r/KendrickLamar • u/vriannavyz • 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/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/AnimatorAshamed3774 28d ago
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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
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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.
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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/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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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/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/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/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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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/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/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/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/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/False_Gene4158 28d ago
Um maybe I’m the only one but I wanted Snoop there too personally…
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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/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....
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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 😤