Snoop Dogg has heard all the criticism about his performance at Crypto Ball, an event that celebrated the inauguration of Donald Trump. Now, he’s addressing all of the hate...and guess how he’s responding.
On Sunday, the Los Angeles rap legend took to Instagram Live to address all his haters who are mad at him for accepting a performance that celebrates Trump’s election: “It’s Sunday man, I got gospel in my heart. For all that hate, I’m going to answer with love. Y’all can’t hate enough on me. I love too much. Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool, I’m together. Still a Black man, still 100 percent Black.”
Snoop agreeing to do a performance was shocking because eight years ago, he was one of the loudest critics of the controversial president, saying in a 2017 clip just days before Trump’s first inauguration, “So ain’t no one gonna perform for Donald Trump huh? Which one of you jigaboo a** niggas gone be the first one to do it. I’m waiting… I’m gonna roast the fuck out of one of you uncle tom a** niggas for doing it.”
Eight years later, Snoop, Rick Ross, Nelly, and Soulja Boy all performed for Trump and his supporters during events at his most recent inauguration.
Snoop explained his change in attitude toward Trump during a 2024 interview with The Sunday Times, saying, “Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris. So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”
Harris is the co-founder of Death Row Records, the first label the “Gin and Juice” rapper signed to in the mid 1990s. He was in federal prison for more than 30 years after he was convicted of attempted murder and drug trafficking in 1988.