About a week ago we told you about the controversy surrounding GQ’s “Rapper Of The Year” article. An article in which TDE CEO, Anthony Tiffith, took offense to. Read here if you missed it.
In the article, writer Steve Marsh claims he was “surprised be their discipline” stating the group “seemed so calm”. He also made several references to Death Row Records. Calling Tiffith, TDE‘s “Suge Knight” and referring to TDE as “the baby Death Row”
In a recent interview with VIBE Magazine, the Doggfather was asked if he felt TDE was the new Death Row.
“They said what?” was Snoop’s initial reaction when VIBE asked about GQ’s comparison of TDE, the record label of rising hip-hop star and current GQ cover man Kendrick Lamar, to that of Death Row Records, the iconic ’90s West Coast rap label that helped launch gangsta rap and released several of Snoop’s early albums. Even hip-hop tastemakers generally agreed that GQ’s cover story on Kendrick Lamar read like “a Hip-Hop outsider trying to explain this new movement to other Hip-Hop outsiders.”
So, we asked Snoop if he thought TDE was the new Death Row Records. “No, they’re not the new Death Row,” Snoop deadpanned, “because TDE did it completely different than Death Row did it. Death Row did it with a gangsta approach.”
Watch the full interview below.
