Snoop Dogg Quotes

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

I'm a smoker, my name is Snoop Dogg, and I'm a stoner.

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.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.

I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in.

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.

That's why I'm so successful because peace is my main thing, it's not about money. It's about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.

I do my best to stay with tha times and keep makin hits that are timeless and relevant. Goin on 20 years so I must be doin sumthin right!

You got to be who you are when you are.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

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.

It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

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

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.

The biggest nuts and guess what? He is I and I am him.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Peyton Manning is a true leader. A legend. I love the way he is always in control. You never see him too frustrated, never see him too happy.

When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.

Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.

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

This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas.

The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.

If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.

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.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

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.

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.

The more medicated, the more dedicated.

If they would have put positive opportunities in front of me to make $1000 a week, I would have done it. But they didn't. They put $1000 in front of me and an illegal way to make it. And they expect me not to do it because they say it's wrong.

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

The fact is, the truth will come out. The truth will come out when it's time.

I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat.

If u hot and make hot ish, Imma make sure and get down with ya! Break bread or fake dead - everyone else move out tha way!

It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

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.

You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.

I'm not complicated at all. I say raps that your two-year-old son can learn.

It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.

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.