Snoop dogg quotes

I'm a spiritual man and I've always felt connected to Rastafari. I'm not a Rastafarian but I've got so much respect for the lifestyle and religion, and I'm so thankful I was able to meet some of the most influential Rastafarians during my Jamaica trip. They taught me so much and really helped me evolve into who I am today.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

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.

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

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.

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!

Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.

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.

You got to be who you are when you are.

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

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

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

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

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

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

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

It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none.

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.

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

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.

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

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

Do what you feel is right, baby.

I'm destined to live and say things.

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.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

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

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

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

They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.

When I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's just like when I do rap music or whatever style of music I do, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life.

I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person.

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

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

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'll rap as long as people want to hear it.

It makes me feel the way I need to feel.

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.

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.

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.

Love goes unappreciated a lot of times, but you still gotta keep giving it.

Do what your heart tells you is right.

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

There are so many people in the closet, and we are giving them an opportunity to come out of the closet and just admit they like to smoke.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

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.

I think it's too late for prayin, hold up, a voice spoke to me and it slowly started sayin' 'Bring your lifestyle to me I'll make it better. I'll make your life better than you can imagine or even dreamed of.' I see demons. So relax your soul let me take control. You go down with the devil. Now roam through the depths of hell, where the rest your homeboys dwell.

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.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.

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

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

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

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

A lot of people don't know that I love to love. To have a different kind of mask on me where people feel like I'm not a loving individual. I just love to love, I love everything and everybody, I'm about peace that's my spirit.

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.

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

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.

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

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

I'm taking my skills to different people's homes that have stoves for it.

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.

Bikinis, zucchinis, martinis No weenies.

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

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.

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

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, someone comes into your life who'll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who's tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.

I stay busy and projects look for me. I aint goin nowhere no time soon and that's how I continue to evolve. By stayin relevant and makin hits.

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

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.

I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.

An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

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

With so much drama in the L-B-C, It's kinda hard bein Snoop D-O-double-G

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.

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

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.

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

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

I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on.

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.

It's an unexplainable feeling, an expression. It's a touch, it's a feel. Once you feel it, it's like no other thing in the world.

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.

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.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly. Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed. Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place.

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.

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

Know when to lie to your kids.

The more medicated, the more dedicated.

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

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

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.

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.

Drop it like it's hot.

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.

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.

People get killed every ten or 20 minutes. When we die, we are just another statistic.

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

I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.

The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.

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

Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future.

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. They don't drop those drugs off in Beverly Hills. They drop them off in the ghetto. Then they tell us it's wrong to sell them. Well, we didn't bring them here. We just sell them. I was selling, like I sold newspapers.

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

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.

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.

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

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

A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack.

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

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