# Every black rapper's dad has passed. RIP Pops

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-black-rappers-dad-has-passed-rip-pops/842701>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [October 30, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-black-rappers-dad-has-passed-rip-pops/842701 "2019-10-30T14:42:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-black-rappers-dad-has-passed-rip-pops/842701/1 "2019-10-30T14:42:27Z")

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[John “Pops” Witherspoon has passed away. He was 77.](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/actor-comedian-john-witherspoon-who-appeared-friday-dies-77-n1073756)

I will forever remember him in a Snoop Dog video. “Snoop Doggy Dog? Better go get yourself a jobby job!” Now he’s stinking up bathrooms in heaven.

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-black-rappers-dad-has-passed-rip-pops/842701/2 "2019-10-30T15:10:35Z")

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Lifetime pass for his [“Got to _coordinate!_” bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zrgc2aocnM) with Eddie Murphy in _Boomerang_: “_But no - you don’t stop there …_”.

RIP

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-black-rappers-dad-has-passed-rip-pops/842701/3 "2019-10-30T15:14:58Z")

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I’d forgotten about the Snoop video!

I absolutely loved him in Friday. His delivery of the line “[Don’t nobody go in the bathroom for about 35, 45 minutes,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of49fNcdqa4)” kills me every time. It might be the chewing.

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**Author:** ![Radcliffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radcliffe/32/3052_2.png) [@Radcliffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radcliffe)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-black-rappers-dad-has-passed-rip-pops/842701/4 "2019-10-30T23:23:15Z")

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Awww, Hollywood Shuffle was a cult classic with my friends and I back in the day.