Piece by Piece: Behind the Snoop Dogg Scene in Pharrell LEGO Movie

It isn’t hyperbole to say 2024 has been the 12 months of Snoop Dogg, from inspiring world memes on the Paris Summer season Olympics to slipping comfortably into his Coach’s chair on Season 26 of The Voice. Now, he is gaining consideration for taking level in one among funniest sequences of Focus Options’ Piece By Piece, the animated (all in LEGO) biopic of artist Pharrell Williams (one other former Voice Coach).

The movie’s Academy Award-winning director, Morgan Neville, just lately sat down with NBC Insider to speak concerning the hilarious and very intelligent sequence that recreates the fateful day when Snoop and his entourage rolled up on Pharrell’s studio to make music historical past.

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Making “Drop It Like It is Scorching” period Snoop Dogg PG sufficient for Piece by Piece

Williams and his co-producer Chad Hugo (beneath the moniker of the Neptunes) established their profession creating beats and songs for large artists like Gwen Stefani (one other Voice Coach!) and Jay-Z. As seen within the Piece by Piece clip above, in 2004, Snoop Dogg reached out to the Neptunes to assist him broaden his sound. They got here up with the singular mouth click on percussion loop and co-wrote what would change into one of many rapper’s greatest hits, “Drop It Like It is Scorching.” 

That tremendous second in Pharrell’s historical past definitely stands out in Piece by Piece. Neville and his group dealt with the… let’s assume, extra grownup parts of Snoop’s language and way of life on the time with a visible joke that will get large laughs within the movie. Because the “smoke” that covers Snoop and his crew permeates the Neptunes’ studio, and the language will get salty, LEGO Pharrell and Chad treatment it by spraying down the setting with a PG spray that brings the content material again to family-friendly. 

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Addressing the creativity within the scene, Neville stated it ended up fixing a number of issues they have been hoping to attain with Piece by Piece. “With animation, you possibly can time journey in a method,” he informed NBC Insider. “I might take the stems to “Drop It Like It is Scorching,” and I might simply hear Pharrell [mouth-popping]. After which out of the blue, it is such as you’re subsequent to him in a sales space in some unspecified time in the future in time, and he is simply making these sounds. So this concept of type of being there in the meanwhile of creation was one thing that was actually enjoyable to do within the animation.

“After which the story behind it, Pharrell and Snoop informed me needed to do with a good quantity of marijuana smoke,” Neville continued, laughing. “One factor I agreed on on the very starting after we made this movie was that we weren’t going to make an R rated movie. So, we had the smoke [problem]. After which it turned this debate about if we might clarify the smoke and we might get a PG ranking. I used to be like, ‘What are we going to do?’ After which lastly, it actually was one among these [ideas], like, ‘Effectively, let’s simply give them a can of PG spray. That’ll be it!’ It was an answer to an issue that really turned one among my favourite little jokes within the movie.”

Piece by Piece is in theaters now! Get your tickets right here!