Snoop Dogg has admitted which unexpected singer once ‘out-gangstered’ him at her own house.
The artist, 53, shot to fame in the early-90s and quickly became one of the biggest names in gangsta rap.
With more than 35 million records sold worldwide, including seven platinum albums, he truly believed it was unlikely that anyone would be able to ‘out-gangsta’ him.
But following a surprising interaction with one singer, he admitted that the artist completely ‘out-gangstered’ him, and changed the way he made his music.
Snoop noted that he was left genuinely ‘scared and shook up’ after the singer in question taught him a very valuable life lesson.
She was known for roasting other celebrities – and Snoop was not left unscathed.
In fact, she demanded that he took a look at his ‘misogynistic’ lyrics, which he wrote during beginning of his career.
The mystery singer invited him, Suge Knight, and a number of other rappers, to her home so that she could confront them in person.
Speaking about the invitation, Snoop recalled: “We were kind of scared and shook up.
“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.”
The singer told the group to arrive at her home no later than 7am on the dot – not a minute before, not a minute after.
Snoop recalled that the group were all on her driveway at 6:52 am.
The legend then greeted them at her doorway, and immediately told them to call her a ‘b****’ – a word they regularly used in their songs.
She warned them: “You guys are all going to grow up. You’re going to 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?”
In a CNN film about her life, she said of Snoop’s group and their songs: “These kids are expressing themselves, which they’re entitled to do.
“However, there’s a way to do it.”
Snoop noted that he was taken aback after hearing his own lyrics being used against him, by one of the biggest female artists of all time.
“She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn’t be checked,” he explained.
“We were as gangsta as you could be, but that day at her house, I believe we got out-gangstered that day.”
The icon in question was Grammy-winning soul singer Dionne Warwick, 84.
Snoop admitted that the meeting prompted him to tone down the lyrics on his 1996 album ‘Tha Doggfather’.
“I made a point of making records of joy – me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he said.
Snoop is indeed a husband and a father to three boys and, just like Warwick predicted, a daughter.
Sending her a message for the CNN film, Snoop said: “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.”
