First-Time Voter Snoop Dogg Is Not Undecided In 2020

The countdown for the 2020 presidential election is underway and Snoop Dogg will vote for the first time in his life. The rapper let his choice be clear after his hit 2005 track "Drop It Like It's Hot" appeared in a 60-second ad in partnership with the Democratic Party. The clip sees masked voters dropping off their votes into official drop boxes in their communities while his catchy tune plays in the background. "This is the most important election of our lifetimes and it's my first time voting. We need every single American to get out there and vote," Snoop said in a statement, as per The Hill. "It's time for y'all to drop those ballots like they're hot — in your local drop box. Vote early and let 'em know our voices will be heard!"

He also shared the video on his Instagram account, writing, "Listen up. It's time to vote! Go to http://IWillVote.com ... and make your voice heard. I'm voting for the first time come join me."

Keep scrolling to read about Snoop's political stance and why Donald Trump's presidency motivated him to inquire about his voting rights.

Claiming that he was he was misinformed for years, Snoop Dogg thought he wasn't eligible to vote because of his criminal record. According to the Los Angeles Times, the rapper was "convicted in 1990 of felony drug possession and possession for sale," and later pleaded no contest tofelony gun and drug charges in 2007. "For many years, they had me brainwashed thinking that you couldn't vote 'cause you had a criminal record. I didn't know that," Snoop explained on the Big Boy's Neighborhood podcast in June 2020. "My record's been expunged, so now I can vote." He added, "I can't talk about it and not be about it. I can't tell you to do it and don't go do it. Everybody know I'm a frontliner. I ain't gonna tell you to do something that I didn't do. If I tell you to do something, I done done it already."

In October 2020, Snoop documented himself completing a voter registration form online for the first time ever. In a 14-minute YouTube video, he walked through the entire process of registering to vote in California before noting how the form leaves questions about criminal records until the very end. In his opinion, this is done to discourage participants from completing the form and voting. "This is the sh*t that I was talking about," Snoop said, adding, "This would be the discouraging moment at the end of the vote for me... But guess what? It's not. F**k what they talking about." 

Snoop Dogg admitted that now that he knows he's allowed to vote, he's definitely going to cast his ballot in the 2020 presidential election — and he's definitely not undecided. "I ain't never voted a day in my life, but this year I think I'ma get out and vote 'cause I can't stand to see this punk in office one more year," he told host Big Boy on his Big Boy's Neighborhood podcast.

The rapper is clearly not a Trump fan and that was further proven in his 2017 "Lavender" music video, which features a scene that sees him aiming a gun at an orange-faced clown who looks exactly like the president, according to Mashable. At the time, Trump responded to the video, tweeting, "Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!"

Beyond the video dust-up, Snoop hasn't shied away from sharing his opinions and speaking out on politics. In September 2018, he even slammed Kanye West's very high profile embrace of the U.S. president. First, he called Trump — and any who supports him — racist and divisive, as per NME. Then, he added, "Kanye too. Don't forget about him too. F**k you too. Throw him in the bag, he right with them motherf**kers."

Snoop Dogg may not have been able to vote for Barack Obama, but he did endorse him for re-election, because he believed Obama deserved to be president for another four years to "get his thang together and finish his deal out," as per HuffPost. The rapper continued, "I mean, [George W.] Bush f**ked up for eight years, so you gotta at least give [Obama] eight years. He cleaned half the s**t up in four years, realistically. It ain't like y'all gave him a clean house. Y'all gave him a house where the TV didn't work, the toilet was stuffed up — everything was wrong with the house."

Snoop also told Andy Cohen in 2015 that he wanted to see Hillary Clinton become the first female US president. "I like to be politically correct — sometimes I'm politically incorrect — but I'll say that I would love to see a woman in office, because I feel like we're at that stage in life to where we need a perspective other than the male's train of thought," he explained on Watch What Happens Live (via the Daily Mail). "And just to have a woman speaking from a global perspective as far as representing America, I would love to see that." Snoop added, "So I'll be voting for Ms Clinton."

As we've already discussed, Snoop never made it to the voting booth that year that his preferred candidate ran. Donald Trump won the election in 2016 — and now Snoop will use his first-time vote to try to get him out of the White House.