Snoop Dogg Says No Offense Meant! 'Slave Ship' Rant Was Heat Of The Moment

Snoop Dogg meant no disrespect to African-Americans when he said the struggling Lakersoughta go away on a "slave ship" -- but he did mean to vent about ALL of his favorite teams sucking.

Sources close to the D-O-Double-Gizzle tell TMZ ... the rapper's trash talking -- taken by many as racist -- was totally a heat of the moment thing.

They are told the rapper turned on his phone, and impulsively unloaded about his Lakers' embarrassing loss to the last-place Suns.


Snoop had said "Ship all them n***as out. Get a slave ship, and ship all them sorry mother f**kers the f**k outta here!"

Despite much of the public reaction to Snoop's rant, sources were clear ... the rapper doesn't have a single racist bone in his body, especially against his own race. But that was too expensive to say! Smh!!