Few, if any, people are more omnipresent than Snoop Dogg. The dude has this magnetic ability that leads to him ending up all over the place — sometimes it’s music, sometimes it’s television, sometimes it’s movies, and sometimes, it’s as part of an apology because he got Stephen A. Smith to say something that ESPN didn’t especially like during an interview.
Here’s the clip, which you might have seen by now. In the event that you have not, Snoop goes through a few different categories and Smith is expected to pick the one he prefers the most. It eventually gets to one that’s hilarious, albeit a little NSFW, especially because Smith works for a company owned by the people who bring you Mickey Mouse.
Give Snoop a Pulitzer for this investigative journalism on Stephen A. Smith pic.twitter.com/z3caaxsJV8
— Mickstape (@MickstapeShow) June 13, 2018
One of your first three or four thoughts after watching this was probably “ESPN isn’t going to be happy,” and as it turns out, you were right. Smith issued an apology for the comment on during a segment on his radio show.
“Unfortunately, I answered the question like I answer every question: very, very honestly and matter-of-factly, not thinking anything of it,” Smith said, per USA TODAY. “Evidently it’s a big deal. USA TODAY is writing about it. Lord knows what other publications. It’s gone viral. It’s everywhere. I guess it’s appropriate to apologize. The reason I say that is because of the attention it’s brought to my employers, obviously for the wrong reasons and I have to own that. If I get in trouble it’s a stain on the people that work with you because it’s not just about you. It’s about them, too. When you look at it that way, I have no problem apologizing. I really, really don’t. I don’t want to hurt anybody else. I didn’t think I was doing that. I honestly didn’t. But guess what? You know better. Sometimes you learn better.”
USA TODAY also confirmed that Smith got the green light to do this interview with Snoop Dogg’s Double G News Network back in October.
