Singer Bobby Valentino doesn't feel the same way, though ... telling TMZ in a separate interview that a performance doesn't mean an artist supports a politician. A gig is just a gig at the end of the day!!!
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00:00A lot of performers, from Snoop, to Nelly, to anyone performing at the inauguration today
00:11are catching heat from, you know, political sides, right?
00:16Some say, yo, it's just, it's not, even Nelly came out, hey, it's not a political statement,
00:22I'm getting a bag basically.
00:25What are your thoughts on that?
00:26Is that fair that people are getting skewered like that?
00:28I think that if you maybe were against it and now you're doing it, it may be kind of,
00:35you know, it's a little iffy then, but I think that political and politics has nothing to
00:42do with performing, you know what I'm saying?
00:45I think that it's all, I think that we voted Trump in office and a lot of people voted
00:49for him, so I think that you performing at it, it really doesn't matter.
00:54I think the only thing that's an issue is when you have an issue prior and now you
00:59have an issue.
01:00Right, well you saw Snoop, right?
01:01Yeah.
01:02People are taking that video and then they're like baking him to eat his words kind of like
01:06online.
01:07What do you think about that?
01:08The only thing with Snoop, Snoop can do whatever he want to do, you know what I'm saying?
01:11He's Snoop Dogg, he's probably the most known rapper around the world, so Snoop can say
01:18whatever he want to say and then change if he want to, because he's Snoop Dogg.
01:22He's probably the only person that can do that, that I know of, so I think that performing
01:26is definitely not political, it's you just performing, you know what I'm saying?
01:32I think that a while back, Chrisette Michelle had a lot of flack when she performed for
01:37Trump and I don't think that it's really fair to come down on artists for performing for
01:43whoever they want to perform for, you know what I'm saying?
01:45They get in the bag and you also getting good with the government to where you can do what
01:51ever you want to in the world.
01:53You can get things done too, guys like Snoop, you know, they do good in the world, that's
02:00their right.
02:01They do good in the hood, you know what I'm saying?
02:03And when you have that political power backing you, it's also, you know, you can do a lot
02:09of things that you normally couldn't do.
02:10You can get a lot of, you know, you can go look out for the hood, you can go do some
02:14things that maybe these presidents or these senators and governors wouldn't do because
02:19now you're a part of what's going on in the government and the political world.
02:24It's an open door.
02:25So it's an open door.
02:26So, you know, I think it's real cool.
02:28I don't think that it's a bad thing to perform.