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 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.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.

I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

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.