Snoop Dogg Breaks Silence On Trump Inaugural Ball Backlash

Snoop Dogg has hit back at critics who accused him of selling out by performing at the Crypto Ball during President Donald Trump's second inauguration celebrations in January.
The rapper and longtime Trump critic ― whose tone on the president has softened in recent years ― addressed the backlash on 'The Breakfast Club' radio show last week while promoting his new album, 'Iz It A Crime?'
Asked if the controversy over his short DJ set had bothered him, Snoop replied:
'No. I call it 30 for 30. I DJ'd at the Crypto Ball for what, 30 minutes? Made a whole bunch of money, made a lot of relationships to help out the inner city and the community and teach financial literacy and crypto in a space that it don't exist.'
'That's 30 minutes' he continued. '30 years, Snoop Dogg been doing great things for the community, building, showing up, standing up for the people, making it happen, being all I can be. But which one is it? 30 for 30. 30 minutes or 30 years?'
Snoop, who didn't endorse any candidate for the 2024 election, said the gig had come about through other friendships but that 'even if I would have done it' for Trump 'and hung out with him and took a picture with him, can't none of you motherfuckers tell me what I can and can't do.'
'But I'm not a politician,' he pointed out. 'I don't represent the Republican Party. I don't represent the Democratic Party. I represent the motherfucking Gangster Party. Period. Point blank.'
Snoop also revealed why he kept relatively silent in public as the anger grew over the gig.
'G shit, we don't explain shit. That's why I didn't explain, that's why I didn't go into detail when motherfuckers was trying to cancel me and say he a sellout,' he said, later adding: 'The things that I do in real life should matter to you more ... not what I do when I'm DJing or making music or doing this and that.'
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