Snoop Dogg and has revealed that Missionary, his highly anticipated forthcoming collaborative album with Dr. Dre, is set to arrive in December.
The Doggfather took to Instagram on Saturday (October 27) to reveal the release date for his Dre full-length collab.
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The “Drop it Like it’s Hot” rapper shared a Boomerang-like video of himself posing in front of a display wall that showed logos for Death Row, Aftermath and Interscope Records. Snoop soundtracked it with Dre’s “The Next Episode.”
He captioned the post: “Missionary. December paw print emoji, fire emoji, bicep emoji, singing microphone emoji, three paw print emojis].”
News about the new album has slowly made its way into public.
Earlier this week, Jelly Roll spoke about his appearance on the album in an interview with Bootleg Kev, revealing that a FaceTime call sparked the song.
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The news of Jelly Roll’s inclusion on the album arrived earlier this month.
“I won’t say anything about the record because he didn’t, but man, it’s special. It is really good,” he gushed. “I’m legitimately on the Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre album. It’s crazy. It’s unreal. Dude, Jimmy [Iovine] hits John [presumably Jelly Roll’s manager John Meneilly] and says, ‘Can we get on a FaceTime with Jelly Roll and Dre?’ I’m like, ‘Dr. Dre?!’ I get on a FaceTime from my back porch. I’m like a kid! Jimmy’s there and I’m already like, ‘I cannot believe it’s Jimmy Iovine.’”
When Dre got on the phone, according to Jelly: “[He said,] ‘I got this crazy idea. I can send you something, or you can write something and send it back, or you can come here and we can write something.’ When he said that, I was like, there’s no way he expected me to do any other option. I was like, ‘If coming and writing with you is an option, I’m coming.’”
He continued: “It was the most awesome session I ever did. I walked in was just like, the biggest warm hug. […] It was really fun. […] I had a moment where I was like, I belong in those rooms! [In my mind], I’m still the kid coming to the lunch table. I wanna prove that I deserve the table and I came in with that kind of attitude and it was really cool.”
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Jelly Roll revealed what it was like working with Dre: “He is a conductor of a symphony. He hears everything and he hears it 20 different ways and he’ll like, put his ears up to these two speakers and you’ll start singing and he’s like, ‘You were flat [here], a little sharp [here].’
“He’s not a perfectionist in like a picky asshole way, but like a super encouraging way. He makes you feel like a rockstar too. He’s clearly correcting me and getting what he wants out of me but doing it while like making me feel like I’m like Adele. I’m over here feeling like Frank Ocean.”
