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There probably aren’t too many celebrities left on Snoop Dogg’s bucket list, but he checked a major one off earlier this year when he met Paul McCartney for the first time.
Fresh off performing at the Olympics’ Closing Ceremony, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre recently sat down with Complex, and The Doggfather reflected on having the chance to link up with The Beatles legend, where the respect was mutual.
“I did a little concert for somebody in Hollywood. Paul McCartney was there. I never met him before, but I’m a f–king fan of The Beatles,” he began. “I know Jimmy [Iovine] know him, I know Dre know him. I’m in the back smoking and they’re like, ‘Sir Paul would like to meet you.’ I’m like, ‘Oh for real? Hold on.’
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Snoop continued, noting he didn’t know McCartney is also a cannabis connoisseur. “I put the blunt out, cuz walk in the room like, ‘Don’t put that down!’ He give me a hug and he meet me and I’m like, ‘F–k, Paul McCartney know who the f–k Snoop Dogg is!’” recalled the rapper. “This is Paul McCartney, he knows who I am. That’s the experience I love is when the people you respect, respect you.”
“F–k yeah,” he exclaimed when asked about potentially working with Paul. “In a heartbeat, ‘Ebony & Ivory,’ ‘The Girl Is Mine.’ What do you want to do? Like a motherf—-r?”
A photo of Snoop and Paul emerged in April from the Jimmy Buffett Tribute concert, which appears to be the event that the West Coast icon is referencing.
After once passing on the opportunity to collaborate with Stevie Wonder, Dr. Dre is open to locking in with the music icon. “You know what? It’s crazy because I bumped into Stevie Wonder a couple times,” Dre said. “He called me. He pulled up on me in the restaurant, ‘I heard you been talking about me?!’ … He’s one of my heroes and I would absolutely go in there with him … I always taught maybe you shouldn’t meet your heroes.”
While Dre hasn’t been in the studio with Stevie, Snoop reminded him he did co-produce a record for Busta Rhymes titled “Through the Storm,” which featured vocals from Wonder on 2006’s The Big Bang. “[It’s] probably gonna happen. I have to have that experience,” Dre concluded of working with Wonder down the line.
Snoop Dogg chimed in, recalling a hilarious time when he was in the studio with Wonder and Pharrell, and he got Skateboard P so high that he just left him in the studio with Stevie. “I’m like, ‘What you want me to do?’ I ain’t no producer,” Snoop said.
Snoop and Dr. Dre are gearing up to deliver their first full-length collaborative project since 1993’s Doggystyle with Missionary, which they’re promising to release before Santa Claus comes down chimneys across the globe.
Watch the full interview below.
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Westside Gunn is in album mode. The Buffalo rapper took to Instagram over the weekend and announced that he plans on dropping a surprise warm-up tape before releasing the highly anticipated Flygod Is an Awesome God III (Trilogy).
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“I came here to mix and master my album Flygod Is an Awesome God 3,” he started the caption. “And was waiting for my files, so I had played some beats and caught a vibe, told him load it and made a joint, then made another joint, and then made another joint. And now 24hrs later I made a new project.”
He added, “I told y’all I was thinking about dropping a project even before the album, I been doing so much wrestling and fashion I’m ready to get back on my WSG s—t!!!!”
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In the video, he said he made the album in a day to see if he still had it, and wants to release the new tape immediately. “Listen, I’m not even waiting. I want to drop this ASAP,” he shared. “I gotta go figure out what I gotta do, how I gotta do it, whatever distribution, I want this out ASAP. This is to let people know.”
The Buffalo rapper surprised fans when he announced his plans to release the third installment to the Flygod trilogy after initially considering retiring from making studio albums. “I’m not saying I won’t come with a five-song EP with Madlib or I won’t do a seven-song EP with Alchemist or I won’t rap. I’ll do all of that, but making a studio album, I’m done with all that. It’s back to dumping until I don’t want to dump no more. I’m going to have fun now. It’s no more pressure,” he told Rolling Stone last October.
While an unreleased track could be heard in the background of the video he posted, Gunn hasn’t released anything thing from this upcoming project. However, he’s already premiered one single from Flygod 3 during TNA’s Slammiversary in “Chocolate Face” featuring DJ Khaled, and teased another track on social media in “Big Dump” featuring Stove God Cooks.
See his Instagram video below:
Doja Cat seems to have a new man in her life — and she’s been interested in him for a while. In a video shared by celebrity gossip page DeuxMoi, the “Paint the Town Red” singer looks to be strolling around London with Stranger Things star, Joseph Quinn. In the clip, which was taken from […]
At one of her recent Eras Tour shows in London, Taylor Swift met with the families of victims harmed by the deadly mass stabbing at a children’s dance class in Southport in July. In photos posted to TikTok by one mom who met the pop star with her daughters at Wembley Stadium over the weekend, […]
An upcoming auction will sell personal items and memorabilia from late producer Avicii. The live auction happens on Oct. 1 at 3 p.m. CEST, and will include shoes, clothing, musical instruments and other ephemera related to the artist’s career. Hosted by Auktionsverk, the auction’s revenue will go to the Tim Bergling Foundation, which was launched […]
Kesha fans were sent for a loop on Sunday (Aug. 18) after claims that the “Eat the Acid” singer’s name was removed from the video credits of Pitbull‘s 2013 hit “Timber.” According to screenshots posted on Reddit of what appeared to be the altered credentials for the visual for the single from Mr. Worldwide’s Meltdown […]
Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart for the first time as the set jumps from No. 12 to No. 1 on the Aug. 24-dated list. The album sold 8,500 copies on vinyl in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 15, according to […]
Drake took it back to 2003, and while listening to a Chingy classic, something about the St. Louis rapper’s “One Call Away” anthem stuck out to him. The 6 God took to his Instagram Story on Sunday (Aug. 18) to quote verses from the Jackpot hit, which Drake felt he related to, especially when it […]
The latest chapter in Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz‘s love story involved a romantic night out at Taylor Swift‘s London Eras Tour show over the weekend.
And in a video posted by the Magic Mike star after the show, he films the Batman actress dancing along to “Shake It Off” before leaning down and kissing his fiancée on the cheek. “Date night with TSwift,” he captioned the clip posted on X Monday (Aug. 19). “The love is real and @taylorswift13 is an absolute force!”
Tatum also tweeted a selfie in which he poses with Swift’s father, Scott, and a handful of guitar picks. “Got some guitar picks I’m gonna sell for charity from big daddy Swift himself,” he wrote. “Legend he is. #swiftiesforever #tstheerastour.”
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The couple’s outing comes just over a year after Tatum attended an Eras Tour stop in Los Angeles, wearing a glitter heart around his eye and an “I’m the daddy, it’s me” T-shirt made by his 11-year-old daughter, Everly, whom he shares with his ex-wife, actress Jenna Dewan. “I was a fan of the music because I’ve listened to her forever, but I did not know she was such an unstoppable force,” the actor later raved of Swift’s concert on The Tonight Show in July.
“I kind of know her a little personally, and she’s really kind of just normal and sweet,” he added at the time, referencing his connection to Swift via Kravitz’s friendship with the pop star. “And she’ll make you, like, a dinner, and like whip it up no problem. Like, homemade Pop-Tarts. Like warm, warm Pop-Tarts. I’m like, ‘Did you just make these? How are these warm?’”
In addition to dancing with her fiancé at the three-hour-plus Wembley show, Kravitz also got to rock out to a song she helped Swift write: “Lavender Haze” from Midnights. Shortly after the album dropped in 2022, the Divergent actress revealed in an interview with GQ that she and the 14-time Grammy winner were in each other’s quarantine pods, and that Swift made her “home-cooked meals and dinner on [her] birthday” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Zoë’s sense of self is what makes her such an exciting artist, and such an incredible friend,” Swift added in the same interview. “She has this very honest inner compass, and the result is art and life without compromising who she is.”
See Tatum’s post with Kravitz and Papa Swift at the Eras Tour below.
Dr. Dre wants to suit up for Team USA when the 2028 Summer Olympics come to Los Angeles. The West Coast rap legend recently opened up about his hopes to compete on the archery team, and a two-time gold medalist is willing to help him.
California’s own archery savant Justin Huish spoke to TMZ Sports about potentially training Dr. Dre with the goal of getting the musician to the Olympic Games, and Huish thinks it’s possible the rapper could thrive.
“Archery is kind of like golf — anyone can do it at any age. There’s not really an age limit. I’m gonna be 50 years old myself and I’m still competing at a high level,” he said. “We’ve had times where someone has made the team where someone isn’t in the archery team in years past.”
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Huish continued: “It really would matter would he be able to put the time and effort in fast-tracking that … It’s a six- or seven-hour per day endeavor to really get good. You can be a phenom and you don’t really know.”
Huish was the first male archer to win double gold medals when he claimed the top spot in the individual and team events at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He also offered a helping hand to Dre if he wants to take his game to another level.
“Dr. Dre, hit me up. I’ll be there. I live in SoCal. I’ll come to your house,” Huish added to TMZ Sports. “I will train, I will dedicate my time to train with you. I will give you all my top sponsors for the best equipment money can buy … I can get you in contact with our top U.S. Olympic coaches. Anything you need. If you’re really serious about this, hit me up.”
Dr. Dre — who performed alongside Snoop Dogg during the 2024 Summer Olympics’ Closing Ceremony on Aug. 11 — recently put his cards on the table when telling Entertainment Tonight about his plans to suit up for Team USA. His relationship with the sport goes back to junior-high school, and he has a setup in his backyard.
“I’m trying to try out for the Olympics in 2028 … archery. I’m dead-a– serious,” he insisted. “I actually started playing around with archery in junior high. I stopped for a while and my son bought me a setup I don’t know if it was for my birthday or Father’s Day or something like that, so I have it set up in my backyard. And I heard qualifying for the Olympics is 77 feet and I practice at 90 [feet].”
Dre went on about the potential feat: “Yeah, wouldn’t that be interesting to go, especially with it being here in L.A. and win the gold medal … I feel like I could do anything.”
If Dre can pull it off, he’ll be 63 years old at the time of the 2028 Olympics, which is taking place on the USA’s home soil.
Watch Huish make his offer below:
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