The exclusive event is held at the White House (this year on Dec. 8), and features all-star tributes to the honorees. Among this year's performers: Snoop Dogg, who along with Beastie Boys DJ Mix Master Mike, joined such jazz legends as Terence Blanchard, Chick Corea and Marcus Miller for a performance of Herbie Hancock classics.

According to Rolling Stone, it was Snoop Dogg who gave one of the evening's most rousing and well-received performances, meshing lyrics from his 1994 single "Gin and Juice" along with lines from"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)," the 1993 hit by British act Us3 that heavily samples Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island."