After bonding on The Apprentice again in 2007, Snoop Dogg and former one-term president Donald Trump have had an up-and-down relationship ever since. The nadir of their unlikely friendship got here throughout the twice-impeached Trump’s time period within the White Home, throughout which Snoop launched the Trump-bashing single “M.A.C.A. (Make America Crip Once more).”
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The 2017 track featured the strains, “The president says he desires to make America nice once more. F–okay that s–t, we going to make America Crip once more… don’t you look unusual having all that energy however you gained’t make change.”
“M.A.C.A.” was launched seven months after Snoop parodied Trump within the video for “Lavender (Dusk Remix),” which featured a clown model of the previous actuality star named Ronald Klump. The satire of present occasions had Clown-in-Chief Klump holding a press convention to announce the deportation of all canines. In a Billboard interview on the time, Snoop ticked off an extended record of issues he had with the actual property mogul who’s presently making a 3rd bid for the presidency. “The [Muslim] ban that this motherf–er tried to place up; him profitable the presidency; police with the ability to kill motherf–kers… and get away with it (and) folks being in jail for weed for 20, 30 years,” Snoop stated on the time of Trump’s divisive actions and statements.
Trump, as is his wont, responded to the diss days later with an insult on his socials, referring to what he deemed the multi-platinum rapper’s “failing profession.”
However in a weekend interview with the U.Ok.’s The Sunday Occasions (paywalled) it seems that one in every of Trump’s last acts in workplace earlier than shedding to President Joe Biden within the Nov. 2020 election left an enduring affect on Snoop. “Donald Trump? He ain’t performed nothing flawed to me,” Snoop reportedly informed the paper. “He has performed solely nice issues for me. He pardoned Michael Harris.”
Again in Jan. 2021 — simply weeks after a mob of Trump loyalists attacked the U.S. Capitol constructing in an try to cease the certification of Biden’s victory — Snoop thanked Trump for his last-minute grant of clemency to Demise Row Information co-founder Michael “Harry-O” Harris amid a flurry of 140 commutations and pardons doled out on one in every of his final days in workplace.
“I’ve nothing however love and respect for Donald Trump,” Snoop informed the Occasions about his obvious change of coronary heart in regards to the former president who was ordered final week to pay recommendation columnist E. Jean Carrol $83.3 million in a defamation trial that’s one in every of a handful of circumstances Trump is dealing with in New York, Florida, Georgia and Washington which have led to 4 indictments and 91 felony prices.
Snoop was signed to Demise Row in the beginning of his profession in 1993 and the rapper acquired the label’s catalog in 2022. Harris served 30 years of a 25-to-life sentence for conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide earlier than his sentence was commuted.
After telling Large Boy’s Neighborhood in June 2020 that he deliberate to vote for the primary time as a result of he couldn’t abdomen “another yr” of Trump’s chaotic rule, the rapper was extra circumspect about the place his poll may go in what is anticipated to be one other showdown between Trump and Biden. “I could need to,” Snoop stated about whether or not he feels strain to declare for a presidential candidate. “As a result of there are combined views on that, so I wish to see what the folks say.”
