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Our first guest is a hip-hop legend for sure.
He sold over 37 million albums world-wide
and now he's making his theatrical debut
in a new play called Redemption of a Dogg.
Please welcome the one and only Snoop Dogg.
(audience cheers)
(smooth R&B rap music)
♪ You got a lot to be smilin' fo ♪
♪ So what the fuh you been wylin' fo ♪
♪ C'mon ♪
♪ I get my grin on ♪
♪ And smile on ♪
♪ 'Cause I always get my grin on ♪
♪ My fellow magazine, just the way people see ♪
Oowee!
I'm living my best life.
(Wendy laughs)
Well I want to give you shoe cam first
Thank you
Okay?
So you put your feet on those feet
and look twist and jive.
(pleasant harp)
(audience cheers)
I didn't know what to expect you to wear today.
I didn't know whether you were gonna go like casual chic,
or whether you were gonna have a suit on,
with a hat with a feather.
(Snoop laughs)
Your style is everything.
Yeah!
And very eclectic.
and by the way, every single fan here at Wendy,
has been on overtime since Snoop entered the building.
For real?
(Snoop and audience applaud)
Not them, I'm talking fan as in,
(audience cheers and applauds)
Oh you must be talking about my new cologne, Contact.
The neighbors across the street were calling us saying
"Can we come over?"
(laughs)
Its my new cologne its called Contact.
Mhm, I love it.
(laughing)
Your hair looks great.
You're got having a problem with you edges or anything.
And I know I said that the last time I saw you
'cause that's a big deal when you have heavy in the back.
You have good hair!
(audience cheers)
Thank you, Wendy.
Shout out to my stylist, Queen B Tasha,
she's been my stylist my hair was knee high
to a flea nigh.
So, she's got it like it is.
Nice.
So, she gets to see the world as she travels with you
Yeah, she makes sure I'm on point, you understand.
Good for her.
Yeah
Good, alright so this Redemption of a Dogg.
Yes.
Tell us a little about it.
Tamar was here she talked about it,
but you stopped by a few ago,
and we briefly talked about it, looks interesting.
It is, it's the story of sorta of, kind of like my life.
It's the story of an artist whose
An artist as a musician or an artist as a painter?
Musician, a musician who has to fight for his legacy,
fight for his life, fight for his wife,
and fight for the god that he believes in
and at the end of the day
Why is he doing so much fighting?
Because it's a redemption story so it's more about
the struggles, the parallels of him getting
to the point of success and having to make a decision
of what's more important.
And what role does Tamar play for you?
She's an angel.
Aw.
Perfect
Yes
Perfect
Yes
Does she puff or pass?
(laughing)
When she was here we asked her and she said she passes
'cause her voice has to be ready for the morning.
But if I told on an angel, would god be mad at me?
(audience vocalizes)
Are rehearsals tough?
You know what?
I think that this is something that is gonna be real easy
because the simple fact is that we both love what we do
and the ensemble cast that we have
the people are so excited to be a part of this
Yeah, but it's a lot of work, a lot of hours.
It is but,
Like I was on Broadway and I loved my experience
in Chicago on Broadway,
I played a role that I did not know
how to dance or sing at the same time.
Do you dance or sing?
I do know how to dance and sing,
but I'm not gonna do no dancing or singing in this one.
So, then that part is out, all you have to do
is memorize your lines.
No, no, no, there's memorizing my lines,
there's energy, there's enthusiasm, there's mode.
Improvising your lines. Too.
It's a lot of mode too, it's a lot of up and down.
It's such a great story.
Its hard to try and tell you about it.
As opposed to want you to come see it,
and really get a chance to see me do my thing
on the stage.
You've seen me in different lights, on TV,
and movies and videos, but now you get to see me on stage,
live in action.
Definitely.
(audience applauds)
You have, like this incredible career,
where you're incredibly sexy, incredibly recognizable,
and incredibly, you've been here for so long
there's so much you can teach or talk back to.
You know the people coming up.
Unbelievable, you're a legend.
That's crazy.
(audience applauds)
Wow Wendy, that's crazy that you said that because
I remember the first time I did your radio station
and you were a legend.
Well
(audience cheers)
No, for real though.
Thank you, We've both been around for a long time.
It was a dream for artists from the West Coast
to come out here and do certain radio stations.
You know, Howard Stern, Wendy Williams you know?
It was that kind of échelon.
Yes
And you did that and you still doing that.
Yes, thank you.
(audience cheers)
Thank you, thank you, but for the grace of god.
So, Snoop cooks, you know?
(laughing)
Have you ever had a weight problem?
Have you ever been fat?
(laughing)
I mean because honestly you can't
You gotta look at my baby pictures
I was a fat baby.
You were?
(laughing)
Then what happened?
Have you ever had to struggle with your weight,
as far as keeping it down?
'Cause it's working for you.
No, it was more about trying to gain weight.
Everybody was telling me how small I was,
and how I was skinny, and this and that.
So, for the last like six months I've been working out
trying to gain weight and better myself.
Oh you're doing, now actively?
Now, I just started making it six months ago, working out.
Wow
Yeah, for the first time.
(audience cheers)
Wow!
So, the cook book is it all this good for you stuff,
now that you found yourself?
Oh no, there's some bad for you stuff in there for you too
(Wendy laughs)
No, it's a cook book I call From Crook to Cook,
because I've come a long way from where I am to where I'm at
and the book is 10 great recipes that I put together
that are based off of me
Oh only 10?
Yeah, I don't wanna over do you.
You kept it easy.
Yeah, I want you to get the book you know what I'm saying?
How's your family do you cook for them?
You know what?
I'ma be honest with you, I taught my maids how to cook.
Perfect, perfect.
See that cuts the game in half, you understand me?
That's rich.
Thank you!
Yes!
So, how's your wife and how are the children?
How's Cordell?
My wife is amazing.
Aw.
She's doing dancing, she's like, finding herself everyday.
I love watching her on Instagram when she dances
and do all those sexy moves.
They've been together since they were kids, teenagers.
Yes, 1989, 1990, somewhere around in there.
She's been there with you, wow.
Deserving of everything.
That's my back bone
How's Cordell?
Cordell is doing amazing right now.
Look at Cordell.
He's a junior in college, right now.
He's doing his model thing, you understand me?
Did it upset you when he stopped playing football?
Because I know that something that you both love.
You know what, it kind of upset me,
but then I started looking into the CTE situation
and to the guys with head injuries,
and I said to myself, "my son is very smart,
"for getting out early and maintaining
"his mind state" and he must have seen something.
Like the guy at the Buffalo Bills.
I said to myself, you know the guy from the Buffalo Bills,
that story about him just walking off at half time,
is that what you call it in football?
Yeah
(audience laughs)
At half-time and he stayed in the locker room,
they had like a half-hour down,
you know halfway through the game,
I wasn't watching obviously, I don't watch sports.
But he's in the locker room,
team comes back out to the field, he stays in.
And he says, "This is my last day, I quit".
He's married, they don't have children yet,
he doesn't want his brain to be rattled.
He's only 30 years old.
I mean its a pro and a con to football.
I think the way he did it though, in the middle of a game
was kind of messed up.
It's messed up but at the same time that's his life,
that's his brain, that's his head.
That he wants to be there for his family.
No, I get it but the way he did it.
'Cause I want an answer, how did Cordell break it to you?
He broke it like it was difficult.
It was difficult for him because like he said,
and I can share this with you guys,
he had played for me, his whole life.
And he wanted to play for himself.
Got it, smart kid.
So I understood that.
So, and now he models and is looking beautiful,
if you don't mind.
Yeah, he getting that money.
How old is he?
Twenty-something
(laughing)
'Cause I know if I say his real age
them womens gonna be on him, you know?
(laughing)
He's a young thang!
Yeah
How's Cordie?
Corde?
Corde.
My oldest son?
He gave me a granddaughter.
(audience cheers)
Wow!
So, I have a grandson and a granddaughter from him.
Wait hold on, I'm all mixed up,
'cause this is your daughter right here with your wife.
Yeah that's my baby girl, that's Cori.
Cori
Yeah that's my baby girl.
I remember from the show, I just, I remember watching.
Yeah!
She's grown up so much.
Yeah, she's been growing up now.
How old is she, What does she do?
Um,
five.
(laughing)
I think she's like 19 or something like that?
Yeah, she's like 18, 19.
That's it.
So, does she have the entertainment bug?
What is she doing?
Oh, she's singing!
She's singing, she's got a couple of singles out.
Actually, she sounds good.
Now the thing is when she sounded terrible,
I told her, because I didn't want y'all to tell her.
But now that she sounds good, she is out singing.
She's got a single out right now called Love Me for Me.
(audience applauds)
Sometimes, when your father is someone like Snoop Dogg,
you have to take that advice and wear that,
Oh yes you really do.
And honor that.
When I told them, "If you guys ever get into my field,
"which is music, I'ma be your worst critic
"because one thing about the industry,
"the industry don't have no feelings,
"no emotions, and they not gonna love you
"they gonna tell you the uncut truth,
"so let me give it to you now so you get used to it".
And when I told her that, it didn't break her spirit
she said "dad I wanna go get singing lessons,
"I wanna learn how to play piano,
"I wanna learn how to play the guitar".
She did all these things and six years later,
she was able to make a song
that I felt worthy enough to put out.
Good for her.
By the way you said,
"my field which is music" but you're more than that.
You're an author, you're a thespian, okay.
Say that, I don't even know what that is but say that.
Okay you are a cook.
(laughing)
I like the way that sounds.
I'm a thespian!
(laughing)
You're a cook, you've been in movies, you're a movie star.
Right.
So you are like this thing, congratulations on it.
Look how long this has been.
25 years since the Doggystyle album.
(audience cheers)
Thank you.
You know what Wendy, one thing I can say about my career,
and about me, is that I'm a student.
I study the game.
I've always been one to want to learn about
those that did it before me.
I wanted to learn about the greats,
and when they were alive, I was able to reach out to them.
Whether it was The Dramatics, James Brown,
whether it was Charlie Wilson,
I would always go and grab that old school artist
and put 'em back in the light again,
and let 'em know how much they meant to me.
And that was the history lesson of teaching and learning.
So, now that I'm becoming the older artist, and Uncle Snoop,
now the younger artists come to me,
and I give them information and teach them the right way.
(audience applauds)
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for having me.
For more information on Snoop's play,
It's called Redemption of a Dogg,
Go to wednyshow.com
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