According to Snoop, Imus' insults are not comparable to the way similar language is used in the Hip Hop community.

"It's a completely different scenario," said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. "[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [the cable network home to Imus] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha-----as say we in the same league as him."

I'm absolutely not saying that misogyny in rap is okay (it is not cool), but Snoop's right -- Imus was using the term in a completely different context than the way it is used in rap.