Snoop Dogg has revealed that he has an entire unreleased album with Dave East and instructed that it was killed as a result of the label wasn’t completely satisfied.
The revelation got here throughout a dialog with Benny The Butcher on Snoop’s YouTube collection GGN, which dropped on Wednesday (January 24).
During the dialog, the Doggfather admitted there have been a couple of beats he needs he “murked” throughout his heyday, mentioning Pharrell and Swizz Beatz instrumentals that got to the likes of JAY-Z, Nas and DMX.
After Benny joked about urgent Harry Fraud, who produced his 2021 undertaking The Plugs I Met 2, about beats he gave to Dave East, Snoop let the cat out of the bag concerning his scrapped album with the Harlem rapper.
“I’m a product of Hip Hop so that’s the Hip Hop that I’m more drawn to. It was years ago when I went to New York to fuck with Dave East, before I was in the Def Jam building, just because I love how he get down,” he stated.
“We went through Harlem and I was fuckin’ with him. We did a whole project that was just like the shit that [Griselda] do. And then the label stepped in and was like, ‘Nah, we’re gonna do [this instead].”
Snoop, who joined Def Jam as as government advisor in 2021 and was chargeable for signing Benny The Butcher to the label, added: “I was like, ‘N-gga, if you don’t put this shit out!’ And then I watched that whole lane shift from him to y’all.
“That’s why Uncle Snoop was in the building pushing that real shit saying, ‘Hold on, if we’re gonna have any n-ggas from New York doing Hip Hop, they gotta be doing Hip Hop.’”
Check out the total clip beneath. The feedback about Dave East begin on the 11:50 mark.
Though the joint album between Snoop Dogg and Dave East won’t ever see the sunshine of day, they did get an opportunity to work collectively again in 2021 when the West Coast rap legend dropped his album The Algorithm.
East appeared on “Make Some Money” alongside Fabolous, with a video for the Hi-Tek-produced tune arriving shortly after the album’s launch.
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The colourful clip discovered the trio of rappers throwing on some fly outfits and getting their rhymes off, backed by a collection of work inside an artwork gallery.
Snoop, who has since left his position at Def Jam and turn into the brand new proprietor of his former label Death Row Records, is presently working with previous pal Dr. Dre on a follow-up to The Algorithm.
The upcoming undertaking is named Missionary and serves because the non secular successor to Snoop’s 1993 debut Doggystyle. Despite a collection of teasers lately, a launch date has but to be introduced.
As for Dave East, his most up-to-date album Fortune Favors the Bold arrived in July 2023 through Def Jam/Mass Appeal, full with appearances from Ghostface Killah, Cordae, Ty Dolla $ign and extra.
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