--- title: Snoop Dogg Gave Jimmy Kimmel a Hospital Donation description: On a visit to 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Tuesday night, rapper Snoop Dogg, gifted Kimmel with an unexpected — and very generous — donation canonical: https://time.com/4782141/snoop-dogg-jimmy-kimmel-donation/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T15:41:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:43.310Z og:title: Snoop Dogg Surprised Jimmy Kimmel With a Hospital Donation og:description: "We're looking out for the next kid that may need that help." og:url: https://time.com/4782141/snoop-dogg-jimmy-kimmel-donation/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Snoop Dogg Surprised Jimmy Kimmel With a Hospital Donation twitter:description: "We're looking out for the next kid that may need that help." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Snoop Dogg Just Surprised Jimmy Kimmel With a Huge Check for the Hospital to 'Look Out for the Next Kid' > Sponsored content. 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The comedian recently spoke out in [an emotional monologue](http://time.com/4762882/jimmy-kimmel-baby-heart-surgery/) on his show about the serious health issues his newborn son faced when he was born with a congenital heart disease in April. “This is your show Jimmy, but I wanted to surprise you with something special,” Snoop explained of his plan. “I saw you speak on your son as far as his health. So I wanted to come out here and make a donation to the hospital. We just want to make sure that we’re looking out for the next kid that may need that help.” Kimmel had expressly argued against the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act for the right of all children to have access to similar care [despite the fact that it was a so-called pre-existing conditions.](http://time.com/4771820/jimmy-kimmel-newt-gingrich-health-care/) “When you came out and set it up like that, I thought, ‘Oh no, he did something to my car,'” Kimmel joked to Snoop. “This is so much better.” The two then discussed Snoop’s distinctive (and customized) fashion sense and his upcoming album, _Neva Left_, which features a cover image taken of the rapper all the way back in the 90s. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782141/snoop-dogg-jimmy-kimmel-donation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782141/snoop-dogg-jimmy-kimmel-donation/"},"headline":"Snoop Dogg Just Surprised Jimmy Kimmel With a Huge Check for the Hospital to 'Look Out for the Next Kid'","datePublished":"2017-05-17T15:41:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:43.310Z","description":"On a visit to 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Tuesday night, rapper Snoop Dogg, gifted Kimmel with an unexpected — and very generous — donation","url":"https://time.com/4782141/snoop-dogg-jimmy-kimmel-donation/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Jimmy Kimmel","Snoop Dogg","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782141/snoop-dogg-jimmy-kimmel-donation/","name":"Snoop Dogg Just Surprised Jimmy Kimmel With a Huge Check for the Hospital to 'Look Out for the Next Kid'"}}]}] ```