Snoop Dogg has released an EP, titled "Make America Crip Again". Returning to his roots, Snoop raps in the record:
“The president says he wants to make America great again. F**k that sh*t. We gonna make America crip again.”
The image for the EP, however, has created a lot of controversy. It features a dead
in a morgue, his feet sticking out from under an American flag while Snoop Dogg stands over him, victorious. Of course, rapper YG had a big song last year called 'F**k Donald Trump', and Eminem recently made big waves with his anti-Trump freestyle. Hip-hop in general, after praising Trump during the 80s and 90s, is sick of the man's newfound political position. Snoop Dogg has never been explicitly political, but he does make statements on issues that have come to affect him.
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Previously, Snoop Dogg had a music video in March where he shot down a clown dressed up as Donald Trump. He defended his art at the time by saying:
“The ban that this motherf****r tried to put up; him winning the presidency; police being able to kill motherf****rs and get away with it; people being in jail for weed for 20, 30 years and motherf****r that’s not black on the streets making money off of it; but if you got color or ethnicity connected to your name, you’ve been wrongfully accused or locked up for it, and then you watching people not of color position themselves to get millions and billions off of it,”
Snoop Dogg told Billboard magazine in March.
It seems that Snoop's convictions are honest. To his mind, Trump is a walking symbol of war waged on the black community. His insistence on ruthless mass incarceration, banning certain groups from the country, and defending bad cops like Sheriff Arpaio, whom he pardoned, have really upset Uncle Snoop.
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In a time of total political powerlessness, Snoop has turned to art to express himself. Now, if an artist had an album cover with Obama's corpse on it, would they be dragged and probably end up apologizing? Of course. There is a double-standard here, in that Obama is more beloved by media and entertainment people, and so art about him being dead would upset the media far more.
But Trump is a nasty guy, and these are nastier times. If he can go out there and pardon a seriously corrupt sheriff, say that terrorists should be killed without trial, and that we should even kill the families of terrorists, art depicting his corpse is par for the course. This is the world Trump wants, right? No PC. No pretending. People say how they feel, no matter how crude.
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I'm all for free speech. If Trump tells it how it is, at any cost, then Snoop Dogg should also tell it how it is. No double-standards here. If Snoop Dogg wants to essentially say he will rise "over Trump's dead body", that's his right just as much as it is Trump's right to pardon criminals and kill innocent people in the Middle East.
No political correctness. It only masks the truth of how people feel. But how do you feel? No doubt, people will be understandably upset over this.
