WATCH: Snoop Dogg's new video depicts Trump 'assassination'

Screengrab taken from YouTube

Screengrab taken from YouTube

Published Mar 18, 2017

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In rapper and marijuana enthusiast Snoop Dogg's latest music video, a character named "Ronald Klump" gets "shot" with a prank gun. And with his long, bright red tie and orange makeup, there's no mistaking who Klump is a stand-in for.

Released Sunday, the video for "Lavender," a song about police brutality among other issues, is rife with political commentary. Every character in the multi-plot narrative is a "clown," sporting the exaggerated white face and red lips of a circus performer. It opens with actor Michael Rapaport playing a put-upon, weed-smoking suburban dad who gets pulled over by the clown police. There's a misunderstanding, an officer pulls a gun, there's a bystander with a smartphone and, eventually, a spray of glitter "blood."

As the cartoonish sugarcoating of a familiar gory scene plays out, Snoop raps, "Trying to keep from dying in these muthaf – ing streets. F – the police from a black man's point of view."

Later there's a "Clown House report" on the news. President Klump "wants to deport all doggs" (a clear reference to the Trump administration's travel ban). Soon after, Snoop catches up with Klump and shoots him with a toy gun that replaces bullets with the word "bang."

Snoop Dogg's new music video, posted Monday, March 13, 2017, aims a toy gun at a clown dressed as President Donald Trump. The video is for a remixed version of the song “Lavender,” by Canadian group BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Snoop Dogg and Kaytranada. Fiel photo: David Goldman/AP The 45-year-old rapper told Billboard that he wanted to make "a song that was not controversial but real – real to the voice of the people who don't have a voice."

"It's a lot of clown s – going on that we could just sit and talk on the phone all day about," continued Snoop, who in the summer led a Los Angeles march urging for better relations between the police and minority communities, "but it's a few issues that we really wanted to lock into like police, the president and just life in general."

The Washington Post

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