Snoop Dogg could do nothing but respect Nipsey Hussle‘s response when he was asked to play him in the 2015 N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton.
Uncle Snoop dropped by the 85 South Show on Monday (December 12) and at one point, the topic of the late Nipsey being asked to portray him in the blockbuster came up. According to Snoop, Nip turned the role down in such a “gangsta” way that there wasn’t even any more to be said after that.
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“They was doing Straight Outta Compton movie right? So Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, all them n-ggas calling me,” Snoop Dogg began. “[They said,] ‘Man, we trying to get Nip to play you in Straight Outta Compton! He ain’t getting back to us!’ [I’m like] ‘Aight, let me holla at the lil homie.’
“I hit him up,” he continued. “[I said,] ‘Nip, lemme holla at you! Pull up on me!’ He come over to the spot. ‘Cuh, they want you to play me in the Straight Outta Compton movie!’ I’m happy as fuck to tell him. He like, ‘No disrespect big homie, but I can’t play you in the movie ’cause then people just gon’ know me for being you. I gotta be me. All that’s with all due respect.’ And I was like damn that was gangsta. I [called Dre and Cube back and] said, ‘Y’all gotta go find somebody else!’”
A then-unknown LaKeith Stanfield would go on to play Snoop in the film, before rising to fame the following year with his role on Atlanta.
Directed by famed director F. Gary Gray, Straight Outta Compton set the record for best opening by a film with an African American director and went on to gross a worldwide total of $201.6 million. However, the film apparently wasn’t completely accurate, and in an interview with HipHopDX last year, N.W.A’s DJ Yella noted it was only around “70 percent correct.”
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“Our first gold single and gold album was by J.J. Fad,” he says. “‘Supersonic’ happened to be the first one. Even though we did the ‘Boyz n Tha Hood’ and a couple of EPs, that’s all we did. But J.J. Fad blew up real fast and then it was non-stop. The gates was open, and they didn’t close until years later. But I understand what they was trying to do [by omitting their story from the film]. They was trying to get too much into the movie.
“There was already some stuff that got left out. The movie was like 70 percent correct, because it was just too much to pack into that little two hour and 20 minutes. I guess it would have been too much trying to touch on that. A few things that didn’t get touched, but yeah. It’s a shame they didn’t get even mentioned. Even like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. They sold 10 million records. They only got mentioned by cassette tape.”
According to Deadline, Snoop Dogg is set to have is own biopic on the way, with Menace II Society director Allen Hughes tapped to direct alongside his brother Albert.
The film will be the first project under the rapper’s Death Row Pictures umbrella, and he will serve as a co-producer with Sara Ramaker.
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“I waited a long time to put this project together because I wanted to choose the right director, the perfect writer and the greatest movie company I could partner with that could understand the legacy that I’m trying to portray on screen, and the memory I’m trying to leave behind,” Snoop said in a statement. “It was the perfect marriage. It was holy matrimony, not holy macaroni.”
