Snoop was so mad at Xbox he threatened a PlayStation defection

Snoop Dogg has been raging against the machine, repeatedly. He's mad at Microsoft because Xbox Live wasn't working for several hours on Wednesday.

It meant gamers like him couldn't connect to play together online.

The rapper swearily urged Microsoft to sort the problems out "or PlayStation here we come".

The company hasn't yet explained what exactly went wrong but said it was still investigating the outage.

Xbox Live unites gamers across Xbox One and Windows 10.

As well as letting you play games online it allows players to share in-game clips, chat with friends and and see what they're playing.

"What the **** is you doing, Bill Gates?! Fix your ****, man," Snoop posted on Instagram.

Snoop's intervention seemed to do the trick - the live service was back up a few hours after his post.

Xbox Support later tweeted: The issues should now be resolved!

So Snoop was back with his "game face" on.

Snoop posted this picture once the problems had been resolved.

But he might want to rethink his threat to switch to PlayStation if it happens again.

The Sony network's had a fair few troubles of its own in the past as well, including several hacking attacks.

For more stories like this one you can now download the BBC Newsbeat app straight to your device. For iOS go here. For Android go here.