NEW YORK - Rapper Snoop Dogg took fresh aim at President Donald Trump and returned to his gangsta rap roots on a new single with a pointed title: "Make America Crip Again."

The West Coast hip-hop legend put out the song over the weekend and said it would be part of an eight-track EP out next week, his second major release this year.

The title mocks Trump's campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again" and refers to the Crips, a pre-eminent Los Angeles street gang since the 1970s.

Over keyboards and a mid-tempo beat reminiscent of 1990s gangsta rap, Snoop Dogg calls out Trump over his prolific use of Twitter, denounces income inequality and hails Colin Kaepernick, the football quarterback whose anti-racism protests during the US national anthem have triggered a backlash championed by Trump.

"This is still Amerikkka with the k's, believe that," raps Snoop Dogg, referring to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, before saying: "We're gonna make America crip again." - AP