Snoop Dogg recalled Dionne Warwick calling him out for his sexist lyrics.
In CNN's "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over," the "Drop It Like It's Hot" rapper recalled Dionne Warwick inviting him, Suge Knight, and others to her house at 7:00 a.m.
It was so intimidating to contemplate meeting Warwick, he revealed.
By 6:52 a.m., Snoop and his peers had all arrived in her driveway. "We were kind of, like, scared and shook up," Snoop admitted. "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."
Once they arrived, Dionne insisted that the rappers refer to her as "b***h" in front of her, as they did in their songs to women in general.
"You're going to have children. 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?'" Dionne told them. "What are you going to say?"
Snoop Dogg summed up that the legend was checking him at a time when he believed it was impossible to be checked. Snoop Dogg said they were as gangsta as they could get, but he believed they were out-gangstrated that day at Dionne Warwick's house.
Warwick herself talked about the meeting with Snoop Dogg and other rappers in an earlier exclusive.
The rapper went on to have a daughter in addition to three sons, and he told CNN that his conversation with Dionne prompted him to alter his musical approach beginning with his 1996 album, "Tha Doggfather".
Warwick is indeed a gangsta in her own right.
Dionne Warwick is actually intransigent, in the positive sense of the word.
At 82, the five-time Grammy winner is making stops in Hawaii and Vancouver on her "One Last Time" tour - she won't confirm whether it's truly her last - tweeting (or "twoting," as she calls it) to her more than half a million followers and making appearances on "Saturday Night Live" and movie soundtracks such as Jordan Peele's "Nope." She stated that upon retirement she would relocate to Brazil. She said she wanted to spend the rest of her life in Bahia, enjoying the sunshine, the music, the people, and herself, most importantly.
In the interim, Warwick's new project is currently airing.
In the documentary "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over," she discusses her life and over 60-year music career alongside notable interviewees such as Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, and Alicia Keys.
The film was directed by Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner and chronicles Warwick's chart-topping hits with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, including "Walk On By" and "I'll Never Fall in Love Again."
These songs broke down the racial divide between rhythm and blues and pop music. In 1968, Warwick was the first African American woman to win a Grammy in the category of popular music.
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