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“Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. He has done only great things for me.”

Snoop specifically pointed to how Trump pardoned the co-founder of his first label, Michael Harris.

“So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump,” he said.

The statement is a complete 180 after Snoop Dogg made a music video in 2017, appearing to shoot Trump.

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Trump indictments spark wave of endorsements — from rappers
By Jon Levine

By Jon Levine
Published Sep. 2, 2023, 1:13 p.m. ET
Some of the biggest names in the rap game are backing former President Trump’s 2024 presidential run, with some pledging their allegiance — and their skin — to the GOPer in the wake of his glaring mugshot.

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Chicago rapper Badman Kevo did his best to give Trump a leg-up this week — by tattooing the former president’s mug SHOT on his leg and sharing the moment on Instagram with his 3 million followers.

“Make America rich Again or Sleepy Joe,” he said, teasing the spot which showed him inking Trump’s mugshot.

“Biden … actually got me paying a lot of taxes,” Kevo griped on the We in Miami podcast. “Actually, this is my second Trump tattoo.”

The rapper additionally credited Trump for springing him from jail “six months early” where he had been serving time for bank fraud.

In an Instagram story posted after prisoner No. PO1135809 was fingerprinted and had his mugshot taken in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on charges of illegally conspiring to overturn the state’s 2020 election result, Rapper Chief Keef hailed Trump to his 8.8 million followers.

Rapper Bandman Kevo said he was backing Trump so he could have lower taxes. Twitter @bandman_kevo
“He Good In The Hood,” the “Love Sosa” artist wrote.

On August 12, days before Georgia prosecutors leveled the latest charges, Buffalo rapper Benny the Butcher tweeted “I’m voting Trump 2024” in a viral notice that generated a million views on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Now rappers are back to where they were with him pre-running for president which was as a cool rich guy. He spends money like rappers spend money. he has gold toilets. I think they saw a kindred spirit in him,” said one person close to Trump, who said he expected the musicians to be deployed in some capacity in a general election to tout Trump’s street cred to black voters.

Kevo put Trump’s mugshot on his leg in homage. Twitter @bandman_kevo
Trump has held onto past support from rappers such as Lil’ Pump — who famously appeared on stage with him shortly before the 2020 presidential election, he has won converts too.

YG — a rapper famous for his anti-Trump protest anthem “F—k Donald Trump,” — said in an interview earlier this month that the “black community” had had a change of heart.

“I ain’t going to lie, bro, the black community is not f–king with Trump, but when this PPP s—t and all that s—t came out, black people forgave him,” YG said during an August 1 taping of the YouTube show This Past Weekend. “I’m speaking about these mothf—kers in the hood. I am speaking on their behalf. This is what they say. ‘s—t, Biden ain’t did nothing for us, that n—a Trump is passing out money.”

Polls have consistently shown President Biden underperforming with non-white voters.

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In a Sienna College poll last month, he failed to win a majority of non-white voters without a college degree — besting Trump among these former Dem die-hards (49%–33%).

Many of the rappers standing for Trump have had their own run-ins with the law.

Lil Pump was busted three times in 2018 alone for shooting a gun at his home in California, driving without a license in Miami, and possessing marijuana in Denmark.

Trump faces 91 separate felony counts across four state and federal jurisdictions.

He’s vowed to fight all the charges and vigorously insists he’s the victim of a weaponized justice system.

“In the urban black community, a mug shot can be an iconic symbol, both of victimization and of greatness. It’s a defiant UP YOURS to “the man.” Think Tupac Shakur. Trump is now the ultimate gangsta in our culture,” conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza noted in a viral posting to X.

The support has only grown since 2016 when Trump was backed by a number of the most famous rappers in the country including Ice Cube, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West.

Trump had long been popular among rap artists who dropped his name in lyrics frequently before he entered politics. Snoop Dogg, Diddy, Young Jeezy, and Nas are just a few of the rappers “who worshipped Donald Trump in the past,” according to BET.

Rapper Lil Pump is with Trump again in 2024 after campaigning with him in 2020. Getty Images
“I think there is something between Trump’s ideology and the whole gangsta vibe of being an American that a lot of rappers can connect with,” said aspiring rapper Jordan Coleman — the 28-year-old son of Mayor Adams.

There is “something about Trump’s’ swagger and something about his confidence that people resonated with.”

Coleman said he isn’t enchanted with either Trump or Biden.

“I think we need more options out there if we are speaking truth to people,” he said. “I am waiting for someone new — like myself.”

TRUMP EXPECTED TO PULL MORE BLACK VOTES THAN ANY OTHER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IN U.S. HISTORY

Do we really want a repeat of 2016?

After four years of Donald Trump in the Oval Office, he is pressing his way back to Washington, D.C. – with the help of Black voters.

Poll results from both national and swing states find the former president is holding anywhere between 14 and 30% of the Black vote – the most Black support received by any Republican candidate in history, according to Newsweek. That’s a huge jump from the 8% received during the 2020 election.

Looking back on past Republican candidates, in 1960, an estimated five million Black people voted when Richard Nixon was on the ballot, winning 32% of the Black vote. Since then, the Black population has grown tremendously. Census data shows Black people now represent 46,936,733 people, or 13.6% of the population.

So what has changed? The Black voting turnout has jumped in presidential elections from 58.5% of the eligible voting population in 1964 to 58.7% in 2020. If Trump secures just 13% more, he will hold the title of the highest proportion of the Black vote since Nixon in 1960.

As Black voters are more prone to vote blue, President Biden seems to be losing grip on the minority voter. One in five Black voters are willing to support a third-party candidate in November 2024, according to USA Today. A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows Biden’s failure to work on key issues that got him elected in 2020 isn’t helping his support, leaving him trailing behind Trump, 39%-37%.

Some voters still support Biden but feel he needs to step it up in his “hopeful” next term. “I think he’s done a reasonably sound job, but it’s not been a ‘wow’ administration,” Democrat Michelle Derr said. “For me, it’s disappointing that we have two old white guys in this race again. I want to look forward to the future.”

Biden’s advisors know how the leader is underperforming in the demographic but have a strategy to turn things around in early February 2024. Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks says the campaign isn’t “parachuting into Black communities a few weeks before the election” but “is investing earlier and more aggressively than ever before.”