If nothing else, at least Snoop didn’t sound as ridiculous as he did the last time he talked to MTV about hip hop. In his latest interview, he was only mildly hypocritical, egotistical and offensive. Phew. Highlights include Snoop referring to Russell Simmons as “irrelevant,” and, in a complete reversal of opinion, saying that most of the women in his videos aren’t hoes. They’re just models trying to break into the movies. And he’s helping them.

MTV: You’re right about the different MCs needing to be more vocal in different situations — not just with the music, but with the community as a whole. One of the biggest knocks on you is not just the language in your music, but the women in your videos.

Snoop: Who’s to say that these women in videos are ho’s? They are classy women, and if you really try to mack to them, they’ll tell you, “Well, I have a man” or “I’m not into that” or “I don’t do that.” Not every girl in the videos has sex with the rappers or lays out her body and does whatever the rapper says. A lot of these women do this as a means of modeling or being appreciated for their looks.

MTV: But when the mainstream takes a look at it, sometime they all get grouped in the promiscuous video-vixen category.

Snoop: It’s a shame that they are being classified as video ho’s. Halle Berry was in a video with [Fred Durst]. Does that make her a ho? She kissed him in the video too. Does that make her a ho? … Not everybody is a video vixen. Some girls are into it because they are following their dreams. TV is a long way for a lot of these girls from the country or small parts of the world.

So what are they, small town girls with big dreams or bitches and hoes after your money? Or are they just representing the bitches and hoes you rap about? I can’t keep track of all of these different categories of women. And yet, all of it makes perfect sense in Snoop’s weed-altered universe.

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