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Snoop Dogg Shouts Out Dr. Dre & Calls Wife Shante Broadus His ‘Rock’ While Accepting Ultimate Icon at the 2025 BET Awards


Snoop Dogg won the Ultimate Icon award and performed at the 2025 BET Awards.

Coming toward the end of the show, Dre kicked off the Snoop tribute by giving a speech that both praised his frequent collaborator — whom he called “one of the most prolific artists in hip-hop” — and lovingly joked at his expense. When he got onstage to accept the prize, Snoop squeezed in a retaliatory dig at Dre, thanking him in jest “for allowing me the opportunity to ghostwrite for you on ‘Deep Cover’ and ‘Nuthin’ But a G Thang'” — references to some of the duo’s earliest collaborations. Shouting out his teachers, all of the “MCs I battled along the way,” his family at Death Row Records and former groupmates Warren G and the late Nate Dogg, Snoop also praised his children and 10 grandchildren — “my greatest inspiration,” as he called them — as well as his “beautiful wife.”

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