SNOOP DOGG (February 2005) | Interview By:  Nima & Lil Jay

      Dubcnn.com as always bringing you the most exclusive interviews. We caught up with Bigg Snoop Dogg for a video interview! Time was limited, but Snoop spoke on the Tray Deee/Eastsidaz situation, 213, his relationship with Dr. Dre, going back to the Gangsta/G-Funk shit, Kurupt, Lady Of Rage, mostly performing old songs at shows and more. We have both the transcript and video for you to check and feel free to send any feedback regarding the interview to : sgv@dubcnn.com
 

Huge thanks to Snoop Dogg for taking time out to answer the questions fans wanted to know! (Interview was done by camera on February 19th of 2005)

Questions Asked By : Nima & Lil Jay

Filmed By: Yash

Edited By: Inspire


Full Interview In Video : Here

Snoop Dogg Dubcnn Shoutout: Here

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dubcnn.com: We're right here with Snoop Dogg. Tell us where you're at, what's going on right now?

I'm in Germany, promotin' my lil record right now, Rhythm & Gangsta. I got The Game out here openin' up for me, that's my young homie, representing the CPT and the West Coast. We just out here fuckin' it up, doin' what we doin', letting muthafuckas know that the West Coast is fully loaded and fully wit it!


dubcnn.com: You just dropped your second single "Let's Get Blown", do you have a third one yet?

Yeah we probably gonna drop "Signs", the one with Justin Timberlake, and go for the Pop crowd, you know. Cause I'm already so gangsta, I ain't gotta keep it gangsta no more, I done did that my whole life. I'ma go pop one time, try to cross over, you know what I'm sayin', get me a grammy or somethin, you know what I'm talkin' bout?


dubcnn.com: The 213 record dropped last year, but it wasn't really promoted...

Yeah, but to me, some records is meant not to sell, but they made to touch your heart. And that's what that record did, it was one of those heart reaching records. And it's like, for example, I can listen to a Eastsidaz record, and say "Wow this record didn't sell 3-4 million, but 3-4 million muthafuckas got it, and they know and understand it" so, it's not about the sales because sometimes, a record label don't know how to handle the product. And my thing is, Warren G, Nate Dogg & Snoop Dogg had a great time making a record, and muthafuckas love and appreciate it, and it is what it is!


dubcnn.com: I wanna know why ya'll didn't get down with Dr. Dre on there...

He didn't get down with us!


dubcnn.com: Are we gone see that happen though? Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg? Detox?

I'd like to! I mean, you never know. Dre is my nigga, he the reason for all that shit that we do as far as West Coast rap, so...


dubcnn.com: That's the most requested collabo right now... Dre & Snoop, back together.

Well, me personally, I wanted to do a whole record, me and him called "Break Up 2 Make Up". That's what I'm pushing. I don't want no... I ain't got nothin' against what he trying to do, but I'm not... My interest level is more into me and him locking up on some me and him shit, giving the people what they REALLY want. But you know, just like I make my records and sometimes he feel like "This ain't the right record dogg, you should let me..." and that's the same way I feel about him. But I still support him and he still support me, so at the end of the day, we gonna keep the West Coast moving, and when we decide to do the Snoop & Dre record, whatever whatever, I'm ready for it!


dubcnn.com: Okay, and you mentioned Tha Eastsidaz, what do you think of this? *Pointing at Yashs FREE TRAY DEEE T-Shirt*

Oh that's your opinion, that's the way you feel man... Represent what you feel!


dubcnn.com: Well what's your opinion on it?

I ain't got no opinion.


dubcnn.com: Do you think we'll ever hear Snoop Dogg & Tha Eastsidaz together again?

I don't know, you gotta talk to Tha Eastsidaz. They didn't wanna be in business with me no more, they thought I wronged them. So, you know, me personally, I ain't did nothin' but help niggaz from day one, you know? Open up doors, give niggaz my spotlight to help them create their own spotlight. And at the end of the day it created bad blood because alotta shit was mishandled and alotta information was misread and what not. But at the end of the day, they know I love them niggaz and I was down wit them niggaz, like they was my brothas, like they was my homies, and treated them with respect, and never tried to do nothin' wrong, just lead them the best that I knew and at the time, it was like, Snoop Dogg was already the King Of The West Coast. Already millions in the game, nobody knew them. I kicked down doors to get them in the game. So whatever they did with theirs, and how they did theirs, best wishes to them. If it's meant for us to get back together and work, you know God will make it happen, if not, I don't hate them niggaz, I love what they doin' and how they do it!


dubcnn.com: You spoke on the West Coast Movement... Who do you feel on the West Coast as far as new artists right now?

I ain't really got my ear to the streets, so I don't know. I'm in the studio, listenin' to my music, listenin' to what I'm makin'. I know Soopafly got some gangsta shit he finna come out wit! Real pimpin'. I know the Lady Of Rage is workin' on some shit with Boss Lady Entertainment, with my wife.


dubcnn.com: You serious?

Oh yeah!


dubcnn.com: You got some shit with her?

I got about 4 or 5 songs I did with her, she workin' at my studio!


dubcnn.com: Is Bad Azz & Snoop Dogg possible again in future?

Bad Azz, that's my lil homeboy! Let me tell ya'll like this. I don't have a problem with nobody. Every nigga that I hooked up with, that I did something for, I gave a nigga an opportunity, I love all them niggaz the same way I did from the beginning. Now if they got bad blood towards me, that's the way the feel about me. But I'm open to fuck wit everybody. Including Kurupt, after he get his muthafuckin' attitude together and his get his life right.


dubcnn.com: Alright, that's good to hear. You've worked with alot of different producers on your new record, but will we hear you over Battlecat, Meech Wells, Fredwreck...

Yep! Me & Meech finna get somethin' crackin' when I get back home. Battlecat my nigga, I love him to death. Fredwreck, you know what's happenin' with me and Freddy. So, it's like this. I try to do so much to keep so many niggaz involved. If you listen to my record I never just say "Ima do a Snoop Dogg record with this one producer and I ain't fuckin' wit nobody else, lettin' nobody rap on my album." I don't ever be selfish like that. No, I got a record with 17 producers, 15 rappers, niggaz that ain't been heard in 20 years, niggaz that ain't eatin', who woulda never got a shot, from Compton, L.A., Ingelwood, Watts, New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Down South, everywhere! I fuck wit everybody! That's why muthafuckas look up to me as the Godfather of the game, because of the way I present it! And it's like, it's crazy the way you look at it and say the West Coast is back... Nigga we ain't never went nowhere! I always made records that sold, always made records that did they thang. I ain't never put a record out that ain't sold 2 million records. My worst record did 2 million.


dubcnn.com: What do you think when people say Snoop Dogg needs to go back to the Gangsta shit, from back in the day, Gfunk!

I tell them "When the pimps in the crib ma, drop it like its hoooooooooot!" I tell them that. Cause that's a muthafuckin' gangsta record right there, and I ain't had a record like that my whole life! That record right there feels GOOD to me. Drop It Like It's Hot. Respect the new! You know what I'm sayin? Muthafuckas should appreciate the new, instead of always dwelling on the past, because alotta shit from the past can't be duplicated! I know Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield when they did Superfly and Mercy Mercy Me, they was like "Damn! We can't outdo these records!" but shit, they still went on to make records that were just as hot!


dubcnn.com: And as a last question, is there any reason that you only performed 2 songs off your new album at the shows and did almost all of Doggystyle?

Yeah because over here, the people, you gotta get them what they know. And I got that much shit in my catalogue, to where I can do that. The average rapper can't come over here and do some 5 or 6 songs off his first album, 2 songs off his 3rd album, 1 song of his 5th album, 2 songs off his album that's out right now. I can do that. Because, you gotta know and understand what you're dealing with when you on stage. It's a difference from comin' over here, rockin' the house, and comin' over here and tearin' the muthafucka up! And I don't just rock the house, I tear the muthafucka up. When I leave, they don't talk about "Well when Jay-Z was here" or "When Busta was here" or "when Luda was here". Muthafuckin' Snoop Dogg left this muthafucka with his footpring in your mouth! To show a rapper how a rapper supposed to rap, how a mack supposed to mack! What I say Ted? How a pimp supposed to pimp? Yeah! That's how it's supposed to be! And muthafuckas know, on some real shit, ya'll seen it with your own two eyes, that was a show for your muthafuckin' ass.


dubcnn.com: Alright that's about it for the questions, do you have any last words?

This is the King of the muthafuckin' West Coast, Bigg Snoop Dogg, comin' at you from DubCNN. Yeah, where they give it to you raw and exclusive, nuthin' but gangsta shit! Oh, Rhythm & Gangsta the album, it's in stores right now. We gettin' close to 2 million records sold. All you muthafuckas that ain't got it, go get it, everybody that got it, I love you. In a real way, keep typin' up that shit, my cousin Daz a fool, I be readin' the shit he be sayin' on there, he's a goddamn fool and I'm down with him, so whatever he down with I'm down it too.