West Coast Hip Hop icon Snoop Dogg and New York rap legend N.O.R.E. both agree that loyalty plays a major role in the music industry.
And according to N.O.R.E., who hosted Snoop Dogg as a featured guest on the latest episode of his Drink Champs podcast with DJ EFN on Saturday (April 16), loyalty played a role in the outcome of the Dr. Dre-helmed 2022 Super Bowl LVI Pepsi Halftime Show featuring Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent.
While attempting to find out why Dr. Dre didn’t extend invites to L.A. rap veteran The Game and Long Island-bred producer Scott Storch for the halftime show he orchestrated, N.O.R.E. got Snoop Dogg to open up about his experience working with Dre to bring the performance to life.
“Let me tell you what you didn’t see that you ain’t saying anything about,” Snoop Dogg started off. “You didn’t hear ‘Nuthin But A ‘G Thang’ you didn’t hear shit from Death Row. What about that era? That didn’t mean nothing? So you got to look at Dr. Dre’s mind state. Whatever he was on, he was on. That was his show. They asked him to perform so whoever he wanted to bring to the party, he had the right to.”
Snoop Dogg continued, revealing his desired setlist had nothing to do with his commitment to supporting Dr. Dre for the history-making halftime show.
“And when he said ‘I don’t want to do this song, this song with this song,’ we couldn’t contest that because they didn’t ask us to come,” he said. “I would have loved to do’Nuthin But A ‘G Thang,’ ‘Gin and Juice,’ ‘What’s My Name,’ ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot,’ anything out of my catalog. I didn’t get to do one Snoop Dogg song. I did everything to support Dr. Dre.”
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N.O.R.E. agreed with Snoop Dogg, and in doing so, revealed he had a conversation with JAY-Z, in which he says the Roc Nation executive explained how Eminem managed to get 50 Cent to be a part of the halftime show as a result of the bond the Detroit MC shares with the rapper-turned-TV producer.
“I said to JAY-Z, I have to ask this straight up,” N.O.R.E. recalled. “‘Who is gonna perform at the NFL?’ and he said to me—and I’m sorry for everybody who don’t understand—and he said, ‘the white guy called for 50 Cent,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘Who is the white guy? Jimmy Iovine?’ And he said, ‘No, Eminem called directly for Fifty and he said I can’t do it if I can’t bring 50 with me.’ That’s spiritual.”
Snoop Dogg appeared to be on the same page with N.O.R.E. and responded, “Of course, that’s his [Eminem’s] guy! And guess who’s Dre’s guy? It’s me!”
In addition to discussing the Super Bowl LVI Pepsi Halftime show, Snoop Dogg went on to speak on several topics including his ownership of the Death Row brand, working at Def Jam, the East Coast versus West Coast Hip Hop beef in the ’90s and more.
Watch the full episode below.
Game incinerated that bridge to Dre for no reason. So 50 was Eminem’s plus one, and it didn’t have shit to do with Dre. Oops.
Revolt TV is owned by Puffy, it’s obvious the shade they have towards Em. N.O.R.E. Drunk & upset he can’t get Em on his show. Snoop still a little salty with that “I’m Dre’s guy” line. Hell yeah 50 should’ve been there. He held it down from 2004-2010 while Em was away. He’s still holding it down with the Power Universe and BMF. The whole Super Bowl was about Dre and his biggest artists. 50 is one of them.
Revolt TV is owned by Puffy, it’s obvious the shade they have towards Em. N.O.R.E. Drunk and upset he can’t get Em on his show. Snoop still a little salty with that “I’m Dre’s guy” line. Hell yeah 50 should’ve been there. He held it down from 2004-2010 while Em was away. He’s still holding it down with the Power Universe and BMF. The whole Super Bowl was about Dre and his biggest artists. 50 is one of them.
How did Mary j blidge end up there
If they never tossed a women in then you know Twitter would be on some hating men type of shit
Dre have produced a whole bunch of records for her. And apparantly they’re good friends as well.
50 was out there looking like a trash bag filled with jello. What was that sus scene sitting down and pretending he was playing piano? Those are not jazz hands…THESE are jazz hands lol. And he out here clowning folks about sexual orientation. Bro, closet cases speak the most
Always about Race, the white guy asked for 50.
Dre’s guy is Eminem lol
You see how the ‘behind closed doors truth’ always comes to light? JayZ always been a public Eminem nut hugger in public specifically for white folks to be comfortable with him, meanwhile he’s just another blakkk racist. Look how he refers to a fellow artist of another race to someone he’scomfortable with. White folks stop supporting these racists that don’t like you. They’ve proved this countless times. Support the white rappers.
Jay-Z has barely ever acknowledged Eminem over the years outside of them collaborating a couple of times. Sorry, but calling someone the white guy, factually true, doesn’t hit the same as the N-word, no matter how bad you think it does. Even Eminem would acknowledge as much.
Jay z mentioned Eminem in a couple of his songs bigging him up…”only people doing numbers; me, Em, and pimp juice”..also he has done interviews talking about how smart Eminem is and his rhymes, and cadence in songs..jay speaks on Em more than you think
He’s mentioned Pac too. You think they were tight? Fact stands that for them to have become superstars around the same time, they have barely been in the same lane over the years.
@ Silent_Partner _ he’s got a name, you dizzy mvtherfvcker yet he called him by his race. He’s a racist. The End
Who are these “white rappers” you speak of in your original post? Why aren’t you mentioning their names? You’re a racist too. The End.
He’s literally the only white rapper that anyone gives a fuck about from that era. You can keep acting dense as shit if you want to because you want some kind of reverse racism to be true when we have a 400 year start on you with that shit. People refer to black people as the black man, the black girl, the black whatever all the time, and it’s not when it’s coming to something as mundane as this. It’s actually in settings where people’s lives can be affected, but your bitch ass is on the internet whining about someone calling the only relevant white rapper from that era the white guy. Go suck a dick.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Using the white guy referring to the only relevant white rapper from the 2000s era is racist. You’re a dumb motherfucker if you actually believe that ignorant shit.
They literally did a tour together…
And you think that means shit? They were two of the biggest stars in the world at that point, not exactly guys grinding from the bottom and sharing rooms with each other. It’s called getting money. Let me guess. You think co-stars in movies are real friends. You have shit for brains.
We all know Eminem is Dre guy
LOL snoop is all about himself, me me me me
So this wasn’t personal, but business. But at the same time, The Game wasn’t chosen for whatever reason, personal or business, and you have to take that up with Dre. Dre also had Kendrick Lamar up there.
The Game just needs to move on and do his own thing. Move in a different direction than Dre. He’ll be good
You’re telling Game, the same dude who’s been dissing 50 and G-Unit since 2005, to move on? Good luck with that.
Snoop salty dog. Always about race with these lot. Imagine the other way round. Like 50 said, it makes them uncomfortable that a white guy does it better than them.
Eminem and 50cent is on a relationship
Had the rules been reversed 50 would have brought out tony yayo. em should have brought out bizarre or game.
Jay z is a legend in music but he is a government asset. The guy is bought and paid for by the democratic party. It’s cool to support a political party but once you start coordinating with them and playing their fundraisers that’s when things get weird. Same goes for that loser kid rock. Boot lickers foreal.
Dre’s show through cooperation of Jay! Dre ask Em to perform and Em says 50 has to perform if they want him to perform. Don’t really think Jay dissing Em, he simply told Nore it was a stipulation that Em wanted and was granted.
Its funny how the media can destroy relationships between people!
These fucking guys were cool until all the stupid questions? Common. Who goes and asks Snoop in the first place if Em is one of his top ten!? Snoop was in the game 20 years before Em came around and now the media has just put drama in 2 friends who happen to be black and white . Nuthin but unnecessary media jibberizm