Snoop Dogg is a lot less volatile than he was in his youth, and he said some unacceptable things in his songs, but, The Doggfather has no regrets about his misogynistic lyrics.
While it would be easy for Snoop to offer up a half-hearted apology for his previous actions, it wouldn’t be sincere, and this would be clear for all to see. Instead, when he’s been asked about this subject, Snoop got defensive and explained why he wouldn’t change this even if he could.
Snoop hasn’t been misogynistic on just one occasion, and it’s a regular trope he’s used throughout his career. On ‘Set It Off’, from his 2000 album Tha Last Meal, he rapped: “Shootin’ the breeze, with a cute Vietnamese; or was she Lebanese? I think she Chinese; It really don’t matter cause they all on they knees”.
However, when he appeared on Hot 97, Snoop got on the front foot when this topic was brought up. “No, hell no! That was me, I love every motherf*cking one. F*ck them hoes, straight up, f*ck a bitch,” Snoop defensively says. “Man stop, don’t stay that man,” Charlamagne Tha God intervened in a desperate attempt to get the interview back on track.
The rapper then explained his reasoning and added: “No I’m just saying that’s me back then, not now. I mean not now, at the time I was making that music that’s who Snoop ‘Doggy’ Dogg was.”
During an appearance on Sky News in 2015, Snoop defended himself in more eloquent terms and revealed why his marriage changed his attitudes towards women. “Definitely, my attitude has changed towards women,” he told the broadcaster. “I am more sensitive and more vulnerable writing-wise and accepting a woman for being a beautiful person, as opposed to me saying she is a b*tch or a wh*re because that was how I was trained when I first started, so I have no regrets.”
He continued: “As I grew I fell in love with my wife and started to love my mother, my grandmother and my daughter. I understood what a woman was and I started to write about and express that.”
Snoop said his marriage made him “grow and learn and to be a better person”, which he said has enhanced every aspect of his life. He honestly concluded: “I don’t feel like you can be ashamed or mad about not knowing – if you don’t know, you don’t know.”
While Snoop’s lyrics aren’t acceptable, it honestly reflects the version of him who wrote them, and it was true to ‘The Doggfather’, even if it’s completely inappropriate in 2022.