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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: themovie on August 23, 2002, 04:05:55 AM
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Posted August 22, 2002-- Snoop Dogg, a long-time champion of drinking and smoking marijuana, says he has given up both vices and has been clean and sober for 23 days at BET.com publishing time. The Long Beach-bred rapper, who recently released his Snoop Dogg : Doggy Style Allstars Vol. 1 project, said being clear-headed was a great personal and business achievement.
"The sharpest move I made as a business man: I stopped smoking and drinking. That was the sharpest move I could've possibly made," he told BET.com.
Despite his crucial role in the recording of Dr. Dre's classic album The Chronic and his own inebriated classics like "Gin and Juice," the multi-faceted entertainer said he has taken huge strides in improving himself as an individual. His sobriety, he says, allows him to live more responsibly.
"It betters me and it's going to keep me around. I'm gonna be healthy and I'm gonna be able to see what the f**k I didn't see in the past. Negative sh*t, positive sh*t - I can see it now," the rapper said.
He also said that his newfound maturity, his commitment to his family and his promising stable of musical artists, The Doggy Style Allstars, also prompted the personality change.
"I'm 30-years-old now. Three kids. A wife. A mom. Brothers. Artists. Family. Friends. They all need me. They depend on me," he said.
As a successful, multi-platinum artist, Snoop said he wanted to be a "living legend," as opposed to many artists who die in their prime. "I look at Jimi Hendrix. I look at Bob Marley. These are cats that I was told died from drugs and they [were] ahead of their time," he said.
He said other musical greats inadvertently nudged him to sobriety, causing him to re-evaluate his own view of himself.
"When I met these people like Quincy Jones and Babyface and they told me, 'Snoop, you like Miles Davis,' that meant something," he said. "That's like, "Damn, ya'll see something in me that I don't see in myself."
Although he has halted his smoking and drinking, he insisted that he is not forcing his abstinence on others, including his own artists.
"I'm not telling everybody around me to stop. Even if you do it and he do it and he do it, this is me," he maintained.
As a rap artist, leader and potential role model for millions, Snoop admitted he felt he was misleading his minions, but now intends to redirect them onto the right path.
"I been leading niggas off the cliff for 5-6 years. Driving the car with a gang of niggas [like], 'C'mon, let's go,'" he said as he emulated a car revving its engine and going over a cliff.
"So now I'm going slow. I'm gonna get there."
Ultimately, Snoop said he has awakened to the value of life and intends to live a full life without the assistance of weed and alcohol.
"You are only given so much time in this life, so you must do what you must do while you are here. And I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do while I am here," he concluded.
Snoop's recent compliation, Snoop Dogg : Doggy Style Allstars Vol. 1, is in stores nationwide. The album debuted at No. 8 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and at No. 19 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.
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hehe.. maybe we will hear some better rhymes from him now when he is non-weeded.... 8)
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hehe.. maybe we will hear some better rhymes from him now when he is non-weeded.... 8)
hahaha
word ex !!!
otherwise the CPGC ( Cow Pound Gangsta Connection ) will roll on him
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---"I been leading niggas off the cliff for 5-6 years. Driving the car with a gang of niggas [like], 'C'mon, let's go,'" he said as he emulated a car revving its engine and going over a cliff.---
Damn! He sounds like a respectable businessman now!
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone... I can see all the obstacles in my way..."
Hopefully his rhymes get better. But let's hope also that he doesn't make whack rhymes without weed...
Aww fuck it. A joint & a glass of Henny after a rough day at the studio can't hurt, can it? ;)
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Snoop was famous as a long time champion of drinking ? ? ?
::) ::) ::)
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much respect to snoop for that. I hope he stays off it cos lets be honest all its does it fuck you up anyway. I see people in town and shit who u can tell are on drugs, not weed and shit but the hard stuff. I know Snoop is only giving up weed but still its a drug so thats good enough for me. And drink aint that good, most of the time its fucks up friendships and that cos drink makes you say thing thats usually u wud of kept to yourself so really much love to him.!!
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yeah i think snoop made up own world wen he was drunk and high with pink doggs with suge as his friend with daz running
naked and tray dee fucking him doggystyle and latoya banging her self bad azz said buissness and snoop said foe shitlez kokane and singing in church while snoop thinking he's the shit
i wonder if snoop about weed and his new album
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yeah i think snoop made up own world wen he was drunk and high with pink doggs with suge as his friend with daz running
naked and tray dee fucking him doggystyle and latoya banging her self bad azz said buissness and snoop said foe shitlez kokane and singing in church while snoop thinking he's the shit
i wonder if snoop about weed and his new album
what the fuck are you on about???
u really are on crack!
whatever u do, stay/go back to college/high school. Cuz ur spelling/Grammer/punctuation is BAAAAD
AND STAY OFF THA CRACK PIPES!
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I wonder how he is going to stay sober with all the drinkin and smokin goin on around him by his peers. its fuckin hard to quit when everyone else is doing it around you.
fight the pipes not light the pipes hahaha
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snoop is going around saying he's drug free and given all this shit up but it's only been 23 days, thats nothing
this is what i think will happen he's gonna stay sober for a few months then he'll either start getting fucked up all the time again, or most likely he'll smoke bud every once in a while and drink out of his globlet every once in a while but it'll be much less than he has been, that will be perfect for his music
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I have a feeling he was getting sick and shit and his wife asked him too stop...LoL
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I wonder how he is going to stay sober with all the drinkin and smokin goin on around him by his peers. its fuckin hard to quit when everyone else is doing it around you.
Snoop was famous as a long time champion of drinking ? ? ?
From which year ?
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Now that snoop is sober maybe he will record and release the long awaited 213 album !
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Snoop was famous as a long time champion of drinking ? ? ?
From which year ?
Man dont take it litterally. I doubt there's a championship for that. E' un modo di dire.
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yeah i think snoop made up own world wen he was drunk and high with pink doggs with suge as his friend with daz running
naked and tray dee fucking him doggystyle and latoya banging her self bad azz said buissness and snoop said foe shitlez kokane and singing in church while snoop thinking he's the shit
i wonder if snoop about weed and his new album
I didn't understand one fucking word u said. that made no sense whatsoever.
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yeah i think snoop made up own world wen he was drunk and high with pink doggs with suge as his friend with daz running
naked and tray dee fucking him doggystyle and latoya banging her self bad azz said buissness and snoop said foe shitlez kokane and singing in church while snoop thinking he's the shit
i wonder if snoop about weed and his new album
lol man.. pass me some of that shit you're smokin ;D
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iam going get the hook up from your mom
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Do y'all believe snoop dont smoke no more when he's on tour ? ? ? ? ::)
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But is it really important if when he's in the toilette he smokes? Or if he smokes when he's on tour? Who cares? Let's focus on his music, not on his personal life. That's HIS life, and he's the boss. That's his choice. And it aint even a bad one...
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Man dont take it litterally. I doubt there's a championship for that. E' un modo di dire.
Ignorante,i know there isnt a champion for that,but he wasnt famous as a drinker.
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Good for him man. He don't wanna die young.
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yo i know this is a old post but i just have to respond. man u cant beleive how shocked i was to hear this shit....i mean weed defines snoop doggg...thats one of the first things that comes to my mind when i think of big SD. but anyway i felt so good when i heard this shit for realls,....the last month i was off to india i became a fuckin krazy ass pothead, i used to get high daily and sometimes 2x a day....and like 3 days ago i decided to quit weed before i came back to america for personal reasons ill tell yall about in a post im going to make about my whole crazy ass vacation in india....
but anyway back to the point...it was a crazy coincidence that i had also decided to quit weed and then i come here and find out snoop has done the same, haaha. but dayum i totally feel wat he has said in this interview and why hes dumping mary jane... about that maturity thing and about how he did not see certain things in his life that sobreity have shown him. man yall cant belive how happy i am to hear this shit. snoop is a role model for many ppl, like he was a lil bit for me(even though 2pac used to be more of a role model for me)..the last few days i was thinkin bout weed and shit and why i got into the habit...cuz i had role models who smoke it and encourage it...so i was thinkin like wtf --->why the fuck do i have crappy ass weak minded slightly insecure ppl as role models...lol the week or 2 ive been thinkin bout my life a lot...but DAMN yo this shit is tight, snoop's finally steppin up and showin that hes a fuckin mature man, and this shit has given me a lot more respect for tha Doggfather.
peace
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yeah i think snoop made up own world wen he was drunk and high with pink doggs with suge as his friend with daz running
naked and tray dee fucking him doggystyle and latoya banging her self bad azz said buissness and snoop said foe shitlez kokane and singing in church while snoop thinking he's the shit
i wonder if snoop about weed and his new album
lmao...
Snoop giving up weed, dats good for him, peace
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