Snoop Dogg in June
(Picture: Getty Images for MTV)Eminem and Snoop Dogg have released a new song, putting to bed any lingering rumours about their old feud.
Titled From the D 2 the LBC, the new song dropped today alongside a new music video. The video has already pulled in over 1.3 million views since it was posted this morning.
The beef began back in 2020 when Snoop Dogg did not list Eminem in his top 10 rappers of all time when speaking as a guest on the hip hop radio show The Breakfast Club.
Talking about Eminem’s place on the list, Snoop said, “I don’t think so, but the game thinks that he’s a top 10 lyricist and everything that comes with it. That’s just because he’s with Dr. Dre.”
In response, Eminem then released diss-track Zeus, where he said, “And, as far as squashin’ beef, I’m used to people knockin’ me... Last thing I need is Snoop—doggin’ me / Man, dog, you was like a damn god to me / Man, not really (haha) / I had “dog” backwards.”
But this was about as bad as the feud became. In an interview on his Shade 45 hip hop channel on SiriusXM, Eminem said, “I think it was more about the tone he was using that caught me off-guard ‘cause I’m like, where is this coming from?”
The D ➡️✈️ LBC - watch the movie 🍿🎥 @SnoopDogg @BoredApeYC #curtaincall2 https://t.co/EqoWka9u1i pic.twitter.com/sVlBjYEWwj
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) June 24, 2022
Later, the two rappers seemed to have made up. In 2021, during a return visit to The Breakfast Club, Snoop Dogg said: “Man I love Eminem. And the thing is, we love hip hop so much, we competitive. But we brothers, and we family so we learn to appreciate each other for what we do, and we get down and we had a long conversation about the respect that we have for each other and the way we need to talk in public about each other.”
He added: “I apologised to him, and I let him know and I’m just bettering myself. I make mistakes. I ain’t perfect, I’m Snoop Dogg.”
The two rappers also performed on stage together during the Super Bowl Halftime Show in February.
Now, the new song release very much seems to have concluded the feud.
“Took too long to reconnect with Snoop Dogg - you know we had to make a movie!” said Eminem in an Instagram post announcing the track.
Then, as the music video opens, Eminem says, “It’s been a minute. This probably should have happened a while ago. F**k it. We’re here now though.”
Then animation explodes into the scene. The following five minutes see shots of the two rappers integrated with different scenes of the two rappers as illustrated monkeys getting up to all sorts of antics: sawing up cars, making music in the studio, lying in giant cobweb nets, flying around the world, cycling around town and performing on top of a giant stereo.
This isn’t the first time that Snoop Dogg and Eminem have worked together: two decades ago Snoop Dogg featured on Eminem’s 2000 track B***h Please 2 alongside Dr. Dre, Xzibit and Nate Dogg.
