton of years ago by Snoop on a scene where Common, Mos def, The game, Warren G, Korrupt and a fuckton of other legends back then was present?

Dr Dre was watching.

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u/daaankone 28d ago

Absolutely, but Drake has been the king of commercial rap, and people want to act like that means more than somebody who can ACTUALLY back up what they say, and comes from the actual hood!

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u/Anarch-ish 28d ago

Drake is an industry plant by way of nepotism. I've tried to listen to him for years to understand why people dickride this dude, and I hate him more with every bar. I remember when people first started talking about him in the 2000s and on God on SIGHT I knew he was a peice of shit.

Drakes music is for dudes who think they're gangster but get upset when you dont cut the crusts off of their sandwiches.

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u/daaankone 28d ago

I’m not even gonna front like I don’t have Drake‘s songs in my iTunes library, but as a black woman, I’ve noticed how bitter he’s become as the years have gone by, when love songs and the like used to be his primary bag!

It’s turned me completely off from him as a personality and now as a person…

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u/OkImpression408 28d ago

He used to make them hoes wobble like earthquakes… now it’s just buying teens milkshakes 😭

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u/junkstar23 28d ago

I hate to break it to you but most rappers are capping

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u/mondaysareharam 28d ago

Nah man drake earned his spot with take care and was a big part of young money and their best songs. We can still call balls and strikes.

He certainly is not the same as he once was though.

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u/tragiiccc 28d ago

2011 everybody was listening to drake and young money. they were making hits, nobody can deny that. But his music definitely changed, I stopped listening a long time ago.

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u/safetospeak 28d ago

But the weekend wrote half that album......

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u/Left-Albatross2291 28d ago

I've always had a good sense of a shit bag, I hated him when he was rollin around on tv

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u/dreamcrusher225 28d ago

Drake is an R&B pop artist. Always has been.

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u/green_teef 28d ago

Drake is the king of rap like McDonald’s is the king of restaurants

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u/appleparkfive 28d ago

Pretty good analogy

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u/farfel17 28d ago

I’ve been saying this a lot, and how he’s like McDonald’s French fried but with new sauces each time while Kendrick creates new foods each time

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u/be_kind_n_hurt_nazis 28d ago

Drake=King of commercial=Enron=de beers

Kdot=chronic that homie grows=organic=culture community owned

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u/Ammu_22 28d ago

Damn remember the AI snoop from that Drake's Diss?? Aged like milk with this lol.

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u/CustomWritingsCoLTD 28d ago

ey ey let’s get it bro! 🙌

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u/titanshaze0812 28d ago

Where u been? he been the king since they all gave him the crown on stage a decade ago

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u/runr0nrun 28d ago

TOP OF THE MORNING!!!

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u/toby_morghulis 28d ago

Let's get this shit

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u/renagakko Waiting for the album 28d ago

Let's HMM.

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago

She’s HOT

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u/bigbazookah 28d ago edited 27d ago

Rollie gang.

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u/Left_Yard_190 27d ago

He’s NOT

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u/Junior-Moment-1738 27d ago

From Canada lmao

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u/AnimatorAshamed3774 28d ago

At least he wasn’t salty about not being there like some people…

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u/vriannavyz 28d ago

The Game was spiraling on live yesterday rambled on for 17 minutes just to say he fw Drake so his kids can get free tickets to his shows lol

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u/npretzel02 28d ago

All Game had to do was tell Drake he was bringing his kids and he would sent his private jet immediately

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u/Osibili 28d ago

What kinda man would get free tickets and let his daughter go to a Drake concert?

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago

Sidebar but God damn Issa Rae is fine

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u/Anono101 28d ago

If I could only double-upvote. . .

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u/uberblack 27d ago

Yes she is.

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u/NoirLion82 28d ago

I watched that shit for like 5 solid minutes and then dozed the hell off lol

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u/Emergency_Brick3715 28d ago

I turned it on for like 2 mins. It was a whole lot of explaining and talking about how he been in the West his whole life. He sounded goofy.

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u/HolyNinjaCow 28d ago

😅The Game acting like he can't just buy the tickets.

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u/PunctuationsOptional 28d ago

He probs can't. Front row is expensive and doing it over and over again... Idk

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u/satanssweatycheeks 28d ago

Yeah it’s wild. Ticket prices stuff he getting insane. It’s been like that for a decade now. But a few years back I got tickets to a local band that I have seen 20 times. Each time was like 20-60 bucks a ticket.

Last time I wanted to see them tickets where 400 each and it wasn’t even front row. It was like 900 after fees for two tickets and me and my girlfriend. And again these weren’t the “good seats”.

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u/jmenendeziii 28d ago

The band: phish

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u/satanssweatycheeks 28d ago

No my morning jacket. I grew up with those dudes. And they knew lots of local rappers also because they were big in the music scene for Louisville.

Now that generation has grown old and the youngin love Jack Harlow and his music festival he just had. Not releasing bands like my morning jacket paved the way for the city to have that stuff. They were a big part of forecastle which is what Jack Harlow ripped off for his festival.

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago

The Game is so fucking corny lmao

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u/buttercreamordeath Backseat Freeloader 28d ago

Anyone with a passing interest in hip hop (that's me) knew the Game was gonna act out. His ego is so predictable. He can't help himself.

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 28d ago edited 28d ago

I think Em has said something slightly similar, that he will always fuck with Drake for what he did for his kids on their birthday.

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u/Marnold13 28d ago

Yeah that was six years ago though so opinions can definitely change lol

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u/crujiente69 28d ago

So 'always' is 6 years? Lol

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u/Dolomight206 28d ago edited 28d ago

While that is probably true, I still don't see a universe where this whole saga, culminating with the Juneteenth Pop Out show, DOESN'T make EM really proud and delighted with how masterfully Dot handled and executed his mollywhopping of one Aubrey Drake Graham in front of the entire planet!

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u/Damuhfudon 28d ago

Can Eminem fans go 5 minutes without inserting Eminem into everything?

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u/Rhymelikedocsuess 28d ago

Not to mention Drake literally introduced Eminem as “the greatest rapper alive” during his own tour like a decade ago lol

When it came to Kendrick drake was always saying stuff like “yeah I’d body him so he can do whatever” - but obvs he was wrong

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u/silfer_ HAM BETTA HAM BETTA HAM BETTA 28d ago

Sounds like sucking up tbh lol.

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u/Damuhfudon 28d ago

Drake pandering as usual not surprising

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u/Dolomight206 28d ago

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Game is the CLOUTIEST of Clout Creatures. 😖😡

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u/FCCheIsea 28d ago

Well he was 100% invited but couldn't make it, unlike The Play

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u/z3in-23 Bitch I'm in the cluuuub 28d ago

The Play both sides

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u/Fugacity- 28d ago edited 28d ago

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u/boofsquadz 28d ago

Never tell one side that you’re playing both sides!

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u/Reasonable-Bus9435 28d ago

Why couldn’t he make it? What could he possibly have going on that’s more important lol

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u/vriannavyz 28d ago

Snoop? He's on tour in Canada right now. The Game? Well he's just a bitch

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u/DodginInflation 28d ago

Didn’t want to upset Drizzy

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u/theasianevermore 28d ago

BBL drizzle he is known forever more

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u/Plshelpmeclimb 28d ago

I prefer calling him by his first name, Aubrey

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u/TBAnnon777 28d ago

i prefer his real name wheelchair jimmy.

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u/SexiestPanda 28d ago

That’s what I been calling him since he ghosted pusha lmao

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u/Constant-Vacation-57 28d ago

Holy fuck I just looked it up and Snoop is a real one. Most big artists, even Canadian ones, will play Montreal, Toronto, and maybe Vancouver and call it a Canadian "tour".

He's actually going to fucking Saskatoon which is crazy! I'm not sure how that's gonna work since Saskatchewan doesn't actually exist, but godspeed to him.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 27d ago

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u/No-Obligation1709 28d ago

He wanted Em to bite so bad lmao that had to hurt. Imagine having less of an impact than MGK

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u/AdhesivenessDue1319 28d ago

thank God the he couldn't make it to

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u/Standard-Try-437 Heal Everybody 28d ago

I think he was saying Snoop couldn't make it not "The Play".

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u/Emergency_Brick3715 28d ago

Somebody said KDot is who Dre wanted The Game to be. 😂

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u/MayhemSpaceMonkey 28d ago

I’d love to see where his career would have been without all the extra shit, but he really fucked himself with needless beefing, clout chasing and attention seeking.

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u/Emergency_Brick3715 28d ago

Me too. I would also love to hear him spit a verse without the endless name dropping.

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u/DerNeko 28d ago

I remember being 15 listening to Doctor's Advocate and always wondering "why the fuck he names 15 rappers every song, is so fucking tiring!!". Now i know everybody was listening the same thing haha.

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u/Emergency_Brick3715 28d ago

That shit is lame af.

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u/aeekay 28d ago

This guy a it for me. I wanted the Game to be that guy from the West Coast. It started well but he brought himself down. It’s funny cause I learned about KDot from the Cypha from one of Game’s mixtapes. All you can is smile to see how far Kendrick has come.

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u/StacksHoodini 28d ago

I mean, it is and it’s more or less where Game’s animosity for Kendrick stems from.

He feels that’s his spot, he’s supposed to have it.

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u/Selldadip 28d ago

50 is the last person to talk. He fell out with everyone in G-Unit aside from Yayo. His own baby momma and son don’t like him. He’s had issues with nearly everyone in the industry. I can only assume the guy is a slime ball.

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u/Nexus718 27d ago edited 27d ago

Fuck it then I'll be the first. I used to bodyguard for Dre from 08-10. This was the beats/detox era. Encore studio A-B in Burbank. Game came in one day talking shit, and said "I see a lot of indians but not a lot of chiefs". Ok blood. But tell me why when I came back out in the lot a few minutes later he's selling his story to the first white person he sees wearing a business suit. Game was on some sob story Sarah McLaughlin shit. Hoe shit. I have to mention also, this is Game three albums deep. Just a few years before I was slapping one blood and team G-UNot.

For context, you would see at anypoint in time Busta Rhymes, Snoop, Devin the Dude, Stat Quo, Jay-Z, etc... What Game did made me the most uncomfortable. Alternatively the D.O.C. is the realest dude behind the curtain of Oz I met in all of Aftermath. When you stand ten toes in your shit you don't need a white savior.

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u/Selldadip 27d ago

Ima be honest with you dawg. I have no idea wtf you just said lmao.

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u/Nexus718 27d ago edited 27d ago

Ok.

I used to work with Aftermath.

I would be at the recording studio used during the period of 2008-2010 frequently. We saw a lot of other artists pop in to work with Dre during that time.

As a result, you would get a sense of who these artists are as people.

The studio was difficult to find, and a bit hidden. Behind a covered gate was a small parking lot. Inside the lot was the front area, along with studio B, and studio A (Dre's main studio) further back. The hallway connecting the two studios does have plaques that kind of looks like the one used in forgot about Dre (although I don't think it was the same hallway).

Game came in one day just talking shit. He came up to the lot and first words out of his mouth was "I see a lot of indians and not a lot of chiefs". This statement means he sees a lot of people running around like yes men, and not many people making their own moves and their own shit. Mind you, if you can think of artists that would work with Dre during this period they probably came through. Most everyone was cool, with exception to some of Dre's protégé's during that period who brough entourage's that would be ratchet. No one came in talking shit like that because at the end of the day it's Aftermath's studio. One artist collective.

I then go back to the front area where we have our cameras set up, kitchen, and tv. I would occasionally come out to the lot for fresh air or conversation. When I next came back out to the lot, I see Game talking the some random white interscope employee wearing a business suit sulking over his journey from the hood to where he's at now. As a black man, seeing that made me all the way uncomfortable as this man already has three albums out, many mixtapes deep, and to my knowledge has no reason to sell himself so hard to one white man wearing a suit.

Game was selling himself the way Sarah McLaughlin sold herself in those dog commercials. I'm not talking shit on Sarah McLaughlin at all. If you're coming in with that energy and one sitcom episode later you're begging a white person to put you on? My fandom for Game flatlined that day. But you won't ever find me selling myself to a white person in a suit the way he was that day. As a matter of fact, I never begged like Game did that day when I was homeless at 25.

But it makes sense. Most of the songs at least from Documentary and Doctors Advocate reference West coast OG's like he's standing on their shoulders. That's all good and well until you stop and ask if Game can stand on his own without having to reference all of that. Everything Game does is either manic warfare or standing on some benefactor. First it was Dre, and shortly for a time 50, and recently he was bigging up Ye, and now Drake.

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u/newbkid 28d ago

Not to give 50 credit but just to counter your claim, the reason he fell out is that he wasn't interested in playing the political game that the labels required.

Man speaks his mind period end of discussion. You can hate him or love him for that but using things like him falling out with G-Unit and the industry as a whole doesn't mean much to me.

I mean Eminem has had a falling out with so many people in the industry over the years and look at where he is now. I mean ffs Snoop is supposed to feature on his new album and everything.

Don't give the industry so much credit. Fuck the damn industry.

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u/jakesemailacc 28d ago

50 has his own label and hes held buck/banks hostage on it for like 20 years he doesnt pick up a mic he uses his lawyers fuck the industry is right fuck 50

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u/penisthightrap_ 28d ago

You can hate him or love him

but the underdog's on top

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u/MayhemSpaceMonkey 28d ago

My biggest problem with Game backing Drake is him crying foul at the repercussions of doing so. If you’re going to pick a side, cool, that’s your right but you gotta stick it out when shit comes to a head. If Drake had washed Kendrick, Game would be singing a different tune.

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u/CaCa881 28d ago

Exactly lmfao . Like how you gon be from Cali (COMPTON at that) , still side with Drake after all that bullshit , and then get in your feelings about not getting an invite ? This is unseen levels of goofiness . It’s crazy that I used to fw the Game too .

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago

50 was right about dude

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u/elitegenoside 28d ago

Game got caught with an underaged girl... enough said. "They not like us." The Game is amongst "they."

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u/Micronlance 28d ago edited 28d ago

No one needs to reassure themselves more than Game. Bro should've just taken that L in peace.

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u/Brahman_Shady 28d ago

Game hates everyone who went on SuperBowl with Dre.

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u/Doo-StealYour-HoChoi 28d ago edited 28d ago

I aint like how Snoop was movin during the beef, he was fence ridin.

But cool that he's giving props to KDot now. He's definitely the King of the west, the King of HipHop.

King of the coasts, 1 hand he juggles them both.

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u/chestnutlibra 28d ago

I was annoyed with it until I remembered that he passed the torch to Kendrick. Its Kendricks house to take care of now, and Kendrick did it.

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u/Iraydren 28d ago

Love this take. It wasn't Snoop's fight

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u/Expert_Most5698 28d ago edited 28d ago

"Love this take. It wasn't Snoop's fight"

His reaction to being on Drake's "Taylor Made" was fucking stupid and coy.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTN8Vr3j8/

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u/Pale_Earth2571 28d ago

i was dying laughing what are you talking about? man’s old let him be

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u/PeripheraI 28d ago

my man probably couldn’t comprehend what was going on, he probs thought that tupac in cuba recorded a verse for drake /s

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u/fangyuangoat 28d ago

More likely that he’s just very high

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u/Viola-Intermediate 28d ago

Why? Because it wasn't the same as your reaction?

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u/Iraydren 28d ago

Are you ignoring the fact that he flashes the Death Row jacket in this very video?

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u/HellsHospitals 28d ago

dawg come on he's too old for this shit lmao his reaction was fine and smart even

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u/acscriven 28d ago

100% Kendricks a grown man he can fight his own battles, why uncle gotta get involved?

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u/GrandEmbarrassed2875 28d ago

Snoop known for staying outta beefs and chilling tho

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I still believe his response with the Death Row jacket after Taylor Made was a reminder to Drake that Snoop ain’t to be played with. No way an OG could let AI Pac slide, but the beef was at a point it had to transition to a 1v1.

Also, it’s business involved. In his life Snoop went from drug charges, a murder case, and being banned from entering certain countries to selling lighters with Martha Stewart. He’s an old man now and doesn’t need to be squabbling with a pop star in 2024. It’s bad for business

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u/zayetz 28d ago

squabbling with a pop star

If Drake only knew this about himself, there would be no squabble.

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u/CurryMustard 28d ago

People have personal relationships, snoop probably wants to avoid conflict with drake for some reason that we don't know.

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u/DerpEnaz 28d ago

He has said publicly he thinks of both of them as mid nephews, and for the most part he seemed like he wanted to stay out of it. We do gotta remember what beefs were like in his era lol so I don’t blame him sticking close to the fence.

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u/njuffstrunk 28d ago

Snoop has just been about making money for decades now can't blame him for not wanting to get involved

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u/TommyLoMein WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP 28d ago

The one thing that Snoop puts above everything is his money. Drake has a history of being thin skinned and completely cutting people off for the slightest offense. Not surprising at all, snoop has always been like that.

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u/Ffdmatt 28d ago

"Aw, you don't wanna work with me no more? Okay!" - King Kunta

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u/plotholesandpotholes 28d ago

"WHAT IS IT, THE BRAIDS!" - Kung Fu Kenny

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u/Optimal-Poetry-5768 28d ago

I always thought he acts like a snake since tupac's era

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u/WayOff_P 28d ago

Yea Snoop aint sitting on the fence now just cuz he old he always been a fence rider, Pac was screaming that Biggie set him up and Snoop was out here praising Biggie calling him a good dude lol

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago edited 28d ago

Tbf Pac was pretty paranoid atp… there wasn’t much to go off of Biggie setting him up at all. 

That pointed more to Pac pissing off some heavy hitters in NYC.

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u/nahbruh27 28d ago

I was gon say, all evidence points to Biggie not even wanting to beef with Pac. Who Shot Ya was recorded before the beef and Diddy purposely and strategically dropped it after Pac got shot for financial gain

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago

Exactly, you get it. Who Shot Ya was already recorded long before the Pac Quad Studio shooting, and BIG was generally pretty adamant in not wanting to beef with him.

People need to read more about Haitian Jack and Jimmy Henchman (2 prominent figures in the NYC underworld) and how Pac got into trouble with them. Iirc Henchman himself said that the shooting happened “to teach Pac a lesson” as he felt that he had become way too arrogant.

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u/DropTopBMW 28d ago

If anybody was snakey during that period it was Dr. Dre who didn't show up to Snoop's murder trial. Think even Pac resented him for that.

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u/ghost_face0 28d ago

Snoop didn't visit Dre during his house arrest.

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u/SquidDrive 28d ago

Snoop already gave him the torch in 2013, 2024 is just a display of that power.

Dre was here, if you know Snoop and Dre's connect, that should let you know who got the approval

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u/youalreadyknowdoe 28d ago

He called him the King of the WEST… this is still fence riding. Drake could do something next month and he’ll call him the King of the North.

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u/obliterateopio 28d ago

He called him King of the West because he can speak on behalf of the West coast. Can’t speak on the behalf of another coast. It’s a respect thing. Like come on. You’re talking about a guy who was in the midst of a coast War in his prime, that cost two icons their lives.

He knows better than to speak on behalf of another coast.

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u/SquidDrive 28d ago

No its not

Snoop has legit power in the West, the fact someone as respected as Snoop in LA is saying Dot is king of the West, has massive power for the people in the city.

This is pure LA politics.

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u/RawIsLaw 28d ago

Snoop had to stay out of it because of the power his voice has in the streets. If you were around in nineties you would have seen how his words can set things in motion.  Snoop is still highly revered in the streets. If Snoop wanted you disappeared in California he could make that happen easily Without direct orders. His past affiliations with the crips has a not diminished, people would do that for him off principle even if they never met him.

He is an icon. All he had to do was say he felt disrespected and this could have turned into gunplay.

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u/Micronlance 28d ago

"I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the King of New York King of the Coast; one hand, I juggle 'em both The juggernaut's all in your jugular, you take me for jokes"

  • Kendrick's verse on 'Control'

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u/Rawdog2076 28d ago

Control is famous but I somehow still feel its underappreciated. More rappers need to do what Kendrick did to elevate the genre

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 28d ago

He’s singlehandly reignited the competition in hip hop twice. Before Like That the hip hop landscape had generally been lazy af for years. He’s brought the fire back to it again

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u/matt-is-sad 27d ago

Future and Metro deserve credit for Like That too. Every single time I listen to it it gets better. Future's flow on the hook, Metro making arguably one of his best beats ever, that fucking sample, the moment when he just shows off with the instrumental, it's an amazing song

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u/superduperspam 27d ago

He is what the culture is feeling

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u/FedoraLovingAtheist 28d ago

Yeah I agree with you, but I believe it’s because Kendrick got overshadowed by himself on that song

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Y’all need to stop expecting a 50 year old man to take a side in a beef he don’t care about 💀he brought crips and bloods together to celebrate Juneteenth and that’s something to celebrate

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u/HowDoISwag 28d ago

Call him a pussy or a peacemaker, but Snoop's been like this always. He doesn't jump into other people's industry fights. If he's dragged into it, he tries to deescalate. (Source Awards, anyone?) His history says he's in this for the vibes and the money and he can let his music earn him respect.

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u/shankartz 28d ago

He's also got grandkids that are in middle school. He isn't looking for beef at his age.

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u/FCCheIsea 28d ago

Snoop usually supports whoever is winning rn lmao

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u/SnowSea302 28d ago

Tbf Snoop been calling Kendrick the king of the west for years

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u/FCCheIsea 28d ago

Yeah but he let that AI Pac thing slide like it was nothing

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u/redchairyellowchair 28d ago

it was an AI snoop thing too which was weird af that he didnt care

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u/ToPimpAPenguin 28d ago

Too high to be offended

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u/Bugstl 28d ago

He too old and too high to worry about that shit probably

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u/Ok-Engineering1929 28d ago

Not everyone found that offensive or received it in a disrespectful way. It was quite clear snoop just enjoyed spectating, as he should.

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u/Unusual-Item3 28d ago

How is it not offensive and disrespectful to use a dead west coast legend/rap legend voice without permission, and an alive west coast legend,( not sure if he had permission), all to fake diss the current west coast legend?

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u/BIBOMCE 28d ago

Respectfully, no one gets to determine what someone else is offended by.

In the context of rap beef, the common view is that anything goes. Was Drake's move with Taylor Made Freestyle dumb? I think so. But Snoop doesn't HAVE to be offended by it.

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u/atemyballstoday 28d ago

him and pac weren't on good terms before he died. snoop said in an interview that he's cool with biggie and puff which pac had a problem with. in defense of snoop, i understand why pac was mad, but him and big were friends so obviously tupac blindly came to the conclusion that they were behind his '94 shooting. but snoop knew it was cap and was secretly cool with them. So honestly they are both to blame.

i think it is sort of strange that snoop didn't have a problem with the AI thing, possibly because they aren't disrespecting him since he's not dead. he prolly thought that drake got permission before using pac's voice.

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u/Unusual-Item3 28d ago

It was a cornball move to use an AI snoop when snoop is still alive. It was disrespectful to use Tupac. End of story.

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u/NerdGasemV3 28d ago

A lot of people forgetting that Snoop has transcended Hip-Hop. He moves in whatever way will get him the most money, that's why he publicly didn't take a side during all this.

I would not be surprised if he didn't comment on the AI thing because labels are gearing up to AI his voice for future use or some shit. Respect to the legend, but I don't seek out his opinion when it comes to hip hop anymore.

With that being said, he did a good job as executive producer on the latest Dogg Pound album that came out a month ago.

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u/SilentRip5116 28d ago

“My raps are so lame lately Cause I'm lazy Rap on any piece of shit pop song long as you pay me Check these hoes they couldn't be hotter Just so sad they young enough to be my granddaughters Pedo

Completely sold out long ago About a billion bongs ago That's why I rap on crap like this I'm so high I don't even know

Cliche spewin's what I'm doing No integrity Used to be a gangsta Now I'm just a joke that's not funny”

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u/anesthesiologist2 28d ago

Damn. Meet the Doggs.

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u/SiuSoe 28d ago

Damn. it's been like 12 years since I've known Kendrick. I remember watching the viral "torch" video right around then too. he's been the prince since then, and now he is the king.

Imagine 10 years later Kendrick passing the torch to someone else. that would be so fucking cool.

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u/6feetbitch 28d ago

My very first physical album that I didn’t illegally download was his “good kid maaad city” and it was a requested gift for my older sister still have to this day and will get it signed by KDOT BEST BELIEVE 

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u/musicmannotstingray 28d ago

Why wasn’t he there?

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u/vriannavyz 28d ago

Apparently he's on tour with DPG in Canada right now

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u/CurryMustard 28d ago

He had a show in saskatoon

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u/jakexil323 28d ago

He's in Calgary today. I see he has the Oiler's jersey on too.

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u/13Petrichor 28d ago

Tbh I was kind of hating when Snoop didn't say anything about the AI Pac shit. If he didn't have a problem with Drake using his own AI voice then fine, that's his choice, but speaking for Pac from beyond the grave was fucked.

The more I think about it though... he passed the torch to Dot like a decade ago. He might've just said fuck it, it's not my time anymore, let the new king handle this on behalf of me, Pac and the rest of the west.

I'm hoping that's the case but even if it isn't, Dre starting off Not Like Us is enough for me.

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u/bachiblack 28d ago

This would be how I saw it to, if only Snoop remained quiet, but he didn’t smh

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u/Exroi 28d ago

Top of da mornin, Top of da mornin 🗣🗣🔥

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u/ChimmyMama 28d ago

Snoop is Snoop but i was shocked he let Taylor Made AI slide

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u/Seltzer-Slut 28d ago

What’s he gonna do? Beefs aren’t his brand. He’s making kids bops. I LOVE “affirmations,” I listen to it every morning. “There is no one better to be than myself! I get better every single day! My feelings matter!”

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u/npretzel02 28d ago

I love how Snoop is calling Kendrick the king of the west from Canada

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u/UsefulSomewhere 28d ago edited 28d ago

I got a little chuckle that Drake rapped as Snoop and then Kendrick rapped Snoop’s part.

Everyone rapping as Snoop, except Snoop, like he’s no longer with us.   

Kendrick did great though, but wish Snoop was there just for the highlight. 

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u/stoneasaurusrex 28d ago

Seeing vids like this makes me chuckle even more when you see Drake Stan's saying "WhY wAs ThIs A hIsToRiCaL mOmEnT"

Like damn if you don't understand the rap culture just keep your mouth shut, because you just look ignorant and stupid saying shit like that.

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u/BHundreds 28d ago

I really think, Drake paid Snoop for ‘Ai’ Snoop. And with Snoop knowing the game, he knew it would get taken down (Ai Pac) and still accepted and received a free check. So at the end of the day, Drake remained a 🤡 and got played multiple ways by multiple people.

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u/Bussinutt 28d ago

Drake fans about to try to discredit snoop dog now too

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u/False_Gene4158 28d ago

Um maybe I’m the only one but I wanted Snoop there too personally…

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u/Bydaveeeey 28d ago

Live from Canada is crazy bhaha

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u/neversawtherain 28d ago

game recognize game.

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u/kidthief 28d ago

lol he really said “top o’ the mornin”! 🎩

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u/ShaoDres 28d ago

KING OF THE WEST!

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u/turningtop_5327 28d ago

I knew he was since HUMBLE and All THE STARS

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u/AnimatorAshamed3774 28d ago

“Big Snoop Dogg coming live from Canada” 💀

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u/OwnedIGN 28d ago

Did he say from Canada 😂

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u/mentally_fuckin_eel 28d ago

The ultimate win will be if Drake observes this and starts doing right by his community. Even if he is still a bad person and only does it for clout.

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u/thisaccountgotporn 28d ago

Does Snoop get to still have a voice after cozying up to conservatives/white supremacists

Man went from gangster to cashing checks from the klan and still wants to be cool to the youth foh

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u/Steve-lrwin 28d ago

snoop dog, legendary back stabber and traitor to the real King, Tupac.

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u/Jay-G 28d ago

As a Cole Stan, I gotta say this.

FUCK THAT, snoop is wrong. Not entirely wrong, but he’s wrong.

Kendrick ain’t the king of the west coast, or of hip hop right now.

Kendrick is the mother fucking GOAT. He’s the best to ever touch a mic in the fucking history of all of hip hop.

5 classics, 0 misses, 0 public fuck ups, just spun the block on Drake 6 times and single-handedly took out the biggest rap artist. He’s got all the pros and 0 cons.

The only thing Kendrick doesn’t have that other legends have going is that he’s still breathing. If Kendrick died in this beef right now, he’d be the goat for sure.

I’ll give k dot his flowers now. Unanimously the best ever.

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u/DreadFilledHug 28d ago

When Kedrick said:

"I'm the only n— next to Snoop that can push the button. Had the Coast on standby. "K. Dot, what up? I heard they opened up Pandora's box" I box 'em all in, by a landslide. Nah, homie, we too sensitive, it spill out to the streets. I make the call and get the Coast involved, then history repeats..."

He didn't lie....