Snoop Dogg is renowned for being a world-class weed smoker, so it only makes sense that he was asked about his “dream blunt rotation.”
In a Complexcover story published on Monday (December 16) about his new Dr. Dre-produced album Missionary, Tha Doggfather answered the question, posed by writer Jillian Hardeman-Webb: “Who’s in your dream blunt rotation? Dead or alive.”
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“I really want to smoke with and do a record with Sade,” the rapper answered. “I think we would have a nice time smoking and then going right into a session that Dr. Dre produced.”
In addition to Sade, Snoop named Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali. When asked why he didn’t include Michael Jackson, Snoop responded: “I smoked next to Michael Jackson.”
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Dre, for his part, gave an all-musician rotation of Kurt Cobain, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk and George Clinton.
Elsewhere in the Complex story, Dre admitted that it’s been a long time since he was inspired by a Hip Hop album.
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The legendary producer was asked: “Do you remember the last person or last album that you heard that you were inspired by?”
“Well, if you’re talking about new shit, I would say good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar were the last hip-hop albums that inspired me,” he replied, shouting out K.Dot’s 2012 and 2015 releases, respectively.
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Dre himself was an executive producer on both projects.
One of the big surprises on Missionary was having Snoop, Dre, Eminem and 50 Cent join forces as a four-man unit for the first time on a new song called “Gunz N Smoke,” which pays homage to the late, great Notorious B.I.G.
Despite being longtime friends and collaborators who have worked together in different combinations over the last 25 years, the rap legends have never previously all featured on the same song.
The heavyweight track comes finds 50, Snoop and Em trading rejuvenated rhymes over groovy production from the Aftermath founder.
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Biggie’s presence is felt throughout the first half of the song as 50 adopts the Bad Boy MC’s cadence and spits: “Red dot ya, I got ya / B.I.G. time, who shot ya?” — just as Dre drops in a heavy-bottomed bassline that harks back to “Hypnotize.”
Snoop repurposes Big’s “you should too, if you knew” lyric from “Notorious Thugs” in his verse, while a sample of his “gunsmoke!” line from “Dead Wrong” rings throughout.
