Snoop Dogg Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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 ... — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

You know what, I'm going to say this and I mean it, if all else fails and I've got to shake, rattle 'n' roll and get on the woo-wop, this is going to be my heeyah zone. — Snoop Dogg

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

The streets will teach you about racism and capitalism and survival of the fittest. Don't worry about that. The only thing you've got to worry about is if you've got enough cold-blooded ambition to apply the lessons you get taught. — Snoop Dogg

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea. — Snoop Dogg

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

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

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

You got to be who you are when you are. — Snoop Dogg

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name. — Snoop Dogg

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

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone. — Snoop Dogg

Why do people carry guns? Protection, right? To protect me and myself. Whether it's home protection or street protection. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

So don't blame me for the problems. You can't fault me for it. You can't blame me. You want to blame me but I'm just trying to express what is going on, and trying to keep America open to it. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — 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? — Snoop Dogg

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

My mind on my money, my money on my mind. — Snoop Dogg

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

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

The more medicated the more dedicated — Snoop Dogg

There's certain classes you have to take, certain things you have to do, certain money you must have. Then, if you listen to the counselors and social workers and everybody else talking at you, you would think that once you got out of high school and college, life would be beautiful. But it's not. — Snoop Dogg

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world. — Snoop Dogg

Do what your heart tells you is right. — Snoop Dogg

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

Word: I'm not saying the races don't have a common human bond. I'm just saying that bond isn't about compassion and equality and tolerance. What we all share together is the drive to get what's ours and keep it for as long as we can. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

There'll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns. — Snoop Dogg

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time. — Snoop Dogg

So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. The three-strike rule is to break down a black man. — Snoop Dogg

When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

A song ain't why people kill cops. — Snoop Dogg

It makes me feel the way I need to feel. — Snoop Dogg

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated, — Snoop Dogg

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

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

You don't get respect if you don't deserve it. — Snoop Dogg

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

Know when to lie to your kids. — Snoop Dogg

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman. — Snoop Dogg

Nobody likes not having freedom. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage. — Snoop Dogg

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. — Snoop Dogg

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

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

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