Hip-Hop Lives Here
Hip-Hop Lives Here
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.
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Stagecoach Festival was temporarily cleared Saturday night after strong winds pushed organizers to pause performances and evacuate the grounds, leading to major changes in the evening schedule, including the removal of Journey from the lineup.
Following the interruption, revised set times released by the festival confirmed that Journey, who had been set to take the Mustang Stage, would no longer perform that night.
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Headliner Lainey Wilson is now scheduled to take the Mane Stage an hour later than planned, with a new start time of 10:30 p.m., while Riley Green has also been pulled from the evening lineup.
Further updates saw Pitbull move his late night Mustang Stage performance from an 11 p.m. slot to midnight, running until 1 a.m., while Gavin Adcock, whose earlier set was cut short, is now set to appear during the Whiskey Jam All Star Sing Along inside the Palomino Tent later in the night.
The evacuation followed escalating winds sweeping through the Empire Polo Club in Indio, where the festival takes place. Screens across the venue displayed an emergency evacuation notice instructing attendees to move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit, while push alerts from the official app advised festivalgoers to leave the grounds.
The disruption impacted several stages, including the Mane Stage, which was between performances when the alert was issued. Wind conditions had been intensifying throughout the day, with stronger gusts arriving in the evening under a regional advisory.
Billboard’s Jessica Nicholson, who was on site, described what happened at the Palomino Stage, where Adcock’s set was brought to a stop.
“I was at the Palomino Stage when they stopped Gavin Adcock’s show,” Nicholson said. “The screens on either side of the Palomino stage lit up red and had a message that said ‘Stage Area Closed, please keep away from this area,’ then it later said to evacuate the area.”
Footage shared by attendees showed large groups leaving the venue, though the scene remained orderly as people made their way toward exits.
Stagecoach later confirmed on social media that the event would resume shortly, saying it was working to reopen the site safely before welcoming fans back inside later that night. Updated set times were then posted across its social platforms to reflect the changes.
Stagecoach, one of the biggest country music festivals in the United States, takes place each year at the same location as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and attracts tens of thousands of fans.
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