She also asked him to call her the b-word.
“They all showed up and, yeah, it did work,” Warwickrecalls.
“I think what it was was that they needed to hear me.”
Snoop Dogg; Dionne Warwick.Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic; Emma McIntyre/Getty Images
She continued, “I told them, I said, ‘You guys are all going to grow up.
You’re going to have families.
You’re going to have children.
You’re going to have little girls.
Is that really you?”
What are you going to say?’
I think it got through to them."
“We were kind of, like, scared and shook up,” he said, per CNN.
And, to Warwick’s credit, itdidwork.
The lyrical intervention caused Snoop to change his tune going forward.
I hope I’m making you proud."
Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Overpremieres Jan. 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CNN.
It will also be available on CNN on Demand starting Jan. 2.
