Where did you all meet?
Uh, his brother Warren G
*Scream from the public*
It's all good
Yeah, we used to have uh, nice to be in a group called
Two One Three
Me, Warren G and Nate Dogg you know I'm saying
We just you know just do underground
tapes and lonely be striving struggling
trying to get up off the ghetto and
Warren G gave one to Dre he liked it
and took it from it and it was like
you know start righting in there taking from it
*Applause*
People who are big fans of you
as probably know where the nickname
comes from but, uh, tell them where
Snoop Doggy Dogg comes from
It comes from moms
My mom gave me that name you know I'm saying
She used to call me Snoopy you know I'm saying
but I just put the Doggy Dogg in there
to give it that added flavor so
you know I think I have a twist one
Yeah, now why is she started calling you Snoopy?
I can't tell probably cuz I used to look like a dog
*Laughs*
Uh, I ran into a lady on the lot earlier today
and she gave us a photo
cuz she says she went to high school with you and...
Uh, I've seen it too in the backstage
when I was in junior high school
Yeah!
Sandy do you got the photo?
*Scream of the public*
It's all good, it's all good
You seem in a very positive movement man
Yeah, it's straight
I mean I'm blessed I'm happy to still be alive
still doing what I want to do
*Applause*
The lady also told me something very
interesting she said when she knew you
they called you Snoopy or Snoop
and, uh, she said you were one of the
nicest gentlemen she's ever met I also
talked to a lady at the label who says
you're one of the nicest people she's
ever worked with
How do you get the
other image when all these women think
you're just incredible to be around?
It's so real I mean the people are scared of
it you know what I'm saying
the situations I deal with on my album
is reality the same thing the news is
bringing you but I'm bringing it to you live
and direct like your news can't give it
to you cuz I know it, you know I'm saying
They're just scared of
*Applause*
So like I talked to you earlier about cuz I've read
that you were in a church choir
when you were little but sometimes when
we read or see the news we don't know
what's true. Now that's true, um, in that same
paragraph they talk about gang involvement
Is any of that true?
Yeah that's true I mean it was like a certain
part of my life in which I took the
wrong route more or less drifted into
the into the wrong side of life but I
mean I was blessed enough to back back off of that
still be alive and get a
chance to do some positive and I took
that chance and did what I had to do
*Applause*
But so that's that's something that I
think is very important to your young
fans out there you had those kind of
problems when you were young and you
pulled yourself up
How about the drug involvement that they talk about?
Yeah I mean I was involved with all that
types of things I mean it was just it
was in my neighborhood it's in
everybody's neighborhood who was living
in the same type of area I was living
it's like if you gangbanging you don't
gangbang, take this for example Imma give
you an example some right quick
We got three homeboys, right?
These two you grew up with these two gang banging
on four years down the line
Them homeboys you love on my brothers they
know your mom and daddy when the other
said come by to ride they
not gonna say okay we know he don't bang
we're gonna just shoot them too
They don't ride on everybody so you a victim of
society regardless and they just you know I'm saying
they label it like that because
they're scared of reality but I'm not
scared of Imma bring it to you
the way it's supposed to be brought
*Applause*
With, with your past and all that
kind of stuff, um
you're a hero in the neighborhood now
you're a role model too
How do you deal with that side of it?
Do you like that side of it?
I mean
It be sitting in the county jail wright letters
calling all colleauges you know I'm saying
I mean if it's gonna make people feel
differently I mean it makes me want to
pattern my rods into a different manner
as far as getting a point across to the
kids you know I'm saying cuz I go to my
hundred percent cuz I was just like they
was I got dreams just like they got
dreams you know I'm saying  it's all good
So when you're when you're writing everything
do you think about like
there's some kids that probably look up
to me I need to change some of these
lyrics to something else you ever do that?
No because then I wouldn't be real
I'm gonna give it to him real not gonna
say don't do drugs don't do this don't do that
imma say Snoop Dogg did this Snoop Dogg did
that it was not nice I mean you should
peak my knowledge and get up out of it
before you know I'm saying that
bless with that chance to do
*Applause*
On the back of the CD, uh, you  guys...
Oh yeah, the chronic I don't care I mean it's all good
I mean I was on Dre's album, Dre's album
was the chronic it symbolize the chronic
we put it down, everybody know
what time it is it's on my chest to the
fullest I mean I'm not promoting and
telling nobody to go by none and go do
this or that this is just me if you know I'm saying
like it love it
appreciate it and get out with
*Applause*
Dre's mom was here last time y'all came
through and Imma ask you the same
question I asked him. Do you think about
mom when you write lyrics?
Always, me and my mom
got closer since I became a rapper
like these because it's like she hears so
much negative stuff as far as the media
goes but she know who I am and she knows
it ain't all real so she just blocks all
that out I mean everything I do I mean
she know one day my life will change and
I won't be you know I'm saying as like as
much as I am like if I probably will
become more of a positive image but
that's way down the line I'm not looking
on that page right now right now I'm
just trying to grab any people and I
mean if you don't like it don't listen
to it but if you like it going again
Yeah, um
Talk about the pres for one more minute
What are the biggest
misconceptions that we might have read
about you?
They try to make it like I'm
just a ruthless gangster more than
somebody who you you can't come up to
and say "hi" cuz a lot of people they come
up to me saying: "I want your autograph"
but they be scared because they're even
with these articles saying I'm like:
"How you doing? Who I tripped?
I thought you was meaning" and I mean
the media twist you up like that
the same what they're doing Michael Jackson you know I'm saying
So it's all good I expect that
*Applause*
Like did you read the Newsweek article?
Yeah I read
When you read these things
what do you see that you just hate like
if you ever want to contact the
journalist and say: "This ain't me"
Things I hate is when people like
reverend bloodshoot game over the TV
whether shooting game over the telephone
So you hate rather
the reverend I guess put a bunch
of CDs on the ground and steamrolled them?
And called the press when he couldn't
got on the telephone called Death Row
and said I want to speak to Snoop
and we couldn't sit down on your sofa
just like black man you know I'm saying
He's a powerful leader of preaching more less
he's supposed to school me don't don't
don't patronize me and put me in the
media crushing my CDs cuz you making me
money you bought that CD then you ran it over
*Laughs*
We'll be right back with Snoop Doggy Dogg
How, uh, the legal situation is going on,
how much of that can we talk about?
I know litigation is kind of complicated
Well basically the album is doing good I want
to thank everybody for buying an album
So wee should talk about another of that
Was the bail like a million?
I mean like I said I don't...
*Laughs*
When I was, uh, I went to Washington recently
to talk on the hill with Louis Stokes
about violence in the city
trying to give money to do some things
and what one of the politicians said to
me was that
Arsenio don't you think it's the fault
of your colleagues some of the people in
the film industry on television the rapper's
What do you think about
politicians who blame the condition on art?
Crime has been going on before arts
is been going on, so you got to look at it
like that before anybody picked up the
microphone is set up and I make a rap
people was getting killed you understand
what I'm saying it's like they try to
find an excuse when the problem is
really lying where they live you know
what I'm saying they're making it like we're
the problem we're not the problem we try to
solve the problem by bringing these
problems to your face so you can
understand and see exactly what we go through
Yeah I may be pronouncing this man's
name wrong but I think it's mr. Dwoskin
Dowowskin
Dowowskin, now you thank him
uh how important was he in your life
He was my probation officer I mean just
just I mean it's funny to y'all but I
mean it was a hard path for me to stop
doing what I was doing to just say okay
I totally dedicated myself to rent when
I wasn't making no money
it wasn't it wasn't paying me I didn't
have nowhere to stay it was like I was
just dedicated to this drinking you know I'm saying
my homies was pushing me
saying you don't Dogg but I was like I
ain't making no money so I can't be that
dope and the probation officer was like:
every time I get in trouble you violate
me and send me back to jail and I was
like I trying to see jail no more
So I mean I had to thank him for
that for being a homie like that
cuz he could have sent me to the pen'
he was just sending me to the county you
know I'm saying let me know and he can
you know I'm saying putting me away for
a minute so I had to get my act together
*Applause*
Do they watch my show in the county?
You're poppin'
You're the bomb in the county in our city
Good, see they need Nielsen boxes at the county
I'll be busting little asses if
they had a Nielsen boxes at the county
You're getting a lot of grief from women's
organizations like NOW and some of these
organization state they don't like you
know like women with their hair sticking
out the doghouse and stuff you know
stuff like that
Hum, what do you think, what you do say 
to women who think you're the bad guy?
I mean it's like this you don't
criticize nobody like field comments 
you know I'm saying and he'd be saying all
listen whatever type of music
he doing what I'm saying is this 
The music I do is made for the people who
want to listen to my music if you're not
made for this music stop trying to put
your ears in the studio and get it tasted
this dopeness cuz they ain't made for it
*Applause*
Do you have Sandy of the animation from
the cover cuz you wanted to say
something about the artwork right?
Yeah I want to say what's up to my cousin Joe Cool
for drawing that for me you know
what I'm saying big ded'
Your cousin did that?
Yeah did the whole thing
the whole awkward you know saying it's all good
*Applause*
So women that I manage you
you don't, I mean cuz there's
been some stuff what was that word they use? 
Beast... beast and lies in women 
You know what I don't love them hoes
*Outcry*
I'm cancelled now
I'm really cancelled now
Now
Okay, okay
Oh man
What do we have here?
Oh
You know we've
been we've been reading a lot in Los Angeles
especially and New York about
radio stations that want to take out
certain words, what do you think about
those moves?
I mean it's all good I mean
but for the radio stations that one's
just completely banned you know I'm saying
my song and those smoking you know I'm saying
the songs that's just the bomb on
the streets all they doing is making the
people who are interested in the
gangster rap say: "Okay that's one radio
station I won't be listening to."
You understand what I'm saying
*Applause*
Would the album, now this is
asking you to kind of predict something,
would the album would the CD have done as
well without the controversy in your life?
You ask the peoples in the choir
I like to hear you talk them
Of course love it yes, but do you think the
controversy, it obviously helps to sell,
but can you do it without the controversy?
Cuz I'm sure that's where you wanna go
Yeah I mean I was, I was popping on
underground before I was popping in the
light like this when I did underground
tapes I had more respect and more love from
people then before I got in the media
you know I'm saying
What was that? 
Because people really respected what I
did because it wasn't for no money and
it was just it's my heart on the line I
mean you sit down and listen to it you will respect
This is the true art
But I'm sure they understand that you can do 
some positive things with some money
Oh yeah it's all good
So you're gonna do something else for tonight right?
Oh yeah
*Scream from the public*
Oh no y'all think I should do Lodi Dodi?
Nah
You know what?
I heard somebody... Wait wait wait
I heard somebody, uh,
No, no I'm not a rapper but...
Shut up!
I heard somebody say that a really
really talented rapper must be able to
freestyle, you freestyle?
Yeah
Really?
Hey Mike the grooves like a...
give you
Would you give me some of that?
Give me, give me a handheld over here
Come with me Snoop, just one second
I'm gone with this right here
What whatever it is
The freestyle
Turn it up sir 
Wait wait wait    
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder 
how I keep 
That's what we talked about right?
It's like this, yeah, and it don't stop
now stand up on your feet and beat the beat
Snoop Doggy Dogg's on the mic I'd like to speak, preach
To each and all, I don't stall
Y'all know who the dopest rapper is his name is Doggy Dogg 
I freak and speak and preach to you
Cos' I'm on the microphone sportin' grey and blue
I'm true to what I do, I don't bang at all
I'm the smooth macadamia. Snoop Doggy Dogg, I
Make you jump, pump, pump, grab your gat but you might
find yourself slump, hump
You can't see me, you wanna' be me
I got a message to the CPT- W assup' Eazy?
I'm getting kind of greasy with curl on your neck
You can't see the Dogg 'cos I'm out to chin check
They call me the super-duper, superb
Hit 'em up, Get 'em up, Spit 'em up, word
