Snoop Dogg Almost Joined G-Unit

Rapper Considered Joint Deal With 50 Cent’s Label
6:00AM ET February 28th, 2013
Contributor : Stephen Willis
A Rocky Williform Company

DJ Whoo Kid revealed in a recent interview with Young Jack Thriller that Snoop Dogg almost signed a joint deal with 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records. Two of Dr. Dre’s most famed proteges nearly joined forces in the early 2000s.

“It was kinda close; it wasn’t like he was gonna sign, he was gonna have like a joint deal [with G-Unit],” Whoo Kid revealed. “During those days, he had joint deals with everybody – he had one with Master P…he was signed to everybody. But he wanted a G-Unit connection because ‘P.I.M.P.,’ when Fif did it, he didn’t have Snoop on there or nothing like that, so my introduction to Snoop, I was supposed to meet him in L.A., so I said, ‘I’ma take the ‘P.I.M.P.’ record to Snoop. I got Snoop to get on the remix, but it was a freestyle. When I came back to New York and I let Fif hear it, he was like, ‘I’m keeping this, man. This shit is out of here’…but during that time is when he wanted to be like Dogg Pound/G-Unit.”