Snoop Dogg and Donald Trump's beef goes deep. While the rapper recently made headlines for saying he has nothing but "love and respect" for the former president — that hasn't always been the case for both parties.
In the past, Snoop once said about Trump, "If you like that n***a, you motherf**king racist.”
However, the rapper's tone changed in 2020 and early 2021 when he worked behind the scenes seeking a pardon for his friend and Death Row Records co-founder Michael "Harry-O" Harris. Harris received a life sentence for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and cocaine trafficking in the '90s.
According to a Rolling Stone report, the former president spent the final days of his term, weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection, enraged by some of Snoop's comments. He told staffers that “Well, f**k him,” even though his administration had been working with criminal justice activists and Snoop to grant clemency to imprisoned people.
Trump's anger at Snoop's comments resulted in the then-president telling his aides to reject Harris' clemency as a way to punish Snoop. This set off a last-minute, frenzied attempt by White House staffers to convince Trump that Snoop was no longer anti-Trump.
The former president was shown the footage of Snoop complimenting him from a documentary chronicling Harris' attempt to gain clemency. A day before Trump was about to turn over his presidency to Biden, Harris was re-added to the list of pardons.
Snoop thanked the president after Harris' release in 2021, saying, “That’s great work for the president and his team on the way out."
