Snoop Dogg continues to feel the backlash after performing at an event celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, hemorrhaging a huge amount of social media followers.
According to the New York Post, the rap icon has lost 571,800 followers on Instagram since taking the stage at the Crypto Ball on January 17, where Rick Ross and Soulja Boy also performed.
He has also been ditched by thousands of fans on X (formerly Twitter), where his follower count has decreased by almost 20,000.
Despite some fans turning their back on him, Snoop still boasts more than 88 million followers on Instagram and over 20 million on X.
The 53-year-old has come under heavy fire since performing at the pro-Trump Crypto Ball and posing for photos with various far-right influencers and MAGA supporters.
Snoop was even called out by a former Barack Obama staffer, who accused him of being a hypocrite after he previously criticized Black artists who performed at Trump’s first inauguration in 2017.
“Who would have guessed that Snoop Dogg would end up being one of the ‘Uncle Tom ass n-ggers’ he himself railed against not long ago? What a fucking sellout,” they wrote in a scathing post on X.
However, the West Coast rap legend has refused to wave the white flag and recently issued a defiant response to the criticism.
“Y’all can’t hate enough me for me, I love too much. Get your life right, stop worrying about mine,” he said in an Instagram video. “I’m cool, I’m together. Still a Black man. Still a hundred percent Black. I ain’t going nowhere, cuh! I’m right here. Get the Crypto on Crip, though.”
He then addressed his Black critics: “We gotta learn to pick each other up instead of pulling each other down. That’s what we’re great at as Black people, we’re great at tearing each other down. You can be up one minute and they try to pull you down the next.
“But I’m a strong Black man, I’m cut from a different cloth. You can’t tear me down. I’m one of God’s children, and I’m taking the load.”
Snoop was a vocal critic of Trump when he first took office but has softened his stance towards the controversial president ever since he pardoned Death Row co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris in early 2021.
In an interview with The Sunday Times last year, Tha Doggfather said: “Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris. So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”
