Snoop Dogg has explained in a new interview why he’s happy to let other people write for him at this stage in his career.
Tha Doggfather’s most recent project, BODR, features a number of different artists including rising stars Jane Handcock, HeyDeon and Nefertitti Avani. But more than just guest artists, he also had Cordae write for him on the song “We Don’t Gotta Worry No More.”
Promoting his new Netflix film Day Shift alongside Jamie Foxx, Snoop stopped by the Rap Radar Podcast and talked about why he’s okay with people penning his raps, even though it’s long been considered a taboo thing to do in Hip Hop.
“I started off writing,” Snoop told B.Dot. “I started off writing for Dr. Dre, so what would I be if I didn’t allow somebody to write for me? Sometimes you gotta put yourself in the frame of letting somebody else depict a better picture for you because you can’t see everything.”
Snoop went on to give an example of another artist’s best work that was written by someone else: “I feel like Whitney Houston’s best record was The Bodyguard, when the other people came in and gave her records that weren’t hers, where she could just sit back and just sing and they embodied what they thought she should be.”
“That’s to the point in my career where I’m at now, where I’ve written so many hit records,” he continued. “It’s not about what I can write sometimes, it’s about what I can’t see that somebody else can write for me.”
In a previous interview, Snoop explained how Cordae came to write the track for him. “Terrace Martin came here one day with Cordae,” the Death Row legend told Tidal. “Cordae is like, ‘Let me write something to this for you.’ I’m like, ‘Go ahead, homie.’ He go in that muthafuckin’ booth and wrote all of the rap — the first verse and the second verse!
“The beauty of that is, he wrote some lyrics about my mama. My mama was in great health when he wrote that, but by the time we put that out, my mama passed away.”
Snoop then proceeded to highlight the lyrics: “I shed a tear as I stare in my mom’s eyes/ Yeah I prophesized it and I manifested/ Yeah my pockets was skinny, yeah they was anorexic/ Yeah I beat a murder case and made your favorite records/ Let me say this message.”
He added: “Ain’t that crazy? How that young man could write that for me.”
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Meanwhile, Snoop Dogg has launched a brand new animated kids series called Doggyland.
The show — formally titled Doggyland – Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes — sees the Death Row rapper partner with Emmy-nominated creator of kids’ franchise Hip Hop Harry, and frequent collaborator October London.
Available to watch on YouTube, Doggyland is led by a cast of cartoon dogs — Bow Wizzle (voiced by Snoop), Wags, Yap Yap, Chow Wow and Barks-A-Locks — and helps “promote social emotional development as well as age related cognitive development” in pre-school children.
Snoop = Fraud = Unloyal = Washed Up
How he washed up with a net worth of 200+ million, a household name in every household in the world, and made crip rap popular worldwide…and an ICON
How is an ICON washed up
Please tell me…I’ll wait
Dont worry bro, white people just mad that eminem aint shit anymore, and once hes gone they have nothing but mgk and jack harlow.
Damn I didn’t want to believe Em wrote for him on that recent track but guess I was wrong
Personally I cant believe Em wrote that wack ass verse. It got desperate snoop written all over it.
there is nothing wrong with emcees writing for other emcees. all these media outlets are owned by the record companies so they purposely try to confuse the picture. if the album says all songs written by you then that means you wrote all the songs, not Drake. If Drake actually wrote the songs you took credit for you are a fraud. If the album says songs written by Drake etc, then you are giving proper credit and not claiming other’s words as your own, even if they wrote a song on your album.
Good looking out for your dad Cordae.
Some of y’all need to get real about the game. Snoop hasn’t been writing for a while. The man is wealthy and has better things to do with his time. He put his work in already. Same with most of the legends that are wealthy.
Cordae has been making moves lately good for him
Em wrote Tha track weaker than his on purpose
Back in the day, an MC not writing their own sh!t was controversy.
I think lying about it would be much worse. Dude is being open about it. Can’t even be mad at that. Just because you do absolutely everything to make your music doesn’t really matter if the shit is garbage. Its not like we’re talking about Black Thought here.
Damn, say it ain’t so.
If you can’t ypir own s anymore, it’s time to hang it up as an MC in my opinion.
The day that Nas, Jadakiss, Fabolous, JCole, KDot, etc let’s someone else write for em, I’m fucking done with hip hop.
We dont want you here anyway you white vulture.
That’s a big No No, he’s trying to ok this. Weak excuse. Maybe he should retire from hip-hop. Snoop comes from that era where he knows this ain’t allowed.
Eazy E didn’t write his own shit until after Cube and Dre left.
It’s one thing when rock songs and others that take a special talent to perform them right is written by someone else, kind of like acting in a movie. But rappers? Nah. There’s a reason “rapper covers” will never be a thing. Because yes, it’s a talent. But it’s not on the level of a very talented singer. It’s spitting rhymes. Most anyone can get good at it if they can talk fast enough and find a flow. You’ll never see “tupac cover concerts” gain steam. But yet, any dead famous rock band, you’ll see some amazing cover bands. Because it’s a raw talent to replicate it. Replicating a rapper is nothing more than cheesy imitation.
Snoop has had people writing for him since 2009. Problem used to ghostwrite for him. Nothing new.
Snoop rocking that Stevie Wonder hairline. It’s crazy how the hairline relocates to the back from above the forehead like that.
Still looks better than you ugly white people at that age.