Snoop Dogg pays tribute to Kobe Bryant: “He was just a great leader and a great role model”

By Anita Bennett

Snoop Dogg says his intention in lashing out at Gayle King for asking about Kobe Bryant‘s past sexual assault case during an interview came from a good place.

Snoop Dogg says his intention in lashing out at Gayle King for asking about Kobe Bryant‘s past sexual assault case during an interview came from a good place.

Jada Pinkett Smith has confronted her friend Snoop Dogg about his verbal attack on news anchor Gayle King in an upcoming episode of Red Table Talk.

Jada Pinkett Smith is once again sitting down at the red table to tackle complex and controversial issues. This time around, the actress is joined by rapper Snoop Dogg, who recently made headlines for criticizing Gayle King.

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Snoop Dogg quickly rose to become one of the fiercest critics of CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King after she conducted an interview on Feb. 4 with WNBA star Lisa Leslie about her longtime friend and slain NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers champion Kobe Bryant, who died Jan.

Snoop Dogg has publicly apologized to U.S. newswoman Gayle King for attacking her over questions she asked basketball icon Lisa Leslie about her friend Kobe Bryant during a TV interview last week.

Snoop Dogg has publicly apologised to U.S. newswoman Gayle King for attacking her over questions she asked basketball icon Lisa Leslie about her friend Kobe Bryant during a TV interview last week (ends07Feb20).

Snoop Dogg, who caught heat over the weekend for seeming to have threatened Gayle King in an Instagram video post, is now insisting the message was misinterpreted, saying, “I don’t want no harm to come to her, and I didn’t threaten her. All I did was say, ‘Check it out. You out of pocket for what you doing, and we watching you.'”

Director Spike Lee is no stranger to making a statement with his fashion choices, and for this year’s Oscars, he has used style to pay tribute to the late basketball player Kobe Bryant.

Snoop Dogg says he did not threaten Gayle King in a now-viral video in which he slammed her for bringing up the late Kobe Bryant's rape case in a CBS interview.

Former national security adviser Susan Rice told Snoop Dogg to “back the **** off” from CBS News journalist Gayle King after the rapper slammed King for an interview she did about late NBA legend Kobe Bryant.

Fans of Kobe Bryant expressed outrage this week over Gayle King's interview with Lisa Leslie, during which the reporter probed the former WNBA star about Bryant's 2003 rape case. The latest critic to come out of the woodworks is Snoop Dogg, who unleashed a scathing diatribe against the CBS This Morning co-host on Thursday (Feb.

50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and other fans of Kobe Bryant are not happy with Gayle King for bringing up the late NBA icon's 2003 rape case in a CBS interview, while she says she is "mortified" and "angry" with her own network for distributing what she said was an "out-of-context" clip.

Gayle King sat down with WNBA player, and Kobe Bryant’s friend, Lisa Leslie, on the Feb. 4 episode of CBS This Morning, and afterward, she was criticized for asking Lisa about the late basketball star’s 2003 sexual assault charge (which was eventually dropped).