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Snoop
Dogg
apologizes
to Gayle
King for
rant
over
Bryant
By
NEKESA
MUMBI
MOODY
apnews.com
NEW
YORK -
After
days of
blistering
criticism,
Snoop
Dogg has
finally
apologized
to Gayle
King for
attacking
her over
her
interview
with
former
basketball
star
Lisa
Leslie
about
the late
Kobe
Bryant.
“Two
wrongs
don’t
make no
right.
when
you’re
wrong,
you
gotta
fix it,”
he said
in an
Instagram
post on
Wednesday.
“So
with
that
being
said,
Gayle
King, I
publicly
tore you
down by
coming
at you
in a
derogatory
manner
based
off of
emotions
of me
being
angry at
a
question
you
asked.
Overreacted,”
he said.
“I
should
have
handled
it way
different
than
that, I
was
raised
way
better
than
that, so
I would
like to
apologize
publicly
for the
language
that I
used and
calling
you out
your
name and
just
being
disrespectful.”
Snoop
Dogg was
furious
that the
“CBS
This
Morning”
anchor
brought
up rape
allegations
from
Bryant’s
past in
her
interview
with
Leslie,
a friend
of
Bryant.
The
retired
Lakers
star was
killed
in a
helicopter
crash
last
month
along
with his
young
daughter
and
seven
others.
Snoop
Dogg
went on
Instagram
and
called
King
crude
names.
He also
said she
better
back off
“before
we come
get
you,”
and
posted a
slew of
insulting
photos
and
memes
about
her.
King
herself
was
angry at
CBS News
for
promoting
a
snippet
of what
was a
wide-ranging
interview
on
social
media,
which
drew
sharp
reaction
and
accusations
from
some
that she
crossed
the
line.
King, in
her own
Instagram
message
last
week,
said she
could
see why
people
might be
upset if
they
only saw
a brief
portion
of what
was
discussed.
Snoop
Dogg, a
friend
of
Bryant
and
ardent
Lakers
fan, was
hardly
the only
one
angry at
King for
her
questioning
— LeBron
James
and even
Bill
Cosby
were
among
her
critics
— but
his
comments
were
among
the most
inflammatory
and seen
as a
threat.
King’s
best
friend,
Oprah
Winfrey,
said
that
King was
“not
doing
well”
and
getting
death
threats
because
of the
interview.
Soon, an
avalanche
of
support
came in
for
King,
from the
head of
CBS News
to
former
Obama
administration
official
Susan
Rice to
award
winning
author
Ta-Nehisi
Coates,
who in
an
Instagram
post
chastised
black
men who
attacked
her.
“We
did not
calmly
express
our
dislike
of the
question.
We were
too weak
for
that. We
threatened.
We
dragged.
And we
attacked,”
he
wrote.
“It’s
wrong.
We
should
want
more. We
should
be
better.”
Snoop
Dogg was
also
heavily
criticized
in
essays
in black
media,
including
one that
accused
him of
hating
black
women.
Last
week,
Snoop
Dogg
responded
to some
of the
backlash
and
denied
threatening
King,
but in
Wednesday’s
post, he
offered
a full
apology
and said
he was
raised
better
than
that. He
said in
the
post’s
caption
that a
talk
with his
mother
set him
right.
“I
didn’t
mean for
it to be
like
that. I
was just
expressing
myself
for a
friend
that
wasn’t
there to
defend
himself,”
he said.
He
noted
that he
knows
some
people
look up
to him,
so it
added to
his
importance
to
apologize.
“Anytime
you mess
up, it’s
OK to
fix it,
it’s OK
to man
up to
say that
you’re
wrong,”
he said.
“I
apologize.
hopefully
we can
sit down
and
talk,
privately.”
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