Snoop Dogg Quotes

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

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.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

The more information you have, the better you will be.

So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

I've always been a student, so I want to learn.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

I'm a family man. I always depend on my family when I am in dire need.

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

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

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems.

Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.

[on Kendrick Lamar] The new king of the West Coast.

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.

If you're trying to get somebody and this might be the only time you're going to catch him, but he is holding his baby and with his mama, you ain't gonna let that chance go by. That's the mentality of the streets. If you let that chance go by, he might catch your ass.

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.

A lot of brands, you can't touch them. When you're dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it's a part of you.

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

My mama couldn't give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.

Nobody likes not having freedom.

Trouble comes looking for you. Lots of times I just stay in the house and enjoy my family. I try to be a father to my child, I'll stay out of trouble if I can, because I have lots to do. Other folks have different hardships. It's hard for a black man to raise a family.

They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

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.

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.

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

See, I don't want brothers shooting. I want them talking.

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

Don't get upset girl, that's how it goes. I don't love you hoes, I'm out the door.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

My biggest achievement is raising a healthy, happy family. As far as regrets, I don't really have too many. Although I've gone through some things in my life that didn't feel too good while they were happening, they allowed me to mature and develop into the man I am today. Those moments have taught me a lot. I wouldn't be the same person if I hadn't had those experiences.

Like Ice Cube asks, "Why are more niggers in the pen than in college?" It's easier to go to the pen than it is to go to college.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.

You don't get respect if you don't deserve it.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

The process for doing voice work goes by much quicker as opposed to shooting a feature. You can pretty much go in and knock it out in a day or two. It feels very natural for me to express myself using only my voice, so it wasn't too difficult.