What a strange year this has already been. Longtime Trump critic and hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg was among the artists that performed at the pre-inauguration event on Friday. This is a far cry from 2017 when he posted a music video showing him “kill” President Donald Trump.
Just three days before Trump is sworn back into office on January 20, many top dogs in crypto and A-list celebrities gathered at the first annual “Crypto Ball” in Washington D.C. for a pre-inauguration event. Some of the top crypto guests included Michael Saylor, Brian Armstrong, the Winklevoss brothers and Jesse Powell, was well as several others.
🚨 NOW: Snoop Dogg has taken the stage at a Trump Inaugural Ball in DC
Talk about UNITY 🤣🔥 pic.twitter.com/UhsYmtUIRI
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 18, 2025
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Throughout Trump’s first term in the White House, Snoop Dogg established himself as a fierce critic. In 2017, he released an anti-Trump song titled “Make America Crip Again,” a dig at the president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan while including a reference to the violent street gang with whom he is affiliated.
“The President said he wants to make America great again. F*** that s**t, we gonna make America Crip again,” the track begins. The rapper went on to attack Trump over his opposition to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests, as Trump referred to anthem protesters as “sons of b**ches” and called for them to be cut.
Snoop Dogg then: Anyone who performs for Trump at his inauguration is a "jigaboo a$$ n****" and an "Uncle Tom."
Snoop Dogg now: *Performs at a Trump inaugural ball.*
Interesting shift. pic.twitter.com/cZkOKXL39c
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 19, 2025
“Certain people feel like we should make America ‘great again,’ but that time they’re referring to always takes me back to separation and segregation, so I’d rather Make America Crip Again,” Snoop Dogg said in a statement at the time. “What I mean by that is, in my lifetime, that’s when young Black men in impoverished areas organised to help their communities and to take care of their own because society basically left them for dead.”
So what changed? Last January the rapper declared that he had “nothing but love and respect” for Trump due to his efforts to pardon people as his first term came to an end. “Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me,” he reportedly told The Times UK.
Snoop cited Trump pardoning Michael Harris, who was the rapper’s first record label. “So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump,” he added.