Who needs instruments when you’ve got the spirit of Snoop? The Coaches of\u00a0The Voice: Battle of Champions<\/i><\/a>\u00a0celebrated a night out in NYC with a trip to a karaoke bar, and proved why they’re the most fun team on television. As John Legend<\/a>\u00a0got a hold of the mic, he rapped\u00a0Snoop Dogg<\/a>‘s “Drop It Like It’s Hot”<\/a> at Baby Grand in the Lower East Side on February 19, with fellow Season 29 Coach Kelly Clarkson<\/a> as his hype woman\/ back-up dancer.<\/p>\n “I picked a song and I think I’m gonna smash it!” Legend said in a video<\/a> shared on The Voice’s<\/em> Instagram Stories before hyping up the young crowd. “I feel like rap songs that I like are oldies to you now. Are you all too young for this?”<\/p>\n After flawlessly rapping Snoop’s 2004 lyrics as the crowd cheered, Legend gave recognition to The Doggfather himself: “Shout out to Snoop Dogg!”<\/p>\n You can watch John Legend’s karaoke performance of “Drop It Like It’s Hot” here<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Stream New Episodes of\u00a0The Voice: Battle of Champions<\/em>\u00a0the Next Day on Peacock\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n John Legend performing in front of a crowd of people with Kelly Clarkson and Druski.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Snoop, of course, recently completed his second season as a Voice<\/em> Coach, so it truly was a\u00a0Voice<\/em> family performance, with additional backing vocals by comedian and social media star Druski.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Why Snoop Dogg Started Crying So Hard on The Voice, He Needed Tissues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Also in attendance at the karaoke bar was The Voice<\/em> Host Carson Daly<\/a>, who couldn’t wait to ask Clarkson and Legend about their impromptu live performances\u00a0during a visit to TODAY<\/em><\/a> the following morning and explained why he didn’t take the stage. “[Performing] is not my job, I\u2019m the host. I was there to support the drunk patrons,” he deadpanned.<\/p>\n Legend also took on the hype-man duties when Clarkson took the stage at the karaoke bar and belted out to\u00a0her own hit, “Since U Been Gone,”<\/a>\u00a0which she promises was an audience request, not her idea. “The audience did that,” Clarkson clarified, while Legend called it the “perfect ending” to their night out.<\/p>\n The Voice<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>Season 29 is shaking things up, premiering on Monday, February 23 at 9\/8c on\u00a0NBC<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0streaming the next day on Peacock.<\/a><\/p>\n Officially titled\u00a0The Voice: Battle of Champions<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>Season 29 features the show\u2019s first-ever\u00a0three-Coach lineup<\/a>, putting The Voice<\/i> OGs Kelly Clarkson<\/a>,\u00a0Adam Levine<\/a>, and\u00a0John Legend<\/a> back in the red chairs for an epic showdown.<\/p>\n The Voice<\/i> Season 29<\/a> will also introduce fresh format updates such as the \u201cTriple Turn Competition\u201d and the \u201cSuper Steal.\u201d You also won\u2019t want to miss the exciting return of CeeLoo Green<\/a> in a totally new role.<\/p>\n John Legend, Carson Daly, Kelly Clarkson, and Adam Levine smile together for The Voice Season 29 Episode 1.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Legend explained on TODAY<\/em> that he has a rule when it comes to karaoke \u2014 always choose a rap song.<\/p>\n “I did ‘Drop It Like It\u2019s Hot.’ My karaoke rule is I only rap because you know, I\u2019m a professional singer, I\u2019m an amateur rapper,” Legend told Daly during his February 20 appearance on TODAY<\/em> with Clarkson, echoing a philosophy he previously explained during a Coaches’ roundtable chat<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Once I got older, I decided I wouldn\u2019t sing at karaoke and I would only rap,” he told his fellow Coaches. “I\u2019m an amateur rapper; it makes me equal with all the amateur singing.”<\/p>\n Clarkson and Adam Levine<\/a> loved his method, with Levine agreeing, “That\u2019s a good, courteous way for a professional singer to do karaoke,” and Clarkson adding,\u00a0“It always embarrassed me when people got real about it and they would really sing, so I would always do Tupac or something unexpected.”<\/p>\n Both Legend and Clarkson gave Levine kudos for doing “a little rap-singing” on his new album, to which Levine shrugged and said, “I don’t know how that happened.”<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0<\/strong>Here’s How Many Times Each Coach Has Won The Voice<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Don’t miss Legend, Clarkson, and Levine’s return to the red chairs when The Voice<\/em>:\u00a0Battle of Champions\u00a0<\/em>premieres with a two-hour episode on\u00a0Monday, February 23<\/strong>\u00a0at 9\/8c on\u00a0NBC<\/a><\/strong>, and streaming the next day on\u00a0Peacock<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Voice: Battle of Champions<\/h3>\n
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