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.
A song ain’t why people kill cops.
So don’t blame me for the problems. You can’t fault me for it. You can’t blame me. You want to blame me but I’m just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it.
Black folks don’t have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.
I’m not rapping, I’m conversing. It’s just a conversation between me and you.
People don’t understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There’s more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets.
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.
You won’t hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg – unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.