In the wake of Warren G saying he misses hanging out with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, Snoop explained the paradox of “love” and “pain” in his friendship with the “Regulate” artist.
On Wednesday’s episode of The Breakfast Club, Snoop was characteristically level as he described Warren G as “probably the best friend that I got that only me and him understand each other” around the 18-minute mark in the video above.
Snoop said their friendship has paralleled their evolutions into men and fathers who have also experienced the hard parts of growing up, like the deaths of their mothers.
“There have been certain situations where we have become super close behind tragedy and behind love,” the rapper said.
On the other hand, he explained, there has been tension because of the trajectories of their respective careers.
“The music industry is trifling,” Snoop said. “You think about how [Warren G] brought me to Death Row, but Death Row didn’t sign him, so there’s a lot of animosity and frustration and anger in him off of that. Not at me but at the situation at whole.
“As a artist, if you’re pushing for me, you want for me to do this,” he added. “But as an artist, I’m feeling fucked up because they left my homeboy. These are things that we’ve never had a chance to fully get a understanding on because it’s pain.”
Charlamagne then asked Snoop about Warren G’s other recent complaint that “nobody would answer their phones” when he wanted backstage access at the Super Bowl LVI, which Snoop and Dr. Dre co-headlined in 2022.
Warren said on the Ugly Monkey podcast that he wanted his son and Dr. Dre’s step-nephew, football cornerback Olaijah Griffin, to see behind the scenes.
“I didn’t give a fuck about performing,” the West Coast rapper/producer said. “I just wanted to take my son down there to see all my folks and see everybody.”
Snoop saw the situation a different way, however, and he told The Breakfast Club his philosophy on bringing in friends to his jobs.
“[Warren G’s] relationship with Dr Dre is his relationship,” Snoop said. “His relationship with me is our relationship. When I’m working with Dr. Dre, I don’t bring nobody with me. I bring myself because I’m not responsible for nobody but me.”
