Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

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.

I'm Uncle Snoop. That's the name I've been given in the industry because I'm like an Uncle to all of the rappers whether they are older than me or younger than me and I love giving advice. If I feel like they need some information, I give it to them, I sit them down and talk to them. I try to get all of the rappers on one page of peace, love and just having soul and just being about representing this music.

Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

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.