Snoop Dogg recalls being confronted by Dionne Warwick over misogynist lyrics.
Snoop Dogg recalls once being frightened by being called for a meeting with Dionne Warwick, who wanted to discuss their controversial lyrics about womens. A new CNN film “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over” was released this past week, in which the veteran artist reveals her meeting with 1990s gangsta rappers to talk about their misogynistic lyrics.
“These kids are expressing themselves, which they’re entitled to do. However, there’s a way to do it,” she said in the film. “We were kind of like scared and shook up,” said Snoop about the inviation from Warwick. “We are powerful right now, but she’s been powerful forever. Thirty-some years in the game, in the big home with a lot of money and success.”
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It seems that during the meeting, Dionne requested that the rappers address her using a derogatory term for women, reportedly stating “call me a ‘b**ch’ to my face.” Snoop pointed out that this is a term that rappers commonly use in their songs to refer to women. These kids are expressing themselves, which they’re entitled to do. However, there’s a way to do it.
“You’re going to have families. You’re going to have children,” Dionne tells Snoop Dogg and others. “You’re going to have little girls and one day that little girl is going to look at you and say, ‘Daddy, did you really say that? Is that really you?’ What are you going to say?”
“She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn’t be checked,” says Snoop. “We were the most gangsta as you could be but that day at Dionne Warwick’s house, I believe we got out-gangstered that day.” “I made it a point to put records of joy—me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living,” he said about changing his writing approach after the meeting. “Dionne, I hope I became the jewel that you saw when I was the little, dirty rock that was in your house. I hope I’m making you proud.”
