WEBVTT - #500 - Snoop Dogg 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 What to do with your boy big Snoop d O 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.200 DOUBLEG and I want you to check me out on 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:10.840 the five hundred hear me five double ot episode of 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:12.440 Bootleg cav Oh. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.240 Yeah, the interview was smoking. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.320 Before we start the episode. Man, I gotta remind everybody 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.800 that we are on the radio in eighty cities every 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.439 single day across the country. Man Real ninety two to 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.840 three every day Monday through Friday in Los Angeles, Wild 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.319 ninety four to one in Tampa, KKFI in Phoenix. We're 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.920 all over the place, Miami, Vegas, we can go on 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.800 and on. Want to give a shout out to our 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.680 latest affiliate, shout out to Knoxville, Tennessee, Man Hot one 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.360 O four point five for being the latest city to 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.000 join the Bootleg CAV Show network. All right, now, I 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.320 don't ever really talk about the radio show on the podcast, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:49.760 keep them separate. But if you want to listen to 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.640 the radio show, you can click the link in the 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.800 bio for a list of all the cities you can 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.320 listen to at Yeah that makes sense. Oh, let's get 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:03.200 to the interview. All right, man, Look, Boulet Cab podcast. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.720 This is actually the five hundredth episode and it's only right. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.880 We have quite possibly the greatest of all time Snoop 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.080 Dogg five hundred, five hundred. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:17.600 Man, that's crazy. I like that number. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:18.479 It's a great number. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.640 Yeah, times five, yo. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.920 I gotta tell you. I always tell the story about 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.080 how your album Dog You Style like changed the trajectory 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.559 of my life. M because when I was like six 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.720 years old, my grandma You remember, Columbia House used to 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.679 send like fifteen out albums for like a penny. 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:39.120 Yeah. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.520 Sure, So my grandma somehow got DOGI Style in the 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.560 maule on tape. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:45.440 Good shot shot off to Grandma. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.040 I wanted to keep it, but she had no I 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:48.320 don't think she meant to. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.000 It the fuck. She did the right thing, good shit, Granny. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.480 See, I'm a grandfather, so sometimes grandparents do shit that 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:56.040 y'all don't understand. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.360 So it was like, obviously a cartoon cover, so that's 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:00.800 what she went for. So she gave it to me, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.760 and I fucking like, within I don't know three weeks, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.840 knew the whole album, like front to back, every skit 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.120 by heart. I mean literally, by the time my mom 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.880 heard me listening to it and took it from me, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.880 it was too late. It was over with and your sister, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:15.880 it was over. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:16.760 When your DNA. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.120 Yes, let it go, Grandma. I got to get Grandma 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.600 shout out. Man, that's see, that's g ship right there. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.720 When your grandparents have a forward way of thinking and 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.720 knowing that my grandson is going to be somebody, I 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.519 got to put this in his DNA to make sure 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.520 when he gets to the point where he's at that 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.959 it's all way any and not only. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.160 Yeah, always say that that that album to change my life. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:37.120 Man, thank you boy. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.560 I'm here, I'm here, I'm here a lot because the 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.960 dog style bro that album. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.200 That album was a It was a fun experience because 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.960 being a young rapper and being so infatuated with Doctor 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.560 Tryan and wa being able to work with him on 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.080 the Chronic and then to say okay, it's my turn 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.080 for my album you mean already like right now? Like yeah, 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.800 Like that was an amazing because I had all my 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.520 homies with me too, the people that I had started with, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.880 the people that you know watched me growing to the 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.639 MC that I became, and then to have Doctor dre 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.440 perfect my craft with DC and the whole team, it 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.040 was a blessing. 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:13.799 Yo. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.639 I was curious, like the like were you the brain 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.560 child behind the skits? Because when we're talking about like 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.799 using skips, skits within an album, just memorable skits, I 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.720 think about the beginning of Jesu and Hustlers with like 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.120 the school Teacher and even like the bathtub intro, the 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.440 Murder was the case intro, Like I feel like skits 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.360 are a lost art form and I can't think of 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.160 more iconic skits than on Doggy Style. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:38.800 That's the fact. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.160 Well, you got to understand, Doctor Dre was learning me. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.960 We had just finished the Chronic album. We just forged 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.040 the friendship. We had been together for about a year, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.400 and we started like hanging together like every day, like 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.920 just me and him, like and we pulled away from 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.520 everybody else. So he was learning the things that I 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.320 loved and liked while he was crafting my album. And 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:00.920 when we would be together, we would always either listen 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.840 to old school music or I will pop in the 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.320 VCR of an old black you know, explotation movie and 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.320 he would get that and get my spirit and say, Okay, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.760 when we make your record, not only do I have 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.720 to capture your sound, but I gotta capture the essence 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.119 of who you are and that's sometimes isn't in the music, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:23.360 it's in an inner sketch or skit before the song 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.400 or after the song. So we creatively came up with 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.840 things that made sense, like the shit. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.599 Would Nigga yo bitch chose me? 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:32.080 Yep. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.160 I always loved that scene in the Maget and then 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:42.040 the bathtub scene is from Superfly when he trying to 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.800 get out and Eddie telling him to stay in. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:46.719 You know what I'm saying. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.600 So it's like you're getting all these movies scenes instilled 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.560 into my album because I'm such a fan of that. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.719 And Dre as a producer captured every element of Snoop Dogg, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.559 which was funny, gangster real. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.120 And it's crazy too because I think back to like 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.159 the way that the Chronic. You were the first voice 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.919 on the Chronic, but you weren't the first voice on 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.359 Doggie Style. No Rage, Lady of Rage just blacked the 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.040 fuck out to kick that album. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.880 Off right, So it was Rage and George Clinton well 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.760 the first voices on my album, and Doctor Dre. He 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.560 has a different way of thinking. He always know what 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.800 he's doing and we never know what the fuck he's doing. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.520 But when he finishes, the shit sounds amazing. He knew 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.720 that he wanted Rage on the intro because Rage was 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.920 supposed to be next up with the album. Yeah, so 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.200 that's what that set up was about, hearing her voice. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.120 First, kind of like you were next up with the Chronic. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.279 Yeah, that was his train of thought. But it didn't 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.520 come to life, but that was his train of thought 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:50.200 for sure. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.040 It's crazy, man. I think I ran through the entire 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.640 album last night for a couple of times. The new 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.800 album Missionary, it's different, and I feel like it's like 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.680 kind of like an evolved I mean, cause if you 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.600 kind of go through the years of like even like 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.240 between Doggy Style to you guys getting back together for 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.240 two thousand and one, and obviously you guys have done 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.159 music since then, you know, but there's some shit on 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.440 this album and that's like, like the Tom Petty jelly 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.200 Roll record is crazy, like talk about because I saw 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.320 you went out to jelly Rolls Nashville show, which you 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.880 know was super dope shot the jelly. But how did 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.000 like the idea of bringing jelly roll onto the album 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:31.360 come up? 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:38.880 Well, when we got the concept right to beat the hook, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.800 my verse, Dray didn't want me to come with a 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.880 second verse because I had a second verse on there. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.560 He was like, nah, we need to get somebody on it. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.520 So they start throwing names out, like all kinds of names, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:58.080 big name artists, country artists, this style of artists, and 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.600 the shit just didn't match. It didn't feel like. Then 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.400 the motherfucker said jelly Roll, and the whole room lit up. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:09.120 Was like, that's the nigga him, and so we reached out. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.760 And when we reached out, Drey was gonna send him 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.080 the track. Jelly Roll was like, no, I. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:15.640 Want to pull up. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:16.360 Yeah, for sure. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.280 He told me he came through. So I wasn't even 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.840 there though. So that's how gangsta it was. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.880 It was like I had to hear it after the fact, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.120 and I didn't even meet him until I went to Nashville. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.440 Oh you didn't meet him. It's first time meeting him. 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.720 You got to meet Bunny, his wife, and the wife, his. 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.920 Whole team, his cruel, his best friend, and his other 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:36.680 best friend. This motherfucker had five best friends like this. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.640 How they came in introduced me, Hey Snoop, I'm jelly 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.240 Roll's best friend. Look take my hand. Then so was 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.080 he finished, Hey Snoop, I'm jelly Roll's other best friend. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.080 Then motherfucker. Hey Snoop Dogg. I'm Jelly Roll's real best friend. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.800 I'm the one that discovered. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:51.040 All this shit. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.040 I said, I love Jelly Row because he got the 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.200 same kind of crew I got. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.760 My homies loved me the same way. 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.120 If you ask seven of my homies right now, they 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.640 all gonna tell you, Nigga, I'm his best friend because 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:01.720 I'm friends with everybody. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yo. I saw you talk about like 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.600 I saw a quote. It was an article you did 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.120 but essentially said that, you know, with this album, you 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.920 kind of wanted to remind people that you're like one 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.280 of the greatest of all time as an MC. Do 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:22.440 you feel like, one do you care about that conversation? 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.720 And two do you feel like when that conversation happens, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.120 your name gets brought up enough? 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.840 I mean, I ain't got time to watch my highlights. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.440 I got a game to play them all here, so 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.440 I can't worry about if I'm into Sports Center Top 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.440 ten or the Hip Hop top ten. I keep putting 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.280 in work, you know what I'm saying. That's one thing 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.480 that's undeniable. You could check my resume. I came out 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.320 in ninety two and this is twenty twenty four, and 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.920 I've been relevant ever since I came out the dough forever. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.320 In music, let's say that first music first, and then 0:08:54.400 --> 0:09:00.720 other things culturally musically, yes, but music first, every year, 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.600 every decade, and then the other things are my side quest, 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.360 the things that I enjoy doing that I love doing it. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.400 I want to inspire others to do by taking chances 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.160 on myself, like engaging and believing, believing in me, like 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.480 I don't have to have nobody confirm that I can 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.360 do this or try this. I just do it and 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.160 get it done, and then it becomes you know, spectacular 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.000 and famous and people love it, and hopefully it inspires 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.959 the next generation to try and do it because I 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.640 used to be a shy kid that was afraid to 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.680 make moves and jump out there and do things. And 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.840 now I'm a leader and I want to inspire the 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.800 next man that may be shy or embarrassed to step 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.280 up and become who he's supposed to be. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.600 I mean, you are the side quest, you know, master, 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:43.320 I would say. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.560 Well, me and Shaquille O'Neil. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.920 I'll look, shaq is close, but I feel like you're 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.600 kind of you've ran away with it for a while. 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.760 But that's what I do do I do usually run 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:53.959 away with it, you know what I'm saying. That's what 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.000 I've been known to do. I'm a closer. You know 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.959 what I'm saying. A lot of guys are relief pictures. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.760 I'm a closer. I close shit. You know what I'm saying. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.120 When I get up there, expect a w because I 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.480 play hard, I practice hard, I study and I respect 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.360 the game. And when you do all those things, it 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.320 usually ends up in a successful way. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.520 I was gonna say, man like throughout like the last 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.600 thirty years, we've seen you have so many business ventures. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.920 I think till like back in the day, owning like 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.320 Snoop Dogg clothing and like getting it from Burlington co 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.840 Factory as a kid. You know what I'm saying, It 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.360 was Outcast clothing and Snoop dog clothing around the same time. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.719 Shout out to CADATAI Jones Quincy Jones daughter. She the 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.839 one who took me to a guy by the name 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.640 of Michael Well. She took me to Andy Hill figure 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.800 first and Tommy Hill figure and she got me a 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.600 brand and deal with them. And then she said you 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.200 need to create your own line. Snoop Dogg clothing. She 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.880 gave me the idea, introduced me to the people, and 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.280 that's how Snoop Dogg Clothing got kicked off. And it's 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:52.640 before she even met Tupac. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.960 Yet, No Snoop dog Clothing was crazy. It literally was 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.200 like if like if you like it looked like shit, 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.360 you would just Snoop Dogg, like straight out the closet 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.920 is stupid. But I just feel like, you know, even 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.200 like going into the crypto space, like I feel like 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.680 you were like a real pioneer when it comes to 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:15.559 like showing artists like that, there is this other world 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.280 in which you can kind of monetize, you know. I 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.880 feel like maybe three years ago, there was people spending 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.839 serious money to have digital real estate next to your house. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.280 In sandbox niggas by buying digital property for hundreds and 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.400 hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the shit was like 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.840 this big and you couldn't touch it. But it was 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.679 the fact that I had went over to that industry 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.240 and I had went on the ground I had started 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:37.680 from the ground up. I didn't come over there and 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.600 try to grab money. I went over there and I 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.360 built what the creators. I went over there and let 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:45.520 them use my name, my likeness, did collaborations, you know, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.040 changed the game, brought music over there, did things in 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:53.200 an unorthodox way to where it was appealing to that 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.640 world because that world is that same way, and I 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:56.800 wasn't a superstar to them. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.240 I was on the ground level with them. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.360 So whenever I would put something out, they would respect 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.240 it and buy it because I would usually do things 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.719 with them or allow them to use my name on 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.520 my likeness. Early when I first got into that world, 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:10.960 people was using my face and all kinds of shit. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.679 My son was like, Pops, you gotta let 'em use it. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.200 They love you, That's why they doing it. It's not 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.560 that they trying to make money off you. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:19.080 They love you. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.079 And once I understood that, then me and my relationship 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.400 with the metaverse took a whole new lift because it 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.800 was like Wow, Snoopers allowing us to use his face 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.840 and his likeness as a creator and musically use his 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:32.640 voice and blah blah this and that, and it was 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.520 a connection that can't nobody break cause I built that. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.520 Nah, that shit's crazy, definitely, uh O the first to 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.440 do that. I mean for sure, but in terms of 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.959 just like the new ventures, like obviously you and Dre 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:45.839 have a new drink. 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.040 Gin and Juice, the gin and Juice and steal. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.280 Gen uh w th Like there's just so much. I 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.400 feel like every other week we see something new. What 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.600 is like your bandwidth like on a daily basis? Cause 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.120 I j I mean I see death Row on everything 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.280 I go to the store. There's death Row t shirts 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.079 at Walmart. There's the death Row Happy Dad. You know 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.760 what I'm saying, Like you got to have just I mean, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.560 the work ethic is still so crazy at this point 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.240 in time in your career, Like how do you kind 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.520 of manage and deal with just all of the ventures? 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.840 What I did, keV, I put a team around me. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.080 For many years it would be me and a couple 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.120 of people making things happen. So what I did was, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.600 I got a bigger team, I got a smarter team. 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.400 I got employees or professionals at what they do. And 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.480 then I'm back managed by William Morris and Aria Manuel. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.280 So positioning myself to get the best out of me 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.360 while I'm putting in the best of my work right 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.160 now and not having to focus on so many different 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.559 things but being the creator, the boss, and the connector. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.400 I love it. I wanted to ask you about your 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:54.520 second album because it's an album I feel like doesn't 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.800 get talked about enough. It was probably one of the 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.880 highest anticipated albums of all time because it's obviously the 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.800 follow up The Doggy Style of The dog Father. What 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.200 do you feel like? Because I love that album, like 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.920 that that the you thought record was too short and Superflies? 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.920 But what what do you think kind of went wrong 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.000 with it? Was it like kind of like the beginning 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.160 your the splintering of the relationship with Sugar, Like what 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.040 kind of went wrong you think with dog Father? And 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.440 why it kind of doesn't get looked at in the 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:26.080 same kind. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.120 Of You got to think about what the dog Father was? 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.840 What was the dog Father? It was the follow up 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.280 album The Doggy Style, But what it was was Snoop 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.840 Dogg becoming a man. Snoop Dogg realized that he wanted 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.640 to live, that he wanted to separate from the madness, 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.480 and at that time it was looked at as it 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.040 was frowned upon because I was so gangster on my 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.240 intro and so gangster with the way I was living, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.960 Like why don't you want to be gangster anymore. Well, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.920 how about I'm fighting a murder case, and when I 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.640 win this murder case, I want to do right by 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.280 the system, by God, by the way I was raised. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.800 And if the people around me don't get it, if 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.720 the fans don't get it, if the label don't get it, 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.720 fuck them, because in twenty twenty four, I'll be talking 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.200 about why I made that decision, why that record sounds 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.280 like that, why I was hope on that record, why 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.160 I wrote about life more than death. Why I seen 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:26.200 visions of me becoming a grandfather and living into my 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.160 sixties and seventies by saying the right things in my music. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.760 Because realizing that the chronic and doggy style and the 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.680 dog pound ap and everything that I had worked on, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.080 I had wrote all of the things that happened to 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.120 me that were negative. I manifested it. So I wanted 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.680 to write some positive shit. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.640 To matter ifest some positive shit, and it happened. Would 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.240 you say that going through that trial, which is obviously 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.080 one of the biggest trials in hip hop history, I know. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:55.520 I talked to Warren G about it. He said he 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.360 was like, I got interrogated during that shit. You know 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.200 what I mean like, would you say the uncertainty of 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.960 like what your future looked like while you're going through 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.200 that trial like kind of like change, Like because what if, 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.560 like Doggy Style, you had that success and you were 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.760 on that meteoric rise and that trial didn't happen and 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.640 there wasn't something to kind of like shake you up 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.840 a little and be like, hey man, this shit you 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.840 know could get taken away, Like do you feel like that? 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.960 It kind of changed your trajectory as like a man 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:20.720 and an artist. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:26.640 Well, remember my good friend Tupacat got murdered, Sugar gets 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.800 separated from got separated from us. All this happening while 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.840 the dog Father is about to come out and then 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:32.440 comes out. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:33.680 So it's like. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:43.440 The label is in disarray, there's death, there's division. I'm 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:48.000 a crip bluzs and Crips is at it now. Sugar 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.320 ain't fucking with me no more really, So it's like 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.920 you don't really have the push and the support. And 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.840 then the record that I made wasn't as violent or 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.840 as gangster as the first one. So it's like if 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:03.320 you go see Scarface, or you go see a better analogy, 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:08.119 you go see a movie with Robert de Narrow where Casino, 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.359 and then you see him in Meet the. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.919 Foxers ah BO. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.760 Both great, right, but the gangsters don't want to go 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:22.200 see him in this family funny movie, but the shit 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:28.000 is amazing. They only want to see him shooting, chilling mafia. 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.199 That's all they want to see. So my audience was 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.720 brainwashed at the time to think that that's all we did. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.320 And then you had Tupac smashing on niggas doing the 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.720 gangster shit. I'm wood him on America's Most Warning, but 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.000 then I ain't like that on my album. So it's 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.480 like I'm two people because when I'm with Tupac, I'm 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.800 fighting the murder case, but when I do the dog Father, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:52.960 I win the murder case. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:54.720 Different. 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:55.439 So when I'm. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.080 Fighting he, I'm gonna try to keep a gangster and 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.920 stay down and all that shit. But damn, I got 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.560 these yours looking at me. So when I finished, I 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:03.119 got to get. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:03.399 Back in there. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.440 I gotta beat this mode, right because you're on probation 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:09.960 right now, you're on bail. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:12.359 I'm fighting a murder case. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:18.240 Sugar is in between both, so it's like Dre is 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.560 on the way out and we don't know it. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:21.400 Crazy. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:22.880 So all this is going on. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.639 Yeah, and the murder case pre existed because it was 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.760 wild Mark wild Doggie style. It's just dragging on, it's 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.960 just dragging out. So I got to build my best 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.840 behavior so I won't get violated and get took to jail. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:36.960 I had a house niggas you know. I had house 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.600 arrest for like six months. Yeah, because I damn near violated. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.280 It was like walking that fine line trying to keep 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.919 a gangster. Then while I'm keeping a gangster with y'all, 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.040 then eight in the morning, guess where I gotta be 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:52.320