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# Snoop Dogg Made a Painting for His BFF Martha Stewart
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/snoop-dogg-made-painting-bff-martha-stewart/
- Published: 2016-10-04T19:05:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:47:26.000Z
- Description: If a dog is a man's best friend, and Snoop Dogg is Martha Stewart's best friend, then Snoop giving Stewart a painting of a dog means the circle is complete.
- Author: Carey Dunne
- Tags: In Brief, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2016/10/ctoumipxeaan8vy.jpg)

Snoop Dogg’s painting of a dog (image via Twitter)

If a dog is a man’s best friend, and [Snoop Dogg is Martha Stewart’s best friend](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/brief-history-martha-stewart-and-snoop-doggs-relationship/358911/?ref=hyperallergic.com), then Snoop giving Stewart a painting of a dog means the circle is complete. The consensus seems to be that the subject of this quasi-Fauvist painting is a dog, though it could also be a sad, stoned Winnie the Pooh, or Tha Doggfather’s stylized [self-portrait](http://barkpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/snoop%5Fdoggs%5Fdogs.jpg?ref=hyperallergic.com).

“Very nice, don’t you think?” wrote Stewart —who has hosted Snoop on her[ cooking show](http://www.marthastewart.com/245797/snoop-dogg?ref=hyperallergic.com), [repeatedly](https://youtu.be/-Ocre0kXgvg?ref=hyperallergic.com) — in a Tweet about the painting. We do think it is very nice. The red and yellow palette seems to reference to the rapper’s short-lived [Snoop Lion phase](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/06/snoop-dogg-lion-interview?ref=hyperallergic.com), while wiggly gray lines in the background suggest, perhaps, plumes of marijuana smoke — perhaps even issuing from his one of his swanky [Leafs By Snoop](http://hyperallergic.com/254594/pentagrams-high-end-design-for-snoop-doggs-marijuana-product-line/) weed products.

> This is an original Snoop Dogg painting, and Snoop gave it to me as a gift! Very nice, don't you think? [pic.twitter.com/a1AOjWsgXT](https://t.co/a1AOjWsgXT?ref=hyperallergic.com)  
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> — Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) [September 30, 2016](https://twitter.com/MarthaStewart/status/781961223764111362?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=hyperallergic.com)

“My process when I get ready to paint, I definitely gotta have a blunt,” Snoop Dogg said in a [short film-cum-sock advertisement](http://hyperallergic.com/159071/painterly-dogg-doggy-dogg-snoop-shills-swedish-socks-in-salacious-studio-scene/) about his burgeoning art career last year. “Cause the blunt is inspiration to the creation. … My mind is somewhere else where it was a colorful time. Painting for me gives me an emotion like no other. You know, I can cry while I’m painting. I can laugh while I’m painting. I can be serious while I’m painting. I don’t have no parameters. … Sometimes the music in my life don’t explain exactly what I’m going through, so \[painting\] is another piece of the puzzle.”

Perhaps the painting will make a cameo in [*Martha*](http://www.vh1.com/news/276307/martha-stewart-and-snoop-dogg-dinner-party-vh1/?ref=hyperallergic.com)[ *and Snoop’s Dinner Party,* ](http://www.vh1.com/news/276307/martha-stewart-and-snoop-dogg-dinner-party-vh1/?ref=hyperallergic.com)the improbable duo’s upcoming cooking show. If it doesn’t turn up in the series premiere, airing on VH1 later this fall, just chill [till the next episode](https://youtu.be/l4E4XC7qOfk?ref=hyperallergic.com).