Snoop Dogg revealed during a visit to the Today show that he has a collaboration in the works with Zach Bryan.
The rapper was guesting on the morning show when the co-anchors brought up Bryan and Bruce Springsteen’s Rolling Stone cover for the Musicians on Musicians issue.
“Zach sent me a song. I got to put a verse on it,” Snoop Dogg announced on air. “I’m inspired seeing him with the Boss, with Bruce Springsteen.”
Although Bryan’s 19-song epic The Great American Bar Scene — which featured Springsteen on “Sandpaper” — arrived in July, it appears the singer-songwriter is already working on new music with an unlikely collaborator in Snoop Dogg.
While Bryan has already recorded with the likes of Springsteen, John Mayer, Kacey Musgraves, Noah Kahan, and Bon Iver, he’s yet to collaborate with a hip-hop artist, but that could change in the near-future.
However, expanding his musical perimeters fits with Bryan’s own desire to not be pigeonholed as primarily a country artist but instead a songwriter. As Bryan told Springsteen in their one-on-one, “When I listen to your music, I’m like, ‘If you put different production to this, it’s a country song.’”
“Right. There’s a lot of country in it,” Springsteen replied.
“That’s why I don’t want to be a country musician,” said Bryan, who tends to view his music — like Springsteen’s — as fitting into rock, country, folk, and more.
“I don’t want to be a country musician. Everyone calls me it. I want to be a songwriter, and you’re quintessentially a songwriter,” he continued. “No one calls Bruce Springsteen — hate to use your name in front of you — but no one calls Bruce Springsteen a freaking rock musician, which you are one, but you’re also an indie musician, you’re also a country musician. You’re all these things encapsulated in one man. And that’s what songwriting is.”
