BONUS: Snoop Dogg talks Tupac’s politics and iconic music in extended pod with Ari Melber

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast extra, listen to MS NOW’s Ari Melber’s extended interview with Snoop Dogg, who reflects on his career, life, goals, music, and politics. Snoop discusses his creative ventures with Def Jam, which grew out of his discussions with Lucian Grainge; advising newer artists like Benny the Butcher; music projects including “The Algorithm” and collaborating with Ice Cube, E40 and Too $hort in Mount Westmore; and his reflections on his history and relationships, including Snoop’s live reactions to classic videos from the archive dating back to the early 1990s. (Originally aired 2022)

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0:00.0	I don't think people will believe this.
0:01.8	17 Grammy nominations, no Grammy wins.
0:05.3	17 with no Ws.
0:07.9	There's a lot of criticism of it for a lot of reasons.
0:10.0	I guess when I die, they give me about five or ten of them.
0:12.2	Probably.
0:13.1	I really want one now so I can make it an ass tray for taking so long.
0:19.4	Revolutionary Maverick
0:24.6	Welcome to Mavericks with Ari Melbur and today our very special Maver is the one and only Snoop Doggy Dog.
0:36.6	Thanks for doing this.
0:37.8	Thank you for having me.
0:38.6	How you doing?
0:39.4	I'm good, man. Welcome to the compound.
0:41.0	Thank you. It's an honor to be here. We walked in and you were playing a new song you've been working on today. So tell me about that and where we are. Well, we're inside the compound. This is my facilities that I've been in for like the past 12 years in Englewood, California.
0:56.8	I'm working on some music with hip-pets. This is my facilities that I've been in for like the past 12 years in Englewood, California.
0:56.8	I'm working on some music with Hit Boy right now.
0:59.1	I just dropped the album called Al-Avaryth.
1:01.4	But Hit Boy is on Def Jam Records, and he's a family member, and we just feel like making music.
1:07.0	Let's start with the algorithm.
1:08.7	The congratulations, new album, it's you. It features a lot of
1:11.8	people. It opens by you telling people an algorithm is a process for calculations or problem
1:18.2	solving operations. Especially by a computer. What does that mean to you, Snoop Dog,
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