Snoop Dogg Recalls Being "Checked" and "Out-Gangstered" by Dionne Warwick

During his appearance in the newest documentary, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, Snoop Dogg recalled the time when he and other rappers where “checked” and “out-gangstered” by legendary singer.

According to CNN, the incident happened early on in Snoop’s career. Warwick was not pleased with how misogynistic the lyrics of ’90s gangsta rap were, so she called Snoop, Suge Knight and several other rappers over to her house to confront them about it. She set a 7 a.m. call time and the rappers were all in her driveway by 6:52 a.m., as they “were kind of like scared and shook up,” Snoop said.

Warwick then asked the rappers to call her a “b*tch” to her face as they used the term in many of their songs, adding, “You guys are all going to grow up. You’re going have families. You’re going to have children. You’re going to have little girls and one day that little girl is going to look at you and say, ‘Daddy, did you really say that? Is that really you?’ What are you going to say?”

“She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn’t be checked,” Snoop continued. “We were the most gangsta as you could be but that day at Dionne Warwick’s house, I believe we got out-gangstered that day.” From that interaction on, he decided to change the tone of Tha Doggfather, “I made it a point to put records of joy – me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living.”

“These kids are expressing themselves, which they’re entitled to do. However, there’s a way to do it,” Warwick further shared.

“We’re powerful right now, but she’s been powerful forever. Thirty-some years in the game, in the big home with a lot of money and success,” Snoop 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.”

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