D.L. Hughley has a few choice words for Snoop Dogg regarding his performance at Donald Trump’s Crypto Ball in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 17.
via: EW
"What I get tired of is people doing things and then say, 'We don't stick together' — like we don't, like we tear each other apart," the actor and comedian said on his Jan. 28 "The D.L. Hughley Show" podcast.
The Hughleys star chastised Snoop for his recent response to backlash over his Jan. 17 performance at the Crypto Ball for President Donald Trump ahead of his second-term inauguration.
"The very person who you perform for is doing just that: tearing this country apart, families apart. He's dismantling DEI and affirmative action and long-set precedents," Hughley said. "And every time somebody gets into a situation of their own doing, it is always 'a communal attack' or 'a community's attack.' I mean, no. People love you, but they dislike what you did. And there's nothing more loving than that."
Hughley's comments begin at 4 minutes and 7 seconds into the podcast below.
Snoop Dogg performed at the Crypto Ball along with rappers Soulja Boy and Rick Ross. The event saw cryptocurrency executives hobnobbing with the political elite of the incoming administration over "an open bar and a variety of heavy appetizers and delicious bites," according to the Crypto Ball website.
The "crypto-frenzied inauguration weekend" made "America's first 'crypto president'" and the first family billions of dollars richer, CNBC reported on Jan. 22.
"The same night of the party, the incoming president launched $TRUMP, a meme coin built on the Solana platform. Its market cap over the weekend climbed past $14 billion," according to the CNBC report. "Like with other meme coins, there’s no underlying product."
Snoop's response to fierce backlash over his performance at the event was in keeping with his more recent PG-rated public image.
"For all the hate, I'm going to answer with love," the California rapper born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. said in a video posted to his Instagram. "Y'all can't hate enough. I love too much. Get your life right. Stop worrying about mine. I'm cool, I'm together. Still a Black man. Still 100 percent Black. All out 'til you ball out, or 'til you fall out."
In response to the post, Instagram user @iamangelhenderson replied with apparent hurt and astonishment.
"We’ve seen you transform over the years and go from being hated by those who didn’t understand your lyrics or your life to becoming the new America’s sweetheart. And we were ecstatic at all the love you were getting from everywhere. Not once have we ever turned our backs on you. We’ve supported every venture you’ve had," @iamangelhenderson wrote. "So your performance feels like a slap in our faces. This man has openly said what his plans were for us which include giving police full immunity when they KILL us! And you went and tap danced for a crowd of enemies to your people?"
"If you're so angry about the backlash you're getting, you need to talk to the 2017 version of you. In 2017, [you] said that you would ride out anybody that performed for [Trump] — anybody. And you used very colorful language," the comedian, who was featured in Spike Lee's The Original Kings of Comedy, said.
"So it isn't us that you have a problem with, it is you. The 2025 version of you is at odds with the 2017 version of you. So it ain't the us that gotta get it together, it's the you," he continued. "You need to have a conversation with the man in the mirror. What is so different about the 2017 Snoop, and the 2025 Snoop? It ain't us. We ain't in it. This is an inner turmoil."
Snoop's change of heart seems to have happened in 2021 when Trump commuted the sentence of Death Row Records co-founder Michael "Harry-O" Harris, who had served 30 years of a 25-to-life sentence for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
"That’s great work for the president and his team on the way out. They did some great work while they was in there," Snoop told the New York Post at the time.
More recently, in a 2024 interview with The Sunday Times, Snoop said, "Donald Trump? He ain't done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me... I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump."
In 2017, Snoop criticized artists performing for President Trump's first inauguration. "I'm waiting. I'm gonna roast the f--- outta you," he said and called those who would perform "Uncle Toms."
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