Warren G recently got candid during his new interview with Drink Champs. The rapper discussed a plethora of things, including how he saved Snoop Dogg. Warren G claims that Snoop had plans to join 2Pac in Vegas right before his fatal shooting in 1996. However, thanks to him, he was able to avoid it. “The cold sh*t about it is, I had called Snoop,” he began. “At that time, I was single … I had a house to myself. I was like, ‘Shi*t, I’m a bachelor. What’s up, Snoop? Come over! I’m here watching the fight, I’ma invite a gang of people over, we gonna barbecue.’”
The rapper continued: “He was like, ‘Fuck that sh*t, I’m going to Vegas with 2Pac and them for the fight.’ So I was like, ‘Damn, n*gga! You don’t never kick it with me, sh*t.’” He added, “So a couple of hours went by, I’m in the house, getting everything ready. I heard a horn honking in front of my house.” Warren G said the two had a great time riding around in Snoop’s whip.
However, their fun moment wouldn’t last. After news broke about the shooting, the two immediately rushed to Vegas to check on their Death Row labelmate. “We could hear the sh*t, and then he started getting calls and they was telling him that 2Pac got shot. So I kicked everybody out and [Snoop] took off — that’s when he went to Vegas to go see what was going on and go to the hospital,” he said. He continued: “If I wouldn’t have talked to him and got him to come over to my house, he probably would’ve been right there in the car with them and got shot as well.”
Last May, Snoop Dogg also opened up about the aftermath of 2Pac’s death and its impact on him. The West Coast OG claims he nearly fainted when he saw him in the hospital. “He got tubes in him and it’s like, when I walked in, I could just feel like he wasn’t even there, and I fainted,” he shared. “Then, his [mother Afeni Shakur] got me up and walked me in the bathroom and had a conversation with me about being strong,” he told Jake Paul on his Impaulsive podcast.
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Taylor Swift is encouraging rising artists to stay away from reading social media comments too closely.
During a conversation with The New York Times about songwriting, the “Shake It Off” singer explained that although criticism can sometimes become a “creative writing prompt,” constantly checking comments online can leave artists overwhelmed by negativity.
“My favourite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters, I'm like, ‘Why are you reading your comments?’ Like, that's too much of it,” she said. “You're inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn't really have a focus. But a little bit of it, you've got to just be like, this is part of (the job). Like, don't make this make you stop writing or make you edit yourself or whatever.”
Swift, 36, also shared that she often tells other musicians to channel criticism into music instead of firing back at people online or posting long responses in the Notes app.
“If it's an interesting point to you to kind of respond to, then that's a gift for you to be able to write something. Maybe you wouldn't have written something that day,” she continued. “But don't go to the Notes app and post it, like write (a song) about it. Make art about this. Don't respond to trolls in your comments. That's not what we want from you. We want your art.”
The global superstar went on to say that criticism has inspired some of the biggest songs throughout her career. She pointed to her 2014 hit “Blank Space,” saying it likely would not have happened without people constantly focusing on her dating life and creating “slideshow” style narratives about her relationships.
Speaking about her 2022 track “Anti-Hero,” Swift added, “That song doesn't exist if I don't get criticised for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever.”
