Snoop Dogg Says He Nearly Re-Recorded His Music Like Taylor Swift

Snoop Dogg virtually took a cue from one other artist who just about couldn’t be extra his reverse: Taylor Swift. On a brand new episode of the Full Ship podcast that dropped Wednesday (April 20), the 50-year-old rapper talked about how his plan for Loss of life Row Data, which he acquired in February, will give artists correct income for his or her music with the intention to keep away from what occurred with Swift’s masters.

Talking on his purpose to extend artist earnings by making Loss of life Row an solely NFT label, Snoop cited the “All Too Properly” singer as a “excellent instance” of an artist discovering comparable workarounds to the trade’s antiquated contracts that limit them from making satisfactory cash off their music. “She ain’t an outdated artist in any respect — she’s fairly new,” he stated of Swift, who started re-recording her first six albums after her grasp recordings have been bought to Scooter Braun towards her needs in 2019.

“What did she do?” he continued. “She remastered her album. Why? As a result of she wasn’t making revenues off of that album.”

One of many present’s hosts proceeded to ask Snoop whether or not he was attempting to bash Braun. “I ain’t firing photographs at no one. Scooter’s my pal, I’m simply giving the reality,” the rapper replied. “That is public data, am I mendacity? Ask her why did she redo her album? As a result of she couldn’t get funds so she redid her album as a method of ‘I’ll make this for my followers, they usually’ll assist me as a result of these are my vocals, that is my music, and I needs to be creating wealth off of my mission if you purchase it.’”

The “Drop It Like It’s Scorching” rapper continued on to disclose that he virtually did the very same factor together with his 1993 report Doggystyle. “I used to be going to remaster my album,” he stated. “My son had instructed me years in the past, he was like, ‘It is best to simply remaster Doggystyle, Pops, f–ok all that. Simply remaster it, you ain’t gotta fear about all that.’

“However I didn’t need to go that strategy, as a result of you may’t remaster Doggystyle like you may remaster them R&B songs. That s–t was a sense, that s–t was a second. You possibly can’t recapture that. We’re attempting to re-enact that s–t yet again, so I needed to go get my s–t again.”

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