Michael Bublé confessed he had nerves about meeting fellow new coach Snoop Dogg for the first time.

Michael recalled, “I think we liked each other so much from the beginning… We were just having too much fun.”

He confessed, “I was actually really nervous to meet him because I’m a big fan, and in this business, as you know — because this is what you do every day — how disappointing are so many people. And so to meet the one guy that I really thought revolutionized music, that I really thought took hip-hop and rap and brought it to a new place… Very much like Louis Armstrong who just changed the whole scene, I felt like Snoop had done that for that genre. So I was like, ‘Oh, man, I hope this dude is cool. I hope this dude is, you know, is warm.’ He’s such a beaut, man — he’s humble, he’s incredibly smart, he’s hilarious. We just laugh our asses off all the time, so it’s been a dream come true.”

Bublé also discussed the pressures of going up against returning coaches Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani. He noted, “Listen, do you know what it’s like… when the chair turns and people just see Reba, they just see the smile? Don’t even try. We had to, like, block her, you know. You know what Snoop calls her? He calls her Reba Magnet-ire.”

Michael raved about Gwen, calling her “Gwen Never Ste-phony,” and explaining, “Gwen is really smart and intuitive.”

He gushed, “There was never a point where someone didn’t pick me that I didn’t think one of those artists was going to a great coach, because they’re great people.”