Snoop Dogg Felt 'Infatuated' with Sting as They Worked Together on the Rapper's Upcoming Missionary Album

It may seem like Snoop Dogg has collaborated with basically every musician in existence, but the California rapper announced his upcoming record will feature two exciting names.

At the Bloomberg Screentime conference on Thursday, Oct. 10, Snoop shared details of what to expect from his first new solo album since 2022's BODR (Bacc on Death Row). “I got a feature from Jelly Roll and Sting,” the "Gin and Juice" rapper announced.

Snoop's collaboration with Sting, 73, is a full-circle moment for the rapper, who's "so happy" with the song they made. He also shared his feelings about meeting The Police frontman.

"Like a child that’s infatuated with somebody as a singer, and you get a chance to meet them and they give you everything you expected, that’s what happens with me all the time,” Snoop said. “I meet people I’ve always wanted to meet and they’re everything I wanted them to be.”

Appearing on Missionary will mark the latest foray back into hip-hop for Jelly, 39, as the country crooner started his career as a rapper in 2003. He was recently featured on Eminem's "Somebody Save Me," which samples Jelly's own hit "Save Me."

Aside from the two confirmed features, Missionary is also set to be entirely produced by Dr. Dre, who helped launch his career after signing Snoop, 52, to what would eventually become Death Row Records.

“I’ve never found an artist from a demo tape other than Snoop and Eminem,” Dre said in a March appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!  after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Missionary will be the first Snoop album entirely produced by Dre, 59, since 1993's Doggystyle.

"In my mind, I made it up that I'm going to go back to being Snoop Doggy Dogg," the rapper reflected about reconnecting with Dre at the Bloomberg conference. "I want to be the student, the kid, the passenger. I want to humble myself and go in the studio with him and allow him to, you know, work on me and tell me what I need to do and produce me. Not me try to fight him and think that, 'Oh, I'm a star!'"

"1993 was the last time he produced a whole Snoop Dogg album. So this is a reunion, and it's [a] collaboration between two friends who genuinely love each other," the Long Beach emcee said.