Snoop Dogg is gearing to drop his 19th album Algorithm on Friday, Nov. 12, and doesn’t have any plans to step on the brakes anytime soon. He’s also one of the rap pillars like Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes destroying the “old school” moniker which placed ceiling caps on veteran MCs early on and limited the verbal sport to being just a young man’s game and definitely not for people over 40.
The West Coast great recently spoke with the podcast “Rolling Stone Music Now” and pointed out that rock ‘n’ roll artists don’t have an expiration date and hip-hop OGs should be held in high regard with the likes of their veteran peers like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles’ Paul McCartney and AC/DC who just keep on cooking and get more seasoned with age.
“They don’t limit The Rolling Stones, they don’t limit those other groups that do it outside of our genre. You got rappers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You ain’t got no muthaf—–g rock and rollers in the Rap Hall of Fame. So slow it down a little bit, and start putting some respect on our name and give us the respect for who we are.
“Don’t put no time limit on how old we are or what we are, because we don’t look at the rockers and say, ‘Man, he got white hair now when he used to have black hair, and it’s all gray now. We love their music, we love them, we respect them, we come support them, we sing their music — diehard fans. We should get that same love in hip-hop because we created something that’s gonna last forever, it’s generational,” explained Snoop.
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