COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

Nobody likes not having freedom.

When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired.

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.

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

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.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.