Snoop Dogg says he had “no side” in Kendrick-Drake feud but ‘Not Like Us’ united the West Coast

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Snoop Dogg has said he did not have a side in the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud, but thinks ‘Not Like Us’ united the West Coast.The two rappers traded a series of back-and-forth diss tracks earlier this year, stemming from Lamar’s verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘ in March. ‘Not Like Us’ was Lamar’s most successful diss, becoming his fourth Number One song and breaking Spotify’s record for the most streams of a hip-hop song in one day.Speaking about the feud on the Drink Champs podcast, Snoop said that ‘Not Like Us’ “unified the West.”“So, it may have been disrespectful, but it’s hip hop, so it’s part of hip hop,” he said. “I chose no sides because I have no individual cause.

That’s a grown man going against a grown man. But what it did do was unite the West, and make everybody out here start looking at each other like how much love we got for each other.”During a special live episode of @drinkchamps at #ComplexCon, Snoop Dogg and Dr.

Dre spoke on the overarching impact of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” pic.twitter.com/PR7TkdTJVQ— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) November 18, 2024“The Bloods had a peace treaty,” he added. “You had certain Crip gangs that came together and became, you know, real friends as opposed to being enemies.

So that record did a lot for us on the West as far as uniting, so we should speak on that.”Snoop did inadvertently play some part in the feud when Drake used an AI-generated version of his voice on his track ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ in April.