Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg has had a long running beef with former President Donald Trump, but changed his tune in a recent interview.
The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper, real name Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., has a history of hurling insults and mocking Trump in his music videos, but sang Trump’s praises while speaking to the Sunday Times.
While he didn’t outright endorse the 45th president, his comments were a total reversal from when he called him a “racist, f**king clown president.”
“Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me,” he responded when the interviewer asked the “Gin and Juice” rapper what he thought about the Republican front runner.
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The former N.W.A. rapper added that he has “nothing but love and respect” for Trump now.
Snoop didn’t feel that way about him during the 2016 election when he was stumping for Hillary.
“How could we have someone as reckless as him running our country?” He question during a Rolling Stone interview in 2016.
“I been around for a long time. I seen Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bushes, Clintons. And I never seen a motherf**cker like him,” Snoop added.
The day Trump was elected, he threatened to move out of the country.
Snoop posted a photo of Toronto’s Canadian National Tower to his 84.7 million Instagram followers, and asked Canadian rapper Drake for “the hookup on some property.”
His distaste for Trump escalated in 2017, when he parodied the assassination of a clown caricature he named Ronald Klump in a music video.
‘I feel like it’s a lot of people making cool records, having fun, partying, but nobody’s dealing with the real issue with this f**king clown as president, and the sh** that we dealing with out here,” he said around the same time.
“So I wanted to take time out to push pause on a party record and make one of these records for the time being.”
Trump lashed out on Twitter after the video was released in March.
Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2017
“Can you imagine what the outcry would be if Snoop Dogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!” He tweeted.
In September 2018, he called Trump and his supporters “racist” in an interview on SiriusXM.
“I don’t give a f**k. If you like that ni**a, you motherf**kin’ racist, f**k you and f**k him. Now what? Draw the line, ni**a,” he told DJ Suss One at the time.
“He drew the lines. He drew the motherf**king lines. Before him, there were no lines,” he claimed about racial division in the country.
In November of the same year, he filmed a series of videos of himself smoking joints in front of the White House.
Snoop Dogg Lights a Blunt in Front of the White House: ‘F–k the President’ https://t.co/p7y0yxGJmH pic.twitter.com/R0W7bzMntR
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“F**k the president,” he said while toking up.
In 2019, the told government employees not to vote for Trump because ‘he doesn’t give a f*** about y’all,” amid a government shutdown at the time.
“All you people for the federal government that are not getting paid right now, ain’t no f***ing way in the world you can vote for Donald Trump when he comes back up again,” he said during the video.
“If ya’ll do vote for him, y’all some stupid motherf***ers, I’m saying that to y’all early,” he added.
He called Trump a “piece of s**t,” for allowing “honest, blue collar, hardworking, people” to suffer.
“So if he don’t care about y’all, he really don’t give a f*** about us. So f*** him too, and f*** everybody down with Donald Trump,” the video concluded.
But Snoop had nothing but praise for Trump after he pardoned cocaine trafficker and Death Row Records co-founder Michael ‘Harry O’ Harris at the end of his term.
“That’s great work for the president and his team on the way out,” he commended in 2021.
“They did some great work while they was in there and they did some great work on their way out. Let them know that I love what they did.”
Harris’ pardon has seemingly changed the rapper’s stance on Trump ever since.
“He has done only great things for me,” Snoop told the Sunday Times. “He pardoned Michael Harris.”
‘So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump,” he concluded.