Snoop Dogg has revealed that he has a whole unreleased album with Dave East and suggested that it was killed because the label wasn’t happy.
The revelation came during a conversation with Benny The Butcher on Snoop’s YouTube series GGN, which dropped on Wednesday (January 24).
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During the conversation, the Doggfather admitted there were a few beats he wishes he “murked” during his heyday, mentioning Pharrell and Swizz Beatz instrumentals that were given to the likes of JAY-Z, Nas and DMX.
After Benny joked about pressing Harry Fraud, who produced his 2021 project The Plugs I Met 2, about beats he gave to Dave East, Snoop let the cat out of the bag regarding his scrapped album with the Harlem rapper.
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“I’m a product of Hip Hop so that’s the Hip Hop that I’m more drawn to. It was years ago when I went to New York to fuck with Dave East, before I was in the Def Jam building, just because I love how he get down,” he said.
“We went through Harlem and I was fuckin’ with him. We did a whole project that was just like the shit that [Griselda] do. And then the label stepped in and was like, ‘Nah, we’re gonna do [this instead].”
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Snoop, who joined Def Jam as as executive consultant in 2021 and was responsible for signing Benny The Butcher to the label, added: “I was like, ‘N-gga, if you don’t put this shit out!’ And then I watched that whole lane shift from him to y’all.
“That’s why Uncle Snoop was in the building pushing that real shit saying, ‘Hold on, if we’re gonna have any n-ggas from New York doing Hip Hop, they gotta be doing Hip Hop.'”
Check out the full clip below. The comments about Dave East start at the 11:50 mark.
Though the joint album between Snoop Dogg and Dave East might not ever see the light of day, they did get a chance to work together back in 2021 when the West Coast rap legend dropped his album The Algorithm.
East appeared on “Make Some Money” alongside Fabolous, with a video for the Hi-Tek-produced song arriving shortly after the album’s release.
The colorful clip found the trio of rappers throwing on some fly outfits and getting their rhymes off, backed by a series of paintings inside an art gallery.
Snoop, who has since left his role at Def Jam and become the new owner of his former label Death Row Records, is currently working with old friend Dr. Dre on a follow-up to The Algorithm.
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The upcoming project is called Missionary and serves as the spiritual successor to Snoop’s 1993 debut Doggystyle. Despite a series of teasers in recent years, a release date has yet to be announced.
As for Dave East, his most recent album Fortune Favors the Bold arrived in July 2023 via Def Jam/Mass Appeal, complete with appearances from Ghostface Killah, Cordae, Ty Dolla $ign and more.
