Snoop Dogg is not here for the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots and is asking fans to boycott the remake of the series.
In an Instagram video clip, the Long Beach, California-bred actor-rapper expressed his frustrations of Black Americans being mainly depicted as slaves on TV and film.
“No disrespect, but I can’t watch no mo’ mothafuckin’ Black movies with niggas getting dogged out,” Snoop says. “12 Years a Slave, Roots, Underground. I can’t watch none of that shit. I’m sick of this shit. How the fuck they going to put Roots on, on Memorial Day? They going to just to keep beating that shit into our heads about how they did us, huh?”
The original series based on Alex Haley‘s Pulitizer Prize-winning novel, debuted on ABC in 1977.
The eight-hour, four-part series which includes stars T.I., Laurence Fishburn and Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker debuts today (May 30) on the History Channel.
T.I. himself publicly discussed his dilemma in accepting such a role, which he eventually succumbed to. He is set to play the role of Cyrus, who fought alongside Chicken George for the Union Army during the Civil War.
“When y’all gonna make a muthafuckin’ series about the success that Black folks is having?” Snoop continues. “The only success we have is Roots and 12 Years a Slave and shit like that huh?
“Fuck y’all. I ain’t watching that shit, and I advise you muthafucka that’s real niggas like myself. Fuck them television shows. Let’s create our own shit based on today, how we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real. Fuck that old shit.”
Watch Snoop Dogg‘s call for the boycott of Roots below:
This nigga is so wrong it teaches you what we had to go through & the history of what happened what if you are a young child who did not know what slaves were or how it happened? This nigga snoop is wrong as Fuck
Snoop is right, dickface. These shows are put on more to alleviate white guilt from the producers that make them than teach niggas about anything.
Snoop is right, dickface. These shows are put on more to alleviate white guilt from the producers that make them than teach niggas about anything.
You a Dumbass nigga!!! Fuck you
You a Dumbass nigga!!! Fuck you
Update: Questlove lists 19 reasons why Snoop Dogg should watch Roots. (All jokes aside, T.I. was okay in Boss too, he’s ready for the role.)
EXACTLLLLYYYYYYYYY…!!! I %10000 CONCUR with Snoop…? is this how you live today ? EMPHATICALLY NO !! even African’s are off that not to mention you folks …Enough with the historical guilt …
what does this Roots version aim to accomplish that the first roots made in the 70’s didnt ? The old Roots movie still resonates IMO if you really want to learn your history Travel to the actually continent of your birth place or go to a library and research a good book on this subject matter ..all .these slave movies Roots , 12 years a slave , the birth of a nation , Underground , 5 years a master blah blah is getting Played the heck out
A remake for what? Thats like remaking Scarface or Godfather, its NOT going to be the same. I really think they are going to mild it down and dumb it down and screw up historical facts, for example; Kunta Kinte was a muslim, and so were a lot of people from Africa
nope muslims sold him into slavery though go back school for a history lesson….
Is slavery the ONLY Black History that is movie/television worthy?? The Naacp will probably hand out awards for this kind of sex & violence the same time they condemn other vehicles that contain sex & violence. Stop telling Black American youth that their existence began with slavery,it creates an animosity that they may go thru their whole lives trying to understand…and every producer/network/guild/union/director/actor/actress are only showing their American Greed! Don’t believe it’s about anything other than the money
No, Alex Haley stole it first. Dude was a fraud.
Doggy Fizzle Televizzle!!!
Alex Haley didn’t even write the roots story and stole the idea and took credit for someone else’s work, the shit should boycotted the shit from the beginning
Alex Haley didn’t even write the roots story and stole the idea and took credit for someone else’s work, shit should have been boycotted from the beginning
Its even sadder the people who actually agreed to play the role of slaves…. this just teaches resentement and anger…
As an Inglewood, CA/Los Angeles native from his same generation, I don’t often with Snoop but on this one I fully agree (I was more a fan/disciple of West Coast and East Coast deep underground hip hop than the more commercialized G-Funk and P-Diddy era artists and what has since followed, but that isn’t the point right now).
If I want to watch or respectfully memorialize anything about Afrikan slavery, I’ll watch films like ‘Sankofa’ by the great Afrikan/Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima that are built to empower black Afrikan audiences, and not designed for “mainstream” US/European viewers. “They” get empowering shows like “Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead”, while “we” get this old, rehashed victimized Sambo crap like ‘Roots” that makes us look weak. Now, “we” are indeed still victims of “their” abuse and the fight will never be over, but I’d like us to do more to produce our own stories that display the great black Afrikan Kingdoms of the Mali Empire, Timbuktu, Songhai, Kemet, Nubia, etc… that can empower us and our future generations.
From LA, CPT, ING, WATTS, LBC, FUCK YOU SNOOP BITCH ASS NIGGA!
or hows about fuuck you! you dumb ignorant piece of shiit.
Snoop is talking knowledge here. Be about something instead of bieng a Little biitch as you truley are, on here hating like u where hardcore and shit.
shut da fuck up snoopy u cry baby ass bitch
R.I.P to all the black soliders who died for a country that never fought for them….May Peace Prevail on this Earth
You can’t be serious
You can’t be serious
from the bottom of my heart…………fuk u T.I.P…this is coming all the way from Africa….i cant support movies that glorify us getting whipped in 2016 for christsake….i rather watch JAY schooling black folk how to get that gwap!!…shout out to LEMONADE HUSTLE….lets get that money not the WHIP….gat luv for TIP but not on this…
I agree with Snoop Dogg, I can’t watch anymore of these series why do we as a race of people need to be reminded repeatedly about salvery!! Do you see continuely movies or series about the Holocust? I’m not watching either, can we move on to the twenty first century, don’t get me wrong i do know that racism still exist.
I feel Snoop…I was watching Saving Private Ryan on history channel. I was telling my girl about the ending of the movie when Roots flashed…She got existed and began to countdown the minutes to the end of the movie I was watching. I got heated and said I’m not hating but I’m not watching that bullshit when this goes off. She answered why? I said wtf Roots got to do with Memorial Day? So at the end of my movie after noticing she wasn’t interested I changed the channel. As I’m changing the channel she said, ” I don’t know why you doing that, it’s on every channel”. I laughed…… Said yea OK……But in the mist of changing channels I found what she said was true. In denial I changed back to the original channel we was watching and there it is, the same movie. So I got pissed and said, “how can they do that …how can they play the same shit on 2 different networks”? I also said its almost like they force feeding us this shit. I’m thinking why the fuck we got to be reminded of this shit and of all days on Memorial Day? All this low tech war shit on tv and at the end of the day they play us with this slave shit. So yea I was pissed enough to leave my first comment. My comment is not to offend anyone by any means. I just feel why Snoop felt this way about this Roots drama.
slavery is worse than holocaust
R.I.P to all the black soliders who died fighting for a country never fought for them… Im looking forward to the Nat Turner flim an I hoping for a flim about the Haitian fight against colonialism.. May Peace Prevail on this Earth
Agree 100% with your comment. It seems that Bill Duke, after ‘Deep Cover’ had plans on making a movie centered on Toussaint Louverture, the great Haitian general who bested Napoleon’s army, as matter of fact, he is still considered a far more superior war tactician than Napoleon. Yet, for one reason or another, the movie never materialized. Makes you wonder.