Xbox Live Outage Angers Gangster Rap Legend

(RTTNews) - An outage of the Xbox Live network on Wednesday left thousands of gamers annoyed, but none could have been more vocal than rapper Snoop Dogg, who vented his anger at Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates.

Dogg, an avid gamer, launched an expletive-laden tirade against Microsoft and Gates. He also threatened to switch to rival Sony's PlayStation Network if the Xbox servers were not fixed.

The rapper posted a video on his Instagram account, in which he says in a short, but spirited rant, "What the f*** are you doing Bill Gates, fix your s*** man. It's that difficult to play somebody online."

Bill Gates is the founder as well as an advisor and a board member at Microsoft. But he currently divides his time between serving as a technology advisor at Microsoft and focusing on philanthropic endeavors.

Microsoft's Xbox support team later tweeted that the issues with its servers have been resolved.

Xbox Live users have been aggravated about repeated outages that have prevented gamers from accessing online multiplayer features.

But Sony's PlayStation too has experienced periodic mass outages. The latest mass outage on January 5 affected all the services across PlayStation 4, PS3 and PS Vita.

PlayStation users complained for not being able to play online with friends and unable to purchase or download new titles on the PlayStation Store.