You know, before I didn’t care about living or dying. “I was in a different mind state,” he says. He backed away from the East Coast-West Coast feud in the Nineties after he began his family life. Don’t put no time limit on how old we are, because we don’t look at the rockers and say, ‘Man, he got white hair now.’ We should get that same love in hip-hop.” So slow it down a little bit, and put some respect on our name. “You ain’t got no motherfucking rock & rollers in the Rap Hall of Fame. “You got rappers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” he says. Snoop wants veteran rappers to get the same respect and achieve the same longevity as their peers in the rock world. You understand his struggle, his love, his pain, and his admiration for people.” And in that way, it’s a real setup for when you finally see Snoop Dogg on screen. I want to tell the story about my mom and daddy meeting each other and falling in love. “Every iconic moment that ever happened in the past 30 years he was directly in it or around it.… A lot of times these networks or these companies feel like ‘We just want to get straight to the action.’ They want Death Row, when it was exciting, and it was violence. “You got to look at Snoop Dogg as - and don’t laugh when I say this - the Black Forrest Gump,” he says.
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Snoop doesn’t want a biopic of his life - he wants a whole TV series. That’s my younger years, you know, and I’m not afraid of it. “I got caught for selling cocaine! It was a controlled substance. He clears up a misconception that he was once convicted on charges of selling weed to an undercover cop. became my mentor.… I was writing in Dre’s voice, so whenever I was writing for him, I would say it in my voice.” (He goes on to rap a whole verse from “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang,” in his imitation of Dre’s voice - check out the episode to hear it.) “Well, when I was writing his shit, I was thinking about how dope he sounded on N.W.A’s last album,” he says. Dre and learned from West Coast legend the D.O.C. Snoop explains how he wrote rhymes for Dr.