By India McCarty
Snoop Dogg just announced his plans to release Altar Call, a gospel album and tribute to his late mother.
“April 27, I’m dropping a gospel album on Death Row Records. It’s called Altar Call,” he said in a video posted to Instagram earlier this month. “You heard it first. A gospel album, April 27. God is good. Won’t He do it?”
The album will feature Jamie Foxx, Robert Glasper, Denaun Porter, Jazze Pha, Charlie Bereal, Jane Handcock, October London and more.
Altar Call’s cover will feature a photo of Snoop’s late mother, who passed away in 2021. In a recent interview with TIME, the rapper shared his mother “always said I was going to be a preacher.”
“The spirit of my mother will forever live within me,” he said in an interview with Okayplayer. “This album is a reflection of what she has taught me — to use my voice and my platform to spread love and heal the world. Just another chapter out of the Bible of Love.”
Bible of Love is Snoop’s first gospel album, released in 2018, with features from Faith Evans and Charlie Wilson.
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“It’s always been on my heart,” the rapper said of the 2018 album in an interview with XXL. “I just never got around to it because I always be doing gangsta business or doing this or doing that, I just felt like it’s been on my heart too long. I need to do it now.”
In another interview with Rolling Stone, Snoop said, “The record’s all about love from start to finish. That’s the way you change the world, by putting love in it.”
Snoop was recently added to TIME’s 2025 list of 100 Most Influential People.
“Everything I do up here is family,” he told the magazine, referring to his impressive career in the music business, as well as his many business ventures. “I built this for family. And God gives you the ability to have a family that you’re born with, and then he gives you the ability to create your own family. This is a family I created.”
The rapper has often spoken about his commitment to family and fatherhood. In a 2007 interview with PEOPLE, Snoop shared, “Ninety percent of rappers grew up without fathers, but you see ninety percent of those rappers becoming fathers to their kids. We don’t ever get commended for that. We become real men when we get to this level we’re at right now.”
Snoop’s second gospel album demonstrates his dedication to his faith and serves as a sweet tribute to his late mother. Altar Call will be available to stream and purchase April 27.
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