I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.
I’m looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America’s hottest hood artists.
Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it’s home protection or street protection.
There’s certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen to the counselors and social workers and everybody else talking at you, you would think that once you got out of high school and college, life would be beautiful. But it’s not.
Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.
The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it’s time.
I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.
When you’re dead, you don’t breathe, you don’t see, you don’t feel, you don’t love.
I’m destined to live and say things.
It’s old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don’t even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music.
I don’t want anybody shooting, but I can’t stop it.
Drugs are so easy to get in the ghetto. They might not be easy to get in nice areas like Beverly Hills, but in Long Beach and Compton and South Central they’re easy to get.
Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.
Now people think it’s cool to have a baby, but it ain’t cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That’s the future.
People who don’t know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.
My mama couldn’t give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.
Growing up, I didn’t dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.
When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don’t have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.