When you talk about characters in hip-hop, few stand out as singularly and toweringly as Snoop Dogg. Known for doing just about anything and everything (but nothing as good as rapping), the Long Beach legend is a treasure trove of experience, insight, hilarity, and idiosyncrasy. Ask Nardwuar, who recently linked up with Snoop for their eleventh interview, and hopefully there’s over eleven more to come. During their conversation, the Cali MC recalled a friend of his that he hasn’t seen in a long time, but was with him through the thick and thin. That friend is none other than his… pet cockroach, hilariously named “Gooch.”
“Gooch used to live with me,” Snoop Dogg told the legendary interviewer, journalist, and musician. “In my apartment, I had a roach that we couldn’t kill. We tried to kill the motherf***er when we first moved in and he wouldn’t die, so we called him The Gooch. We used to leave food out for him and everything. I stayed in that apartment for like about six, seven months. Cuz’ grew to the size of about a whole dollar bill.”
Snoop Dogg & Nardwuar’s 11th Interview
Elsewhere in their talk, Nardwuar and Tha Doggfather reflected on their ten previous interviews, many of which are among the media star’s most iconic. In one of them, he presented Snoop Dogg with a long-lost copy of his film Smokefest, which he thought he would never find again. When The Human Serviette said he heard that Snoop gave it up for a garage sale, the 51-year-old said that his wife Shante sold it.
“She’d be all in my s**t,’ he remarked. ‘Whenever you’re having them little yard sales and s**t that’s when I’m, like, on the road. Right now they probably having one right now selling all this s**t I don’t know they selling. I just gotta act like I’m cool with it.” Despite these disagreements, the couple lives quite happily together. Recently, they posted some pictures celebrating their 26th wedding anniversary. Regardless, stay up to date on HNHH for more on Nardwuar and Snoop Dogg.
Olivia Rodrigo’s love for The White Stripes led her to spend thousands on a dress worn by Meg White.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 23 year old singer admitted paying an "exorbitant amount of money" for the vintage white Gunne Sax dress. Meg, 51, wore it on the cover of Elephant, the 2003 album she recorded with bandmate and former husband Jack White, also 51.
Olivia had intended to wear her purchase at her first nonprofit Daisy Chain Fields festival in August. However, she changed her mind because the weather at Great Park in Irvine, California, was "too f****** hot".
The Drivers License singer joked: "Maybe if I do Daisy Chain in the winter, I can wear it."
The dress appeared in Julien’s Music Icons auction in May with an estimated value of $4,000 to $6,000. The winning bid reached $25,600.
It came from the personal collection of musician Tracee Mae Miller, a friend of both Meg and Jack.
Explaining the dress’s history, the auction house said: "For various photo shoots during that time, Miller shared that she and Meg would pull items from their own closets to style themselves.
"For this shoot, Miller pulled the dress directly from her closet for Meg to wear. The bodice of the dress was tailored by Miller’s mom to fit her, and the dress luckily ended up fitting Meg perfectly as well."
A fan of The White Stripes for years, Olivia has also become close friends with Jack since their first meeting in 2022.
In April, the Drop Dead singer shared that Jack had placed a message backstage ahead of her hosting appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. His note read: "Kill it kid."
Discussing their friendship with The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, 52, Olivia said: "I love Jack White. He’s, like, my hero.
"He’s the coolest guy ever. Wonderful person. Always stands up for what’s right … He sent me a text, and he’s like, 'Look up!' Like, 'Keep your head up. You’re gonna find something.'"
Meg praised Olivia in 2022, saying: "She’s very cool, very real, and very much a lover of music. She’s also introducing another set of youth to the love of vinyl records as well.
"Respect."