The weekend before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Snoop Dogg went to Washington and performed at the Crypto Ball, one of the “pre-inaugural” events for the MAGA crowd. Snoop likely got a fat paycheck, and Rick Ross and Soulja Boy were also in attendance at the same concert. Snoop has been widely criticized for his decision to perform at a Trump-adjacent event. Reportedly, he’s lost over 500K Instagram followers, which… isn’t actually that much, given Snoop’s newfound MAGA-adjacency. Still, people in the Black community have been saying a lot of sh-t about Snoop since the Crypto Ball. He’s heard it too, because he’s still trying to explain himself and talk his way out of it. He posted a video where he declared that he’s “still 100% Black.”
Snoop Dogg has addressed “all the hate” he received for performing during President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Ball. On Sunday, the rapper, 53, shared a video on Instagram where he addressed the criticism he received after his appearance.
“For all the hate, I’m going to answer with love,” said Snoop in the video as he sat in his car and took a hit from what appeared to be a blunt. “Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool. I’m together. Still a Black man. Still 100% Black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”
On Saturday, Jan. 25, the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” performer also opened up about dealing with the backlash following the performance on R&B Money Podcast.
“You ‘gon deal with hate when you get to the top, no matter who you are… 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,” he said.
Snoop performed at the Crypto Ball in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 17. Also in attendance were Rick Ross and Soulja Boy. Additionally, Nelly played at the Liberty Ball on Monday, Jan. 20.
It’s not my place to adjudicate any of this – this is between Snoop and the Black community, but as an outsider looking in, it seems like Snoop genuinely went too far this time. People are really mad at him and some have even said that he’s messed with his legacy. I’m not cosigning those thoughts, I’m just gossiping about some of the stuff I’ve seen and heard. I do wonder about Snoop’s crisis management though – maybe it would be better or more honest for him to shrug and say “yeah, I did it for the money, those people were using me so I used them right back and got a fat paycheck?”
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He’s not getting nearly enough of the backlash he deserves. Being Black has nothing to do with this. Ethics, morals and standing for what’s right does. He’s a simp lap dog and that’s all there is to it. Both he and Nelly have chosen their sides.
I had two songs of his on my playlists (they were collabs). Removed those. A small thing but every bit helps.
Now I will no longer be one of his monthly listeners or adding to his streams.
Also, didn’t he criticize people who performed for Trump before?
Also he was very vocal against people who chose to perform at Trump’s first inauguration. He sounds like he trying to pretend that the video is not on the internet anymore.
I despised him BEFORE he bowed down to a disgusting American despot and I despise him EVEN more now…which quite frankly I didn’t think was possible 😡 Hope his ancestors give him NO PEACE in his sleep…in THIS life and the next🤬
My son-in-law is Black and he has no use for Snoop. He says he sold out long ago and will do anything for money and that him trying to get around what he has done just makes it worse.
And on that note, I don’t even think this is all about money. My little theory is there’s some kind of kompromat on him, Diddy style. IMHO it’s a better explanation of his 180 about face than money alone
Cofounder of snoops record label was just pardoned, it seems snoop felt he owed the administration?
Snoop has built a massive fortune by investing in tech companies, which means he is just another a-hole tech bro. The Black community supported his music career, supported him when he was on trial for murder, and helped rehabilitate his image to the point where he no longer needed the Black community.
He deserves every bit of the backlash and more.
Bending the knee and capitulation is an ugly ugly look. No excuse.
He sold out short and simple… black or white and he has enough money
2PAC was right about Snoop all along.
What’d he say….
Whatever, Snoop.
To anyone who’s been harshly criticizing Snoop on social, please STOP. Take a break, get some coffee, and THEN go back on social and continue to harshly criticize him. And for good measure, please see your way to harshly criticizing Carrie Underwood, Nelly, the Village People, Rascal Flatts, and Gavin DeGraw on social too.
I legitimately do not know who Gavin DeGraw (a singer, obviously, from context but… who?) is but i agree with the rest of your post!
Don’t forget Jewel too!
The Village People ruined one of my favorite ‘near the end of the night’ songs in clubs for me.
Will not be singing or dancing to it anymore.
Bye losers.
LOL AMEN.. I love your take. I unfollowed Snoop ASAP. So disappointed. Nelly is an idiot and I feel sorry for his new wife Ashanti who is also getting backlash for being married to him.. YUCK. I liked Rascal Flatts too..OMG so disappointed. Don’t care about Carrie Underwood. She’s always had a reputation of being a bitch form day one. YUCK! I just wish they would all get the same treatment the gave Chrisette Michelle 8 years ago, who got blacklisted and lost her record deal and turned to alcohol and pills. She wasn’t even as famous as half of these people and everyone cancelled her.. or at least the black community did.
The money he got paid from the event will be close to nothing compared to the tax cuts he is gonna get as a rich American. That is why all these people are turning slowly to the right the minute they realize the Republican government means they are gonna get richer.
I ALWAYS laugh when I hear rich folks talk about GOP tax cuts when the money they lose from their stocks crashing and folks not being able to afford the consumables many of those rich folks sell…makes their tax cuts laughable…
Unless you’re mega-wealthy…where tax cuts one of the main ways you amass your wealth…which SD will NEVA be
Yup…different theory, but same as people believing in trickle down economics. Like when has THAT ever benefited anyone but the top earners?
Very true.
Slight tangent but hopefully not too far.
I’ve always had an innate optimism that things may suck at a given time but it will work out in the end. Now it feels different and I’ve started to wonder what this period in history will look like and how it will be recorded. I was born in the late 70’s and learnt about WW2 and the Nazis and as I grew up started to think more beyond the ‘facts’ of what happened. What was it like living in Germany? Who joined/collaborated because they were partially or fully on board with the goals and who wanted to save their skin/income/lifestyle so they went along with things?
Most of humanity likes the status quo, sure we like to improve things but it takes a lot to radically overhaul how we live/operate. Wars do that and covid did that, but what does it take to get enough people to stand up and overthrow something they disagree with? I am losing faith that there will be a fair election in the US in four years and I fear what will happen in that time and beyond.
I was born in late ’78 and relate to a lot of what you say here. I’m kinda taking a “wait and see” approach to Trump’s second term but I really could see people organizing in a revolutionary way if things get bad enough.
I know the Right is doing their best to erase the most important lessons and most historic events in American History but it’s hard to believe that the Republicans won’t pay a price for some of this shit. Imagine 50 years from now when kids are reading about the insurrection on Jan 6th and the subsequent pardoning of even the most violent offenders. It’s all so fucking appalling and ultimately, I have to believe it will be a lasting stain on our country. I just cannot fathom the idea that Trump will be remembered as a heroic, great president and not a fascist lunatic hellbent on destroying our country. Alas, that is the only small measure of optimism I can muster at this moment. Ask me again tomorrow….
Just like UK indoctrinate their children from early school years to accept Monachy & the Imperialism attitude, the current US government will rewrite & wipe out America Minority History through education: Religious schools and closing puloc schools. They want the next generations to be under-educated, so they will be easier controlled & deceived.
Snoop is just like those Black NFL millionaires, money, money, money!
My understanding is that essentially textbooks come mostly from Texas. So yeah, add to that the book-banning in conservative states and we are f*cking cooked.
@Kitten you and I are almost exactly the same age! I’m early November 78.
To your last point I’d like to think the pendulum swings back and while they can create a ton of propaganda in the end people look with a more rational eye. But at the same time, history is written by the winners and it’s taken almost 2000 years to start saying ‘was Nero unfairly maligned’ (I don’t know on that one). I’d like to think this will be a less awful Hitler situation and the current Nazis won’t do as much evil but only time will tell.
My grandmother is 92 today and when we spoke earlier said that Hitler became chancellor two days after she was born (I haven’t checked her maths). She’s wondering what the world will look like when she passes and so am I!
Was thinking along same lines, e.g. have more dimensional view of how nazism encroched over Germany, until hitlers agenda could not be denied. I feel we are being steered in that direction. People keep telling me, “that’s not what he meant” when trump says/does something outrageous, or with all the recent gaslighting over musk
I don’t think wait & see w work out for us. Once they grow enough support, control more institutions, consolidate enough power it wb harder, if not impossible, to turn back w/out bloodshed. We need to take a page from the French, who seem to willing to protest or riot at the nascent phase of government b.s.
trump & maga are steamrolling over Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, LGBTQ, women & etc, in real time. Maga has already encroached on women rights, further eroded Black voting rights, is talking about putting mentally ill into asylums… it’s next-gen nazism.
I’m not excluding myself from need to act, in some way..
I totally agree.The future is terrifying. The little orange man is creating a lot of evil noise, actions and distractions while the little car and spaceship man behind represents any even terrifying future. He can troll wars with his satellite toys! A folie a deux.
You can not vote every day for politicians but you can vote every day with your money and even how by how you search for things online.
Find alternatives to the big platforms that helped push us into this mess and the billionaires controlling them.
Absolutely! I’m with you 100% on that.
Still 100% stupid.,
LOL Alicky! My favorite comment on this thread.
So am I able to now say that I believe he was guilty of murder, without people jumping on me???
Still 100% about your bag you crusty old misogynist.
Came here to say the same about his really awful misogyny.
I may be wrong, but I think the bag was only a small part of it. The way Black men came out of their faces to talk badly of Kamala was just…beyond. I believe is a MAGAt. This is who he is now.
He sucks. And it makes me laugh he’s mad the Black community said have fun with everyone else.
Hey Kaiser, let me help you out with this one. As a life long member of the Black community let me assure you that for me, and many others, Snoop remains CANCELLED. He can take his cooning, Uncle Tomming, hypocritical *ss and have several seats. He didn’t need the money and he didn’t need the clout, but he did us all a favor and showed us how he REALLY feels. He can take Nelly, Rick Ross and Soulja Boy, and grab Kanye and go on the Shuckin’ and Jivin’ Uncle Tom Tour in all the deepest red states and perform their minstrel show for all the white folks who love to see black folks get bamboozled.
Don’t forget lil Wayne and a$ap rocky.
These rich black men believe that racism and oppression are only towards poor black people. Lies.
Without realizing it, calling him an uncle tom or any other race-based insult proves one point he’s trying to make: a Black man does something unpopular and his blackness gets criticized in the ugliest of ways. His morals may not align with yours but using the language of slave owners and segregationists is incredibly insensitive to those who lived and died hearing those words. Internalized racism needs to be eradicated.
@pret I wish we could assert gifs on here cause I would assert a “wtf” gif in response to you
No, ma’am, we are using the words we have. I will add another one: not all skin folk are kinfolk. Those words depict people who would sell or betray another Black person if it gets them their 30 pieces of silver.
“Without realizing it.” Wow.
This reminds me of when the expression ‘smack the black off you’ was heard in schoolyards. There should be ZERO tolerance for race-based insults. We rush to condemn any criticism of women as misogyny but let a Black man get pulled back into the gutter of Jim Crow taunts and somehow it’s deserved. Hate him and his politics all you want and cancel him across the breadth of social media. Just be mindful of America’s history and know that the language you’re using was not created by you. I was never a Snoop fan so he didn’t have far to fall for me to cut him loose, but you won’t ever find me pulling from the klan manifesto. And if a gif best represents your opinion then go post where such shortcuts are allowed.
Can you come to my country and become a politician, please?
I will vote for you.
We need people who take no sh*t and call people out clearly/
My issue is his blatant hypocrisy.
In 2017, he made a video where he criticized everyone and anyone who was performing at Dump’s inauguration. He was straight up calling them all out and wondering who else was going to sell their soul to the orange menace. Then the guy goes and does the same exact thing in 2025. Hard to respect that kind of behaviour.
We all know Snoop will attend the opening of an envelope if there’s a paycheck, so I’m not shocked he’s a sellout for a fascist – it means he got paid. It also means this is exactly who he is – a washed up sell out to the highest bidder and an uneducated hypocrite
So he played the Crypto ball…There’s a New Yorker article out right now called “Sitting at the Cruel Kids Table.” The journalist followed the people, many of them young folks in their 20s, who went to the Crypto Ball and other inaugural events. When I say I am terrified for the future of this country when thinking about who will be in charge when my daughter enters adulthood…your worst high school bullies are taking over right now. They were celebrating “I can say whatever I want!” And what they were quoted as saying was highly disturbing.
Also, 100% rich. That seems to “trump” everything these days.
He and Jewel can go have a good cry together
So I guess the gushing posts and comments he received during the olympics won’t be back anytime soon.
What a waste of a perfectly executed PR campaign.
Yes, he had crossed over to mainstream fame and acceptability, which many rappers don’t get to do. But now, eff him.
I keep thinking what a bunch of squandered good will after the Olympics. Everyone LOVED Snoop after this past summer and with the 2028 set for LA, Snoop had it made. I’m not forgetting anyone who supports this second term, especially after we all saw his first term and insurrection.
Seriously, this is such a flip of the switch, it’s like he’s purposely trying to undo the miles of goodwill he got from the Olympics.
Still 100% Sell Out.
Total sell out!
Whatever, Lapdogg
You just killed me… 🫵🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I was really becoming a fan! Not anymore! I delete anything that he is on just like I delete anything Trump from my feed. Too bad!
I love these articles/posts about him and other sellouts that we can read here and on other places like Bluesky, Reddit etc resulting in even more people going: “He what? I’m going to unfollow!”
I was a fan until he said he had nothing but love for the orange trash bag when he pardoned snoops friend. And then he said he didn’t wanna endorse a candidate because he didn’t wanna cause division. We’re already divided you asshat, have some balls! I would have respected his decision if he’d said that it was for the money. But as it is snoop is dead to me.
My favorite comment on Reddit stated “I guess Snoop is proving even pimps can be hoes” Damn! It got thousands of likes, awards. I lurk on there, otherwise I’d have given that one an award lol. Well done Internet Person.
He was my favorite thing about the Olympics. But he can really go pound sand.
I’ve never cared for his music, so I can’t stop buying it. I’m tossing his cookbooks though. We do what we can.
He created so much good will during the summer Olympics and I cannot believe he would do this to himself. There was no one on his team that said we don’t have to do this and pass. Does he really need the money? Look at what this man is already doing to this country. This man is literally trying to erase black history. Any black person who collaborates with these people deserve the blowback.