As delectable a mash-up as a black-and-white cookie, gangster rapper and sometime porn director Snoop Dogg recently appeared on Martha Stewart’s TV show to whip some potatoes. While the pairing might seem bizarre—Snoop’s lyrics couldn’t be quoted in a family publication, even a Manson one—the rapper has actually spent less time behind bars than the genteel host. They even discuss some hip-hop patois, which Stewart might have picked up in the joint.

Toward the end of the segment, we discover that Snoop’s real purpose on the show is to plug his new cognac, which he adds to the potatoes. It turns out that the liquor he is promoting comes in a bottle shaped like a curvy woman, and even wears a dress and a hat. (Please, will some East Coast rapper start a feud by rhyming that “cognac” with “syrup of ipecac“?)

But the politically minded will be most interested to hear Snoop say that he hopes to perform at Obama’s inauguration, so long as the president-elect will let him. Fat chance, given that Obama would surely choose a hip-hop star from his adopted home turf, Chicago, over one from California. And, in fact, back in 2006 Obama met privately with the Cook County-raised rapper Ludacris, which seems to have worked wonders. In Ludacris’s controversial recent song “Politics (Obama Is Here),” he actually dares to criticize Jesse Jackson: “Now Jesse talkin’ slick and apologizin’ for what? / If you said it then you meant it.” If that doesn’t add to the rapper’s street cred, I don’t know what will.