Snoop couldn’t let Pharrell “outrap” him
Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams joined forces in 2004 to create one of the biggest rap songs of all time, “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” which became a No. 1 hit. The Long Beach rapper recently appeared on Audible’s From The Streets series where he shared the story behind the making of the record.
“[Pharrell’s] in the back with the keyboards, it’s just him and the engineer,” Snoop remembers in a video obtained by Billboard. “He ain’t even got the beat all the way made. This how this n-gga get down, he don’t say words, he just [imitates Pharrell’s vocalizations], so it’s my job to make that shit make sense!”
He went on, “This n-gga done took the bar all the way … I cannot let Pharrell out-rap me on my muthafuckin’ song!”