Snoop Dogg new video Vato

Rapper Snoop Dogg recently shot a video for "Vato" featuring B. Real, the first single from his forthcoming album, The Blue Carpet Treatment, which hits stores on October 19th. MTV.com reports that the underlying message of the new video is black and brown unity.

Snoop Dogg explained, "People believe what they see, so if we put a video out and show us working together and being friends and being cool ... people will look at that and feel it’s cool. But it’s not an act. B Real been my homie. It’s only right for us to have a video that brings those worlds together. Black is black, brown is brown, but if we put those two together, there’s nothing that can stop us."

The video, which was directed by Phil Atwell, also features a cameo from Academy Award-nominated actor Edward James Olmos.

As far as the new album, Snoop Dogg is returning to his gangsta rap roots. The rapper explained, "I went right back to the ’hood.’I took it back to the basics. I’ve been making a lot of pop songs, lot of R&B songs. Songs that may have made my fans feel like I wavered from what I was naturally accustomed to doing. But I’m an entertainer and I entertain people and that’s what I was feeling at the time. But right now, I’m feeling like going right back to the ’hood. This record is really ’hood, really gangsta. I don’t really have too many clean records on my album ’cause I wasn’t giving a f**k."

The new album will feature guest appearances by Young Jeezy, E-40, Stevie Wonder, R. Kelly, Pharrell Williams, B. Real and Ne-Yo with production by Timbaland, the Neptunes, Dr. Dre, Frequency, Battlecat and Supafly.