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Snoop Dogg insists he wishes no harm for Gayle King in wake of the Kobe Bryant interview fracas

Rapper Snoop Dogg is clarifying an important point when it comes to his recent scathing words about CBS’ Gayle King’s recent interview about basketball great Kobe Bryant‘s legacy.

Snoop, 48, took to Instagram Saturday to explain he has no ill-will towards King, lead anchor of CBS This Morning, who has been dragged across social media for asking WNBA star Lisa Leslie to discuss Bryant’s 2003 rape charges in a TV interview that aired Feb. 4.

 

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P. S. A. From the peoples champ now carry on and be nice to others 💯🙏🏿 KB8/24. 🙏🏿💜💛

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“I’m a non-violent person,” Snoop said in the video. “When I said what I said, I spoke for the people who felt like Gayle was very disrespectful toward Kobe Bryant and his family.”

To be clear, what Snoop said on Instagram on Thursday was that King, 65, was a “funky, dog-haired bitch” for asking Leslie about the rape allegations against Bryant. The case was dropped after Bryant’s accuser, a Colorado hotel employee, refused to testify. A civil case was settled out of court.

 

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P. S. A. Let the family mourn in peace 💝🙏🏾. #gayleking outta pocket FDHBiiiych. @officialboosieig I’m wit. U loc. 🤜🏾

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Snoop and many others across the country have said it was too soon to bring up the rape case after Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others died in a Jan. 26 helicopter crash near Calabasas, Calif.

For his part in the debate, Snoop explained in his Instagram video that he was disappointed about the comments but does not wish harm to come to King.

“What I look like wanting some harm to come to a 70-year-old woman?” Snoop asked. “I was raised way better than that. I don’t want no harm to come to her and I didn’t threaten her. All I did was said, ‘Check it out – you outta pocket for what you doing and we watching you. Have a little more respect for Vanessa (Bryant’s widow), her babies and Kobe Bryant’s legacy.’”

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King has faulted CBS for picking out the most salacious part of her interview with Leslie, Bryant’s friend, and using it to promote the piece.

 

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King’s good friend, Oprah Winfrey, has come to her defense and shared that King is deeply upset and has been feeling attacked over the public dragging and death threats.

And in recent days, many others like Barack Obama’s former national security advisor, Susan Rice and scholar Dr. Marc Lamont Hill have been coming to King’s defense, saying that King was doing her job as a journalist and while it is okay to criticize King’s line of questioning in the interview, the derogatory name-calling and death threats are inappropriate and unnecessary.

 

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Yesterday, folk were up in arms about Gayle King’s interview regarding Kobe Bryant. One of those people was Snoop Dogg, who referred to her as a “funky dog-faced b****.” My response was simple: criticize King all you want, but do so without the misogyny. Somehow, this position is being deemed controversial. Some even said I was “cooning”!!! How is saying that we shouldn’t call Black women b****es an act of cooning? (Unless, of course, you think Black People=Black Men.) At the end of the day, we have to be able to hold space for multiple things at once. In this case, we have to be able to express our hurt, anger, or even our rage without dehumanizing each other. Thoughts?

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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson shares emotional video of him delivering his father’s eulogy

In a gripping 11-minute video posted to Facebook and Instagram, grieving actor/professional wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson shared clips from his eulogy at the funeral of his dad, Rocky Johnson, who died Jan. 15th of a heart attack.

 

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You trail blazed and even harder, you changed people’s harsh behaviors toward a man of color. Paving the way for me, my family and generations to come. You loved us with the capacity of which you could – given all the givens. Raised me with an iron hand and a tough complicated love. A love that now, as a father and man, I’ve learned to refine as I raise my own children. I wish I had one more shot. To say one more thing. You were taken too fast. Slipped right thru my hands. But you were so loved, lived so full, defined culture and now you rest high. Peacefully. And that makes my heart smile. I love you and now I have an angel to call by name. I’ll see you down the road, Soulman. Til we meet again. Your son 🥃🖤

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Johnson, 47, thanked the public for the wave of condolences and shared about the moment he learned his 75-year-old father had passed away. Rocky Johnson, a native of Canada, blazed wrestling trails and was the first Black Georgia Heavyweight Champion.

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“Man, I wish I had one more shot you know just to say goodbye, say I love you, say thank you, say I respect you, but you know, I have a feeling he’s watching, he’s listening,” Johnson said.

“I know my dad would be saying, ‘Kayfabe the tears,’ ” Johnson added with a chuckle, using the professional wrestling term that refers to staged portions of the sport.

The gentle giant appeared to be struggling to keep his composure as he gripped the lectern and spoke to the crowd.

“As you guys know, he went very quick,” Johnson said. “I was on my way to work the other day on Jan. 15th and I was just pulling into work and we were shooting that day and it was the very first day of production.”

Johnson was referring to the Netflix production of Red Notice.

Johnson said his wife, Lauren, called, and he got the news from an unidentified person named Cora as he was pulling into the parking lot of the production site. He described being in a fog and wishing everything was just a dream as he walked onto the set and hundreds of members of the production staff bustled around, waving to him and wishing him a good morning. The video showed a portrayal of that time from Johnson’s perspective.

“In that moment, I just thought, ‘What do I need to do? What’s the next thing that I need to do?’ And I heard a voice say ‘Well, hey, the show must go on,’ and that was my dad, that was my old man who told me that.”

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As Johnson recounts this, the video shows the elder Johnson at one of his victories and a much younger Dwayne Johnson, sporting a short afro, in the audience.

The younger Johnson acknowledged his dad’s upbringing and said he’s built upon it to raise his own children. He recognized his dad as a racial trailblazer.

“For my dad, when he broke into the business in the mid-’60s and throughout the late ’60s and into the ’70s in the United States where racial tension and divide was very strong, and in the ’60s and the ’70s you have a black man coming in, it’s an all-white audience and all these small little towns that eventually I would go on to wrestle in — but at that time he changed the audience’s behavior and actually had them cheer for this black man,” Johnson said.

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