has spent decades hero-worshipping British comedian Benny Hill. , 52, said the comic – killed by heart problems in 1992 aged 68 – meant “the world” to the “African-American community” when he was growing up in LA. said on a visit to the UK: “You know what was an attraction of mine, to London, as a kid? It was to meet Benny Hill, right? “Because Benny Hill was a bad motherf****r in California.

"He was funny as f**k, too! And we loved him. Like, I don’t even think y’all know how much he meant to the African-American community. He meant the f*****g world to us.

“The s**t he was doing on TV, they would never do in America.” Benny’s slapstick skits of the 1980s have been slammed as “sexist” and “misogynistic” and effectively “cancelled” in Britain. But Snoop said he’s not worried his own close-to-the-knuckle lyrics will mean the same for him as he reckons he “is the culture”.

He was blasted last year by Dionne Warwick, 83, over misogyny in his rhymes, but he said he’ll never change because he doesn’t need to. Snoop said: “No way. No way we get cancelled, man.

We are the culture. You can’t cancel the culture. “It’s just a bunch of motherf*****s that you don’t know, just typing, saying that you ain’t hot no more.

“But when you are the culture, you dictate what the outcome of everything is. “You don’t follow that s**t, you lead.” The Daily Star is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join us! Through the app, we'll sen.