Snoop Dogg recently sat down with DJ Whoo Kid for a candid conversation about “Missionary”, his latest project with Dr. Dre, and the star-studded track “Gunz N Smoke”, featuring 50 Cent and Eminem.
He had been waiting for a chance to work with them all a while, he said, And with each of those hip hop legends he has special relationship. Snoop revealed how much it meant to have both 50 Cent and Eminem on the same record.
Fifty, that’s my nigga, man. We’ll never have an issue because we’re the same people — we love to be petty. I call him Petty Riley. It was the first time we were all in agreement — the perfect record for everybody to get on. Fifty went first, killed it, then I had to go after him, which was hard. Then Eminem came in and, as always, killed it. That nigga doesn’t care who went before him — you just better not go after him!
Snoop also praised Dr. Dre’s role as a producer, likening him to a championship-winning trainer:
I’m built for this shit. I’m a different kind of athlete. I’m a kind of athlete that win a Super Bowl and don’t go to the strip club, go get with a trainer and get trained up so I can win it again. And Dr. Dre is the trainer. I’m winning Super Bowls, but musically I’m not winning, so I have to go get the best trainer for music, which is Dr. Dre. He’s the best one when it comes to challenging me, producing me, and making me the best at what I do. So I chose to get in that passenger seat again and ride shotgun instead of driving over here like I normally do. Because that’s where I’m at in my career, and I love to be challenged, and I love when I have to wait, and I love when he makes me do things that I wouldn’t normally do because, at the end of the day, you get “Missionary”.
When it came to working with Eminem, Snoop did not hold back on his respect:
When I rap with Eminem, I know I got to be the fuck way up ’cause he ain’t playing. He makes you go hard. Then, he’s the type that when you finish the song, he goes back in and changes and does four more bars. You be like, “You cheating, man! Why do you get four more bars in there?! You motherfucker, you already cut my head off, now you’re going in for four more bars?! Goddamn it, Marshall, you, bad motherfucker. I’m glad you’re on my team”.
With Eminem in the mix, the stakes are always high. For Snoop and countless others, Eminem is not just a collaborator but a menace who forces rappers to bring their absolute best. It is no wonder many artists count working with him as both a challenge and a career-defining moment.
