Snoop’s love for Obama

last updated 8 January 2015

Snoop Lion might well be the president’s No. 1 fan, said Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian (U.K.). “I love Obama. How could I not love him?” says the rapper, who used to call himself Snoop Dogg. “This motherf---er got three states smoking weed legally now. And they talking about getting Texas, too. If we can get Texas, goddamn, it’s a wrap.” Snoop never thought he’d see a black president in his lifetime. “I had no hope. Ain’t no nigga ever going to win, and if the nigga do win, they gonna kill him as soon as he get in office.” But Obama, says Snoop, was a different kind of black politician. “He was sharp, he had the swagger of a real player but had the conversation the other people related to. He made everybody feel he was their guy, and now he’s in office doing his thang, he’s our guy.” Snoop thinks the president has brought some much-needed black style to the White House. “Obama cleared out all the music when he got in there. He was like, hold on. Get some hip-hop, some old-time Motown. The refrigerator, he redid all that; hold on, get some ribs in here. More niggas have been in that White House the past four years than the entire amount of years [since] that motherf---er was built.”