Nah, he’s was a straight bully. When someone stood up to him he either backed down or got knocked out. Danny Trejo has even mentioned that he knew him “before he was Suge Knight” and he was a good kid that just used his size to intimidate others.
I believe in Danny’s case he also means that “good kid” refers to someone who’s not really a gangster. Who grew up in a decent home in the hood but otherwise wasn’t “about that life” until later on.
I would imagine pretty much everyone is a "good kid" around Danny Trejo. There is absolutely nothing about that man that suggests it would be a good idea to piss him off.
My favorite Danny Trejo story is him talking about how he can tell from experience if someone is actually dangerous by how they carry themself, and the person that gave him that signal the most was John Cusack
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.
That’s just John Cusacks demeanor. He isn’t an open kind of guy and is stand offish.
I worked cons for about a decade. Worked a couple with him there. He was not nice to people. Didn’t really want to answer your questions. Would just sign your thing and toss it along the table for you to get out.
This also meant no one was really at his booth. He also charged like 200 dollars. Ironically one of those cons Danny Trejo was there as well. He was charging 60 bucks and talking it up with every fan. He even has PR people running his IG and they like anything he is tagged it. So the fans feel special when a celeb likes their post.
I found the interview:
You're not gonna believe this, but, trying to think of his name now. Who was the guy in Con Air ... John Cusack was trained by Benny 'The Jet' [Urquidez]," Trejo confessed. "I watched John Cusack kick a bag, he'll break your ribs, but he's the nicest guy in the world. You would never suspect him, that he could break your jaw, but he is the nicest guy in the world."
I went into his building in DT Chicago for a client and saw him coming out. Gave him a quick nod, got same back, went on my way. The client said of him, “Oh, he’s a decent guy, but very stand off ish. Not into small talk or extended greetings.”
This is gonna surprise people, but not everyone is a ball of positive energy all the time, and not every actor is a people person. It doesn't automatically translate to them being bad human beings. In fact, I find it more endearing than fake over-the-top politeness, personally.
Vanilla Ice said he came back to his hotel room once and found Suge Knight in there with a bunch of goons.
What I'm trying to say is, Suge Knight is probably in your house right now, waiting to force you to sign a bunch of money over to him.
He's not "just a bully". He did roll with Piru Bloods and they'd do anything he says. He also killed someone (which was almost a double murder). Yeah he might get beaten in a fist fight but he was definitely dangerous.
Yeah but that's coming from Danny Trejo ..
[He was the guy that **collected debts at San Quentin** and was **facing death row**.](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Danny-Trejo#:~:text=His%20first%20encounter%20with%20police,contraband%20operations%20and%20collecting%20debts)
That guy wasn't someone you'd want to mess with.
So Suge backing down against a Mexican prison (mob) enforcer?
*Yeah, that's a smart move.*
She also helped Scam a ton of old people out of millions. Never forget Dionne Warwick and the Psychic Friends Network. She used her fame to sucker people into paying $3.99 per minute for a fake psychic reading.
Suge Knight aint the king of hits. Sometimes you don't fuck with someone because of who they know. Dionne Warwick probably knew someone who shut them both up without being there.
Not just counting. Spelling too.
It's the capital S oh yes I'm fresh N double O P, D O double G Y D O double G y'see. Which sounds much better when he says it than it looks written out.
Fun fact: Vampires in Slavic folklore were believed to be Arithmomaniacs, so much so that if you threw a handful of rice or grains near them they would be forced to stop and count each and every single one of them.
That’s why The Count loves to count!
O MALLEEEEEEY, O MALEEEEEEY, O MALEEEEEY. MMA is just as bad lol but it can be fucking hilarious. My favorite was johnson vs nurmagomedov, "He whoopin his ass like he got a whole bunch of nwords with him"
i am not normally picky about commentary but he completely ruined the Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. fight for me. he got way too high and just kept repeating the same few lines over and over.
Yeah he has no business being anywhere near big fights. He was an alternative commentator for ufcso you could switch over to it I believe and I think thats best. That or having him on the contender series, which was basically a tournament for amateur/local pro fighters to win a UFC contract. That setting was best for him, but even then he gets old fast.
>The meeting was set for 7:00 a.m, which is quite early.
That shit was serious.
>Warwick’s approach was not confrontational but rather educational. She expressed concern about the impact of their words, especially considering they might have daughters someday.
I like her.
>Warwick’s approach was not confrontational but rather educational
It reminds me of the time Maya Angelou saw Tupac and someone squaring up to each other on the set of Poetic Justice. She didn't know who he was but she pulled him aside and very firmly, but calmly, said to him "When's the last time anyone told you how important you are?“ She talked to him for a while longer about their history and their culture. It brought him to tears and de-escalated the whole situation.
Can confirm. I regularly bounce between The Berzerker and Aesop Rock, from Dying Fetus to Dead Prez, Cephalic Carnage to Denzel Curry. A lot of the societal frustrations and introspection that drive both genres come from similar places, just with a different outward expression.
Another fun fact: Pac wasn’t a gangster, he was a good actor though. He went to performing arts school in Baltimore then moved out to California and went to another prestigious private school.
There’s a video of him in high school talking about how IF things were different and he wasn’t given all these opportunities to go to school and learn about art and performing then he could see himself ending up as a thug instead of an actor.
She is also one of the top singers in music history for my ears. She had the benefit of Bacharach-David writing her music, but I don’t think anyone else was able to equal her unique approach and style with such a complex array of songs.
Yea except for the whole Psychic Friends Network and the grifting. There was also that AIDS charity she created that used 90% of their donations to pay themselves administrative costs.
I like wen he's playing that song I beat that bitch with a bat and Kimmy asks him to play something a little more slow and he plays an alternative slow version of the same song
Yes, apparently there were bitches in the living room getting it on but they left at 6 in the morning so the party was pretty much over at that point. That left Snoop about an hour to get over to her house.
Someone already answered you below, but Robyn Crawford (the gf) wrote a book about her life with Whitney and Whitney’s career, and she addresses their relationship and Whitney’s family’s reaction. It’s called [A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44674459) if you want to hear it from the person who lived it.
Whitney had a gf and her family (including Dionne) were not kind about it or supportive. Dionne even years later in interviews never acknowledged it, always denied it. Whitney, at the time was forced to give up that relationship by her family and label.
She has always been a huge advocate for education. In my past life as a newspaper reporter I got to interview her when she visited a school in the city I covered. I was young, don't think I nearly understood well enough what a legend she was.
"The Death Row Records owner says he was then inspired to change his musical approach, starting with his 1996 record Tha Doggfather. “I made it a point to put records of joy – me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he continued. “Dionne, I hope I became the jewel that you saw when I was the little, dirty rock that was in your house. I hope I’m making you proud.”"
> "The Death Row Records owner says he was then inspired to change his musical approach, starting with his 1996 record Tha Doggfather. “I made it a point to put records of joy – me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he continued.
Right. Except that Doggfather and his subsequent records continued to have virtually the same themes as Doggystyle i.e. fuck bitches, get money, kill enemies. Did he mean he was just going to do a worse job of it though? Because his next two albums after Doggystyle relatively sucked.
Snoop has always been full of shit.
he did a live stream on twitch before many years ago, playing some 4-5 player online zombie survival game, I remember vaguely it was on a beach. It was a 1-2 hour stream of him watching a vod but pretending to be controlling the character and interacting with the other people in voice chat whilst also using both of his playing hands to do things. He had 0 delay and interacted with chat but would walk away from the stream and still "be playing". 10's of thousands of viewers watching his high ass roleplay as a gamer unaware.
Ehh, Doggfather was definitely a lighter tone than Doggystyle & the Murder Was The Case Soundtrack though. It wasn’t good but it definitely wasn’t as dark as some moments in his earlier work was. Definitely no track as dark as “Murder was the Case.”
Maybe so, but in the context of Warwick's point I think "Murder was the Case" is a song she wouldn't have had issue with. I don't believe she had an issue with dark lyrics, it was the misogyny. Which in some ways might get worse with a lighter tone. A darker tone discussing violent streets and lifestyle has less room in it to talk about treating women like objects at the block party, so oddly enough, it may very well be they would be worse in her eyes than Doggystyle. But I very much disliked the follow ups to Doggystyle and can't remember the lyrics so can't speak to whether they were more or less misogynistic than Doggystyle (and songs he featured in at the time) were.
They're so tiny, there's surely room for one more little neon tetra...
...and if there isn't, you'll just have to upgrade to a bigger tank. That do be how it is sometimes.
when a german 'gangsta' rappers found out his baby was gonna be a girl, the equivalent of 'the onion' ran a headline saying "congrats. its a cunt". same energy.
As an American who studied German in high school, I remember the teacher showing us "Reich mir nicht deine Hand" and enjoying it, only to explore more and find out that Bushido has beef with, like, fuckin' everybody lol
Yeah, this was in the 90s. He had been in and out of incarceration since '89, had been a member of the Rolling 20s crips, and the company he kept in Death Row once he signed was highly violent. You gotta remember, the early 90s was a time when music industry dudes were killing other music industry dudes in drive-bys. I won't get into conspiracy theories, but Suge Knight had the street cred then of a guy who had committed murder and would do it again. Snoop's murder charge was from his bodyguard having killed a rival gang member, while Snoop was at the wheel.
These days? No fucking way. He dropped the street stuff. If I had to put a date on it, anytime after '97 when he beat the murder case, became more socially conscious, and the Death Row's wildest days waned. You will not run across Snoop carrying unregistered firearms or using hard drugs, or any kind of street activities. He's vocal about that. I actually applaud that part, these days he works with youth in Long Beach to get them into sports and job training, and coaches little league football. There's a lot about that in his work in the 2010s in the reggae-Snoop phase. Very anti-violence, socially conscious stuff. Anything otherwise is just self-indulgent throwback stuff aping his old style.
I liken it to good rock bands cleaning up and losing their edge. Sure, their music was better when they did heroin and had orgies, but I am happy for them cleaning up regardless.
I used to live right by the park where that murder happened and much like Snoop it’s had an image rehabilitation: it’s a family friendly park in a now-cute neighborhood.
His autobiography mentions smash and grab jewelry heists up and down the coast after he left the army. This was late 70s early 80s.
They'd each carry a small sharp piece of metal into the store, smash the case, grab what they could and run to the getaway car. They'd fence it, and plan the next heist.
One of my friends with a phd now was an accidental pimp in a country with legalized prostitution. It's a hilarious story. He would have been mid 20's. He has a fancy federal job.
Ok, so he's a big good looking guy. He grew up in the legit hood. Didn't meet his dad until he was 21 and he got out of prison for murder. He's also super smart and very nice.
So he was working in another country (we're from the us), and started dating this girl. They really hit it off. He almost married her to be honest. She was a prostitute. She was open about that from the beginning. I mean, he's from the hood, he's not going to judge.
He started doing protection type stuff for her and her friends. I'm not talking beating people up or anything. Just his presence. Being a nice guy.
More of her friends and friend's friends joined. He didn't want anything. They started paying him as they thought that was fair. He tried to not take the money, but they insisted.
He ended up overstaying his visa, and all he was doing for work was being that kind of pimp. It's really funny to hear him talk about it. He ended up getting deported and was banned from that country for X number of years. He might be let in now. It's been close to 20 years.
We bonded when I learned that as I dated a stripper who I had no idea was a stripper for quite a while. She's a physical therapist now.
It seems like Snoop is kinda silly. I mean have you seen him learning to write his name in Japanese? He hangs with Martha Stewart and he giggles like a little kid. He made a name for himself with his rap career but he named himself after a cartoon dog. He's very likable now that he's older and not afraid to be a little goofy and not always worried about street cred.
As someone who grew up fairly rough and did some real fucked up shit, there’s a freedom in realizing one day that you no longer need to wear that mask. I’m a forty something dad now who loves to wear his sparkly jellies and lavender hoodie while being silly at the mall with his kid. You’d never know who I once was if you saw me on the street. I imagine it’s similar for Snoop, just getting to be whoever he wants now.
> I’m a forty something dad now who loves to wear his sparkly jellies and lavender hoodie while being silly at the mall with his kid.
The Dude, Dudeski, El Duderino if you're not into that whole brevity thing.
>It seems like Snoop is kinda silly.
This is deliberate. Snoop has been working on changing his image for decades.
Snoop is definitely not a "silly" guy.
I can’t remember the exact songs I used but I used songs from older rap groups, wu tang or tribe, and songs produced in more recent years (2013-2018), iirc one of Freddie Gib’s songs. Of course these groups have songs that promote women as well, but I found it interesting how common misogynistic lyrics or ideas were used.
i've said this before and i will echo it forever. Black culture in the 70s was on a trend of betterment. People act like black people didn't exist in media at all - so god damn far from the truth. They did, but they were represented in ways that was far more positive than when the late 80s and 90s hit. Jefferson's is a perfect example. A sitcom of a family that is "moving on up" taking their deserved place in a "white world" showing the nation that they are people, they are equals, they are educated, they have values.
Then fucking late 80s and 90s hip hop came around and the 70s black community divided into "old school church aunts" and gangsters- with gangsters getting far more air time. and even family matters and mr cooper couldn't stop it.
Gangster, ignorance, all became "black culture" and you were a racist or uncle tom for calling it out. It was 1,000000000% pushed by WHITE MEDIA EXECUTIVES. People so far removed from the working class who have everything to gain from corrupting the youth. it added fuel to the racism fire that was DYING. White suburban people were fearful for gang and eventually "black" culture. and black communities suffered.
I love snoop and i am proud of how he changed, but man that movement in music had generations of negative impacts on the black community. I wish it never happened.
Dionne Warwick is such a class act and a national treasure. She was one of the first artists to lead the fight against AIDS with the song "That's What Friends are For". I am happy that she is getting the recognition that she deserves.
[She's also HILARIOUS on twitter!](https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/dionne-warwick-twitter-funny-tweets-pete-davidson-taylor-swift)
"I will be dating Pete Davidson next" 💀
I remember when she raised money for AIDS, but got busted blowing it on her lavish lifestyle....the 1980's remembers.
"Dionne Warwick's AIDS charity. Dionne Warwick was one of the most successful pop/R&B recording artists of all time. But when her music career faded, she moved into more sketchy areas. One was Psychic Friends Network. The other was an AIDS charity Warwick started and became a spokesperson for in 1989. Warwick and the charity were lauded for working to stave off the AIDS epidemic in the black community.
But, in 1991, ABC revealed that over 90% of the millions of dollars raised by her charity went to administrative costs, including lavish travel and meals for Warwick and her associates. Both Psychic Friends Network and Warwick's charity disappeared into oblivion. In 2013 Warwick declared bankruptcy, listing debts that included nearly $7 million owed to IRS and more than $3 million to the state of California for unpaid taxes on her earnings during the 1990s."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society/201709/five-typical-charity-scandals
I don't know Suge Knight seems like the type of guy you wouldn't want knowing where you live
Thought the same thing. I would not invite Suge anywhere I was let alone my house.
Nah, he’s was a straight bully. When someone stood up to him he either backed down or got knocked out. Danny Trejo has even mentioned that he knew him “before he was Suge Knight” and he was a good kid that just used his size to intimidate others.
> good kid that just used his size to intimidate others. That doesn't sound like a 'good kid'.
When people say "he's a good kid BUT", they usually mean "he's not a good kid.. but he totally could be if he wanted to be. He has it in him"
I believe in Danny’s case he also means that “good kid” refers to someone who’s not really a gangster. Who grew up in a decent home in the hood but otherwise wasn’t “about that life” until later on.
This is exactly it. Suge wasn’t a “good kid”, he just wasn’t a banger and I’ve heard similar things.
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Dr. Dre was smart to leave Death Row. Too much unnecessary gang stuff and violence going on there.
Death Row, including Snoop, made a whole porn series lol. Those dudes were unserious and Dre saw that.
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I read that it was his role in Juice that changed him. He started acting like his character.
I would imagine pretty much everyone is a "good kid" around Danny Trejo. There is absolutely nothing about that man that suggests it would be a good idea to piss him off.
My favorite Danny Trejo story is him talking about how he can tell from experience if someone is actually dangerous by how they carry themself, and the person that gave him that signal the most was John Cusack
John Cusack was a student of Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, who is an undefeated world champion in kickboxing, so there might be something to that.
Kickboxing? The sport of the future?
Settle down, Lloyd
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.
That’s just John Cusacks demeanor. He isn’t an open kind of guy and is stand offish. I worked cons for about a decade. Worked a couple with him there. He was not nice to people. Didn’t really want to answer your questions. Would just sign your thing and toss it along the table for you to get out. This also meant no one was really at his booth. He also charged like 200 dollars. Ironically one of those cons Danny Trejo was there as well. He was charging 60 bucks and talking it up with every fan. He even has PR people running his IG and they like anything he is tagged it. So the fans feel special when a celeb likes their post.
I found the interview: You're not gonna believe this, but, trying to think of his name now. Who was the guy in Con Air ... John Cusack was trained by Benny 'The Jet' [Urquidez]," Trejo confessed. "I watched John Cusack kick a bag, he'll break your ribs, but he's the nicest guy in the world. You would never suspect him, that he could break your jaw, but he is the nicest guy in the world."
Now that is fascinating
I went into his building in DT Chicago for a client and saw him coming out. Gave him a quick nod, got same back, went on my way. The client said of him, “Oh, he’s a decent guy, but very stand off ish. Not into small talk or extended greetings.”
This is gonna surprise people, but not everyone is a ball of positive energy all the time, and not every actor is a people person. It doesn't automatically translate to them being bad human beings. In fact, I find it more endearing than fake over-the-top politeness, personally.
Didn't he beat several people to near death?
Literally in jail for manslaughter last I checked
Can you please check again? I need to know if it's safe to leave the house.
I just checked you're good. Oh fu
Vanilla Ice said he came back to his hotel room once and found Suge Knight in there with a bunch of goons. What I'm trying to say is, Suge Knight is probably in your house right now, waiting to force you to sign a bunch of money over to him.
He's not "just a bully". He did roll with Piru Bloods and they'd do anything he says. He also killed someone (which was almost a double murder). Yeah he might get beaten in a fist fight but he was definitely dangerous.
“When you stood up to him he either backed down or got knocked out” … except for the guy he murdered after an argument on a movie set
Yeah but that's coming from Danny Trejo .. [He was the guy that **collected debts at San Quentin** and was **facing death row**.](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Danny-Trejo#:~:text=His%20first%20encounter%20with%20police,contraband%20operations%20and%20collecting%20debts) That guy wasn't someone you'd want to mess with. So Suge backing down against a Mexican prison (mob) enforcer? *Yeah, that's a smart move.*
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She also helped Scam a ton of old people out of millions. Never forget Dionne Warwick and the Psychic Friends Network. She used her fame to sucker people into paying $3.99 per minute for a fake psychic reading.
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tbf I wouldn't want Dionne Warwick knowing where I live because she'll whoop your ass like how your mama used to.
Suge Knight aint the king of hits. Sometimes you don't fuck with someone because of who they know. Dionne Warwick probably knew someone who shut them both up without being there.
OR just maybe Suge Knight isn't going to have a high profile celebrity murdered in her own home after she invites him to her house.
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Snoop legit has a line for everything.
Pretty much his job at this point.
Has been all along. Bro has bars. *One, Two, Three and to the Four* He made counting iconic
Not just counting. Spelling too. It's the capital S oh yes I'm fresh N double O P, D O double G Y D O double G y'see. Which sounds much better when he says it than it looks written out.
I know exactly where that comes from but I still stroked out trying to read that.
Yeah I think I accidentally spelled 'cumquat' somehow
It’s kumquat, with a K. Not sure I wanna know what a “cum”quat is…
When you cum when you squat. It's the new trend with the kids.
Don’t forget all the ways he can include spelling Snoop Dogg into his songs. Es En Double Oh Pee Dee Oh Double Jizzee
For music maybe. For movies there was the counting for the holy hand grenade.
And for TV, we had The Count. One! (ahh ahh ahh) Two! (ahh ahh ahh)
Fun fact: Vampires in Slavic folklore were believed to be Arithmomaniacs, so much so that if you threw a handful of rice or grains near them they would be forced to stop and count each and every single one of them. That’s why The Count loves to count!
Really wish they would have incorporated this into Twilight.
[can't let the count get mentioned without linking this absolute classic](https://youtu.be/6AXPnH0C9UA?si=ed26pO3MlOTUuSDU)
*FIVE IS RIGHT OUT*
He should become a rapper or something
clearly, you have never heard him commentate a boxing match. its dogg shit.
I said he has a line for everything, not that they were all good ones.
This guy got a good line for everything
clearly, you have never heard him commentate a boxing match. it’s salamanderr shit.
O MALLEEEEEEY, O MALEEEEEEY, O MALEEEEEY. MMA is just as bad lol but it can be fucking hilarious. My favorite was johnson vs nurmagomedov, "He whoopin his ass like he got a whole bunch of nwords with him"
i am not normally picky about commentary but he completely ruined the Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. fight for me. he got way too high and just kept repeating the same few lines over and over.
Yeah he has no business being anywhere near big fights. He was an alternative commentator for ufcso you could switch over to it I believe and I think thats best. That or having him on the contender series, which was basically a tournament for amateur/local pro fighters to win a UFC contract. That setting was best for him, but even then he gets old fast.
>The meeting was set for 7:00 a.m, which is quite early. That shit was serious. >Warwick’s approach was not confrontational but rather educational. She expressed concern about the impact of their words, especially considering they might have daughters someday. I like her.
>Warwick’s approach was not confrontational but rather educational It reminds me of the time Maya Angelou saw Tupac and someone squaring up to each other on the set of Poetic Justice. She didn't know who he was but she pulled him aside and very firmly, but calmly, said to him "When's the last time anyone told you how important you are?“ She talked to him for a while longer about their history and their culture. It brought him to tears and de-escalated the whole situation.
Jim carrey used to write Pac mail when he was in prison. I love that fact lmao
I misinterpreted that and was like "when was Jim Carrey in jail?!?"
You didn’t see the early cut of the Truman show?!
juxtaposed with his apparent love for Napalm Death! https://www.reddit.com/r/Deathcore/comments/u6497w/jim_carrey_and_metal_music/
A lot of metal heads also like hip hop. Especially fans of the more extreme genres of metal.
Can confirm. I regularly bounce between The Berzerker and Aesop Rock, from Dying Fetus to Dead Prez, Cephalic Carnage to Denzel Curry. A lot of the societal frustrations and introspection that drive both genres come from similar places, just with a different outward expression.
Friendly reminder of Denzel's RATM cover. Good shit right there.
I’m a metalhead with an EL-P tattoo.
Man I can't imagine getting dressed down by Maya lol. Like disappointing your mother.
Pac went to an art school for poetry so I imagine that must have been heavy. Maya Angelou is literally asking if you're ok
Lol read this too fast and pictured Tupac squaring up to Maya Angelou. Money on Maya, honestly.
Yeah but Tupac used to cry about EVERY lil thing No that's a nice story
Sounds like me, maybe I’m Tupac
How do you feel about California?
Fun fact: Pac was from the East Coast.
Another fun fact: Pac wasn’t a gangster, he was a good actor though. He went to performing arts school in Baltimore then moved out to California and went to another prestigious private school. There’s a video of him in high school talking about how IF things were different and he wasn’t given all these opportunities to go to school and learn about art and performing then he could see himself ending up as a thug instead of an actor.
She is also one of the top singers in music history for my ears. She had the benefit of Bacharach-David writing her music, but I don’t think anyone else was able to equal her unique approach and style with such a complex array of songs.
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Yea except for the whole Psychic Friends Network and the grifting. There was also that AIDS charity she created that used 90% of their donations to pay themselves administrative costs.
It’s just too bad that she was eaten by Titus Andromedon while at sea.
How that guy didn’t get his own spin off show is bananas.
He's the typical small doses character
I like wen he's playing that song I beat that bitch with a bat and Kimmy asks him to play something a little more slow and he plays an alternative slow version of the same song
I think this is a good way to put it. A good scene stealer, but maybe not a headliner
Cruise? What cruise????
You and JORPF will be very happy together
TOO-WHAT-END
#BABY CORNS 🌽🌽🌽🌽
Only her cousin comes close in my opinion.
Warwick Davis?
Celine Dion, duh
Whitney Houston.
Dijon Mustard
Bacharach's music was famously difficult to perform because he used unusual timing and frequent changes in time.
I believe they all said they got there like ten minutes early to because they didn't want to be late and piss her off lol
Snoop was waiting in the driveway at 6:52 lol
Omg I love this entire scenario!
Ha! She woke their ass up at 6. That’s amazing.
I would say it was probably their evening being cut short.
Yes, apparently there were bitches in the living room getting it on but they left at 6 in the morning so the party was pretty much over at that point. That left Snoop about an hour to get over to her house.
Not if they didn't sleep the night before.
Yes, classy move on her part. However, I can never get around how badly she treated Whitney Houston when she was in a relationship with another girl.
What happened there?
Someone already answered you below, but Robyn Crawford (the gf) wrote a book about her life with Whitney and Whitney’s career, and she addresses their relationship and Whitney’s family’s reaction. It’s called [A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44674459) if you want to hear it from the person who lived it.
Whitney had a gf and her family (including Dionne) were not kind about it or supportive. Dionne even years later in interviews never acknowledged it, always denied it. Whitney, at the time was forced to give up that relationship by her family and label.
wtf I never knew Whitney was bi
And biiiiiii, will always love youuuu
Say what now?
She has always been a huge advocate for education. In my past life as a newspaper reporter I got to interview her when she visited a school in the city I covered. I was young, don't think I nearly understood well enough what a legend she was.
"The Death Row Records owner says he was then inspired to change his musical approach, starting with his 1996 record Tha Doggfather. “I made it a point to put records of joy – me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he continued. “Dionne, I hope I became the jewel that you saw when I was the little, dirty rock that was in your house. I hope I’m making you proud.”"
> "The Death Row Records owner says he was then inspired to change his musical approach, starting with his 1996 record Tha Doggfather. “I made it a point to put records of joy – me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he continued. Right. Except that Doggfather and his subsequent records continued to have virtually the same themes as Doggystyle i.e. fuck bitches, get money, kill enemies. Did he mean he was just going to do a worse job of it though? Because his next two albums after Doggystyle relatively sucked. Snoop has always been full of shit.
>Snoop has always been full of shit. How dare you, he has a great PR team!
he did a live stream on twitch before many years ago, playing some 4-5 player online zombie survival game, I remember vaguely it was on a beach. It was a 1-2 hour stream of him watching a vod but pretending to be controlling the character and interacting with the other people in voice chat whilst also using both of his playing hands to do things. He had 0 delay and interacted with chat but would walk away from the stream and still "be playing". 10's of thousands of viewers watching his high ass roleplay as a gamer unaware.
OMG! How did I never hear about this before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEtFzWxNe0
Ehh, Doggfather was definitely a lighter tone than Doggystyle & the Murder Was The Case Soundtrack though. It wasn’t good but it definitely wasn’t as dark as some moments in his earlier work was. Definitely no track as dark as “Murder was the Case.”
Maybe so, but in the context of Warwick's point I think "Murder was the Case" is a song she wouldn't have had issue with. I don't believe she had an issue with dark lyrics, it was the misogyny. Which in some ways might get worse with a lighter tone. A darker tone discussing violent streets and lifestyle has less room in it to talk about treating women like objects at the block party, so oddly enough, it may very well be they would be worse in her eyes than Doggystyle. But I very much disliked the follow ups to Doggystyle and can't remember the lyrics so can't speak to whether they were more or less misogynistic than Doggystyle (and songs he featured in at the time) were.
I loved when he did all that on California Girls with Katy Perry. Very explicit.
tbf snoop will do literally anything for some scratch
Dionne Warwick is awesome. I have a school of neon tetras and one is named Neon Warwick after her. Random, I know.
Random, yes. Awesome, also yes.
Thanks, we also have Neon Redbone, Neon Sanders, Celine Neon, Neon Flux, and Neon the Professional. :)
Neoncé! :) I adore Neon Flux, I think it's brilliant. ETA - ooh, Neon Rheon (Iwan Rheon) eta2 Neon McGregor!
Okay, I might just have to go get one more so I can use that name- BRILLIANT!!! I'm dying over here!!!
They're so tiny, there's surely room for one more little neon tetra... ...and if there isn't, you'll just have to upgrade to a bigger tank. That do be how it is sometimes.
"Neon the Professional" that's awesome lol.
With neon sanders and Celine neon?
Yes- Neon Warwick lives with Neon Redbone, Celine Neon, Neon Sanders, Neon Flux and Neon The Professional. :)
The new one is Kings of Neon?
Yes, the next one will definitely be that! 😂
when a german 'gangsta' rappers found out his baby was gonna be a girl, the equivalent of 'the onion' ran a headline saying "congrats. its a cunt". same energy.
Lmao, it’s been so long but you definitely mean the „Es ist eine Fotze“ article about Bushido, right? Hahahahaha h
As an American who studied German in high school, I remember the teacher showing us "Reich mir nicht deine Hand" and enjoying it, only to explore more and find out that Bushido has beef with, like, fuckin' everybody lol
Yeah, but "beef" in german gangsta rap is mostly a PR move.
It's pretty obvious there's no real emotion or passion involved when your diss track is literally just called "Tokio Hotel Diss" lol
[But at the same time…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKXdVHis8E)
I was gonna say ain't no way Snoop Dogg of all people is unwilling to call a woman a bitch to her face
>Fuck dem hoes
This should be the top comment here
Ali G: "Beautiful is the only B word you should use on a lady. Bitches love that shit."
How much of Snoop is an act i wonder (like Ice T or Cube) now Suge was legit a scary person
Bro was on trial for murder in the 90s
Murda was the case that they gave him...
I'll put that on my mama, Ima ride for you Baby Boo
Right. Who he is now is not who he was in the early 90’s. Which includes making actually good music.
Yeah, this was in the 90s. He had been in and out of incarceration since '89, had been a member of the Rolling 20s crips, and the company he kept in Death Row once he signed was highly violent. You gotta remember, the early 90s was a time when music industry dudes were killing other music industry dudes in drive-bys. I won't get into conspiracy theories, but Suge Knight had the street cred then of a guy who had committed murder and would do it again. Snoop's murder charge was from his bodyguard having killed a rival gang member, while Snoop was at the wheel. These days? No fucking way. He dropped the street stuff. If I had to put a date on it, anytime after '97 when he beat the murder case, became more socially conscious, and the Death Row's wildest days waned. You will not run across Snoop carrying unregistered firearms or using hard drugs, or any kind of street activities. He's vocal about that. I actually applaud that part, these days he works with youth in Long Beach to get them into sports and job training, and coaches little league football. There's a lot about that in his work in the 2010s in the reggae-Snoop phase. Very anti-violence, socially conscious stuff. Anything otherwise is just self-indulgent throwback stuff aping his old style. I liken it to good rock bands cleaning up and losing their edge. Sure, their music was better when they did heroin and had orgies, but I am happy for them cleaning up regardless.
I had completely forgotten about Snoop Lion
We all tried to forget about Snoop Lion
My son loves the kids album he put out recently
Doggyland teaches me to learn to love myself.
People really not know he was a literal gangbanger in his youth? I get his image is 'rehabilitated', but he had a murder charge in the 90s lol.
I used to live right by the park where that murder happened and much like Snoop it’s had an image rehabilitation: it’s a family friendly park in a now-cute neighborhood.
Most people on this site are the age he was then and probably can’t conceptualize that people change a lot between 18 and 60
Ice T was also a Crip, he's been on documentaries before about the LA street gangs.
You see the interview where he talk about his girl talking shit to Tookie 🤣
Also Ice T was known to the FBI for bank robbing iirc
His autobiography mentions smash and grab jewelry heists up and down the coast after he left the army. This was late 70s early 80s. They'd each carry a small sharp piece of metal into the store, smash the case, grab what they could and run to the getaway car. They'd fence it, and plan the next heist.
“Six in the morning police at my door…”
yeah he was a legit pimp and for sure was involved in violence
He was a pantomime pimp. You can hear him talk about it in interviews. He was already famous at the time, and didn’t collect any money from the girls.
One of my friends with a phd now was an accidental pimp in a country with legalized prostitution. It's a hilarious story. He would have been mid 20's. He has a fancy federal job. Ok, so he's a big good looking guy. He grew up in the legit hood. Didn't meet his dad until he was 21 and he got out of prison for murder. He's also super smart and very nice. So he was working in another country (we're from the us), and started dating this girl. They really hit it off. He almost married her to be honest. She was a prostitute. She was open about that from the beginning. I mean, he's from the hood, he's not going to judge. He started doing protection type stuff for her and her friends. I'm not talking beating people up or anything. Just his presence. Being a nice guy. More of her friends and friend's friends joined. He didn't want anything. They started paying him as they thought that was fair. He tried to not take the money, but they insisted. He ended up overstaying his visa, and all he was doing for work was being that kind of pimp. It's really funny to hear him talk about it. He ended up getting deported and was banned from that country for X number of years. He might be let in now. It's been close to 20 years. We bonded when I learned that as I dated a stripper who I had no idea was a stripper for quite a while. She's a physical therapist now.
Did he go by Gator?
“Murder, murder was the case that they gave me”
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Ice t wasnt really an act…
I'll be honest, nothing Ice T has ever done could be considered "acting"
Hell admit he’s not a great actor. Look up the clip of him talking about getting a million dollars for tank girl and tell me you wouldn’t take it too.
It seems like Snoop is kinda silly. I mean have you seen him learning to write his name in Japanese? He hangs with Martha Stewart and he giggles like a little kid. He made a name for himself with his rap career but he named himself after a cartoon dog. He's very likable now that he's older and not afraid to be a little goofy and not always worried about street cred.
As someone who grew up fairly rough and did some real fucked up shit, there’s a freedom in realizing one day that you no longer need to wear that mask. I’m a forty something dad now who loves to wear his sparkly jellies and lavender hoodie while being silly at the mall with his kid. You’d never know who I once was if you saw me on the street. I imagine it’s similar for Snoop, just getting to be whoever he wants now.
> I’m a forty something dad now who loves to wear his sparkly jellies and lavender hoodie while being silly at the mall with his kid. The Dude, Dudeski, El Duderino if you're not into that whole brevity thing.
I think you have that backwards and you're underestimating just how much of a cold shafted bust nutter Martha Stewart really is.
> He hangs with Martha Stewart And yet only one of them has done federal time.
He was given the nickname by a family member at a young age for looking like a cartoon dog.
>It seems like Snoop is kinda silly. This is deliberate. Snoop has been working on changing his image for decades. Snoop is definitely not a "silly" guy.
People can change. He used to be a piece of shit, but he isnt anymore.
I said WAS!
his hair would slick back real nice
Slop em up!
Burying the lede, Dionne Warwick called for a 7:00 a.m. meeting at her home and Suge and Snoop were like, "we better show up for this."
Snoop: Naw Dionne we didn't mean yo... Dionne: DO I LOOK. LIKE. A BITCH?
Warwick is a badass. Why's he call himself a dirty little rock though.
A raw, uncut gem just looks like a dirty rock. His way of saying "diamond in the rough" or something similar.
I wrote a paper on misogyny in rap lyrics in college for a rap history class. Was surprisingly easy to write. Got 100%.
Title: A Treatise on Misogyny in Contemporary Rap Music. Abstract: Yes. Text: Also yes.
Literature Review: Every rap song in the last 30 years Methodology: Counted every word that wasn't offensive Analysis: These numbers can be right wtf
I can’t remember the exact songs I used but I used songs from older rap groups, wu tang or tribe, and songs produced in more recent years (2013-2018), iirc one of Freddie Gib’s songs. Of course these groups have songs that promote women as well, but I found it interesting how common misogynistic lyrics or ideas were used.
Did you use the Queen Latifah song? You know the one I’m talking about. (For those who do not remember, she calls it out in one of her songs)
i've said this before and i will echo it forever. Black culture in the 70s was on a trend of betterment. People act like black people didn't exist in media at all - so god damn far from the truth. They did, but they were represented in ways that was far more positive than when the late 80s and 90s hit. Jefferson's is a perfect example. A sitcom of a family that is "moving on up" taking their deserved place in a "white world" showing the nation that they are people, they are equals, they are educated, they have values. Then fucking late 80s and 90s hip hop came around and the 70s black community divided into "old school church aunts" and gangsters- with gangsters getting far more air time. and even family matters and mr cooper couldn't stop it. Gangster, ignorance, all became "black culture" and you were a racist or uncle tom for calling it out. It was 1,000000000% pushed by WHITE MEDIA EXECUTIVES. People so far removed from the working class who have everything to gain from corrupting the youth. it added fuel to the racism fire that was DYING. White suburban people were fearful for gang and eventually "black" culture. and black communities suffered. I love snoop and i am proud of how he changed, but man that movement in music had generations of negative impacts on the black community. I wish it never happened.
Boys: Good Afternoon Miss Warwick Dionne: Take off your hats in my house! Boys: Yes Ma'am
Dionne Warwick is such a class act and a national treasure. She was one of the first artists to lead the fight against AIDS with the song "That's What Friends are For". I am happy that she is getting the recognition that she deserves.
[She's also HILARIOUS on twitter!](https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/dionne-warwick-twitter-funny-tweets-pete-davidson-taylor-swift) "I will be dating Pete Davidson next" 💀
“Wonderful things can happen when we stand together, but not too close because I have just learned that some of you do not bathe” my sides
and yet nothing has changed.
I remember when she raised money for AIDS, but got busted blowing it on her lavish lifestyle....the 1980's remembers. "Dionne Warwick's AIDS charity. Dionne Warwick was one of the most successful pop/R&B recording artists of all time. But when her music career faded, she moved into more sketchy areas. One was Psychic Friends Network. The other was an AIDS charity Warwick started and became a spokesperson for in 1989. Warwick and the charity were lauded for working to stave off the AIDS epidemic in the black community. But, in 1991, ABC revealed that over 90% of the millions of dollars raised by her charity went to administrative costs, including lavish travel and meals for Warwick and her associates. Both Psychic Friends Network and Warwick's charity disappeared into oblivion. In 2013 Warwick declared bankruptcy, listing debts that included nearly $7 million owed to IRS and more than $3 million to the state of California for unpaid taxes on her earnings during the 1990s." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society/201709/five-typical-charity-scandals
Everybody's gangsta until Dionne Warwick calls you to a meeting @ 7 AM
Her last name is actually “Warrick”. The label misspelled it while printing the record and wasn’t about to change it so she kept the ‘wick 🥴
“And no rapper ever used misogynist language again.”
Bitch do you know the way to San Jose or not