I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.

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.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

you don't love me, you just love my doggystyle

You won't hear any more alcohol songs from Snoop Dogg - unless I stumble upon some Hennessy.

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.