Snoop Dogg blames Gayle King comments on wanting to ‘protect’ Kobe Bryant

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Snoop Dogg has expressed regret over his controversial comments to a US TV journalist and said he felt the need to protect &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;superhero” Kobe Bryant&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The rapper&comma; 48&comma; was condemned after threatening Gayle King when she raised the question of a sexual assault allegation against the basketball player following his death last month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a video posted online&comma; Snoop Dogg warned King to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;back off bitch&comma; before we come get you”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It reportedly led to her receiving death threats&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Snoop Dogg later apologised&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During an appearance on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk&comma; he blamed the outburst on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;losing control” following his friend Bryant’s death&comma; adding he has still not &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;swallowed” the 2019 killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I lost a grandson&comma; a grandmother and then I gotta be strong in front of everybody&comma;” Snoop Dogg said&comma; referencing tragedies in his personal life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What about when I want to cry&quest; What about when I’m hurt and I’m feeling bad and I feel disgusted and I want to be angry and I want to just blurt out&comma; I can’t&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;RedTableTalk&sol;status&sol;1232712427361292289Snoop<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dogg&comma; who rose to fame as part of the West Coast hip hop scene of the early 1990s&comma; added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I let my emotions get the best of me&comma; I was frustrated on top of just venting and doing it the wrong way<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kobe was like the son and the brother to LA that we all needed and we all loved him for that<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bryant&comma; 41&comma; was killed alongside his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others when their helicopter crashed in Calabasas&comma; California&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was a beloved figure in Los Angeles and played for the Lakers&comma; the city’s basketball team&comma; for 20 trophy-filled years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Snoop Dogg was furious when&comma; during an interview with Bryant’s friend and former women’s basketball player Lisa Leslie&comma; King brought up a sexual assault allegation against Bryant from 2003&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was later settled out of court and the case was dropped&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Kobe was like the son and the brother to LA that we all needed and we all loved him for that&comma;” Snoop Dogg&comma; whose real name is Calvin Broadus Jr&comma; said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;From the early Nineties to his last days of him playing basketball&comma; we watched him grow into a father&comma; a mentor&comma; a leader&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He was the kind of guy that was forgiving&comma; he was the kind of guy that was apologetic so I had to take that on and say&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Let me put a little bit of him in me’&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When someone becomes a superhero – we don’t have a lot of them – but when someone becomes a superhero&comma; it’s our job to protect that superhero&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asked why he issued an apology – which was accepted by King – Snoop Dogg said he wanted to protect Bryant’s wife&comma; Vanessa&comma; and their four daughters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s what the whole intent was to protect that woman and them babies over there because she’s still grieving and let’s give them that respect&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2876db76f6">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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