Snoop Dogg has spoken about what happened when he met Paul McCartney earlier this year and how the ex-Beatle told him not to put out his blunt.
In an interview with The Complex, Snoop – who spoke alongside Dr. Dre – revealed that he crossed paths with McCartney at a live show in Hollywood.
“I’ve never met him, but I’m a damn Beatles fan. I know Jimmy (Iovine) knows him, Dre knows him,” Snoop said. “So I’m sitting in the back smoking and they’re like, ‘Sir Paul would like to meet you.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, seriously? Wait a minute.'”
He said he put out his joint “out of respect” for the music legend. “He comes in the room and says, ‘Don’t put that down,'” Snoop continued. “He hugs me and hits me and I’m like, ‘Shit. Paul McCartney knows who the f*** Snoop Dogg is.'”
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Perhaps Snoop was unaware of Macca’s long-standing love of weed. The two have one thing in common: Both were charged with marijuana possession. In McCartney’s case, even with smuggling, once in 1980.
The interviewer then asked if Snoop would like to work with McCartney, to which he replied, “Hell yeah, right away. Ebony And Ivory (McCartney and Stevie Wonder), The Girl Is Mine (Michael Jackson and McCartney)… what do you want to do?”
Hmmm… these examples. Maybe it is best if we not encourage them.
Snoop and Dre were interviewed ahead of the release of Missionary, their long-awaited follow-up to Doggystyle, which came out back in 1993. When asked when we can expect the release, Snoop said the new album will be out “before Christmas.”
Paul McCartney and Snoop Dogg (April 11, 2024) pic.twitter.com/uuDZOmiiv112 April 2024
It’s been a busy time for the pair, who performed at the Olympics closing ceremony last week. Snoop spent two weeks in Paris as NBC’s “special correspondent,” a role for which he was paid a cool $9 million. The rapper also opened his own marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles last month. He named it SWED, an acronym for, um, Smoke Weed Every Day.
Snoop famously posted on Twitter/X last year that he was “quitting smoking,” but it soon emerged that this was part of an advertising campaign for a new line of smokeless ovens he had partnered with.
Macca himself stopped smoking weed a long time ago. He said in 2015 that he “wanted to be a role model for his children and grandchildren.”
