Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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The legendary Snoop Dogg joins Team Supreme to talk doggy style producing with Doctor Dre and how he became the Ultimate Entrepreneur.

Originally released in December nineteenth, twenty.

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A lot and be said about our yesterday, but in my opinion, he's probably hands down the most beloved, unique, charismatic, talented MC and hip hop culture period and music period in life period fact, and I mean hip hop is forty five years old and not said period.

If I ponder and gave a thorough investigation, you actually might catch me saying that he's easily, if not the top three, but one of the best voices in hip hop.

He is the coolest of the cool His catalogs outstanding, His anthems are people's high lives.

It's the craziest live show I've ever seen.

And I guarantee you he's your mom's favorite rapper.

That's yo, ladies and gentlemen, your mom's favorite raps straight up Snoop dog.

In the building.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

And that roll call was off the hook man.

I'm a rapper though, so I stay ready.

I ain't got to get oh yeah.

Key Balls all day, yeah your album like my mom would like.

She because I was talking to Dj Quick.

We had Dj Quick on the show early and h his album.

I couldn't listen to the cursaon But when Doggie Style dropped, that was the one album, like my mama was saying, ain't no fun with me.

The real mothers around the world that was allowing their kids to listen to that Snoop dogg music back then because they knew I guess they knew that I didn't really mean no harm.

I just was I was the young voice.

And at the same time, I appreciate the mothers for allowing y'all to listen to it because we grew together.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

I'm literally out of breath from just being on the basketball court.

I don't know how you do it, bro, I don't know.

I don't leaders on.

Where'd you grow up?

Right?

Where were you born?

LBC?

I grew up in Long Beach, California, on the east side of Long Beach.

Okay, And what was your when you were first started?

Like?

What was music like in your household?

In my household, music was like brothers.

My mama loved some Teddy Pendergrass, Oh Jay stylistics, Uh, Manhattan's the dramatic, definitely.

Band, the daily black nutrients dipped in the sauce.

Man Okay, Well.

Shock is like what what Jawn like?

Straight Philly?

What Join?

What all right?

What John like?

Would you would we be shocked that you listened to that was outside of the lane of what you're known for.

Listening to your Cadillac music like what.

I loved Rod story was hot to me when I was young.

He was dope, Like I loved his get down, like the way he sung his he seemed like he was singing off what he was on and and and it seemed like he was on the wrong bar, but he was always in the right you know what I'm saying.

Position Like I love the way his voice down.

He had.

Told me I loved me.

Now, did you have any siblings growing up?

It's not two brothers, you youngest, older older brother and a younger brother.

And then my mother adopted my cousin and we made him my brother, so it was four boys in the house, you know what I'm saying, raised by one single mother.

Music was key, but I probably was the only one that like really had a knack for it, like was singing the.

Choir and.

Talent shows, rapping other people raps like the Sugarhill Gang and Jimmy Spicer when they first came out, I learned all that they raps and shit because I was like these niggas fly.

So I learned all they raps and went to school and was just put my name and they raps.

Like that was like my first you know intervention with me trying to become a rapper, listening to good music and seeing if I could emulate it, and not being afraid of doing in front of people, even though if I was whack real good.

So when did you first start realizing that you had a knack or a gift for them seeing or singing, or you know, just overall talent.

When did you realize.

Eighty six eighty five I was cool.

I was a you know, basic rapper, you know, rapping about cars and swimming pools and shit.

I didn't have you know what I'm saying, you know, the old basic wrap back then in the beginning, I got a big old house and a big old card right, and they didn't have nothing right, you know what I'm saying.

Then I gradually grew into you know, style, like what style do I want to use?

And watching the study and the greats and listening to how they vocals and how they controlled the microphone, not just what they was, but their vocal tones.

There was a lot of studying that went in the you know what I was doing.

I wasn't just trying to be a regular rapper.

I wanted to be great.

I wanted to like find ways to perfect styles and perfect things that nobody had done.

But at the same time watching people who inspired me.

Yeah, I always heard you say that slick Rick was on your.

Face, my man, love them to death, and that's still one of my an to this day.

Like when I got a chance to meet him, he became my friend.

And it's like to have somebody like that that you idolized and that you were able to finally get a relationship with.

It's beautiful because he's very you know, unique, And I still look at him as the same slick Rick when I was a kid, because he still dressed fresh and honey, chains On still got the coldest conversation and he remained him at all times, and that was like helpful to me to find out who I was and try to remain me and not try to get caught up in the phase with rapping hard or rapping fast or rapping loud, because when I was coming out, most rappers was rapping like aggressive and hard and last yeah, very aggressive.

It was a couple of smooth ones, but not the pocket I was trying to find.

So well, what slick Rick though, I mean, your your your bartune is also key to your your low voice, your baratune is key to your delivery.

But I mean, how did you did you finesse that style that you have now?

Snarl?

I wouldn't know how to.

It's somewhere between snaggle Puss flick Rick.

And I think what it is.

Bosi Conent said it was like a cartoon mine.

He like, you got a cartoon mine.

So a lot of times when you rap and the voices that you hear will be you know, cartoon related.

You know, some sort of cartoon that I may have heard or seen as a kid, and I emulate that and put that vocal into my rap with the delivery.

Like you said snaggle Puss like because to me, because the way he talked, it's sort of kind of like the way I swing it when I'm rapping.

Right, So even as a teen you had this style developed.

Nah, hell no, I would hate for you niggas to hear the met music, all right, That's what I'm trying to lead to.

Might know, you know some niggas be like, well, coming up the nineteen eighty seven version when you were Snoop rock Ski and you thought you what was your first name, Snoop rock Ski?

Yes, yeah, got wrong with.

That shit for a minute.

It's weird though, I mean because it's most most West Coast.

Yeah, most West coast cats I know won't even admit to having any sort of East Coast in Floridenace.

Fuck that, nigga.

We loved everything about the East Coast.

If you don't knock it off, nigga, y'all niggas was the pavement to all walking on shit.

Nigga.

We wanted to be like y'all with the belt buckles, the mink coats, the bomber jackets, the motherfucker cane goals, the gold chains, all of that shit.

We wanted to be what y'all was because y'all created that.

And I say y'all, I say the East in general, because they from Philadelphia to New York, Nigga from Steady Bee, the motherfucking all these niggas that had all that flavor in that style.

We watched that and then we emulated and put our own flavor on it.

That's how the hip hop game was created.

Somebody had to start it, somebody had to see it and then add their pieces on what they saw, and then that's what created hip hop.

That's why it's growing into different nations now.

That's why people in different countries do hip hop.

They can even speak English, but they do hip hop.

What was the first show that you've ever seen?

Contract wise?

Music?

Hip Hop?

Or the Wiz?

What?

Wait?

What the Whiz?

In nineteen seventy nine, when Stephanie Mills was playing.

On I saw that one.

Yeah, that ship was Dope Man, Dope Wow Lie, who took you mom?

So you see it?

You know it was like a church thing, and that's when I was a good boy, and you know, you know, the church got us a couple of tickets to go through the Wiz.

You know we're gonna take brother snowby Waters too.

He's been acting good in church.

You know you're gonna water.

Well.

All right?

So hip hop wise, what was the first show you saw?

Run DMC?

First Fresh Past, Yeah, eighty okay, I remember when we shut that ship down?

I was gonna ask was it the Long Beach show that?

Yep?

Can you tell?

All right?

All the the idea of a riot breaking out at a hip hop concert, I'll never forget, Like the coverage and write on magazine was like they had to.

I remember Vanessa Williams was even at the show for some reason.

But now I know Russell Simmons the way I know him.

Yeah, of course Vanessa Williams was there, but they had to give it like a press conference and the whole ideal rapp being violent or whatever, like.

They put my city on the line.

It started with this ship.

That's how I know what Long Beach is.

Well, when you do retcall what happened at the show.

Like it was a youngster, I probably was like thirteen fourteen.

I couldn't get in, so I ended up sneaking in one of the homies and when I got in, they.

Just didn't have no security.

Like no, it was a good It was a.

Good show, was tight.

It was like LLL Houdini and all of them.

But what the problem was it was some La Niggas that came down to Long Beach, and the La Niggas was basically known for just you know when you go to La they fucked the concerts up and you know they run everything.

They came to Long Beach and didn't realize we was deep and we was we was all one gang at one time, was three different gangs and Loan Beach, but they all was together at that particular time.

And when they tried to come and do some shit.

It happened to be doing the intermission and I spoke with Leora to find out exactly what the moment was.

Leora told me he was like it was a break between acts, and when the acts would have a break, they wouldn't have a DJ and nobody playing on music, and it just went black on stage.

And that's when niggas seeing each other and was like, I think it was between LLL and Houdini as LLL came out with all red on and our city is all crips we didn't have and that's when bloods and crips wasn't cool at all.

Like now it's way better, but back then it was no dialogue, no understanding that when he came out with that red on, niggas.

Was like that was problematic.

He waned them, you.

Know what I'm saying, Like it was shit that was going on from that perspective, And then that the La Niggas came and tried to push up in Loan Beach, and the Loan Beach Niggas had to defend their turf and the it was some essays there and it was just a bunch of mayhem that had nothing to do with the concert, and it fucked the concert up and they put our city on the map for all the wrong reasons.

But then I came and cleaned it.

Up all right.

So, speaking speaking of those early tapes that you made, how did you like was two one three your first project?

What was your first development actually in doing tape sting?

No, my first development was probably eighty three.

It was a rapper named Captain Rap a long but she had a song called bad Times.

Oh Captain Rap from Long Jimmy Jam.

Yeah.

So he lived his mama lived on Alm Street, which was like the gang Bang Street, twenty first in Alm Street, and I lived on twenty third Lungcus, which was like three or four blocks away, and I heard that Captain Rap was over there.

So I had made a cassette.

You know, you push record and play that old school shit with you know what I'm saying, rapping into the cassette.

Yeah, did that?

Did like about five songs.

They was all whack went over the Sea the nigga and he listened to him.

He was like, Nah, you ain't ready.

You need to buy Whooping the game he game.

He was.

I appreciated that because now I hear him and see him in real life right now today, and I remember how he treated me and how he was to me on some real shit like and he was like the first rapper from Loan Beach to have a song out, but at the same time, he didn't have no more songs out.

So when I listened to his song, I was like, Okay, I want to make a hit, but I don't want to just make one hit, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm gonna learn from this, like fuck that, I'm too greedy.

I want more.

So he was just pimping that one song.

I got no follow up and just nothing else.

I don't know what happened, you know.

Around that time, West Coast Rap was limited.

That was like fast.

West Coast Rap was like bad.

Times, that's what we was rapping like that, you know what I'm saying.

So that shit came and went and.

Then an effect on you.

Tidy T is one of the coaches in my football league.

Yeah, he me and he'd been friends for the past twenty five years.

But Tody T had a real big effect because I was a drug dealer and the bad around was really real, like we would really see it come through the neighborhoods in that song was so symbolic to West Coast music because it was like the first time that we had a record that it was about us and the ship we was going through that everybody on the West could relate to that was selling drugs, and most drug dealers became rappers.

You know what I'm saying, because that's what Tardy TNM was.

They were drug dealers that were rappers.

It just so happened to be making music because they were like, like we got a spare time, that's mixing music.

It was him and another rapper, Nayed mixed Master Spade.

That was the ship.

He used to rap like he was in church, like welcome part.

Of people in some class year.

Here got the ladies in the front and whole raps sound like.

It was cold with it.

I gotta look at he had singles out yeahs yes, sir, okay maybe for n w A.

They were they were the ones before we n WA's like they was from Compton.

They was representing that gangster shit.

They was real drug dealers.

Theyre the ones, not the tools.

Did you have any experience like any Uncle Jam situations or any of.

Those actually Uncle Jam Roger Clayton Rest in Peace, came to Long Beach in nineteen ninety and was working a club called the Toe Jams.

And that's what me and Domino used to rap at.

You know, Domino ye together.

We was rapping Theirs and the Twins and Warren g and the whole little click.

We was all rapping there.

And he kind of like knew that me and Domino had some special because he would always separate us and let us like come in a little booth.

He had like a space boof in the air, like old school shit, like up here, but it's over the ground, and he would let us come up in there and let us wrap.

And it's like you could tell that he knew that we were special.

And I didn't even know this motherfucker was Uncle Jam until after the fact, because he wasn't like, I'm Uncle James, just like it's Roger Clayton.

Then I was telling people, yeah, I did this with right, They're like, nigga, you know Uncle Jam?

Like what was Uncle Jam?

Like?

When did this party start?

I've heard of his parties, but I just don't know.

The seventies, late seventies.

Oh he went back that far.

Okay, I think.

George Clinton blessed him.

I think George Clinton was like, you know what, you the young gut here in La that's pushing and promoting my ship and doing that thing.

And I think he took it on and say all right, I'm Uncle Jam.

I understand you.

I'm Uncle Jam's army because I'm part of you know, what George and them is doing, and I'm just a culmination of it.

Like you know how it is.

They inspired us everything, Uncle Jam.

It's funk based.

Everything that we do is funk based because those were the originators of what we love.

Damn Rick James, Yeah, being the whole funk man.

Can you explain to us the importance of the roodium and like what that was heard all me?

It was a flea market, Yeah, it was.

A flea market, but it was the spot that NWA made.

They first like mixtapes that really broke ice, like Dope Man, Gangster Against All.

That ship was in there first, like on mixed tapes.

So they was like there making like songs with Cube would be rapping and Dre would be on the turntables and it was like jacking for beats before Jack and for Beasts, you.

Know, what I'm saying.

But Doctor Dre was doing the mixing and taking niggas beats and Ice Cube was rapping and sucking it up, and they was wrapping Gangster Ship.

And back then it was it wasn't common to rap Gangster Ship.

More.

More rappers were, you know, rapping the right way or you know tra correct.

Yeah, like Kara rest More didn't give a fuck.

He was going hard.

You know what I'm saying.

He was one nigga just ice didn't give a fuck.

He was hard, you know what I'm saying.

It was certain niggas that just didn't care.

Ice t didn't give a fuck.

He was hard.

But some of them was just like you know, Rock Kim was hard.

But I never heard him cuss, right, I wanted to hear.

Him except.

On the original of My Melody he says, pull up a chair, and.

I ain't ship.

I want him to motherfucker give me some good shit.

Right.

So for for those tapes, like, were you an ardent collector of him?

Like, as far as Doctor Dre's concerned, were you was it a goal for you to like, Okay, one day I got to get to him, or.

One day I wanted to get to Steve Steve Yano.

He was the one that ran to Rodehuim swapped.

Me, Oh so you just want to get your product in.

I just want to get to him because to me, fuck them, he was the one because he could get you out there.

I wasn't good enough for them.

I didn't want to go to them and like get him music that wasn't dope as theirs, Like that's the kind of rapper I was.

Like, I never wanted to rap for Drel, wanted to get down for w A because I didn't think.

I was ready.

Like so I would rather make music and get ready and then once they discover me and feel like I'm ready, then we make that happen.

And that's exactly what happened.

Good say, oh so from the first explained us exactly how when you first started, when you Warren and Nate from two and three, When did y'all start recording together?

Well, me and Warren g was friends from like elementary school.

I met Nate dog in high school in eighty six, when I was in the tenth grade, he was in the twelfth grade.

We had a class together.

We just used to be fucking around, you know, beating on the table and singing and rapping.

Then we had seventh period together, which was pe and we never went to that, so we would always be singing and shit in the back of the gym.

So but war and G was my dog, and waring G was always wanting to do music with me, but we never like did music.

So then I figured out a way to get all three of us together.

And once we got together and got past all the argument and fighting and shit, because them niggas used to fight all the time, Waring G and they though them niggas can not stand echere.

That's why it fucks me up that they got all the fucking history right.

And them niggas was always fighting each other like.

Brother like water, just like I really go.

Brother like way, like Nigga like you know how brothers is like like what the fuck is y'all?

And I'm in the middle of ship like this the fuck is y'all fighting about?

This is bullshit?

And this is even own records before the know it happened a lot before the records.

When the records came out, only conflict was like just in the studio, you know, Nate Dog like doing the ship a certain way.

He like fucked that.

He hard aded in the studio.

He like doing shit, no fuck that, I'm doing it this way.

I'm taking the motherfucker the way I want to sing it.

Nate was always singing.

Always was he ever at any point in his life.

Never, never, but he could he could, you know, Like like I said, when I met him, we was rapping and singing in the back of the class.

Like he wasn't just coming up.

Nigga was rapping with me, you know.

I was, you know, beating on the table and ship rapping it at the same time.

And he would come in and rap and then certain points he would maybe sing some ship and they would be.

Like that was flying and he always had that movie.

Always had that ship Like He's sounded like an R and B Nigga.

That to me, you always sounded like the dude from A What's the group?

Mind blowing decisions?

Nigga, He sounds just like us if Nate when he used to sing always in Forever, he sounded exactly like damn like niggas just singing that for the Homiesga, be like he sing always in Forever, always Forevergas in the rooms.

Niggas sing high.

Part so from the time when y'all started making records.

I've always heard you credit the DLC is actually teaching you how to write rhymes or or structure your rhymes.

Rather, how did you go from like just freestyling, Like how did you start developing, you know, your pen game before meeting uh dre and doing.

Deep free styling was my main thing because I was it was easy for me to come to my head real quick.

I would always you know, I was quick with it.

And then I started writing.

But my rhymes that I wrote were like so basic, Like I would freestyle complex shit, but I would write basic shit.

And I couldn't understand, Like why the fuck am I so basic when I'm writing?

But I ain't, you know, basically when I'm freestyling, because I guess it was a more challenge exactly.

So then I started saying fucking it.

When we started making tapes, I just started going in there just saying shit like fucking I ain't gonna write no shit, and that shit was sounding better than the shit I wrote.

And then once I got with you know, different producers and certain motherfuckers giving me game on.

This is a sixteen bar?

What's up?

Sixteen bar?

That's when the shit started.

Here and in here Nigga rapped forever.

You know, back then we had one hundred monthfucking bars.

You know, that's what rappers did back then.

Niggas din't know how to break that shit down.

You know, we just rapped it.

We couldn't rap no more.

So.

Then once the nigga learned how to structure, it was like cool, I got it.

But then when I got with drinking, DC Doc showed me how to make songs like I would bust at least they bust something us like three minutes.

He'd be like, all right, see what you said right here, that's the hook.

What you said over here, that's the last sixteen.

Over here, it's the first four right here, that's the next eight.

Like he would take my restructure.

This nigga was nigga like he worked for motherfucking Microsoft.

Nigga.

Yeah, Nigga put put the thing together.

Like even when it came to g thing like I wrote it on the east side, but the last part I was stuck.

And he came in.

He because it's something I had said a long time ago, and he was like, Nigga, remember that ship.

We was like like this that and this and up because I said that in the freestyle when I was just freestyl on one time Nigga's doctor drink and snoop.

And we do it like this, and he.

Was like, yeah, do that and put that at the end and then put my name in there.

Like put your opinion now on younger MC's and being able to freestyle versus not the.

Same where it used to be, you know, like basketball and what it used to be, football and what it used to be.

You can't expect them to be on the level of the game that ain't the same.

You know when we came out, you had to have skills like that.

I remember I had to battle like forty niggas in New York one night, like on some real shitting and corrupt stepped up and served about a thousand niggas.

I'm not making this shit up.

It was like a karate movie.

Nigga like.

Niggas was running up with the same outfits on niggas.

But that's what That's what hip hop was for me.

When I came in in the eighties, I started rapping like eighty four eighty five.

I had to battle about one hundred niggas before I even got to a microphone.

Before I even got to a microphone.

Yeah, then when I got to a microphone, it be like a house party, and if you ain't saying the right shit nigga, they' DJ put on some shit like Nick, get out of here.

I say, niggas get shut down to get house parties.

Then I start doing talent shows.

So it's like I started getting familiar with the mic in my voice, and I started recording myself like I hear what I sound like?

All right, my voice needs to be like this, not all wrapping, all loud and talking like that.

That ain't me.

I need to be in pocket.

Damn.

See that's how Usually with people that have low register, they do that a lot.

They practice and practice, yeah, and then they find their zone.

That's weird that you knew to discover that even without someone you know instructing you to practice on tape.

Ain't that ideas for a drummer too.

Ah, that's just different.

Mindset was more like there's the basement going in it don't come out until after five hours.

Like it was just.

It wasn't like let me find my style.

It's more like, yeah, it's better be home right after school, But how do you.

Like For example, like if I say give me some Al Green and then give me some James Brown drums.

Well that see.

The thing is is that the mic even.

I think, even beyond drumming, I am, I mean, I'm a record collector and I process information different.

So for me, I've discovered that it's really in the microphone, in the mixing I mentioned in the style.

Also, so if you want Al Jackson and I know that, okay you want, I'm so glad your mine or whatever, then I know, okay, I gotta tune this down and all that stuff.

But that really just comes from listening to listening to drummers and knowing how to tune my drums to sound like their's.

It's not even a technique.

So I consider myself more like a mirror than an actual person with the style.

Because I noticed you can get those sounds.

It's like I listened to you.

I'm like, okay, he can get any sound.

He won't like the wots y'all be playing with all kinds of sounds.

That sound I like is when y'all did that.

If you don't want me about that, baby, you don't want me, you know that.

You got me, Thank you, bro.

Appreciate that.

Shit.

I almost got talked out of that.

The label was like dog y'all got to hit, don't do this fancy.

The thing was we we lived in London.

We had exiled to the UK from like ninety three to about ninety seven, even though we was living like both in Philadelphia and abroad, but we were torn more abroad, and so that's when drum and bass was just starting to pop off garage and two steps and all that stuff.

So when I got back to the stats, I was like, all right, let.

Me add some of that London shit that I learned, which is weird because outcasts and doing bombs over Baghdad.

That was their version of that.

You know, okay, let's do what we learned in London.

But I tried to do it in the label like try to talk me out of it, like real nah, radio is not going to play this, You're messing it up.

So I fought they taught me out of Jills Scott, but I kept the drumming biggs.

Who get rid of Jill Scott, But I'm keeping my drums.

That crazy labels like back then had more say so and could really like come in there and say some ship that you had to do well.

At that point, we were unproving, and it was just like this was our fourth attempt at trying to make it happen.

Even for the proven, they did that like they were coming there and tell them motherfucker on some where else did It was many times where I sat down with Jimmy, I being on some good ship, but I liked his respective.

But then sometimes we clash because I was like, Nigga, you can't tell me, nigga, you don't know my ship.

Nigga Like hold on this, nigga, do no nigga, this nigga didn't work with nigga boot Springsteens.

Can you give us an example?

Can you give us an example of something you two classed over?

Oh man?

Uh?

Producers?

Really?

Yeah?

Who did you want to work with that he didn't want you to work with him?

I don't want to say no name, but it was a producer that I really fucking wanted to work with that He didn't really see it, but he kind of saw it, and then once we started doing it, he understood it was for real.

Wow wait wait wow, he couldn't see that.

You know what, though, I'm gonna tell you something.

In the beginning, you.

Couldn't see it.

Pharrell was a hard sell for me.

Here's here's the stupid ship I loved.

I can't make a mistake by mc light.

I love this shit because it was loud as ship.

But it's almost like there's some unconventional there's something unconventional about the Neptune sound drew me to it that took me.

It took me two months to to to really really get it and get aboard.

And now it's like, the weirder this shit is, like take like the clip second album.

The weirder that ship is, the more I'm all for it, you know what I'm saying.

But that's what they were hard sell because I mean the first my first I CA remainer was on the Mace album, like they're looking at me joint and.

You didn't like that, Okay, I didn't know who they were.

You feel me like I remember this, But then like I think I got it around like super Thug like super Thug and like I mean the stuff with Norway, like all that shit got But I could see the So.

Your first of the palace right at least, no, I think, uh, the chronic's blowing.

Uh yeah, yeah, blowing chronic to me is like a tradition.

To me, I got to pick the So sit down and listen to me.

Don't go against me food, go with me, and we can blow it all together like Bobby Brown and with me.

Yeah, we got something to come and nigga search your nigga, but they never finding my bomb and I got the stashot my cash, got a lot of motherfucking punk police shot.

I'm not the one nigga.

You can call me the two Bob Marley.

We incordinated, pupils, dilated and maxipated.

This almost like that I'll be sure episode again you get hypnotizing someone's voice.

And then the nigga just stopped.

Thank you for sucking over me fast.

Was it true that Deep Cover y'all didn't even have the record done before y'all signed the deal to do the.

I like, sure, I tell this story, he'll tell it better than me.

What it was was Doctor Dre was going to the gym right and we was in Calabasas at his house living at the time.

You know, he gave me a beat and he was like.

This the beat.

I want my ship to start off like this tonights tonight, I get add some ship deep cover on the incognito tip.

And then he left.

So he gave you those four lines.

And then the nigga left.

I'm not making it up, so they sure call about an hour and a half letter Doggie Dog, I'm gonna call you back on the phone with the people from Sony.

You got the song done?

I said no.

The nigga just tolked, just gave me the beat and laft, what what the song about?

I don't know what it's about, but the movie is about the undercover police officer.

So I'm gonna call you back.

I want you to like freestyle a little bit, and then I want you to get to a certain point and I'm gonna say, all right, cut it off, and you're gonna hit the button and cut the music off, like everything cut off, and I'm gonna call you back.

I'm like, all right, come on, and nigga ain't making this shit up, Nigga.

The nigga called me back about an hour later, and I had a little bit of it, had like maybe like four bars of it.

So he called back.

He like, Doggy Dog, I got the people on from a Sony didn't want to hear the song.

Nigga, I put the beat.

Old Nigga just start busting their freestyling and going and going, and Nigga, all right, cut it off.

I'm gonna call you back.

Nigga called me back and said, Nigga write the song niggas called Deep Covers about a undercover police officer going undercover and selling drugs.

I'm like, Nigga, my dope case was about me selling dope to an undercover cop in.

My real life.

WHOA yeah, So I took my real life and put it in Deep.

Cover and it just so happened.

It all came came.

And then when we do this song right now, this the fucked up part.

When we finish it, everybody in the room like this a hit.

Only one motherfucker don't like it?

Doctor Dre What he's the only nigga that don't like it?

Seemed like an insatiable perfectionist, where like, do it again?

Do it that?

Nigga did not like it.

And when the trick was they tricked me too.

They tricked him too.

They were like, we're gonna do a photo shoot, Higo, five hundred dollars snooker get you something to wear.

So I go to the swap meet.

Give me some Kaki Chicago white Sox jacket with the long beach hat.

You know what I'm saying.

I'm like T shirt and chucks.

I'm like, I'm cool.

We get to the photo shoot.

Nigga, it's a video, so I ain't never been on no video before, so I don't know what the fuck is going on.

So now the director like he talking to me and Dre like all right, I try.

I need you to act on this scene right here, and like, shit, I don't do all that.

Let that nigga do it.

I'm like They're like, yeah, well, the you know, and what with the beauty of it is?

It was the part I did at the beginning of the song with the I think you hit this in front of you with the whoop that ship.

So he was like, do that, but I'm gonna have somebody acting with you.

You don't have to do both parts.

You just do your part and whoop the wap.

So he had the actor come in Drake just sitting down the whole scene just just look.

I'm like, nigga, you the star, nigga.

You got me doing all these lines in this dialogue and I thought this was a photo shoot.

Nigga, How long did it take for you for Dreda know that in you he had his greatest discovery.

That would probably have to be a question he would have to answer.

Because I mean from the first from the time you met him to the time where he's like come to the studio, how many how much time was in between them?

At least four years?

But I never rapped for him?

Wait what?

I never rapped for him?

Let me tell you how I used to go there.

Warn G and Dre.

Mother and father were married, Okay, so there would be functions at their house and Dre would show up and warn G had like some turntables in the back, and he would try to always get traded to come in the back like Snoopy can rap m And you know, back then niggas was like I don't want to hear nigga rap.

So he would never be like, let me hear something.

This n w A era, Dre just like.

This is when the nigga was making he shot.

I shot because he played that for us.

He was like, I want you all to hear this shit I'm working on.

He just played that one particular part of the song was easy he said he shot and niggas like, damn that shit hard and one he was like, Snoopy can rap, And.

I'm like, what the fuck did he say?

And then luckily the nigga did say let me hear something.

He was like, okay, all right.

Then he walked in the living room.

I was like, yes, like, nigga, don't ever tell that nigga I can rap.

Nigga we nigga.

I don't want that nigga to hear me.

Say.

Do you finally get to you?

Being on decover, who made that connection?

Warren Jill Warren.

We had a tape two one three mixtape and it had a song on there called super Duper and a song called Gangster's Life.

And the Gangster's Life song was like a story about me being born.

You know, the first day I get born, I go to the liquor store and get arrested.

Like it's like a cold ass gagster story.

Then at the end, my brother ends up becoming a gangster and ended up getting killed.

So it was like it was a gang bang ass story, but it had like some positivity.

You could see the writing was the next level.

So Dre.

I guess he liked that style.

But how he heard it.

They was at a bachelor party and the music cut off for one and G used to always go to their parties and the music cut off.

So Warren g slide in my tape when the music go off, Okay, now the party back rocket and Niggass like.

Who is that?

Oh that's uh my homeboy snoopy and woofed it woo woo whoop.

So Drake like, oh, nigga, that shit sound hard, nigga let me And then that's how he heard it, from watching the reaction of the people and having the air at the same time, probably hearing my voice, hearing the delivery the way, like I say, the song was structured.

It was one of my best structured songs.

Is that Yeah?

It is?

It is?

Yeah, it is.

Okay, I can get you that gangscious life.

I can get you the original version and it was a version that we did with Nate Dog on it after.

We was on pissing everything.

Okay, great, awesome.

So from the time that y'all got into after you do deep Cover, how did the transition go from deep Cover to death Row?

Oh?

When we did deep Cover, we didn't have no money.

We was just it was also on Solar right, yeah, maybe that Solar records exactly.

Did you have any interactions with Dick griff Yes.

Sir Griffy used to give us money for chicken wings and bout us our first apartment where we was living next door to Calvin from two to seven.

We're acting like you and watched that show exactly what.

I'm saying with the Calvin at the time.

Was he Calvin?

He was still that was.

After Calvin, but he was always gonna be in.

Your family around.

It's like bad that mean no.

Place, no place, I mean no place child.

Ya'll play too much, I'll watch too much like television when you can get into your watching.

No hell yeah a syllable.

You should have heard us in here singing the Amen's theme song early.

That it was like shoutow like bump.

Know me, know me.

The words, anyone your words.

That's worse than good time, that's awful like credit.

Who was singing that the home was on the lead?

Was I think it was?

That was?

Yeah, I'm almost of.

The sisters right from Yes, I did not know she had a deal back in the seventies.

Y'all was next door to Calvin.

That this Dick Griffy got his apartment with us.

They say death fro got it, but Dick Griffy got it because they had no motherfucking money at the time.

So Dick Griffy got his apartment right.

So the apartment was in Rage name because she didn't want to had credits.

All of y'all, Rage and War and g was living in a one barroom apartment and Rage had a dog named Buster.

We all stayed in at one bearing apartment on Third in Detroit Street, and we used to walk from Third in Detroit all the way to sixteen Kwana.

That's a that's a long ass walk.

Yes, every day in the studio and then we the pop Eyes chicken if we had like five or ten dollars to get a few wings and try to figure it out that men.

Let me don't split that last wing.

I'm gonna take this part.

You know, this is the Jimmy jam story all over again.

That's how it was.

They came out to l A with what three hundred bucks and a cassio machine because when they made the Hard Times beat for Captain from Captain Ratt.

They made that beat.

Yes, wait a minute, yes, they can't they.

Make that beat they got they got fired from a time and then Terry Lewis is like, yo is either doing die Let's go back to La.

Yeah.

They came out there with yeah and Terry little three hundred dollars each and some suits and they lived off of chicken wings and milkshakes.

And sold that beat.

And that's you.

Know, his history right, thirty million albums.

But see how they moved on and he didn't.

And they were just the production and he was the face, the voice, the whole nine.

But they moved on.

They probably had more dry.

Well, they had something to prove, you know, they had more dry.

You shouldn't have fired.

His nig Bigga gonna find me gota rap song that's hot right now, Nigga wait till I get a hold of Janet Nigga and funny how time fish.

That story Prince uh Wait through Control out out the car window, Jimmy Jam's house and through it at Jimmy Jam's mom script Why the Control album after it was done?

Yeah, yeah, after it was out?

Why because he's petty like that, like when you leave him, even if you fire him, if you leave.

Me, yes, no disrespect, but you know you couldn't fuck with that album.

She was all grown up?

Nigga one nine?

What's samping?

Team?

I did what people told.

Whatever, it's gonna be a hard to clear episode.

We got time.

It's August?

It is Christmas?

Should I ask one Chris?

No, it's Christmas in August anyway?

All right, So in the beginning, I mean at the time, did you even envision that this would happen?

Like what was around the corner?

Was it just like, all right, we're gonna work on this one song and then.

You know, you know, you don't really I don't know, I don't know how big it could be.

When did you realize that something is about to happen?

When I was on the box, Remember.

The box, nigga, the box was the ship, niggah.

You call joint?

Right now?

Girl, what's coming on here?

One day, that motherfucker came on like fifty times, back to back to back, the thing.

Hey, where y'all going today?

Drake?

Can I go with y'all?

You know, when Dad's run down the steps, they're showing the same shit just over and over again, over and over again.

It's just getting requested and then they show you what's the next video coming.

On with them?

I'm like, damn, my poppet.

And I was staying with my cousin on the couch and I woke up on her couch and she was like, Nigga, you a star.

I'm like, I'm a star.

She's like, yeah, nigga, your video came on like all day and night.

And I was on the couch like, damn, this is our stars.

I ain't got no money.

I'm on your couch.

You want to know something, you know?

You sampled with my parents, right what my mom and my dad?

My mom and my dad.

Just chill to the next episode.

It's my mom and my dad.

And then the yeah, the shot holding back on that ass with the hell of five.

I came off.

From Mom's and back like, Yo, this is the funny shit.

So when the ship would come on the box in Philly and I heard that, that.

Was like.

Yo, me and to lost.

It, like because y'all know you that's your mom and dad.

Yeah, it was like we won the lottery ticket.

It was a big record, man, A big, big record man.

For real, man, how did y'all never have this conversation?

I don't it's the first time y'all to know each other.

Yeah, I mean I want to introduced, like, yeah, you said I forgot you said ge thing.

I was like, thinking, oh, ship, I forgot my mom and dad.

That ain't what I wrote thing off of.

No, I know, the bitches ain't ship.

No.

I wrote it off of.

Really the south Side.

Uh, it's called south side.

It's that was the initial beat for g think.

That's what That's the beat he gave me.

And I took it on tenth and line on my over my cousin house, and I wrote the whole g thang songs that came back to the studio and bust that ship off of that for him.

Yeah, drinking to the Snoop Doggy Dog and doctor Drake is after Doug, ready to make him entrist.

So back on up because you know about the rocks, give me.

The microphone, FoST walking bus like a bubble, comping the long beach together and now you know you can trouble with saying nothing but the cheek thanks to loath thinking so and death wrote is the label that we done fainted most please don't try to fade?

Was winning?

Man?

Can you describe so like break down what was kind of the division of labor in the studio between like Dazz, Dre, Nate, uh corrupt, you know what I'm saying, Like what was kind of each person's job?

Was one person better at hooks or so then the other?

Or like how did y'all work?

And DLC, because DC he was for the chronic as well.

Well.

D OC was like the guy that he was like the sen and say you had to the rap had to pass his I fucked with it before Dre would fuck with it.

Like those the ears that Dre trusted most was his, you know, with everything.

Remember he had just came off with the easy w A h.

He wrote all of that shit.

He wrote a lot of that n w A and niggas for life shit.

Listen to them styles and all that always into something and all that.

He was Dre's most trusted ear and he was a VET.

So we was trying to impress DC, and then once we impressed DC, then he would work with us accordingly, okay, And then I attracted to him more because I moved in with DCA, like he became like my real sense.

They and everybody else was like not under us, but they were like playing their roles accordingly, like Corrupt was like the assassin.

Raige was like the hard female Jewels had to sing in vocals.

Nate Dogg will come in with the hook.

But that's what doctor Dre was like Phil Jackson, like a great coach that can take everybody on the team and make him valuable, Like everybody was valuable.

Wasn't nobody more valuable than nobody?

He made everybody valuable.

When that song came on with Nate's voice, you loved it.

When it came on with Dad's voice, you loved it.

When it came home with Corrupt, you loved it.

When it came home with me, you loved it cause he he knew how to put everybody in positions to make them strong.

And to me that that was the strength of the team.

That doctor Dre was the visionary.

Like it wasn't us.

We just was raw, you know what I'm saying, Just a bunch of raw motherfuckers that was bringing it to the table.

But he had to clean the table up and set the table, prepare the meal, you know, And he knew what people like, so he had the ingredients to put it all together.

He knew what the rock was that was a diamond.

We didn't know.

We just was Rocks trying to, you know, click.

Like, what's the sixteen songs that make up the Chronic?

I mean, were those the only the specific sixteen that you worked on, or was the Chronic like a combination of forty or fifty songs worked on and then we'll pick the best of the lot, and this is the album.

I say it was probably twenty five songs at the most.

It was one song that we really liked that didn't make it was called Whole Hopper.

I really wanted it on there.

It went like, you know, I like buzzy, so you can call me your hound.

So here's the name I go by, one of them rolling around the Whole Hopper.

Tell your friends, bitch all you I give it to you, smooth hoh.

Can't you see then when you need some dig bitch, call old me the Whole hop But tell your friends all your friends bitch.

Wow.

And Drake was on one on that one.

Make the cut?

Why did that not make the I don't know.

There stuck around this.

Doctor dre was on some real ship like he would let us make any fucking kind of song we wanted.

Who would write the hooks, because the thing that I didn't appreciate until much later was just how effortless you guys were with hooks and b parts, Like even you can take parts that weren't the hooks.

You could take any four balls out of g thing and that to be a hook for another song.

Right, So I never until we started, until like you know, writers block catches and you realize, like how effortless that shit sounds.

So it's like, how, I don't know how uh.

I think the thing was us When it came to like that kind of ship, we just went, We just threw it in the air.

And then, like I said, that's when it was people like Dre who knew how to take it because bitches ain't ship but holes and tricks.

That was Corrupt's first that was the start of his verse.

His verse started like that bitches ain't shit but holesing trick.

No no no no, no, no no no no no, And the makeup going to the store and doctor Dre said, nah, nigga, that's the hook, and he made bitches ain't ship but holes and tricks.

Ain't shit but.

Holes and tricks.

So it was like Corrupt wrote the hook, but didn't know it was a hook, You get what I'm saying, Like, that's what the our ship was so good that we we would always write the hook within the song where it was somebody's job to find that, and we didn't know that all the time, Like we didn't know that, damn, this was the hook.

But Nackdog and Juells is probably the only ones that knew what the hook was because they was definitely writing for the hook for everybody that's was just right and here.

Just come with the power verses and then they were coming and.

Just take it with fit.

Certain times it would fit like certain songs, a motherfucker just it just fit in place.

Was it a certain time?

We talked last night.

We've had a couple of people on the show that always talk about the night of the Source Awards.

And one thing I was always curious to hear from you, like what was going through your mind, like when you got on stage.

My I remember watching it because at the time I was like, this is what ninety.

I was.

I was fifteen to sixteen.

And like I watched it, and so then the next day, everybody, you know we in high school around lunch statement shit, and so everybody was like, well, man, Snoop.

I can't believe, like he was so mad, like that's the fuck what Snoop said?

And me, I always looked at it as I said, I don't know if it's necessarily anger.

I said, think it may be anger me I said, but man, yeah, give him misrespect.

I said, come on, man, I.

Said, each and every one of us got Doggie style and my walkman right now, like everybody's bumping and shit like we loved the Imagine how fucked up it feel to be a dude that is respecting the auto hip hop making incredible fucking records and you come to the place that you got so much reverence for and they pissed on you.

I said, man, that's like for real, you know what I mean?

So I was always curious to hear, like what was going through your mind when you know y'all got no love as New dog.

Well, I was in the moment.

The moment was more about what Sugar said.

It wasn't about nothing else but that because New York respected us, and they respected me, and they gave me that because I gave them that.

I came into game saying that this is the mechan I respect and appreciate everybody before me.

When I met him a bow down, I treated him with love and respect.

So it was a feeling was mutual when I spoke, because I didn't speak from a point of view of I want to fuck y'all up.

I spoke from the perspective of we know where we at.

Nobody should get fucked up based off of the fact that we all gangsters in here.

So what we got to prove is we know where we're at, we know where we're from.

This ain't the time and place for that.

It was some dialogue that was needed.

It wasn't planned, it wasn't It just was needed and my calling, you know what I'm saying, Like to me, that was my calling, Like this show moment Dog to step into that role of being the leader and being a role model and being a piece advocate for hip hop that you're going to end up being ten years from that day, because twenty years after that day, me and Doctor Dre was on stage at that same building doing the show, and Puffy was there too, and we all performed together, and then we were just thinking back of how it was based off of comments and small shit, but we always loved each other, but we never could show it because.

The bullshit we had steeched out on like not too long ago.

And he kind of echoed what you said.

He was like, man with Snoop got up there, he said, you actually kind of calmed things down a little bit.

Like if he didn't, it would have been almost.

If I didn't say nothing niggas, some niggas would have died that night.

Nod said it perfectly on defying ones.

He said something to the fact that you know, when Snoop got up there, he said the right ship, because at that point, when they first got there, it was New York versus New York, it was Borrow versus Burrow.

And when Shug said what he said, he made it New York versus them niggas.

Then when Snoop got up there and said what he said, a lot of New York niggas had love for Snoop and just couldn't see themselves just taking off on him for something that this nigga said.

So it was like it was it was that deep in that detrimental because these was real street niggas.

He wasn't like record label executives or managers or agents or may the production guys, this was nigga.

That nigga just got out.

He just got out fifteen minutes ago.

He been in twenty years.

He ain't got no money.

He looking to do something so he can get on the payroll.

Like everybody had forty of them niggas with them.

Like, imagine that time in the early nineties, how hip hop was.

You had to have a hundred niggas of your entourage.

That just was part of how you was, like whether you wanted it or not.

Like even the roots had a hundred niggas with them.

We couldn't afford that.

But when you have a large encage like hotel bills front, Like, how were y'all y'all were touring during that period, How are y'all handling just the basic shit fights.

My first fifteen years a torn I can say this, and I ain't ashamed to say, I probably made like fifteen percent of my tour money.

Because of everything you had to cover as far as hotels.

Yeah, fifteen percent of my tour money is what I made my first fifteen years because I would have thirty niggas on the road.

Everybody was getting paid and this and that, and then I wouldn't look back until the end of it, and it'd be like, well you uh, you grossed this amount and you netted this amount, and well, god damn everybody on tour and enjoying life except me.

Man, it's a business man.

I gotta jump to the real white elf in the room, which to mean is the dog Father.

Okay, I gotta jump to that.

Do you do you feel that the dog Father has gotten this proper just due respect, because for some reason, I don't think the world realizes how incredible that shit was when it came out, and the fact that it's still timeless late, Like, you know, was it twenty years later?

Yeah?

About Yeah, it was ninety six.

Yeah, Like, what are your personal opinions on your follow up?

When I first came out with it, I was getting a lot of hate and a lot of like, oh, it ain't doggy style, drain't do this, and why it ain't and this and that, and it used to fuck with me a little bit.

And then I used to go out and do shows and then fans would bring me the album to sign, like you know what I'm saying, Like, that's a cold twist when they like niggas talking about you.

But then a fan bring three copies of Doggy Style and two copies of dog Father and say can you sign these?

And you sign these and I'm looking like damn from signing dog Father.

I mean, they bought it.

And then I started doing songs from the dog Father on stage, Snoops, upside your Head, big fucking record.

Charlie Wilson started rolling with me.

Me and Charlie became like this.

So it was blessings that came out of that that they was making happen and didn't even know that they was making happen.

Then we went overseas to Europe, and I toured in Europe and the record was so big over there to where it's like it solidified me as an artist that was gonna be here on the follow up tip.

So it's just in America where it was a lot of not covering it the right way or saying the right things.

I remember, Biggie.

Got killed, Tupaca got killed, Biggie's album came out, Tupac's album came out, So they just drowned me out on some Oh this nigga ain't gang banging no more.

He just beat a murder case.

He's a family man.

Now he's soft.

Now he'd be happy.

Now look at him rapping about happy shit doggies laying.

I had a song called Doggie land that was a song about peace, love and nobody dying and just a beautiful record that was about Doggie landing.

Niggas didn't understand it, like, Nigga, that's soft, nigga.

I'm like, what's living?

Life is soft?

Like I don't need to be with you, niggas if y'all deaf is cool nigga, Nigga, I'm gonna die, Nigga.

That shit hard nigga.

How you gonna die?

I'm being a blaze of bullets nigga, the hard way nigga like a Western movie.

Fuck that, Nigga.

I want to die nigga sipping on some coffee.

Nigga land in.

Bed, not a shelf eighty years old?

You know what I'm saying?

Men?

What was it like?

Uh?

I was always curious to know the transition from death row to no limit and like being with being under somebody like Shug versus somebody like Pete.

What was p like as a businessman?

Sug was a great businessman first and foremost.

Let me say that very strong, very shrewd, got to it like you do.

It did a lot of things that was, you know, groundbreaking for the industry that I see a lot of niggas doing now.

But when I got with master p he was more of a He was a finesser, like I want to shake hands with him, pump shoulders with him, do business with him, be executive.

I want to own shit.

I want to be a part of the executive branch and not just the you know, employee side of it.

And then he passed it on.

You know, he was one of those informative guys that hey put this in your name.

Hey get you a bank account, Hey, get you some credit cards, Hey get you some property, Hey get you some this like get your record label, get you some clothing, clothing line.

Like All the shit I did was by being with him.

He showed me how to do it, and.

I went, that's so dope.

And don't be afraid they laughed at him in the beginning.

They used to laugh at him.

I used to watch him laugh, laugh, laugh.

Then when I sign him with no limit, like I'm not saying, I made the laughs go away.

But all the laughs was gone after that, and Niggas was like this, Nigga really is a business man.

He really sharp because my first album with them paid the cost to be the boss two million records in America, two million records overseas.

Then we put out a movie called The Game of Life and he sold it for nineteen ninety five and it sold two million copies.

You do the fucking maths, and he made all the fucking money.

Wasn't no middle man, none of that.

That was the thing about master P and nobody really re emphasized.

It wasn't no rap.

It wasn't no money a rapper til No Limit came.

And I say that honestly.

It wasn't no rappers making no money into No Limit.

Niggas was getting crumbs and a little bit negotiating and fighting with record labels and artists and management.

Master he cut all that shit out.

He was the what Sugar should have been, the less violent, more business.

Approach and he shared information.

Yes, all of the above.

You know what I'm saying, Like, come on, man.

From the time that you went from because after you did the three records on No Limit and then.

Three album deal five million dollars, I can say that now, respectful I wanted to put that contract out there so in case you niggas want a new three albums do, it's gonna be way more than that.

Now.

Last I mean, I like, did the records get better for you as I got to know the first one?

I didn't.

I was like, right, but no limit to do in last MILLI.

You see it.

But you know when my mind state was there, I started grabbing my mind state the first record.

You know what I did.

I said, pee, do it with me, whatever you want to do, nigga.

I'm doctor.

I'm doctor Frankenstein.

Ig I'm gonna pay on the table and let you go ahead and put me together the way you think is y' all hot right now?

And this is your label.

When you got the Snoop Dogg as your artist, Nigga, go to work.

You just paid for this, nigga, it's gonna be your record forever.

You got a Snoop Dogg record.

My third solo record is yours.

So he did it.

Second record.

I was like, all right, I got the joy stick back.

Yeah, and I'm going back to the west.

Man, Okay, speaking the joystick the two one three albums, why is.

That not out?

Like on streaming whatever.

Man, we didn't get no love for the two one three hours.

Man, we Warren.

She pushed that shit so hard.

I don't know what I love that I love man, the only girl.

Motherfucking you gotta find a way, yeah, find a way.

You gotta find a way.

Yes, fine, man, I don't know.

I don't know what goes on with And then I'm watching music nowadays like that's a hit.

He said the same thing twenty five times.

Oh my god, did they when you end up doing I'm jumping to your Uh well, first I want to go to your snoop line record.

What moved you in that direction?

Like what was going on in your life at that time that made you want to go there?

Man, I just love reggae music.

And I was like, you know what, every time I go to Jamaica, I always just go to my room, smoke weed and do the show and leave and never get to explore Jamaica.

I never get to see it.

Like fuck that.

I want to see Jamaica because these niggas love me over here and I love them.

So I said, I'm gonna set up a trip.

I'm gonna go over there for thirty days and just live over there get with some producers called a dip Loo Major Laser.

Look y'all gonna do my whole record called a Vice.

Vice was a magazine company at the time that was creating content, and I was like, look, I want you to come shoot this shit for me, cause I like, how y'all be doing on location shit in dangerous neighborhoods, in dangerous areas.

And this shit is dangerous because Chris Koki just went to jail, which was dudas.

So I said, I want to go beat that nigga family.

I want a nigga.

I went.

They took me everywhere and so by me going all into these areas, which this is the real nigga that I am.

I love to explore.

I go to the Naibinie Temple and when I go there, the spirit is in me.

I can't even fake it.

When I walk into temple, it's a lady about ninety years old.

As soon as I walk in, she like the prodigal son has returned.

I don't even know what she's saying.

Well, like the prodigal son has returned.

The prodigal son has returned.

I don't even know what this means.

At the time, she grabbed me by my hands and she started praying with me, and they like, the whole wound just collapsed on me, like it was crazy for me.

It's crazy as the whole spirit.

And we walked around the fire.

Fire was burning.

Me and my wife were holding hands.

Long story short, when we leave, my wife didn't eat no meat.

From that day on, when I was twenty ten, learned from that dawn and I took on a new peaceful approach.

I ain't been into it with no niggas.

I ain't got it, you know what I'm saying, And that she used to always come on, man, I'm waking it.

Is that how it led to your gospel.

First, let me just say the gospel record is jamming.

That ship jamming like a motherfucker.

I say that.

That match.

That this is hard.

But the thing I liked about is it's like you got like real, You got the real Oh Jesus.

You had rams Allen on the ship, and I mean, that's like, how did you put all that together?

First of all, shout out to my homeboy, Lonnie Lonnie Brell.

He was one of the main instruments to putting this project together.

I had a dream and a wishless making my grandmother proud of me.

My grandmother was here, she would always you know, talk to her friends and people about me, but she can never talk about my music.

And I always wanted to make something that she could be proud of, that she could hear, and that her friends, her church friends could really you know, be proud of.

So and she passed away, I was like, you know, that's my mission.

I've been always talking about doing it.

I'm just gonna do it.

And I just went in there and did it and started all and all of the people that I wanted to be on it and expressed to them while I wanted the moment what I was doing, and they already loved my spirit as before that.

It wasn't like, oh, we're gonna do it now.

We've been following you, brother, We've been with you.

You know, we got you what you need.

I need a saying something on their brother rams, Clark sisters.

I need you to do something on there, Kimberrell, you do something by friend Hammon, John p Key, Jesus.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was incredible.

And seeing it at the Essence Festival that knocked me out.

That was pratty I felt like it was the right moment for that.

That was the best thing I've ever seen.

That was amazing moment.

Brother, we thank you, we got ap Okay, damn, let's do all right.

I was just you know, we was getting the rap rap.

Y'all doing good.

I like when the ship is good, I break ruds.

Thank you Jesus appreciate a central seduction.

Yes, that's one of that.

I want to say, you have one of the only like rap records or records and hip hop that I like the clean version better than I.

Like, yeah brook.

Brookly Zoo.

But yeah, so talk about that record because the cat that did that, Red Shorty Red.

He was so talented man, and he did like a lot of ship for Jez.

He was on some gangster ship.

He was like really one of the gangster producers, right, so he's one of my little nephews.

And he was like, I got a song, but it ain't gangster, and I think I think it's I think it's for you.

And he played it for me and he was he was he was doing everything that I was doing.

But he wasn't like he didn't put that thing on it.

He just like just laid it and I was like, I'm gonna put that T pain on it, but I ain't gonna put all of that te pain.

I'm gonna put a little trip of T pain with my real voice.

Then I'm gonna put like a vote colder and twisting this waite so that when when you're hearing, he ain't two row body like them.

Because I didn't want to sound like everybody that sounds like auto tune.

I wanted some of my voice to overwhelm the auto tune because I feel like I got a nice voice that could blend with that.

And that was the key.

And then watch this when I do it.

I take it to the label and it's a motherfucking white boy up there, and he like, let me mix it.

I'm like, he don't know.

He's like, let me mix this, motherfucker.

I know what it needs.

Give it here.

But we kind of clashed for a minute, and I end up letting mix it.

Right when he mixed it, I called him, I'm like, man, you a bad motherfucker motherfucker named Ron Fair.

Wait, oh my god, that's the last name.

Look request you gotta you're dealing with Snoop Dorog.

You're dealing with ignorant ass Snoop Dogg, you ain't dealing with the nigga right now?

To hey, okay, you're sure whatever you're dealing with the na tell me how mother fucking mixed my song the.

Way the way you built it up.

It's just that we had a few episodes where Ron's names come up and it wasn't and it wasn't too savory.

So he was like, name Ron Fair.

I was like, oh God, yes, he's haunting us.

Yes, And that nigga mixed the ship out of it, the dog ship out of it because I could play the mixed before he mixed it.

He made it a fucking big record like the Ship.

That he did was just making my voice and the music and the way.

Right.

Because it fooled everybody.

When we heard it, my jaw.

Dropped like, oh shot, that shit go hard.

It was an instant classic.

Yeah.

See that was on the record that I think for real?

Was that a record for real?

Producer?

Was that ego tripping?

That was okay?

That was me Teddy Riley and Quick on that record?

Was not on that record?

You work like hoe.

He was not the ship.

How did y'all hold up?

Man?

Because he's Virginia.

And so that's something about me and Virginia.

I got a real bond with you.

With Virginia, man, I fucked with the Virginia crowd.

I don't know why how, but it's just like we just magical when we're together.

It's been like that, from timbling the parral to not even the nigga drum like Teddy Riley, Like I just fox with it like and then, and I never looked for it.

It was like, I'm gonna focus and niggas from Virginia.

The ship just fall in place like that, Like it just happens like that.

And every time it happens like that, it's like it's some magical ship.

And then I find out this nigga from Virginia too.

It's something in the water man, y'all cold man.

Yeah, you also had like the only for a long time, you had the only D'Angelo feature.

Imagine that the.

Imagine shut out to shut out to Angie Stone, Oh my god, going to Guinea.

So y'all don't understand how hard it was to get.

Stories.

I'm gonna tell mine, million all.

So we call the nigga, right, everybody scared to call him?

Give me the mother fucking phone DeAngelo.

Hey, nigga is snoop yah he nigga.

I need them vocals because it's already wrote pool Beard and wrote the ship.

All you gotta do is just singing this ship.

Nigga.

Understand me, and you're gonna be there with you.

She take him to the studio.

He listened to it.

He like it.

He go to the car and she came back.

He left whoa Break You Off?

Part two?

Next day he comes in, he sings two lines and then he leaves what.

You should be here?

Fourth day, Pool Beard, go sing all of that ship and have that nigga up under you, and we're gonna blend your voice together because this nigga keep ripping and running.

You serious listen to it.

Wow, it's him on and poo bear.

He's all pool from fifteen hundred.

He used to be with Scott Stores that one, okay, gotcha?

Yeah.

He used to write for Justin to be Yeah, but that was but you know I had to me and my conversation with him, and then Angie she pulled it all together.

Like That's why I got to give her a shout out, because she was instrumental.

I'm going to get him.

I'm finna make it happen, and like she was really a soldier, you understand me, Like going to make shit happen.

Man, what year was that?

Two thousand and three and two thousand and six album came out in two thousand.

Yeah that sounds just about right, man, Like you have to well, you know, rap your story right.

Yes, Yeah, physically got on the plane to knocked on his door.

To make him come to the video.

Shoot.

Every generation needs one.

It's fine, fine, fine.

Whoever seven thousand private jet, whoever d is?

Every generation needs one.

It's all I'm saying.

And then I just feel goody me.

Biggie Puffy, a couple of my cousins were in New York for he ange little concert.

Supposed to get on it nine twelve thirty.

We out there still smoking one in the morning, Me and Biggie fall asleep.

Two thirty.

The nigga finally hit the stage and do five songs and leave.

Wow.

Wow, didn't even do them.

While I liked.

That this nigga didn't do double fine, nigga, you didn't do it?

Yeah, man, what's it like?

You work?

It's another one my homeboys.

You work with a lot Denan Porter, Oh, what's man in the studio?

Twelve like Me and Detroit got a cold, Cold Cold Twist two then nin like I discovered hear him off of like Nigga's not taking his beats, Like he's a nigga on the sideline and I'm listening to that nigga.

Be's like, Oh, they don't want that.

They don't want that.

He didn't want that.

Get here and you can stay on the hook, nigga.

You know what I'm saying that I am mind the kind nigga toll be.

Oh man, it sounds awesome.

If we can get our Chris Brown or may be Jeremi had senig something niggas stay on there, see if you can become something nigga.

Yeah, her him and the girl Tone Treasure.

Nigga, what nigga?

I got hits with her, he around the world hits.

She go go, go, go go.

That is one of the most talented females I've ever worked with in the studio.

Yeah, So, Snoop, where are you at musically right now?

Because you didn't done pretty much everything done country I couldn't remember.

I feel like you have I feel like a will record.

Record that actually might be.

I mean a bluegrass I can see that.

I don't like where you at.

Well, I have a couple of things that.

I'm working on.

Bluegrass has a lot of connotations.

Does I like that?

Way you gotta come to North Carolina to do it?

May happen.

Well, right now, I just finished the EP with the Dave East We did a nice little EP together, east Side Stories, Ship.

Dame, Well the Dame thing on two.

I was thinking, you say east Side Stores the east Siders.

Yeah, oh yeah, Trady, God, Yeah, what I got?

I got a new single that I just did for them for to Meet the Blacks to soundtrack.

I may want to play for y'all in the studio, let y'all get away, but it's gonna be the lead single off for the Meet the Blacks to soundtrack produced by battle Cat.

Yes, okay, that's what I mean.

I learned he's going, don't look at the clock, keep talking, watch that man, look out the clock.

I pushed Paul's on it.

Don't want to.

You're talking the walk away because I'm scared of that.

Talking about battle He is just another one of those dudes that just so underrated.

So unsung.

He Battle Cat is like Doctor Dre on stereo to me, because you know he's always been that that spot to fill in the blank.

When Dre is on hiatus for making music, Battle Cat always feel in the blank spots with some good music, that feel good, that got great bottom, that got great musical arrangement, nights singing.

So it's like, you know, he feels in the blank and he does his part because he is a part of Uncle Jam's army.

So he's been around since to get around and he produced Domino's first album.

We were talking about that earlier, that East Side is the albums just expect.

We did that at my house in Claremont, Like that's when we used to make records in my living room, like on some real shit like Trade and Goldie Lope from two different neighborhoods, Goldie from my neighborhood twenty Crip and Trade from Masane.

And we all started together when the fresh Vest was happening.

We was all together.

Then an incident happened where they separated, and this was like us bringing it back together again on the music tip and putting the hood back together.

So when we put the east Siders together, it was a movement in the streets.

That really was the real movement on we Ain't killing each other no more?

Man, you please tell me there's an unreleased album or something coming out?

Brother, where is LaToya will?

I was gonna ask about her.

Bruh Wreatha Frankment just passed away, rest in piece of RYTHD.

That was like the closest thing to like I always said, I never made a record with Aretha, but I made a record with a wreath.

Of Spirit with toy Like.

I don't know, man, I don't know what she on right now.

I love her voice.

I really love to see if she'd like to get back in the studio again.

So if you're listening to it, we love for you to come back in.

And yeah, her and Knats was doing something for a little bit and then I don't know whatever.

It came the follow through.

Some some people don't have that follow through, you know what I'm saying.

It takes the team to make sure that you got the whole follow through.

Oh okay, so.

The record of it was on the Snoops it was the compilation record Doghouse Records.

Compilation?

Was it that one doing with Trump?

Oh?

Trouble Trouble guess where you're from.

Where Virginia?

For real nigga named Vinnie.

Guess where I met him?

At Nigga seven eleven.

It was snowing my night.

Wait what, nigga, It was snowing one night Nigga seven eleven.

Nigga and I get out the little van and go buy me something out of the store right in Virginia.

The nigga like, got to CD, man, I make music, Like, let me hear this motherfucker.

I said, I it's white.

Niggam gonna slang that motherfucker on the freeway.

Get in the van, were riding.

This nigga should sound good.

This nigga got arrangement, and this nigga got toned, and I'm like, nigga, I call a nigga like, Nigga, your shit hard, nigga, Let me let me buy that song.

So I bought that song Trouble and put it on my ship.

And then we made a couple of songs we didn't want called a uh just Get carried Away.

And my uncle Rell, Oh wow, okay, yep, that was another.

It was on that album you had.

It was the Trouble record and it was somebody else.

God Man who was on that record?

I used to I used to play the hell.

Out of that album.

It was another cat that you've oh tripping superfly?

What's going on with him?

He got a song right now on to Meet the Black soundtrack that's called Past the Sticks.

I like to play that for y'all us.

When does it come out?

The soundtrack went up next month, the next month.

Of to be Out.

It's it's not.

I don't know he was.

I think he was one D Dre's camp, but nocturnal.

Is he still?

I heard from him minute minute?

Yeah, he was, Uh what with the circle?

You know he was in the crew, but I ain't heard from him in a minute.

You know, this is the one wild West you got to stay in at the winning.

I just ask, at what point in your career did you know that you could sell things to all of America?

Like it was a point where you crossed over white people.

Yeah, to white people.

What was like, how did you get Martha Stewart's trust?

Yeah?

Start, but yeah, beforet it was before all of that though.

It was before Martha Stewart.

It's been for a while now, you've been in.

The Charisma goes a long ass way.

Most charismatic people aren't talented.

But it must have been.

It must have been a point though where you were like, ship, look at this, they're paying attention, and they gonna let me sell this to everybody.

You know, whatever it was, it's like you don't never realize until it actually happens, Like because you don't.

Nobody really watches their highlights while they playing the game, you know, like true superstars, they don't really you know, look at that.

They're too busy trying to get more highlights.

And then at the end of the day, then I'll be able to look back and say, Wow, I didn't realize I was doing X, Y, and Z.

Right now, I'm just doing me and all the opportunities that that happen to fall my direction, I try to make the most of them and try to put things together that are gonna.

Be here for the future.

I had like stages of my life when I didn't really give a fuck about the future, and I feel like those moments are see many and they mean a lot because they helped raise people and they helped cement who I was and how I'm supposed to do it.

Then his stages in my life where was like I gotta mean something.

I gotta like give some information and direction because now I'm on the on the level of one who has that, and I shouldn't be selfish and try to keep it to myself.

How long did Jun Pharrell work on the Bush album?

I love that recormend and I don't know.

What Bruno Moore's album.

It sounded just like.

Now that's sound like a the Spruntle nigadamous front Now Bruno Moore shout out to Bruno for writing a young, Wild and Free and not wanting no credit.

Oh he wrote that one.

Yeah, wow mm hmm.

He was going through some things judicially, So we worked it out to where I wrote it and you know he wrote it it.

Wait, I forgot we did that together.

Yeah, you came to the show.

It was Bruno back when I knew who Bruno was.

Yes, know you and uh yeah, see quest I forgot every nigga, Yeah.

I forgot.

It's like, what's your name?

Bruno?

Okay, nice to meet you.

Now look at him, now, who are you?

Nigga?

Who is your right?

On the California Road joint with Stevie watched it, Watch this moment.

I got tell you the moment first, so we're up there with the music right.

First of all, he made the song the school Boy Q, school Boy the school Boy Q that morning.

It was for like a remix or something.

He didn't morning I heard, I was like, Nigga, I need that nigga.

That shit hard give me that.

I'm a sing and I'm gonna have my nigga, James Fundroy write my verses.

So that way I got some some melody about it.

So then I'm listening to Pharaal saying, I'm like, so now we're in the studio, I'm smoking.

I'm like, we need to get Stevie one on.

This mother, Like you got his number?

Like, yeah, I got the nigga number.

Nigga.

Hold on, Stevie, what's hadding it?

Hey?

Hey, I need you have to studio, nigga.

What you're doing?

Man?

I got to hit record with me and forhar Real.

I'll be right there.

Stevie comes to the studio.

Now, mind you, me and Pharreal in the studio were smoking.

He ain't smoking, but we smoking.

He right next to us.

He's smoking him out the fuck out.

So now Stevie get there, right.

So Stevie listening to the record in the in the in the room with us.

Then he going to booth.

So he in there f the sing.

He got his head fus on.

He's singing, and I'm like, for real, tell him what to do and for real, like m I said, because Stevie, been in there for five minutes, cause you ain't told cause nothing.

He just sitting in the booth for like five minutes.

I'm like, first of all, somebody need to go in there for that nigga fall.

So he don't say that.

I'm like, cud tell the nigga what to do because so he don't say nothing.

So he pushed the little thing I said Stevie Pharrell said, sing on this part and sing on that part.

So he started singing.

He doing this thing, and I'm like, for real, tell the nigga be comes.

This ain't my expertise.

I don't do all that.

But niggas is saying, I just sit back and watch nigga.

You're suposed to telling him to do the runs.

And this nigga, for real, just sitting there stuck.

Some of the coaching.

Stevie.

I'm like, I know, I'm for the fuck this song all right, Stephen, When you get you this part, need you to go.

And then Steven did you bring your harmonica?

Wow?

Did you bring it?

Pull it out?

All right, Stevie, just play anything you want.

When Pharrell gets sober, we're gonna take the best part.

And that's how that motherfucker song came about.

I ain't making this ship up.

Thank you over, I love it.

I love it too, Thank you, thank you.

Can I ask one week question?

Okay, yeah, because I got a few, so listen.

First of all, that's not like a black woman.

Can I asked one week question there because I got a few.

Well, I wanted to go back to my roll call because I was serious about this question because it's been like some documentaries and some studies and whatnot, and I wanted to know your opinion on what people are saying about the Indica versus s Tativa and saying that it's it's all bullshit, Like where are you with that?

Well?

I think that sativa is for certain people and Indicas for certain people.

That's whatever you make it is.

It's like some people like gins, some people like uh whiskey, some.

People like bring it down to like a kindergarten.

To versus Indica is for the aggressive, for the ones like myself, the ones who've been doing it for a long time.

We need like a high tolerance who looking for the highest level of getting there.

Sativa is more of a female relaxation.

You know.

To me down, I never heard it described.

It's real.

I don't see a lot of niggas that be like, you want to hit this sativa.

Damn so fast?

You got a flower with that too, nigga.

But the word is that it's not real.

The concept is not real.

That's what I was saying.

The word is that the concept is not real.

And some bullshit Indica and different so that that is.

Very real because they're two different and strange.

They're two different.

How would I explain that, Frank?

What are they two different?

What I want to make you want to go to sleep, the other one will keep you up eating.

Yes, it's like like a relax like Sativa is more like connected with medical you know, because it's the yeah, exactly.

And then the Indicas like the party ship where all the rappers and you know what I'm saying, the high energy and you got ship to do when you're trying to get it done.

And you know what I'm saying I've.

Heard what I've heard described, and I don't know if it's in different strains within them, but like one is like a body high and one is overhead high.

So which one would you recommend, like for pain, like for like joints off writers out that kind of ship, which one words better for pain?

You would have to be prescribed.

I would go to a real, real ship.

You could go to a real yeah.

Dispecially and go see a real doctor and they'll tell you exactly.

What rub some tossing on it?

Are you?

Are you looking to get into the dispensary games?

That's what?

No, not that game you That's what I was gonna say.

How invested are you in that?

In that game?

Snow premium nutrients, That's what I was going to speak about that.

Just think about what a nutrient is.

A nutrient is what you need to grow the flower.

So everyone who grows flowers, I know.

Some genius you was gonna drop.

I don't want to.

Stadium.

I don't want to be the grass that they playing on man.

That every night.

I can't play the game without grass.

Just wow, you just give me food for thought.

Yeah, go that direction.

You know what I'm saying, because I can trying to everybody because it's a race horse?

Is it public to get to the pinnacle of I got the best product.

I'm doing this.

I'm in this industry.

But it's like alcohol.

This probably happened when alcohol was pro prohibition.

When it became what I were legal, it was probably sixteen seventeen different brands that was competing, and then there were seagums.

Then there was you know, certain motherfuckers that just pushed out the way like there were just four exactly like, ain't nothing had any y'all can't fuck with this because we thinking way further than y'all.

The product is better and.

We do it better.

Can you advise for the middle man?

Because literally, my my mother was like she really wants to invest in the marijuana industry.

And tell Mama and I'll let me give me a few dollars.

I'll give a nice look.

Yoh, okay, all right, I got you.

All right, then Mama double up pack to get it going.

I got to ask bones, Yeah, what was it like shooting at when I When I got the role Ernest Dickerson, he was like Pam gres signed on and I was like, yeah, you know, I'm cool as a motherfucker.

Yeah.

So he like, I got y'all flight together.

They y'all gonna fly in so that way y'all can, you know, get acquainted because there's a lot of scenes that y'all got together.

I'm like, all right, cool, bamn, grand nigga do this shit.

Nigga flying to first go, she flying the fresh Go.

I'm sitting down.

She come behind me and tap me on the shoulder and I look back and I'm like, damn cause it's Pam Grid.

So I'm like I look at her, give her hug, and she like chopping it up with me for a minute.

I'm like, all right, I go to the bathroom.

Nigga just faint, just.

Fall out, boom, right on the floor.

I'm laid on the floor for like five minutes.

My security coming in, like, nigga, get off there.

Literally, nigga for real, metaphorically, Nigga, I got a heap niggas.

I've seen Pam.

Nigga said, It's like when I saw Janet Jackson.

Nigga went limp.

Nigga.

Niggas come grab me off the floor.

They throwing water and shit on the niggas.

So I regroup and Nigga are a flight.

We sitting side by side the whole flight, Nigga, my heart beating like ninety go West, and she just chopping up with me, just being so real.

She makes me comfortable, like this is one of the only motherfuckers ever been like struck around because I'm like, I got scenes whatever, I gotta catch her, and I gotta so I'm getting nervous and shit like.

But then she like break me all the way down and she like, call your wife for me when we land, and then she how let my wife when I land.

I'm like, this is a real fucking queen devil right here, you hear me?

And it just put me in his zone where I was like, all right, cool and I went to set and then Ricky Harris was there rest in peace.

Yeah.

He made my job real easy because he had already been on many movie sets and he was just like, Nigga killed this shit, Nigga like we used to do.

Nigga, fuck that, nigga, you know, giving me that confidence, like Nigga, you the league, Nigga, you to start Nigga.

And it was like I needed that, not in the cocky way, but I needed that in a confident way.

You talk about Ricky Man, because I didn't really know much about him, but I know he was.

I mean we knew him from their comedy.

Jam and like he was like on all the skits and the voice from the w Ball.

Yeah, what was Ricky like?

Man working with him?

Funny, real, serious, Like My whole childhood was put him in church.

His father was the preacher of our church, Reverend Richard George has the Fund.

Ricky was always athletic.

He taught me how to play quarterback in nineteen seventy nine behind revend Vin's house.

He was funny in church.

He was he could sing, He was like all this, all the things that you see me doing, it had to be somebody you've seen doing it first.

He was probably the first person I seen doing the do you know, multitasking, being funny, being real, being an athlete, being this, being that, you know what I'm saying.

So it was like when he made it, we made it.

Then he got on ice Cube album.

First and he was.

Ice That was Ricky.

I did not know that.

So when I hear that, I'm like, Nigga, I need you on my ship, Nigga for our radio station w Ball.

He just handled it from there.

But like even from just being kids to us making it, it was a comfort zone working with him, like whenever I would have him around, like he would be in a lot of the writing, like when I had my show Doggie Fillers and all that shit.

He was one of the writers, and like I would always bring him to the job, like to be one of the niggas behind the scenes with that pen because he knew me, like a lot of them writers in Hollywood didn't know me.

They just was writing bullshit.

We think this will be funny if you say this, and I need a nigga in a room, But like that nigga ain't gonna say that.

You know what I'm saying, Like you need that kind of motherfuck in the room?

Did you improvise the line fuck your fort little nigga and baby boy?

You know that ship wasn't.

Yo.

That is like you know me and my boys, we played bad and this ship whoever got.

That pot?

That was.

So thank you for calling that.

It's so much you've given to the game, every roots argument.

You know what I was talking to Max is Julian right, and Max, this is my nigga, right, here.

I love him to death.

Mac.

So we're talking about the Mac, right, and he's like, yeah, man, you know what, So Richard.

Man, we get to the set the director, because the director was a white dude named Michael Campus, You're like, yeah, so the white boy, you know, trying to tell Richard what to do.

Richard like, white boy, you can't tell me a motherfucking thing.

I write my own mother fucking line, he said.

So Richard did all his lines.

You know, he wrote his own ship.

Your nigga.

I couldn't tell him nothing.

So when you watch the Mac, know that that nigga.

Every line he did in there was his.

Wow, he wasn't having it.

But what was it like with John Singles and man?

How how did it all go?

Man?

John is a dear friend.

He's been with us for a long time.

He was like always supportive of the two one three movement.

He was one of the people I really wanted to do a two one three movie back in the days.

Like he was really into what we was doing.

Remember he gave warn g that shot, would you know with the first say yeah, put him on.

You know what I'm saying.

So working with him is like it's so easy.

But he's so professional.

So it's like you're getting you're getting your comfort zone.

But at the same time, this motherfucker's professional.

You know when he finished, but you're gonna look amazing.

You know, it's gonna be a part of something that's a story.

So you really want to follow his direction.

A lot of the things that we would do, he would give me direction and he would say, all right, I won't I want to shoot it my way, and then I'm gonna shoot it Joe way.

Like what would Rodney do?

What will Rodney say?

Then?

Like he'd say, well, do it this way, say it like this, and then I do it that way.

Be like all right, I got that.

Now what would Rodney say?

H shit, fuck your fort little.

Any plans for your biopic of you?

Because everyone is doing their biopics now.

That's what I wouldn't do.

I wouldn't do everyone else.

Yeah, man, what happened?

Okay?

The tupac I just forget the tupop Bob.

Why did they have you doing your own voice as the characters?

You think that's what it sounds just like you think it was printed somewhere about you post that Oh.

That Google?

Can I can I ask the quick John Singleton questions.

You want to know.

Since you mentioned John, I want to see what you thought about Snowfall.

Franklin is the ship, yes, but can you else Nigga to Snoop Dogg.

Hear me, just his train of thoult.

He's just the way he This motherfucker is so Snoop Dogg.

When I watch him, I wasn't watching it in the beginning.

I'm gonna be honest with you.

I wouldn't watching him like I don't want to see another in the eighties.

I'm tired of this.

But the story watching that ship out way, I had to go back and tape season one.

Now in season two when I'm like this, Nigga, Franklin is so motherfucking cold blooded with his spiel, his conversation, like he's so snooked.

Smart and what do you it's crazy because he's British, Like how you feel about that?

Yeah, right, No, he's British, so so in the all eyes on me, that's not how did that happen?

Because it sounds like it was you doing the post.

Yeah, you have to ask the director and h okay, but I was saying about my fan.

Okay, you're always asking about a Snoop dogg bio pick.

I'm like, I would never do that for the simple fact that it's been done and I wouldn't want to do what everybody else is doing.

But there could be a.

Series sort of kind of like Knockos.

You understand me based on the life before there and after you know from father in Vietnam sixty eight.

Spoiler your childhood, Jimmy, that's amazing, right, Like.

That makes more sense for me as supposed to try to squeeze two hours of all of this shit that I'm doing and done and try to make it, you know, worthy of you understanding it and loving it and appreciating it and not offending anyone, because I believe I would leave some things out if I tried to buy it.

You might leave some in and then people, right, you know how to starting to tell other people's stories, and right, I.

See, I think it's better that way.

So Luke, can you give us some marriage hipsfore we roll out month?

Oh Man, happy wife, happy life.

She's always right, You're always wrong.

Your compound name your company and your compound.

After make sure that there's constant sufficient funds in her account.

True keep the girls to a minimum at work and after work?

Can can you talk about what you learned being a father to a daughter.

That this world we live in is fast.

These girls is hot tailed and fast.

Ye love showing they rumps and putting their leg out, taking pictures and winning makeup and trying to be grown.

Like you know, I remember when it was the time when you was a teenager.

You wanted to be a teenager for a long time.

They do because you you enjoy the moment of being a teenager.

And now it's like, I can't wait to not be a teenager so I can be grown.

And that's from not age nine, ten eleven to go to nineteen.

It ain't going from nineteen eleven, twelve thirteen no more.

It was like and to have a girl so many influences and so many girls that's doing at her age, younger than her, older than her.

So you just try to, you know, raise them the right way and teach them to you know, the ins and outs.

But they have their own minds, they do their own thing.

You just try to make sure that we did our part like me and Boss like he did our parties for us.

Like I was saying, it's only so much you can do when your kid leaves the house, just like you can't overparent.

You just got to do your job and pray that you did a great job, and you know the results will be seen in the near future.

Who are some of the people that you like when you and your wife will have problems in your marriage or just y y'all have hard times.

Who were some of the people that you could talk to to say like, Yo, I'm in this situation, how can you help me?

Like?

Who was some of the married couples or other couples of just old gg men in the industry or whatever that you could actually talk to about that kind of stuff.

Uh?

With me, it was probably Charlie Wilson was probably the only one that I could actually talk to for the simple fact that he he loved my wife, my kids.

Uh, he loves me, and my wife loved him and his wife and his family.

So it's like it's a mutual understanding.

When he gets involved and he ain't never gonna play to my side.

If I'm wrong, he gonna shoot me down and tell me, niggas you're wrong.

Was the motherfucker?

Get your ass home.

I'm gonna call and try to smoothhit over nigga.

Hear him get in through the back door, nigga before I hang up with him.

You know, he wanted them kind of niggas.

You know what I'm saying, One of them uncles will be like, this is a good ass nigga.

Right, was anybody else in the game yet like that other than Charlie?

Just catch that you could really you know, look up to and that would like help you in that way or just anyway, like career Rise, anybody that gave you good career advice.

I like ice cubes advice.

Ice Cube is giving me a lot of great advice.

A lot of shit he told me to pass on.

I was hard hitded in the beginning because I was like, Nigga, I'm hot, niggama doing They want me to be in thirteen movies nigga, Nigga, they want you to be in Who's the Man?

Nigga?

Who's the man for too?

Nigga?

Better sit your ass down, nigga.

You know what I'm saying, Like, it's a couple things I did that I'm not, you know, too happy about that.

I should have took his advice.

But as I got older and started making better decisions.

I could thank him and say, well, you know, I ain't about the money, snop.

We got a whole bunch of moneyf we gelt to be in this garbage ass movie.

This shit sucks, cock, but we're gonna pay you so much fucking money.

It's fucking horrible.

That's basically what the nigga should say, you know what I mean, That's what it boils down.

I was wondering if you was like your own brain trust in that way, because you make some pretty awesome decisions.

That's what it's been for like the past ten years.

And I got a lot of that from like one of the young niggas, fifty cent, Like it was one point in time where fifty men him was rolling together and he was doing a lot of shit on his own.

Like it was fucking me up that I would always have my people going there meeting.

This nigga would be in the meeting, and how this nigga in there and I'm not in there, and and it's certain shit he was doing.

He put me up on certain things, and I was like, you know what, this nigga's smart, he brilliant, and he passed information on and you know when I got that information and I ran with it and don't mind sharing the fact that I got it from you.

Yeah, what do you do with your kids now?

Because how old?

How old are your your kids though?

The motherfuckers in the twenties?

Yea, I am.

I just had a granddaughter I know, was.

Gonna graduate regulations.

Gorgeous.

I think I saw in the bathroom her name is eleven.

Eleven.

That nigga's twenty eighteen knocking.

You ain't for no regular names, No more gonna say her name is Isabella, it's eleven.

But you know I'm grandpa eleven.

Come in back, come gr grandpa.

What's the significance behind?

I ain't even masked my son?

You know?

How do you ask the nigga?

What?

So?

What was y'all thinking?

You know?

Ones equal?

What happened was it was ten nine?

What I was as a dad?

Like you know what I'm saying, being that you had so much assess in your career and you know your upbringing, all your kids upbringing was way different than yours.

How did you, I guess, how did you navigate that?

Being that you know how you came up versus how your kids came up?

But not wanting to spoil them or and still wanting to be able to, you know, find their own way in life.

Thank god for the Snoop you football league, because my football league was urban and it was them playing with kids that came from urban communities, then building relationships and then going to school with kids like that and learning how to live within but without, and then me and my wife would bring them to certain situations where they could see this is where we grew up at, this is where we lived at, and walk around and look aside this one bedroom and like nigga, y'all got a room that's yours, and we lived in a house that was the size of your room.

Like to appreciate, to understand the fact that it's a struggle and it's a hustle.

We want you to live better, but don't take it for granted because they can all be taken away.

And this is where we come from.

We know how to adjust to it.

If we have to go back to y'all don't.

So the best thing you can do is prepare yourself and try to do some things that were you not connected to my thing, but create your own thing.

It's gonna be understood.

They didn't understand it, but I think as as time goes on, they get it.

And I'm gonna do what the real people do.

I'm gonna make sure my family tied into my business, so I'm gonna make sure they're gonna learn this shit one way or the other.

Well, Uncle Snoop, we thank you for your why savee device?

We gotta wrap up even though we got fifty nine billion more questions.

Oh can I thank you for what?

For the Hall of the Sisters, for what you said on the view, because you know, we like forwarded that like fifty thousand times, watched it again again and again and again and again, and put it on when he was asked about well, he was asked about Kanye, and he basically said that he needed a good black woman beside him, and that's.

What was wrong with him.

You ain't never leaving Kanye.

I was just saying I reposted to John, thank you.

It was true, and it didn't mean like a lover, which just means somebody was the ability.

That he needed.

It is no one around you understood what you meant, whether it was a sister, whether it was.

What happened.

For flowing flying in the day, obviously she coming straight over here.

Let me know when you get here, like you got scared when she coming in.

She got.

Bring your.

Man.

We thank you for everything.

Just thank you.

Come on, man, just watching your journey just for over these years, it's been it's been a great and seeing what you've built here at this compound and it's like you don't want to go home.

Yeah, life goals.

Thank you.

You're one of the people I tell my kids just the story of like innovation and like how long is my oldest son?

He likes rhyming.

You want to wrap and stuff and I'm just like, man, but you look at a cat like snoop, it's like killing it now to know where he came from.

And let your son know I was weak once upon a time I wasn't wasn't great.

I was awake and I had to get better.

I knew I was wake.

You know what I'm saying.

That's the thing.

When you're wake and you know you're weak, are you gonna accept it or you're gonna get better?

You know what I'm saying, Yeah, do something about it.

So let him know.

You know, he ain't he ain't great right now, but he can be great.

And don't accept that ship.

Keep going till he find greatness.

Why is where?

It's the live by well, ladies and gentlemen.

On behalf of Team Supreme.

I'm leaving the proper music in the background, so anyway.

On behalf on the rough side.

He's gone.

Span Holidays everyone, Yeah, happy holadays.

Thank you very much, stupid.

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