Snoop Dogg Make the World Crip Again
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- Snoop Dogg says Trump'due south "Make America Groovy Once more" slogan takes him back to segregation
- The album "Make America Crip Again" will exist out on Oct 27
(CNN)Hip-hop is going difficult at President Donald Trump, and Snoop Dogg is the latest rapper to step into the ring.
Snoop Dogg accused the President of neglecting diverse communities in America, voiced his back up for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and chosen on blackness athletes to class their ain football league in the title track of his forthcoming album, "Make America Crip Once more."
"The President said he wants to make America bully again. F--- that s---, we gonna make America Crip once more," the track begins, referencing the infamous Los Angeles gang. The anthology cover pictures a bluish lid with the words "Brand America Crip Again" -- a clear dig at Trump'southward "Make America Nifty Once again" campaign slogan. Members of the gang have traditionally worn blue vesture.
The White House did not immediately reply to a request for annotate.
In March, the President slammed Snoop Dogg for shooting down a clown dressed as Trump in a music video, tweeting that the rapper would have been thought deserving of jail time if he had made a video of him doing that to former President Barack Obama.
"Tin can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!," Trump tweeted.
Terminal week, Eminem unleashed on the President in a four-and-a-half minute freestyle rap amongst mounting attacks on Trump from artists, who have criticized his administration over issues such every bit criminal justice reform and police brutality, attacks confronting NFL players for protesting during the National Anthem, and the President's response to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he blamed the violence on "fine people" on "both sides."
In "Brand America Crip Again," Snoop Dogg directly addresses Trump's repeated telephone call to NFL owners to fire players who take a knee during the National Anthem to protest racism.
"Every bit I look around, I see so many millionaires with skin similar mine. Don't pretend like I'thou with that bulls--- your President been tweeting. Them black boys is ballin' out, the whole block been eating," Snoop Dogg raps, seemingly referencing the fact that the majority of NFL players are black.
"Ima line ya'll on up, and so start my own league. Ima sign ya'll on up," he adds. "I'thousand thinkin who my heroes exist. Give thanks God for the negro league. Colin Kaepernick was blackballed, oh due north-----, please. This still America with three Chiliad'south, believe that s---."
In a statement shared by his representative, Snoop Dogg said that the song is "not a statement or a political act: it'due south just expert music."
The rapper as well explained his reference to the Crips, saying that their original purpose was not gang activity but to be "the reflection of the Blackness Panthers" — an African American revolutionary party founded in the 1960s in Oakland, California, to fight police force brutality in a segregated America.
The Long Embankment rapper said his call for black players to grade their ain league makes a larger point that goes beyond sports: If the administration doesn't represent the African American community, its members should band together.
"Certain people feel like nosotros should make America 'nifty again,' but that fourth dimension they're referring to e'er takes me back to separation and segregation, so I'd rather Make America Crip Again. What I mean by that is, in my lifetime, that's when young black men in impoverished areas organized to assistance their communities and to take intendance of their own because gild basically left them for dead," Snoop Doog said.
"A lot of people glorify the gang banging and violence just forget that in the starting time, the Crip'due south master and sole purpose was to be the reflection of the Blackness Panthers," he added. "They looked later on kids, provided after school activities, fed them and stepped in every bit office models and father figures."
A representative explained in a press release that "Make America Crip Again" is a response to the Trump administration neglecting diverse communities and is a call for the community "to look after itself," adding that the rapper's intention is to "unite, not divide."
"M.A.C.A" is a single off Snoop's upcoming album, "Make America Crip Again," which volition be out on October 27.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/21/politics/snoop-dogg-trump-make-america-crip-again/index.html
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