D.L. Hughley Rips Snoop's Response To Fans After Inaugural Performance

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Snoop Dogg’s tepid response to critics who believe he shouldn’t have performed at a ball at Donald’s Trump inauguration did not go unnoticed. Radio and podcast host D.L. Hughley had some words for the rap star after he responded to fans via, what else, social media.

From what appeared to be a car, Snoop was smoking his intoxicant of choice when he addressed the backlash to his performance at the Crypto Ball, one of several balls during the latest Trump inauguration.

“It’s Sunday I got gospel in my heart,” he said on Instagram Live. “For all the hate, I’m going to answer with love.” He added, “Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool. I’m together. Still a Black man. Still 100% Black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”

Since the event, comments on Snoop’s social media pages have been mostly critical – he’s been called everything from a sellout to a disappointment. Per Forbes, the rap star lost half a million Instagram followers after it was revealed he performed at the ball. Under his post, one user said that Snoop did, “Everything but explain or apologize. Your private life is one thing but this was public entertainment for something dangerous to the community.”

Even The View co-host Ana Navarro, who is a Republican strategist but can’t stand Trump said Snoop made a bad decision performing at the ball.

“If you opposed and stood up against Trump in 2017, but you were there now. If you spoke up against Trump January 7, 2021, but you were there now applauding him like a trained seal — Donald Trump has not changed, you’ve changed,” she said.

For Hughley, Snoop’s attitude didn’t address the issue at hand. He says Snoop should have addressed fans directly about his participation and explained why his moves have nothing to do with love.

“The very person who you perform for is doing just that: tearing this country apart, families apart. He’s dismantling DEI and affirmative action and long-set precedents,” Hughley said. “And every time somebody gets into a situation of their own doing, it is always ‘a communal attack’ or ‘a community’s attack.’ I mean, no. People love you, but they dislike what you did. And there’s nothing more loving than that.”

Hughley added, “It isn’t us you have a problem with — it is you. The 2025 version of you is at odds with the 2017 version of you. So it ain’t the us that gotta get it together, it’s you. You need to have a conversation with the man in the mirror. What is so different about the 2017 Snoop and the 2025 Snoop? It ain’t us, we ain’t in it.”

In 2017, Snoop condemned “jigaboos” who would perform for the then-president at his first inauguration. But after Trump commuted the sentence of Death Row co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris, Snoop had a change of heart. Earlier this year he told the Sunday Times in the UK that he was now fine with Trump.

“Donald Trump?” he told the outlet. “He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris. So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”

For his part, Harris defended Snoop in an interview with TMZ.

“Snoop is appreciative, just like I am and my family for what Donald Trump did for me and my family by letting me out,” Harris said. “But at the same time, Snoop is a nonpolitical guy. I mean he’s America’s favorite. He didn’t want to get mixed up into the politics and so he kind of kept who he felt should be the president to himself and whoever became the president, he wants to support them.”

D.L. Hughley Rips Snoop’s Response To Fans After Inaugural Performance was originally published on cassiuslife.com