LOS ANGELES -- Rap star Snoop Dogg said in a expletive-filled interview with MTV News that Don Imus' use of the the slang "ho" is a "completely different scenario" than the use of word in rap lyrics.

Imus was fired Thursday by CBS Radio after he called the members of the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on a recent broacast.

According to MTV, Snoop Dogg said that rappers "are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things."

Snoop Dogg's comments came a day before MSNBC pulled the plug on the TV simulcast of Imus' radio show.

"First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls," Snoop Dogg told MTV. "We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha----as say we in the same league as him."

Snoop Dogg, 35, also told MTV that Imus should be kicked "off the air forever."

The rap star's response to the Imus controversy came a day before he pleaded no contest to felony weapons and drug charges in a Los Angeles court.

Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., agreed to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service as a result of the plea. He faced charges of gun possession by a felon and sale or transportation of marijuana.