I make music that makes you dance, so I mean, it's appropriate, you know what I'm saying? I make the kind of music that DJs can grab a hold of and spin the record and people just love rocking out to the big Snoop D O double G.

Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!

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.

The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

My name was given to me. I didn't just decide to change it one day. But I ran with it to reflect a more peaceful and positive attitude for my new Reincarnated project. The Snoop Dogg name is so connected to hip-hop, and I didn't want to change that. Hip-hop raised me, and I would never turn my back on it.

I wanted to become a better Snoop Dogg, full of water, proteins and stuff to keep me alive . . . lollipops and Big Macs.