Snoop Dogg, who caught heat over the weekend for seeming to have threatened Gayle King in an Instagram video post, is now insisting the message was misinterpreted, saying, “I don’t want no harm to come to her, and I didn’t threaten her. All I did was say, ‘Check it out. You out of pocket for what you doing, and we watching you.'”

In his previous video, which had the rapper-actor criticizing King for her interview with basketball player Lisa Leslie about the late Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg had called the “CBS This Morning” co-anchor a “funky dog-head b—-” and “punk motherf—er” before saying: “Respect the family and back off, b—, before we come get you.”

That led to admonitions against Snoop for his ominous warning and epithets from an array of celebrities, journalists and African American activists who believed he had gone too far.

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