Willie Nelson & Snoop Dogg Collaborating on New Song
Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg will have a new collaboration coming out in a couple of weeks, and this time it may not just be about the favorite pastime of the two superstars of puffing on pipes, but about something deeper. In a Snoop Dogg interview with Beats 1 recently, the topic of Willie Nelson came up, and like Snoop has done often, he had nothing but high praise for Willie Nelson.
“Man we got a song coming out in a couple of weeks, how ’bout it? How ’bout it!” Snoop said. “Man that’s my big brother. And the reason we’re gonna make this record is because black and white matters right now. The love that we have for each other … Me and Willie Nelson, you see Snoop Dogg is the blackest of the blackest, the most militant, the most toughest, but he can work with anybody. He can work with the whitest of the whitest because it’s not about color, it’s about love.”
“It’s the appreciation of humanity. I love you as a person Willie, I love your music. Let’s become friends, let me go to your house, let me meet your family. Let me become a part of your world. When you build that brotherhood, color is out the window. I love you. I don’t look at color, I look at you.”
Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg have collaborated together before of course, on songs like “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” “Superman,” and “My Medicine,” but this might be the first time the two work on something much more aspirational. The two have enjoyed a long friendship, and have shared the stage together on numerous occasions as well.
Some were questioning why some major stars in country music such as Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, and Dolly Parton had not pledged their support for Black Lives Matter and the protestors in the wake of the death of George Floyd, even populating a spreadsheet to hold artists “accountable.” But those who know Willie Nelson know where his heart lies when it comes to race in America, and that his answer for how he feels would come through song.
Willie Nelson was responsible for helping to launch the career of Charley Pride when he diffused an unruly crowd in Louisiana by giving Pride an infamous kiss on stage. Nelson also collaborated with Ray Charles later in his career on the #1 song “Seven Spanish Angels.” And unlike we often see in mainstream country when some hip-hop collaborator glams onto a pop country star simply for attention and commercial application, the friendship of Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg has been one cultivated through mutual respect and admiration … and a favorite pastime as well.
Willie Nelson just released the latest track from his upcoming record First Rose of Spring called “We Are The Cowboys” originally recorded by Billy Joe Shaver. The new Willie album is due out July 3rd after being delayed due to COVID-19.
norrie
June 20, 2020 @ 10:44 am
Or a country collaborator glams onto a hip hop star simply for attention.
johnnyba
June 20, 2020 @ 11:07 am
Willie is a little old for those games and never played them all that much in the first place.
norrie
June 20, 2020 @ 11:34 am
Oh I know not talking about Willie/Snoop Dog just Triggers generalisation that it’s the rapper or hip hop artist that is hanging on to the coattails of the country act
Erikstein
June 21, 2020 @ 10:59 am
Yes,the last thing we need right now is a black and a white person showing love and friendship.We definitely don’t need to respect each other and get along. You are brave to call out such evil
norrie
June 22, 2020 @ 3:45 am
Well I actually agree with you not sure why you think you are calling me out on this
Reply Guy
June 25, 2020 @ 1:01 pm
Pandering.
This is a modern McCartney/Wonder “Ebony & Ivory”.
It’s crass. It’s commercial
It’s a way to market BLM to the few dude weed bro types out there who haven’t gotten on board for the social media virtue signal party.
Just make some good music and collaborate IF there was a creative need but this is HACK and it’s a way to peace sign the pot leaf with a black fist for a country music audience that they hope eats this up and creates a demand for more.
I wish this site had the stones to call out the hack pandering that this is rather than champion it with a press release.
trevistrat
June 26, 2020 @ 4:58 pm
Hey,at least it isn’t a remake of “Say Say Say”.
Jim L.
June 20, 2020 @ 11:00 am
BLM sounds all great at first. But go to their website and read their full list of demands and expectations. Some pretty radical, even racist, things on there. Maybe that’s why not everyone is just blindly getting on board?
Who cares
June 20, 2020 @ 3:33 pm
I often find in life when events lead to any form of “potential” unity, does not mater if its through class or race, something always comes along to make sure that divide amongst ordinary people exists. Smaller groups are always easier managed.
BLM is a form of division at a time some people were seeing alternatives to be better than expected. They’ll never be there for ordinary decent people, black or white. I’ve not heard them mention the names of any killed in the riots, looting or day to day gang violence, unless killed by the police/the system in which they wish to change in a revolution. A very Marxist driven one similar to those of Eastern Europe.
Where does their money come from? be interesting to find out, but I have a life to live and I cant be bothered. Whatever rubbish comes my way, i’ll destroy it with Eastern European charm….
Hank blacksmith
June 20, 2020 @ 5:16 pm
I often find in life that thoughtful comments do not come from people that can’t spell simple words such as ‘matter’. You are dillusional or you don’t understand what Marxism is and are also completely ignorant to American history. There has never been any changes in the system or society without civil unrest and tension. Johnson didnt just decide to sign the civil rights act out of the blue, and any class struggles between capitalists and the working class also didn’t come from with unions, walkouts, strikes, boycotts. This BLM movement has been the most powerful movement in the last 50 years with over 300 US cities protesting and many more throughout the world. It has shed light and exposed police brutality, systematic and personal racism, white privilege, and corruption in the justice system, that many whites didn’t believe were such prominent and pressing issues . Of course there are some right wing self victimized, I’m assuming you’re a Trump supporter, who are able to deny video proof and confessional testimony from cops, as well as the logical conclusions that are drawn from data and anadoctal evidence. Nostvpeople can will themselves ignorant and still feel the need to comment about it, Bunker boy is turning white America into even more entitled, whiny, blameshifting racists, while the rest of America is becoming more understanding, educated, and empathetic. That is where the division comes from.
Willie Nelson and snoop are the shiiit!
Mike Honcho
June 20, 2020 @ 7:32 pm
Whatever. I had to bill a contract through a black owned company (1 employee with zero experience ) in order to get paid. Hr made a quarter million dollars to pass through a payment. Show me a white person that gets paid based on only their color.
Hank blacksmith
June 20, 2020 @ 9:39 pm
Find a mirror. Ok. Look at it… There’s one!
If you like country music, you should educate yourself on it. There’s a book called ‘Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music,’ you’ll learn that African Americans had just as much to do with the inception of the country sound as they did with blues. Whites may have taken over the narrative and identity of Country and Rock and Roll, but at least black people still get credit for Blues Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Funk, Hip hop…
You see, if you were knowledgeable about Americana and you didn’t put your value on the color of your skin, andeven try to victimize yourself as a white using an anecdotal situation about yourself, there’s no way you could deny your white privilege. Ignorance is all that it is, y’all just expose it with your denial that there’s even such thing, as if it’s a matter of opinion and not fact.
Be cool Honcho, we all want what’s best for America, you think that means going back in time, or leaving things as they are, that’s fine. But telling me to go to Cuba because I want progress for America, is not just unAmerican by stupid. If your son was a junkie and losing grip, would you making an effort and fighting to do whatever you can do that he can get back on track mean that you hate him and would be better off making a new child and starting over? No, it would mean you love him and are willing to step up to do what you can to help him get better, do better, and be better. I suggest you use your head to think rather than regurgitate hate you hear from rightwing propaganda, because honestly fool, you should be better
King Honky Of Crackershire
June 20, 2020 @ 10:14 pm
Hank, dude, you are bonkers. Like really, really bonkers. Lost cause bonkers. That’s probably a compliment, right?
Cobra
June 21, 2020 @ 8:36 am
Actually, Hank seems quite intelligent and articulate to me.
Who cares
June 21, 2020 @ 3:58 am
Thank you for your insight, however the only useful feedback was the correction on “mater”. I suppose you have to be good for something.
I must also apologise as you nearly lost me after you became a spelling and grammar checker. I thought it was devaluing your intellectual contribution until I managed to read the rest of it. Many assumptions you make with some intense emotions, do you take prozac? I am not feeling your understanding and empathetic side, guess that is only shared for people who think like you.
The problem you have is that this revolution has been done before (within living memory for some), with these same goals (look a little deeper if you can) and has led to nothing but misery. I am not talking about the slogans or the wonderful words like equality or whatever righteous movement it has attached itself to. I am sure history is not full of lovely slogans used as a front to push alternative and overall undesirable ideologies, talk about reliving the past eh? I am all for change, but reliving the past? That appears to be what you want, to relive other peoples’ past history.
I am sure it will be managed better and the Marxism my family lived under in Eastern Europe was just poorly implemented. Back then it attached itself to rights for the poor workers, how rich and fulfilled in life they all became! How very delusional not to learn from other countries in this world. I guess the USA will do Marxism better.
P.S. “anadoctal” blah blah I normally do not care, I enjoy talking and debating ideas and going deeper than the surface, but I hope you are not one of these people that puts “attention to detail” on their CV’s then make a few boo-boos? You sound very privileged to me.
Hank blacksmith
June 20, 2020 @ 5:28 pm
Racist?! Against who? I hope you don’t think it’s possible to be racist against a white person in America, if so, get a fucking encyclopedia and at leastblearn the basics of the definition of racism, then find one instance in history where white people have ever been enslaved to or oppressed by any other race. Dummy. The only term involving whites that’s racist is ‘white trash’ and it’s not even racist towards white people, but rather it’s racist to every other race. By saying ‘white trash’ is to assume the notion that it is common knowledge that white people’s default presumption is that whites are not trash. The insult term ‘black trash does not exist in oir racist society, because to say that would imply that black people are usually not considered trash by society. Educate yourself fool, quit watching Turning Point videos, that shit is twisted up fascist propaganda that results in you coming across superficial, apathetic, and, in my opinion, disgusting.
Jim L.
June 20, 2020 @ 6:39 pm
Let all black people out of prison, but keep everyone else locked up.
Free education for life, but just for the black people.
Yeah, no racism there.
Hank blacksmith
June 20, 2020 @ 7:19 pm
Looks like you’re commenting again before educating yourself. Why don’t you bother going on BLM website and see for yourself instead of taking Ben Shapiro’s word for it, or he’s not that stid to make up something that ridiculous, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson? Whichever moronic racist you get your “alternative facts” from. Also you still don’t even understand what racism is means, it takes 5 minutes to find out though. The bullcrap you sheepishly believe and are trying to read on here, even if it was true, which it’s clear that it’s not to anyone with at least half a brain or at least willing to check it out the site for themselves, it would still not be considered racism, it would be what was called ‘reverse racism’ for a while until psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists began to think that even that may not be a real thing. So too bad for you little white crybaby that doesn’t get to victimize itself.
Yo, also Willie and Snoop (along with every other musician, except kid rock, Kanye, and red nugent) think that Trump is stupid and cowardly spoiled brat.
Trigger
June 20, 2020 @ 7:27 pm
Hank and Jim,
I appreciate the passion on this issue. But please understand this is a country music website, and a story about Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg. Out of respect for all readers and commenters, and the spirit with which the collaboration between these two artists is coming together, let’s please keep the discussion on topic, and respectful to everyone.
Thank you.
Jack W
June 20, 2020 @ 7:44 pm
Jim is a regular reader, knows that this is a country music site, and yet he felt the need to go political on his own and cast aspersions on BLM. As I’ve said before, some of your right wing readers seem to feel entitled to do this type of thing. And they don’t care so much about being respectful to everyone.
Cobra
June 21, 2020 @ 8:38 am
Trigger
The same way you like to keep your articles focused on music and not spend half of the article ranting about how the artist’s political beliefs hurt your feelings?
Sincerely,
Cobra
Trigger
June 21, 2020 @ 9:14 am
I’ve never had my feelings hurt from an artist’s political beliefs. I have engaged in lengthy efforts trying to persuade audiences to listen to artists despite their often pointed and sometimes bigoted statements about their audience’s political beliefs which excludes them from the important messages of their songs. If you don’t understand the need for that exercise, that’s fine. It’s not for you.
Nonetheless, we can’t have political acrimony permeating every single comments section on this site. It’s a disrespect to the artists and their art. It’s like going to a show and talking over the music.
Cobra
June 21, 2020 @ 10:57 am
” It’s a disrespect to the artists and their art. It’s like going to a show and talking over the music. ”
Or it’s like writing an album review and spending half of that article bitching about the artist’s comments that hurt your feelings….kind of like you did to Isbell.
But, hey, you do you, man.
Rusty
June 22, 2020 @ 2:11 pm
Not agreeing with BLM doesn’t make you racist. Being white doesn’t guarantee you success. Being black doesn’t guarantee you poverty. How about you educate yourself on what BLM actually is and what they stand for.
Jack W
June 20, 2020 @ 7:32 pm
These are things that you have read for yourself on the BLM website? Where? I have taken a look and have so far been unsuccessful.
Jim L.
June 20, 2020 @ 8:31 pm
Those were the Black Panther demands. My bad.
Also, this article started out political by stating that some country folks did not come out and support BLM.
Jack W
June 21, 2020 @ 6:21 am
No, Jim. It did not start out political. Not even close. As it is, in a seven paragraph article, Black Lives Matter wasn’t mentioned until the fifth paragraph (i.e., toward the end) and even then, it was about how “some” were questioning why country artists like Willie hadn’t been vocal about supporting it after the death of George Floyd and how in the case of Willie, it should be obvious where his heart is. Anyway, you have already admitted that you were spreading misinformation (or maybe disinformation?) about BLM, which is an organization founded by three women of color that advocates non-violent civil disobediance as opposed to a radical and armed revolutionary group from about a half a century ago. And this resulted in the derailment of this comment section, so not the best defense. Looks like people are still liking your comment, though. So mission accomplished?
Elk Tracker
June 20, 2020 @ 9:00 pm
You don’t use an encyclopedia to learn definitions of words; that would be a dictionary. You use an encyclopedia to learn facts about history and the sciences. Facts like whites were enslaved by Mongols and Arabs—among others. You also get to learn fun facts about Marxist genocide in the 20th Century, but not precise totals; we don’t know if it’s 50 million or 100 million because totalitarian Marxists weren’t as committed to solid book keeping as totalitarian Nazis were.
Btw: When an ideology feels it can exercise privilege to singlehandedly redefine words (like racism), even people that don’t know what an encyclopedia is know something underhanded is happening.
Hank Blacksmith
June 23, 2020 @ 1:08 pm
Just the fact that you think that one can understand what racism is by reading the definition of it in a dictionary shows how little you understand racism. The less you know, the less you think there is to know, therefore you think you pretty much know everything there is to know about it; stupid is too stupid to know it’s stupid, therefore it thinks it’s smart, ie Doner-Krugger Effect.
BTW: I like how, regardless of the ignorance you’ve shown in totality, you spent the rest of your last comment completely contradicting the 1st sentence of it. And the irony seems fly right over the second sentence’s head. I assume that everyone at least understands that racism is a social construct, ( for you dummies, a concept being a creation of social construct does not make it any less real or any less powerful, just like the concept if money), so it is intertwined with dozens of social SCIENCES, pseudo sciences, religions, and cultures ect.. throughout HISTORY and the ethnicities and their relationship and conflict with one another and the intellectual analysis of it now and at the time also in relation with the political power struggles for there and then.
Eugenics, segregationist, white supremacy, white privilege, systematic racial classism, xenophobia, anthropology, colonialism, police profiling, aversive racism… The list continues, those are just a few concepts that a socially conscious American living today would have knowledge of to understand the basics of racism as it pertains to us.
The dictionary will give you the generalized description to where one would know what it means as far as reciting what the dictionary says, but it won’t give anyone any sort of defined understanding. Even an encyclopedia won’t help you understand it, but it’ll help you enough to define it contextually enough to discuss it and gain understanding. But you know how you’ll definitely remain ignorant? By instead seeking out talking points that you’ve been convinced or easily convinced yourself were facts that you can use thinking it will defend your race and you and your ideology from any criticism ,,, it makes you look stupid, like a Tucker Carlson or a Candace Owens, an absurd 2 dimensional dipshit who thinks it is intelligent just because it is articulate.
Mike Honcho
June 21, 2020 @ 6:03 am
White privilege resembles hard work and an aversion to victimhood. No wonder you have a hard time with it. I’ll enjoy the backlash of the monster you are creating by referring to anyone that disagrees with you as racist. You’ll notice the Democrats seem to be the biggest targets, so far in this brainless exercise. Your viewpoint can only come from a place of undeserved privilege. Anybody that works hard to take care of themselves and their family doesnt have time to consider what they are owed by people they dont even know. I guess its our own fault that we didn’t consider the successes of Capitalism would be unappreciated by the lazy and weak-minded. We let education turn to indoctrination by bureaucrat. We have a generation of free riders that have no idea of the consequences of Marxism even as historical examples of the destruction abound. The problem for you is , not being exposed to adversity has produced weakness, and an inability to fight when we get tired of putting up with your petulant bullshit. Your reckoning will be particularly harsh.
Carleton
June 21, 2020 @ 4:57 pm
When a feel-good piece about Willie and Snoop Dog collaborating leads immediately to diatribes about the alleged racism of “Black Lives Matter” and the supposed “Marxist” conspiracy that threatens our nation … I have to wonder why Trigger doesn’t just pack it in. Honestly.
Jessica
June 20, 2020 @ 12:21 pm
Im excited about this. Snoop has pretty much the same legendary status as willie in his own respective genre.
Jake Cutter
June 20, 2020 @ 12:41 pm
More of this.
Di Harris
June 20, 2020 @ 12:53 pm
Priceless.
Snoop, one of the biggest racists out there.
Oh this is going to be good
Di Harris
June 20, 2020 @ 1:02 pm
*rascist …
However, i am happy for Snoop and Willie, that they enjoy a friendship and brotherhood.
And i wish them well on this endeavour.
The thing that needs to stop is the thought that there haven’t always been black and white friendships.
Tired of this crock.
Di Harris
June 20, 2020 @ 1:17 pm
*racist. Sorry.
Hey, i’m definitely all for this project if it turns Snoop’s heart, just a little, to see that he can dial back on his need to be “the most militant” “and the blackest”
Great friendships can help soften perspectives
Who cares
June 21, 2020 @ 1:36 pm
Thought I would say hello and I agree with your comments about mellowing peoples views though collaboration. Did not want anyone to think you like talking to yourself 🙂
Whatever the song is, it will not be pure country (obviously) and it would be unfair to judge it as a puritan. I just hope the non-country element is something I can appreciate.
Di Harris
June 21, 2020 @ 2:18 pm
Hi,
That is funny. Thank you.
Had a glass of wine yesterday afternoon.
1 glass.
At 5″ 1″, and having pretty thick blood, because of being American Indian, takes 1 glass, and i am one ridiculously happy camper.
The up side of that is that when i was allowed to donate platelets (apheresis) was able to give triples in one sitting.
That felt really good. Knowing that could possibly help someone out there.
Was actually pretty funny, because the apheresis donations became a little competitive with the scuba buds.
One of the guys had a sister who died of leukemia, so it is what we did, in support of him, and to honor her memory.
Bottom line,
Do not get on TriggerMan’s site after a glass of wine.
Yo, ‘sup Trigger
Big Tex
June 20, 2020 @ 1:08 pm
Pardon me while I engage in projectile vomiting.
Billy Wayne Ruddick
June 20, 2020 @ 3:13 pm
Did you have too many White Claws & Fritos again?
Robert Johnson
June 22, 2020 @ 1:47 pm
That is too fuckin funny!!!
King Honky Of Crackershire
June 20, 2020 @ 2:04 pm
This is gonna suck. It’ll be race-baiting trash.
Ol Willie’s gonna be used as a token.
Bigdawg
June 20, 2020 @ 7:46 pm
Of anyone, you really think willie nelson isn’t making his own decisions on what music he puts out ?
Chris
June 20, 2020 @ 2:26 pm
Snoop was obviously high on something when he made that comment quoted above… but from the looks of it it was something a bit stronger than ol’ Mary Jane.
Jack W
June 20, 2020 @ 2:51 pm
I mean, would it kill Willie’s people to post something about this on Twitter or Instagram?
#freewillie
Jake Cutter
June 20, 2020 @ 3:35 pm
Serious question (not being a dick or rhetorical): Why do we need that?
Jack W
June 20, 2020 @ 3:51 pm
Because we need to get Willie off that spreadsheet. 😉
Cameron
June 20, 2020 @ 5:20 pm
Fuck their spreadsheet
Jack W
June 20, 2020 @ 7:56 pm
That little winking emoji was a clue that I wasn’t being serious.
Jake Cutter
June 20, 2020 @ 8:18 pm
I’m glad that people of various world views hate that spreadsheet. For me, I respect people that live their life away from social media. I’m not a fan of Ed Sheeran’s music but I caught an interview of him saying how refreshing and liberating it was to not even have a cell phone and it inspired me a bit. I wouldn’t go that far myself, but I’ve pretty much stopped using all social media….and I haven’t regretted it for a second. I’m glad there’s people out there like Willie, being a good guy instead of talking about it.
RD
June 20, 2020 @ 4:18 pm
This is what happens when someone lives too long.
Bigdawg
June 20, 2020 @ 7:48 pm
So you’d rather willie nelson die than collaborate with snoop dogg ? (an artist he has already collaborated with several times…)
Erikstein
June 21, 2020 @ 10:53 am
Do you mean when someone lives so long they are wildly creative and open to trying anything without fear? We should all be so lucky and brave.
Who cares
June 21, 2020 @ 1:50 pm
I agree as I never understood the feeling of betrayal if an artist tries something different.
I do hate it if an artist goes off into the never reaches of BS music (cheesy lazy stuff) and pretends it is still what it used to be for the sales. Not if its like Sturgill for example, he never pretended his new direction is country so I do not feel the need for any betrayal talk based on his music creation at least. I appreciate what they created before and I like more than one genre anyway.
It is unlikely I will view this as a country song, but a song with country influence hopefully and if I can enjoy it, then great. If not, thank you for everything that came before and I look forward to new things after.
hoptowntiger94
June 22, 2020 @ 2:20 pm
Deplorable comment. Willie’s relationship with Snopp Dogg goes back 20 years. Should have we offed Willie in his mid 60’s to satisfy your fucked up mind?
Big Pete
June 20, 2020 @ 11:13 pm
I find it amusing how a country singer and a gangsta rapper can find common ground, even collaborate with each other, all thanks to a plant named cannabis sativa. The Snoop-Willie friendship is definitely one of the weirder ones, i just hope it will end up in some cheech & chong-esque knockoff of the cannonball run, where Snoop & Willie has to drive a 18 wheeler full of weed from Colorado to Cali while being hunted by a bad-tempered sheriff played by John Goodman.
63Guild
June 21, 2020 @ 8:21 am
I now want to see that movie.
Also agree on the level of weirdness this friendship is, right below Snoop and Martha Stewart
Di Harris
June 21, 2020 @ 10:11 am
I like it!
That could be hilarious.
But instead of Goodman, have Martin Lawrence & Kevin James team up as the bad tempered, connivin’ cops
Matt F.
June 21, 2020 @ 7:59 pm
Comment Of The Year.
Ken
June 21, 2020 @ 4:23 am
Willie Nelson has earned the right to sing with who ever he wants to.
DJ
June 21, 2020 @ 5:34 am
That video is awesome! Pretty horses and good music. Don’t get much better.
ShadeGrown
June 21, 2020 @ 10:06 am
The best hope I have for this is that it isn’t cringey
Antonio
June 21, 2020 @ 10:24 am
Yal all silly and don’t kno anything but nutn..brownpride
Dee Manning
June 21, 2020 @ 2:01 pm
I saw Snoop years ago at a Lollapalooza, he puts on a good show. I think this will be fun. (But then I really like country/rap collaborations….)
Shawn Rockefeller
June 24, 2020 @ 6:03 pm
I Like Turtles
KIM
July 22, 2020 @ 8:45 pm
It would really be nice if Willie would go back to his very early days and have Snoop record a pure country/western song.