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To the shock of a lot of their followers, rappers Snoop Dogg, Nelly, and Rick Ross headed out to Trump inauguration occasions over the weekend. Snoop Dogg carried out on the first Crypto Ball on Friday night time and Nelly is predicted to carry out on the Liberty Ball on Monday.
The Crypto Ball was hosted by David Sacks, who would be the new administration’s reigning knowledgeable on AI. It happened on the D.C.’s Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. Ticket costs for the occasion went from $2,500 to $5,000 and the ball was billed as one to assist the “first crypto president.”
Whereas Snoop Dogg has been essential of Trump previously, it seems he softened his stance on the incoming president as soon as he commuted the jail sentence of Demise Row founder Micheal “Harry-O” Harris.
In July 2016, Snoop Dogg posted a video on Instagram the place he was proven smoking a blunt to YG’s and Nipsey Hussle’s “FDT,” which you’ll be able to work out the subject based mostly on the track’s acronym. “We ain’t voting to your punk ass,” Snoop mentioned on the time. In a video for his “Dusk Remix” of BADBADNOTGOOD’s “Lavender,” Snoop shoots at a Trump impersonator.
In 2017, Snoop Dogg did a music video that confirmed a Trump-like character and criticized any Black performer who would present up for Trump. In 2019, throughout a federal authorities shutdown when employees have been furloughed, he mentioned in an internet submit, “All you individuals for the federal authorities that not getting paid proper now, ain’t no f—-’ approach on the planet y’all might vote for Donald Trump when he come again up once more. If y’all do vote for him, y’all some silly motherf-ckers.”
Apparently, the discharge of his homie modified Snoop’s thoughts. He labored on securing the commutation for Harris with Alice Johnson and producer Weldon Angelos. (Johnson was herself free of jail when Kim Kardashian took up her case.) Harris was serving his sentence in California’s Lompoc Federal Penitentiary for cocaine trafficking and tried homicide when his sentence was commuted.
In a 2024 interview with The Sunday Instances, Snoop shared his altering relationship with Trump, telling them, “Ain’t performed nothing improper to me. He has performed solely nice issues for me. He pardoned Michael Harris. So, I’ve nothing however love and respect for Donald Trump.”
However social media disagreed, blasting Snoop Dogg and Nelly throughout a number of social media platforms and websites. Soulja Boy and Rick Ross made an look on the ball, too. It seems that by hanging with Trump, Snoop Dogg misplaced lots of the popular culture recognition, no less than with Black individuals, that was solidified by his extremely paid look on the Olympics final summer season and his subsequent time as a choose on The Voice.
Nelly tried to elucidate his look on the Liberty Ball in an interview with Willie D. by saying that the navy fought for individuals to have the liberty to imagine what they need.
“I’m not doing this for cash,” Nelly mentioned. “I’m doing this ’trigger it’s an honor. I respect the workplace. It don’t matter who’s in workplace. The identical approach our women and men, our brothers and sisters who shield this nation, should go to struggle and should put their life on the road for whoever is in workplace. So, if they will put their life on the road for whoever is in workplace, I can rattling certain carry out for whoever is in workplace […] I’d ask [critics] to point out me the place he’s a white supremacist.”
Snoop has posted steadily for the reason that efficiency however not with any footage of it. As an alternative, he’s posted numerous memes and movies that appear to be subliminally responding, together with one about ‘individuals not likely f-cking with you.’ All of his posts have been met with lots of of feedback calling Snoop – and Nelly -everything from a sellout to an Uncle Tom.
See how social media is reacting to Nelly and Snoop beneath.
Snoop Dogg And Nelly Carry out At Inauguration Occasions, Social Media Eats Them Up
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