🔥👑 From Nipsey’s Legacy to West Coast War: The Viral Black Sam vs. Snoop Dogg Footage That’s Splitting Hip-Hop in Two💥🎤

The Marathon Burger opening on April 17th, 2025, was meant to be a celebration — a new chapter in Nipsey Hussle’s business empire, another step in his brother Black Sam’s

relentless mission to keep “The Marathon” alive.

Instead, it became the backdrop for one of the most talked-about confrontations in recent West Coast memory.

The footage shows Black Sam locking eyes with West Decrypt rapper Rockstar 2800, a figure linked to industry powerhouse Wack 100 — a man who has openly disrespected Nipsey’s

name since his death.

Sam’s voice is sharp, unflinching: “If you ain’t demonstrating for Hussle… don’t come over here.

” The crowd around them stiffens.

This isn’t rap beef for sport.

This is personal.

But the energy from that confrontation didn’t end with Rockstar 2800.

Word spread quickly that the tension carried over to Snoop Dogg — and not over some petty industry misunderstanding.

According to insiders, it’s about who stands where in a long, complicated war of loyalty and legacy.

To understand why Black Sam’s patience may have snapped, you have to rewind decades, back to the 1990s, when the West Coast wasn’t just a music scene — it was a frontline.

Tupac Shakur was the heart of Death Row Records, Snoop Dogg its crown jewel.

But cracks appeared when Snoop gave a radio interview showing love to Biggie and Diddy, the same East Coast rivals Tupac was waging lyrical — and real-world — war against.

Suge Knight would later claim Tupac tried to physically confront Snoop over what he saw as a betrayal.

The message was simple: in this war, you pick a side.

Snoop picked diplomacy.

Tupac picked confrontation.

The fallout never healed before Pac’s murder in 1996.

Fast forward to Nipsey Hussle — a student of Tupac’s hustle and philosophy.

He carried that same code: loyalty above all.

His music and business ventures, from The Marathon Clothing to real estate projects in Crenshaw, were built on authenticity and street credibility.

For Black Sam, preserving that code after Nipsey’s assassination became more than a duty — it was survival for the brand and the man’s legacy.

This is where the Snoop connection turns radioactive.

Despite the reverence he showed Nip publicly — performing at his memorial, collaborating on music, even receiving a 2020 care package from Black Sam himself — Snoop has

maintained a close association with Eugene “Big U” Henley, a towering figure in LA street and music politics.

Allegedly, years before Nipsey’s death, Big U and his associates had a confrontation with Nip over a track.

In the street rulebook, that kind of unresolved tension doesn’t vanish — it stains every handshake that follows.

For Sam, Snoop’s continued public camaraderie with Big U feels like déjà vu of the Tupac-era grievances: alliances with those who disrespected the people you claim to stand with.

But that’s just one layer.

Snoop’s recent political moves — like performing at a Trump inauguration party in January 2025 after years of anti-Trump rhetoric — have only widened the perception gap.

To someone like Sam, who guards Nipsey’s brand as fiercely as his memory, such a public pivot looks like compromise for profit.

Then there’s the generational divide.

Snoop, now a mainstream icon who co-hosts cooking shows with Martha Stewart and lends his name to everything from wine to breakfast cereal, has mastered the art of evolution.

Black Sam, rooted in the Marathon ethos, rejects any move that feels like dilution.

One plays the game to expand the empire.

The other refuses to play if the rules threaten the flag he’s protecting.

Their tension mirrors a deeper split in West Coast hip-hop: the OGs who’ve crossed into global celebrity versus the torchbearers of pure street loyalty.

For some, Snoop’s ability to bridge gangs, coasts, and even political aisles is the mark of a statesman.

For others, it’s proof he’ll sit at any table if the opportunity is big enough.

The viral footage has now become a Rorschach test for fans.

Some see Black Sam drawing a righteous line in the sand, the same way Nip would have.

Others see Snoop’s decades-long record as proof that his loyalty to LA runs deeper than any one relationship.

Behind closed doors, mutual friends in the scene are reportedly urging both sides to keep things from escalating.

LA’s hip-hop ecosystem is too interconnected, too fragile in a city where music beef can bleed into street warfare.

But reconciliation feels distant.

The wounds at the heart of this aren’t about one incident.

They’re about decades of choices — who you stood next to, and who you turned your back on.

What’s certain is this: The Black Sam–Snoop Dogg rift isn’t just a personal feud.

It’s a referendum on what loyalty means in 2025.

For some, it’s an unbreakable code that outlives money, trends, and even death.

For others, it’s a flexible currency that buys influence, opportunity, and survival in an industry that’s always moving.

And now that the cameras have caught the tension in real time, every move from here will be watched, dissected, and remembered — not just by fans, but by the streets that never

forget.