- Snoop Dogg has said he was once "out-gangstered" by legendary singer Dionne Warwick.
- Warwick gave Snoop an intervention over misogynistic lyrics during the early days of his career.
- "She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn't be checked," said Snoop.
Snoop Dogg has said he was once "out-gangstered" by legendary singer Dionne Warwick during an intervention she gave him about his misogynistic lyrics.
In a clip from her recently released CNN documentary, "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over," the Grammy Award-winning singer said that in the 1990s, during the early days of Snoop's career, she invited the rapper and his entourage to her home to confront him about his lyrics.
"These kids are expressing themselves, which they're entitled to do. However, there's a way to do it," Warwick said.
"I told them, I said, 'You guys are all going to grow up. You're going to have families. You're going to have children. You're going to have little girls. And one day, that little girl is going to look at you and say, 'Daddy, did you really say that? Is that really you?' What are you going to say?'" she added.
Snoop said he was "shook up" when Warwick asked him to call her a "bitch" — a word he frequently used to describe women in his songs on his debut album, "Doggystyle."
"She was checking me at a time when I thought we couldn't be checked," he explained. "We were the most gangster as you could be but that day at Dionne Warwick's house, I believe we got out-gangstered."
The rapper added that on his second album — "Tha Doggfather" — he toned down his lyrics as a result of his meeting with Warwick.
"I made it a point to put records of joy — me uplifting everybody and nobody dying and everybody living," he said.
"Dionne, I hope I became the jewel that you saw when I was the little, dirty rock that was in your house. I hope I'm making you proud," Snoop added.