Snoop Dogg freestyles ‘Gin & Juice’ to Olympics dressage horse routine

Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart are making headlines again – this time at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Given they’re two of the United States’ most treasured cultural exports, it’s no surprise that NBC shipped the rapper and lifestyle guru to Paris to watch and commentate on the historic proceedings.

Snoop’s certainly had the more prolific run of the two this year, taking a tour of the Louvre (and joking he’s the Mona Lisa’s twin brother, Tony Lisa), surprising Stewart with a macaron tower birthday cake alongside Sesame Street‘s Cookie Monster, and attracting envy the world round in showing off his own bespoke Olympics pin.

But the duo’s greatest feat yet came on Sunday, when Snoop and Stewart were invited to provide live commentary for the horse dressage games.

When Polish rider Sandra Sysojeva came out, Snoop was blown away.

In a clip posted by the official NBC Olympics & Paraolympics X account, Snoop’s 1993 classic “Gin & Juice” can be heard playing over Sysojeva’s competition song, causing Snoop to immediately break out into a freestyle. “Get ‘crackin,” he rapped, “from the front to the back / With so much drama in Par-is / It’s kind of hard being a H-O-R-S-E.”

For the record, Sysojeva’s horse is named Maxima Bella, not Gin & Juice, as the post asserts.

The song was synced perfectly to the tapping of the horse’s hooves.

Martha breaks into giggles as Snoop enthuses, “Oh that’s the side walk right there Martha! Skip, skip, dip dip dip.”

“Four feet is a lot harder than two feet,” she reminded the rapper. “Four feet are harder than two?” he asked. “Are you sure? Hold on, let me show you,” as he hoisted himself aloft and began cutting a rug.

Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart are one of the most unlikely, yet widely beloved duos in recent pop cultural history. They’ve cohosted the Puppy Bowl, starred in a VH1 series where they threw celebrity dinner parties, and put their all into promoting each other’s solo projects.

Snoop tends to bring humor and an edginess out of Martha, and Martha gets Snoop to take things seriously, offering more substantive commentary than he otherwise might.

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That dynamic was on display when the “Gin & Juice” performance cut back to Snoop and Stewart in the booth with NBC’s Al Roker. “Snoop,” Roker asked, “will you go back now that Martha has given you the ultimate guide of how to understand dressage?”

“Honestly this is one of my new favorite sports,” Snoop replied. “I didn’t realize that I really love the chemistry of the driver and the horse, I call them the driver because they actually drive it. It felt good sitting in the audience watching it and actually seeing it all take place.”

Martha enthused about her cohost, “He found it very exciting, he really did. He was really into it. We watched about four different riders yesterday, and it was really extraordinary.”

Snoop has been providing regular reports from around Paris throughout NBC’s primetime coverage. The rapper previously hosted a highlights show with Kevin Hart during the 2021 Tokyo Games. For 2024, Hart has teamed up with Saturday Night Live alum Kenan Thompson as hosts of Peacock’s Olympic Highlights show.

Other stars tapped to comment on segments of the Paris Olympics for NBC include Kelly Clarkson, Peyton Manning, Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie, and Jimmy Fallon — all venerable personalities with decades of live hosting experience, but it’s hard to hold a candle to Snoop and Martha.

“I fed the horses,” Snoop told Roker and Stewart, “and I’m really scared of horses. So for me to do that I feel like I’m really going somewhere.”

Maybe we’ll see Snoop at the 2028 Los Angeles games on the dressage field, not just in the box.