{"id":9295,"date":"2025-11-05T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=9295"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:25:05","slug":"damn-forced-my-hand-snoop-dogg-finally-set-aside-his-pride-and-invited-kendrick-lamar-to-ggn-after-the-3-million-selling-albums-inescapable-cultural-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/?p=9295","title":{"rendered":"“DAMN.” forced my hand \u2014 Snoop Dogg finally set aside his pride and invited Kendrick Lamar to GGN after the $3$ million-selling album’s inescapable cultural dominance."},"content":{"rendered":"

West Coast icon Snoop Dogg has been candid about the internal resistance he initially felt toward embracing Compton’s prodigious rapper, Kendrick Lamar. His hesitation, rooted in a competitive “OG ego” and the pressure to defend his own status, highlights the difficult generational transition in hip-hop.<\/span><\/p>\n

The official acknowledgment of Kendrick’s dominance did not come immediately, but was definitively cemented by the massive, undeniable cultural and commercial force of Kendrick Lamar’s 2017 album, DAMN.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83d\uded1 The Mistake: Fear of the New King<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Element of the Regret<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nSnoop’s Initial Reaction (2011)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nThe Underlying Reason (The “Ego” Trap)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Refusal to Collaborate<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nSnoop confessed to deliberately refusing an early collaboration<\/b> opportunity with Kendrick Lamar, stating he found the younger rapper’s style “too complicated.”<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nFear of being overshadowed<\/b> or rendered creatively irrelevant by Kendrick’s intricate, potent, and complex lyrical style.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Protecting Status<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nA defensive move driven by the “ego of an OG”<\/b> and the cultural pressure to maintain the position<\/b> of the undisputed “king of the West Coast.”<\/span><\/td>\nAn instinctive resistance to the inevitable power shift in the West Coast hip-hop hierarchy.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\ud83d\udcc8 The Catalyst: The Dominance of DAMN.<\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n

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The monumental success of DAMN.<\/i> made Kendrick Lamar’s position in the industry unassailable, finally prompting Snoop Dogg to set his pride aside.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Album<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nKey Achievement Data Point<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nImpact on Snoop’s Stance<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
DAMN. (2017)<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nSold over 3 million copies<\/b> in the US (3x Platinum) and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200<\/b>.<\/span><\/td>\nThe overwhelming commercial and critical success of the album “forced [Snoop’s] hand,”<\/b> proving Kendrick was an undeniable, cultural force.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Endorsement<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nSnoop Dogg proactively invited Kendrick Lamar onto his GGN<\/i> show<\/b> following the album\u2019s success.<\/span><\/td>\nThis move officially transcended the initial competitive fear, demonstrating genuine respect and formally crowning Kendrick as the new “king of the West Coast.”<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Snoop’s public endorsement, which he has repeatedly affirmed (including after Kendrick’s unifying 2024 “The Pop Out” concert), serves as a powerful generational moment in hip-hop, showcasing a veteran artist choosing to celebrate the culture’s growth rather than clinging to a solitary title.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

West Coast icon Snoop Dogg has been candid about the internal resistance he initially felt toward embracing Compton’s prodigious rapper, Kendrick Lamar. His hesitation, rooted in a competitive “OG ego” and the pressure to defend his own status, highlights the difficult generational transition in hip-hop. The official acknowledgment of Kendrick’s dominance did not come immediately,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnews.topnewsource.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}