The Special Friendship of Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg

Friends come in different shapes and sizes and they say that an unlikely friendship is the one that lasts. So today, we are going to look into the story of the 84-year-old country singer from Texas and the 45-year-old gangster rapper from California.

The Beginning

Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson established their bond in the Netherlands and of course, well, you guessed it… strengthened by the haze of pot.

On April 20, 2008, Willie Nelson had a concert in Amsterdam. Snoop Dogg called Nelson and asked if he wanted to make a song together. When Nelson agreed, Snoop decided not to wait for the end of the tour, but flew straight to Amsterdam and joined Willie for the concert.

 What happened next was shared by Snoop on “The Tonight Show,”

“I was in his hotel room, and we was playing dominoes and enjoying life. After enjoying life … we developed a hunger. … Naturally, we wanted to go to Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is one of our favorite spots, his and mine. So we pull up in the drive-through, we order the chicken, they give it to us, and they hand us the big bucket. We take the top off and we both put our hand in at the same time. And we grab the same piece of chicken at the same damn time. And I said, You know what Willie? That’s yours. Go ahead, take that, dog.

The Artists Collaborate

Eventually, they wrote a song together called ‘My Medicine’ that is an upbeat half-country-half-rap song about marijuana, dedicated to Johnny Cash. The video features shots of Snoop Dogg and Nelson huddled around a studio microphone, grinning and singing the chorus together.

That was a start of their beautiful friendship. In 2010, when Nelson was arrested for pot possession, Snoop Dogg went berserk towards the officers who busted him at the Sierra Blanca highway checkpoint near El Paso.

“What you think you’re gonna gain by arresting Willie Nelson? He got out and he back smoking right now,” he told TMZ at the time, shouting profanities about police. “If you’ve got a problem with Willie Nelson, you’ve got a problem with me.”

In 2011, they once again collaborated for Snoop Dogg’s song called ‘Superman’. The song talks about some serious issues like burning out and morality. “I’m tryin’ to do more than I can,” the two sing over a simple acoustic guitar line, “I got a little outta hand, I wasn’t Superman.”

The video features shots of them smoking, eating lunch and riding in a car, along with clips from the Amsterdam concert they played together. “So we got Snoop to come all the way over here to sing and record with us,” Nelson tells a crowd of people from the stage. Snoop Dogg emerges, saying “I love this man right here!”

That indeed is real love attested between Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg, may your friendship remain strong, with or without weed!