Dionne Warwick has been around for decades, and she has established herself to be one of the most prominent and legendary vocalists. But not only is she prominent, but she is also, apparently, very powerful.
Powerful enough to scare Snoop Dogg and his friends when she invited them over to her house to discuss their choice of words and misogynistic lyrics.
As per her her new CNN film "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over," the singer revealed that she had once invited the hip hop rapper and some of his colleagues and friends to her house for "an intervention."
The 82-year-old singer told them to come to her house at 7 a.m. sharp, but they arrived at 6:52 a.m., because they were so intimidated by her.
"She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn't be checked," Snoop Dogg recounted. "We were the most gangsta as you could be but that day at Dionne Warwick's house, I believe we got out-gangstered that day."
He also explained how the "Heartbreaker" singer dared them to call her a "b***h" to her face, just as they had called women in their lyrics.
"We were kind of, like, scared and shook up," the rapper added. "We're powerful right now, but she's been powerful forever. Thirty-some years in the game, in the big home with a lot of money and success."
Aside from being powerful, Warwick is also fearless and outspoken, and her backbone is something that is still revered by artists and other personalities to this day.
"You guys are all going to grow up. You're going to have families. You're going to have children," Warwick told Snoop Dogg and his contemporaries. "You're going to have little girls and one day that little girl is going to look at you and say, 'Daddy, did you really say that? Is that really you?' What are you going to say?"
According to the rapper, the chat she had with them on that bright and early morning shook some sense into him and worked.
In the film, he reportedly said: "Dionne, I hope I became the jewel that you saw when I was the little, dirty rock that was in your house. I hope I'm making you proud."
Warwick, by all accounts, is a living legend and icon. According to NME, the singer has not lost her sense of humor and backbone. She appeared with Chance The Rapper and The Weeknd on their charity single "Nothing's Impossible," called out Elon Musk, and more.
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