Snoop Dogg calls lack of black team owners in NFL racist

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Rapper Snoop Dogg called out the NBA and NFL for a lack of diversity in team ownership roles.

Speaking to the New York Times, the rapper asked why, despite the high proportion of black players in the NBA and NFL leagues, that doesn’t equate to blacks in prominent roles as team owners.

He said: I mean, you’d think those businessmen up there would say, You know what? It’s time to change the world. We must stop treating black people as if they are less. They’re always the ones doing the hard work, the groundwork, but we never cut them.

On the lack of black team owners in the NFL, he continued: It’s just racist. Period, point blank.

We need to have an NFL team. We have a half-owner of the NBA, Michael Jordan. But the whole league is 90 percent black. So we are still the slaves and they are the masters.

He also compared it to the music industry and musicians work with their own masters.

That’s why in the music game, we took the initiative to say, fuck that. Were the masters, and we own our masters. We were going to negotiate with you as we think. We changed this industry years ago, with our mentality of having our own labels.

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On June 7, it was revealed that Snoop Dogg was joining Def Jam Recordings as an executive creative and strategic consultant.

Def Jam announced Monday that a newly created role for the iconic rapper will allow (Snoop) to work strategically with the label’s management team and roster.

Deeds signed on the label include Kanye West Nas, Justin Bieber, Big Sean, Logic, Jadakiss, 2 Chainz, Jeezy, Jhen Aiko, Bobby Sessions and the late rapper DMX. Def Jam is a division of Universal Music Group which also houses Interscope Geffen A&M, Capitol Records and Republic Records.

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