SNOOP DOGG ADMITS EMINEM 'CHALLENGED' HIM ON 'FROM THE D 2 TO THE LBC COLLABORATION
Snoop Dogg and Eminem have been friends since the 1990s when Dr. Dre signed the then-rising rap singer to Aftermath Entertainment. Aside from collaborating on the track "Bitch Please II" off The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000, they also traveled together as part of the Up In Smoke Tour that same year, alongside Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Xzibit.
Twenty years later, the two rap superstars reunited, this time for the tune "From The D 2 The LBC." The tune bridges find both Hip Hop stalwarts shooting their rhymes like uzis as the first single from Eminem's upcoming greatest hits album Curtain Call 2.
Eminem uploaded a video of himself and Snoop in the studio on Wednesday (July 20), in which the D-O-Double-G reveals Slim Shady urged him to level up his bars.
Eminem says to Snoop, "Yeah, but you crushed it, buddy," to which Snoop responds, "You challenge me, Marshall." You transported me back to my karate school days when I was a young MC who loved the challenge of having to try new styles and cadences. “The rap game is supposed to be challenging; it’s supposed to make you dig in your bag. ‘Cause I’ve heard you on other songs with other rappers and you tend to show out, so I wanted to make sure I was going to represent.” Eminem agrees, “You showed out.”
Snoop Dogg and Eminem's newest single was released on June 23 with a tweet from Mr. Mathers announcing the song and video. "Took too long to reunite with @snoopdogg you know we had to produce a movie!" he said in the caption. The single image included a comic book look and two cartoon monkeys meant to represent both Snoop Dogg and Slim Shady, as well as their link to the NFT collection Bored Ape. He swiftly responded with another tweet promoting the video.
Snoop failed to include his fellow Dr. Dre protégé in his Top 10 rappers list in 2020, resulting in a misunderstanding. Shady retaliated with a light jab on the Music To Be Murdered By: "As far as squashing beef, I'm accustomed to folks criticizing me/But just not in my camp/And diplomatic as I'm tryin' to be/the Last thing I need is Snoop doggin' me/Man, Dogg, you were like a damn god to me/Meh, not really (haha)/I had dog backward," he rapped on Side B's "Zeus."
"Pray I don't respond to that soft-ass stuff," Snoop Dogg answered. During an interview with Shade 45 in December 2020, Eminem said that it was Snoop's tone that disturbed him, stating, "I believe it was more about the tone he was using that threw me off guard 'cause I'm like, where is this coming from?" What the heck did I just see you? It caught me off guard.
“Again, I probably could’ve gotten past the whole tone and everything, but it was the last statement where he said, ‘Far as music I can live without, I can live without that shit.’ Now you’re being disrespectful. It just caught me off-guard. I wasn’t ready for that.”
However, with the single and recent link-up, it's evident that all is well. Check out the video above and the "From The D 2 The LBC" video below, which has already received over 34 million views on YouTube since its premiere.