Snoop Dogg says he didn’t endorse a candidate within the 2024 U.S. presidential election as a result of he doesn’t “consider in separating individuals” — to the frustration of his followers.
“I’m not searching for separation, I’m not searching for division — I’m searching for individuals to come back collectively,” Snoop says in a clip that went viral on social media Saturday. “And I simply need to say this: When the entire hoopla was happening with the voting, discover how I used to be nowhere to be seen?”
“I wished it to be like that,” he added. “’Trigger I don’t consider in separating individuals. I consider in bringing us collectively. … If you happen to’re selecting and selecting, now I gotta make individuals mad at me, as a result of I selected this or selected that. I don’t select neither one.”
Snoop argued that he doesn’t “signify the Republican Get together or the Democratic Get together,” and concluded with a reference to his 1996 tune with Tupac Shakur, “2 of Amerikaz Most Needed”: He mentioned he represents “the motherfucking gangster get together.”
The footage was taken Wednesday in Hollywood, California in the course of the unveiling of Snoop’s new jewellery line, Lovechild. The viral clip is undated, however the rapper’s outfit within the video matches what he’s carrying in Getty press pictures taken in the course of the occasion, and the entrepreneur Carolyn Rafaelian, who collaborated on the jewellery model with Snoop, could be seen beside him in each the clip and the Getty pictures.
Whereas onlookers on the occasion enthusiastically reacted to Snoop’s feedback, followers on social media weren’t so completely satisfied.
“Snoop Dogg held a gun to the top of a Donald Trump lookalike in a music video a couple of years again,” wrote one consumer on X, previously Twitter, in reference to the 2017’s “Lavender,” by which the rapper factors a gun at a clown dressed like Trump. “He’s a liar.”
An extended checklist of fellow entertainers, from Beyoncé to longtime Snoop collaborator Eminem, got here out in favor of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris forward of the November election. However Snoop has backed off of his Trump criticism just lately. He issued a stern message to all “punk motherfucker” Trump voters in 2019, solely to renege earlier this 12 months.
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“He ain’t executed nothing flawed to me,” Snoop instructed The Sunday Occasions in an interview in January. “He has executed solely nice issues for me. He pardoned [Death Row Records co-founder] Michael Harris. So I’ve nothing however love and respect for Donald Trump.”
Some commenters guessed that Snoop, together with his number of companies, may need had monetary causes for not endorsing a candidate.
“Identical to different celebrities and politicians or media people… stroll again your earlier stance as a result of it’ll influence future earnings and PR,” wrote one consumer on X. “I’m not shopping for it from these individuals anymore.”