Snoop spending a lot of time in Nashville lately.
The legendary rapper Snoop Dogg is just the latest artist from outside of country music to start dipping his toe into the genre, but it seems that he’s really been embracing it lately.
Last year, he joined Jelly Roll for the final stop on his Beautifully Broken tour for a sold-out Bridgestone Arena show, where the two debuted their new Tom Petty-inspired song “Last Dance With Mary Jane” from his recent Missionary album. And he also worked with Hardy on a reimagined version of “Gin And Juice,” and he’s also apparently recording a verse for an upcoming Zach Bryan song too.
But that’s not all. Early this year, Ernest teased an unreleased song featuring Snoop Dogg called “Gettin’ Gone,” which he would later debut in full during a performance at The Listening Room.
And while the song isn’t out yet, it seems like the unlikely duo is already hard at work on an upcoming music video.
Ern and Snoop were spotted yesterday cruising around Broadway in downtown Nashville recording what we can assume will be the video for “Gettin’ Gone.”
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Ernest recently told the story of how the pair first met, and as it turns out, it was when Snoop was in Nashville to perform with Jelly Roll:
“I only met him because of Jelly Roll. He created that relationship, because he’s Jelly Roll, and Snoop came to Nashville to pop up with Jelly Roll…
I went to where the most security was… And I went to one guy and was like, ‘Is Snoop back there?’ And he goes, ‘No.’
And a guy that knew me comes back from behind him and is like, ‘He’s back there.’ So I weaseled my way back to the door, there’s one more guy, and I’m like, ‘My name’s Ernest, I just played out here, I’m opening for Jelly, can I meet Snoop?’
He opened the door, he’s like ‘Snoop, you good?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, come on.’…
It’s like, ‘Oh my God, this is literally the moment I’ve been waiting for.'”
Well naturally when you meet Snoop you have to smoke with him, so while they were burning backstage Ernest played him a song he had just written – not intending to pitch it to the legendary rapper:
“He was like, ‘Run that shit back.’ Wanted to hear it a second time. He was like, ‘I need your number Ern, send me that shit.’
So he just lived with it for a couple weeks. I sent him a video…and it had that song behind it… He was like, ‘I need that record.’
And I was like, ‘I need that record, I’m launching this label. But do you want a verse?’
And he goes, blue heart, blue heart, fire emoji, paw print, paw print, paw print. And I took that as a yes, and I sent him the session, like three days later he sent me back his verses. And now he’s going to come to Nashville and shoot a music video.”
Ernest admits that he was “very high and nervous” when he first showed Snoop the song, but it sounds like everything worked out.
From getting blocked by Bridgestone Arena security from even MEETING Snoop to recording a music video on the streets in front of that same arena just a few months later. That’s Nashville, baby.
Ernest and Snoop Dogg are a match made in heaven 💙 💙 🔥 🐾 🐾 🐾 pic.twitter.com/hAxQCdZYTv
— Bussin' With The Boys (@BussinWTB) March 4, 2025
