Snoop Dogg claims Dionne Warwick ‘outgangstered’ him with an intervention over his lyrics
Dionne Warwick had much more to share than a simple prayer. Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, as well as the other rappers who were signed to Death Row Records during the ’90s.
In a new clip, she explains her future CNN documentary. Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, The “Walk on By” singer shared that she once invited “Drop it Like It’s Hot”, the rapper, and his label mates to her house at 7 a.m. to host an intervention about the negative terminology they used towards women in their chart-topping songs.
Warwick said, “They all showed-up and, yeah. It worked.” recalls. “I believe they needed to hear my voice.”
Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Snoop Dogg and Dionne Warwick
She said that she had told them to tell their parents, and I replied, “You guys will all grow up. You’ll have children. You’ll have children. You will have little girls. One day, the little girl will look at you and ask, “Daddy, did that really happen?” Is this really you? You’re going to tell them. They got it through, I believe.”
Snoop said that he was at Warwick’s driveway at 6 :52 a.m. and recalled feeling nervous about the meeting. CNN reported that he stated, “We were kinda, like, scared, and shook up.” “We are powerful right now, but she has been powerful for thirty years, in the big house with lots of money and success.
After welcoming them in, the Grammy-winning vocalist (and social media superstar) reportedly shocked Snoop and his contemporaries by asking them to call her a bitch — a nod to how liberally they used the word in their lyrics.
Snoop said that she was checking me when I thought it couldn’t be. “We were as gangstas as we could be, but Dionne Warwick’s day was the day that I think we got out-gangstered.”
Warwick is to be credited for it did work. Snoop was able to change his tune after the lyrical intervention. “I made it a point to put out records of joy — me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he said. “Dionne! I hope that I am the jewel you saw in me when I was the tiny, dirty rock that lived in your home. I hope I’m making you proud.”
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over Premieres January 1st at 9:00 PM ET/PT on CNN It will also be available on CNN on Demand from Jan.
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