Bad-Boy Rapper "keepin' it real"
Snoop Dogg, America’s favourite hip-hop superstar, award-nominated rapper, record producer and actor, is in Lebanon for his debut concert at the Forum de Beyrouth.
Snoop Dogg, who grew up in a tough Californian neighbourhood, or ‘hood’, is known for his bad-boy lyrics or ‘gangsta’ rap. He also popularized the slang term and catch phrase suffix “izzle”, as in a television show he hosted called: Doggy Fizzle Televizzle.
Before his appearance in front of thousands of devoted fans, Helga Hewston, reporter with HEWDGE, Beirut’s leading blogsite, was allowed an exclusive interview with Snoop to talk about love, life and Lebanon.
HH: Pleasure to meet you Snoop… Or do you prefer Mr Dogg?
SD: Hey bitch, fo’ shizzle dizzle, its the big neptizzle with the snoopy d-o double gizzle!
HH: Well, um, just let me translate that for our Hewdge readers. Snoop is actually saying:
“Hello my dear. Absolutely you can call me Snoop Dogg”
Now Snoop, what are your first impressions of Beirut?
SD: Helga baby, Beirut is THE place, you know what I’m sayin’? They don’t make no bigger party place….this is IT, this is happenin’, you know what I mean, bitch?
HH: ……So anyway….. what message would you pass on to all your adoring fans in Lebanon?
SD: Fo’shizzle, ain’t nothing to it, but to do it! Have you seen my doggumentary y’all?
HH. No
SD: What do you wanna know, baby? I dont wanna go back to the streets selling drugs or shootin’ no people, you know what I’m saying?
HH: Um, absolutely. Is there a future Mrs Dogg in the pipeline….a female Dogg…a Bitch, in fact ?
SD: Fo’shizzle, baby! My Beirut trip has in-spired me to write a love song to my bitch back in the hood, know what I’m sayin?
HH: Can we hear it? Do-You-Know-What-I-Am-Saying?
SD: Yo, Helga! Ain’t nothing to it, but do it…..
(At this point Snoop starts rapping)
Yeah man, this is another Beirut classic
We wanna dedicate this one, to all the fellas
who got a hardhead bitch, who just won’t listen
Y’know? The best thing to do, is leave her
Don’t hit her, shake that ho (bitch I’m gone!)
Bitch I’m gone.. oh yeah bitch I’m, oh I, I got to get the, hell outta here
I can’t get through to you
I can’t get through to you, you talk too much, I can’t tell you shit
Bitch, I’m gone.. oh yeah I’m goin’ I got to get out
I’m through wit’chu
Oh yeah, I’m through wit’chu bitch, yeah yeah
HH: It’s hard not to feel the love, Snoop……
Hahahaha! Snoop sounds like he’s cleaning up his act! Nice interview HH! Will he be around for next month’s poetry reading?!
Your interview was fun. Bright. Clever. And VERY creative…to say the least.
Please, feel free to enlighten me; when/where/what time exactly did you get an exclusive interview with Snoop Dogg? I, his sponsor and right arm man through out his stay in Beirut can not recall approving or giving an EXCLUSIVE interview to anyone.
But, again, it goes to show: Broadway is missing out on some serious creative writing talent here.
What’s next, your EXCLUSIVE interview with Queen Elizabeth?
Love your writing style though… it’s a shame you fabricate
Dear PR
Thanks. Always happy to receive compliments. Snoop Dogg was the perfect gangsta, gave willingly of his time and was most accessible.
On the other hand PR, I have no idea where you were hiding out during our interview. In some dark corner, preparing Snoop’s recreational doobie, no doubt….
Thank you ms Hewston, for your in-depth interview with S. Dogg. One could sense from the beginning that there was a rapport between you that I have never witnessed with any of the many other Dogg interviewers. The lines just flowed out as though you had known each other all your lives. The profound emotions he revealed, when talking about his music, would have been lost on most of us, but you picked up on them and carried them to even higher revelations, at times exposing the man’s very soul, in all its naked, creative glory. I hope I’m not being impertinent if I ask you, Ms Hewston, if you have studied Ebonics? Your razor-sharp understanding of Dogg’s every nuance made me realize how little most of us really understand those of different cultures and languages.
The way you let him call you “bitch” without flinching, something that may have proven difficult for some of the ladies among us, was yet another illustration of your insight into the mind-set of the interviewee, understanding such words in the way they were intended, as a way to embrace you as a SISTER, a dogg lady. How many Japanese women (I have to admit I have googled you and see that you are of South-Asian Pacific origin) could ever have been, or will ever be, awarded such an honor??
In your interview with Paris Hilton your uncanny way of wriggling into minds whose very existence may have been cast in doubt by some of us, once again astonished me.
May I suggest you try to get an audience with Moammar Gaddafi? I’ve always wondered what’s in there, and what drugs he uses.
Also, isn’t it time for Hewdge – since no one else has dared – to delve into what Michael Jackson was up to during his years in bahrein? What ever happened to his alleged conversion to Islam?
Your devotedly addicted reader,
Dr Hotten Giussi,
Gender Reassignments Anonymous, Amsterdam
Very very very weak. I mean wow weak. Please stop inventing stories and just do what all other reporters do and get a real story.
Dear James
I’m so glad that you wrote in, as it gives me a chance to divulge the absolute AGONIES I had to go through to land the Snoop Dogg interview, which included chipping two fingernails and reluctantly having to smoke spliff after spliff..Anyway James dear,don’t get me started….
Snoop did mention that other ‘reporters’ might be jealous and boy was he right!
“Fo shizzle, Helga Baby”, he rapped, with that funny little lob-sided pimp look he adopts when he wants to appear adorable “look out for them badass muthafuckers”. He was always so astute…
Helga