Snoop Dogg’s Crip ties brought him unwanted attention from the Bloods while filming Training Day, according to Spice 1.
The gangsta rap pioneer recently sat down for an interview with The Art of Dialogue, where he recalled a group of Bloods — the rival gang of the Crips — harassing Tha Doggfather on the set of the 2001 movie.
Spice 1 said he was alerted to the gang members throwing bottles at Snoop’s movie trailer, but after making his way over to the set, he was able to defuse the situation from escalating any further.
“I’m out in L.A. OG Crip homie hit me and he was like, ‘Spice, they at Snoop’s trailer. It’s some Blood n-ggas over there throwing bottles at Snoop trailer,'” he recalled. “He didn’t say Blood n-ggas because, you know, he ain’t gonna say that, but that’s what he tell me.
“I’m like, ‘Oh!’ In so many words, he was like, ‘Go over there and try to calm them n-ggas down. They’ll listen to you.’ And I’m thinking in the back of my head like, ‘Man, them n-ggas ain’t gonna listen to me. These n-ggas don’t know me.’ But since the OG n-gga said go over there and holla at them.”
When Spice 1 appeared at the Training Day shoot, his presence alone was enough to calm the Bloods down and snuff out their attack on Snoop.
“So I go over there. I see them and they look at me and they’re like, ‘Damn, Blood! That look like Spice 1, Blood!'” he continued. “I’m like, ‘It is me, n-gga! Y’all ain’t got no weed? What’s happening?’
“I was like, ‘Man, they saying y’all were throwing bottles at Snoop’s trailer and shit. The muthafuckas about to call the police. We need to get the fuck outta here ’cause they might be coming.’ And they was like, ‘OK, cool. Let’s bounce the fuck up outta here.’ N-ggas ain’t trying to see the [police] anyway.”
He added: “So we bounced, walked around the corner and started smoking some weed, wait for the po-pos to smash through. They drove through and left. I dapped the n-ggas and bounced out and went to Snoop’s trailer and started chopping it up with him for a minute, smoking some weed or whatever. I don’t think he knew what I was there for.”
Snoop Dogg had a supporting role in Training Day, starring alongside Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke as a wheelchair-bound drug dealer named Blue. Dr. Dre and Macy Gray also made cameos in the Antoine Fuqua-directed film, which grossed $104 million at the box office on its opening weekend.
Washington’s performance as the crooked LAPD narcotics detective Alonzo Harris earned him his first Best Actor award at the 2002 Oscars, while Hawke won Best Supporting Actor for his role as the rookie cop Jake Hoyt that same year.
Snoop has only added to his acting résumé since then, having starred in movies such as Starsky & Hutch, Soul Plane and Mac & Devin Go to High School alongside Wiz Khalifa. Most recently, he appeared opposite Jamie Foxx in the Netflix vampire hunter movie Day Shift.
His thriving Hollywood career hasn’t hampered his musical output, though. In February, the D-O-Double-G released his 19th studio album, Bacc On Death Row, which boasted collaborations with Nas, T.I., The Game, DaBaby, the late Nate Dogg and more.
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That same month, Snoop fulfilled the promise of the album’s title by becoming the new owner of Death Row Records, the notorious West Coast rap label whose legacy he helped build in the ’90s alongside Dr. Dre and 2Pac.
Nostalgia appears to be the motif for Snoop’s creative plans in 2022 as he’s been spotted in the studio with both Dre and Eminem in recent weeks.
“We’re cooking up a little something,” Snoop told ET in August. “I don’t wanna talk about it too much, but we’re back together again. It’s been 30 years since we worked on a record, and we’re doin’ something, we’re workin’ on something.”
Thank God them bloods didn’t do him any real harm tho family… By the way, wasn’t Snoop a crip?
Why you think them slobs pressed him the first place? You must be a genius cuh
That’s why they were pressing him in the first place…man people on the internet really have no reading comprehension skills
Can we be done with Snoop soon? The guy is a sell out. What has he actually done for HIPHOP? He made a great album 30 years ago under the tutelage of Dr. Dre, and has been a caricature of himself ever since. He’s just become the darling black guy for white hipsters in Hollywood and Silicon Valley that wanna feel cool. Doing shows with Martha Stewart, made a auto tune singing album, ‘Snoop Lion’, etc, gtfoh. This guy is a snake. I’m not buying his bs.
You sound dumb.
You’re wrong, stormcloak is a certified dummy.
Grown men being in a gang has got to be the dumbest thing in life
I don’t think they let you out just because you’re grown. I’m just going to go out on a limb and speculate.
I mean what? Would you rather gangs be filled with kids and teens only? That might be a bit embarrassing the next time you see gang members and tuck your tail.
Selling drugs and killing people is an all time low for our community. There are alternatives to that lifestyle!
Yea Sure When You Turn 18 Get Your Get Out Of The Gang Free Card!!!!!!! You Got A Faster Chance With A Bullet To Yo Head Partna, This Ishh 4 Lyfe
That shit is crazy how dudes that will kill each other all know each other and move around together in LA. It’s like some shit out of the movies for real. How he said I smoked some weed with them and then went in and chopped it up with Snoop is exactly how it be. No rhyme or reason.
Don’t sound right I know of snoop to press suge ya story ain’t accurate Cuhz
Mayne Big Snoop ain’t worried bout them. He prolly got a flash back thou from when them Soma Bloods use to fmmm with him back in day. But, SNOOP-A-LOOP is on a whole nother level.
Unless you’re in prison where your circumstances dictate more of your actions then outside you should be done with all that gang stuff by 21-22, you oughta be tired of it all by that point….I know it’s not quite that simple but all it takes is 1 influential,respected person to say “ Fuck this!” & others will follow