The Stephen A. Smith ShowInterview Exclusive: Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg talk new Missionary CD, Super Bowl, what is good Weed!
Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown. Stephen A sits down with iconic West Coast rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg for a far-ranging interview about their long-standing friendship, award-winning music careers, multiple business ventures, and Snoop’s forthcoming 20th CD, Missionary, produced by Dr. Dre. It’s an engaging conversation with two of the best in the business courtesy of The Stephen A. Smith Show.
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The hell with the stephen A. Smith Show today. This ain't even a stephen A. Smith Show today. This is Snoop Dogg in the house and the one and only doctor that's all.
My bucket list right there, Doctor Drey is sitting in the house. Okay, the hell with me, y'all. Dr Dre and Snoop in the house on the stephen A. Smith Show.
Welcome back to the stephen A. Smith Show. I know I'm sounding a little bit calm right now because this is what happens when you know certain things in life come your way. There's certain things that you fantasized about doing. I speak. I speak to my next guest all the time, the man sitting next to him as somebody I considered the greatest. And it is an honor and a privilege to have the one and only Snoop Dog in the house. And doctor dreams, my brothers. What's going on?
Fellas aka Batman and Robin are backing Dodham City.
Thank you for having us, Stephen.
Please, the honor is all my. Who's Batman?
Who's robbing?
I know the answer to, but I need you to say it, Snoop. You don't usually do.
That, look DoD when it's when we together, and this is Batman. And I'll defer to Robin em and m is Robin sometimes soon but he got to e on so he don't mind me splitting the duties, right doctor, right?
Yes, the honor is all mine. Anything great about music, as far as I'm concerned that it's transpired over the last thirty plus years, if not more, has something to do with you, because that's all man.
I really appreciate that.
I don't give it off. I don't give it up.
But you know you don't. I'll watch you. I know what's up with you? You watch me?
I mean all right, I mean my tone?
Okay, you there.
How does it feel to sit here today sitting next to this man Snoop knowing what you guys have meant to each other, to the industry, and what you're about to do with one another.
Now, first of all, it's all love them, respect for us. That comes first, And I just want to see my brother win.
That's it.
So we go in and we say we're going to get down on something, whatever it is, we put our all into it. And there's nothing less than that. When it comes to the music or anything that we're trying to do with this gin and juice thing that we're about to promote and all that. It's just us and we're brothers and we're trying to make something dynamic happen at all time.
But it's amazing because you sat up there and said you just want to see the brother winning. For a second, that was almost stopped you because I was like you acting like I said, it sounded like he ain't he wins out. This man wins it every damn thing he does We're about to win again.
We're about to win again.
Let's see the support. That's the thing. A lot of people don't like to see you winning. He's happy for me to win. He he criticizes me, critiques me when I'm not winning, when I'm doing things the inappropriate way that he doesn't feel that's on the level that I'm supposed to be on. So winning is key with him, and it's impressive that we still have our relationship to the same level to where I still respect him and don't.
Feel like I'm bigger than him. I'm better than him.
I feel like I'm always gonna be able to listen and learn from him.
Give me an example of what a criticism from doctor Dre looks like. When he does he pick up a tough question. I got to hear this.
What does that look like?
That's just what it looked like.
Hey nigga, why you do that Jack in the Box commercial? Could they gave me for million dollars? Okay?
Just like that.
Yeah, but it's because he's watching what I'm doing, like, like, does that help your brand?
Does that really help you get to where you want to get to?
It's like an understanding of the way I push me is different than the way he pushed in.
Yeah, it's different, man. I want him to do less shit, yes, oh real, less is more? Yeah, Okay, why I just think that for his brand and who he is I Jack in the Box.
Okay, listen, I'm only saying that because he brought it upright, Jack in the Box.
I'm like, Nigga, I bet and I see your head pop out of that fucking box. That's that's gonna be a problem, right, you know what I mean. It's like that kind of shit. It's like, come on, man, you're bigger than that. So that's how I'm looking at it.
And I love the criticism. It's like it's constructive criticism. It's never taken as hate or it's he wants me to win. To him, he would rather see me do a fucking big steak commercial for a company that's bigger than Jack in the Box. If you're gonna do something, do the biggest or don't do it at all. In his mind, But my thing is I like to touch everybody. I come from the streets, so I'm from the streets to the sweets. Sometimes he goes from the sweets to the streets I go the other way, so I make sure I.
Touch everybody from the bottom to the top.
You think that's accurate? Do you think that's that's.
Fair your approach because of this ship we're we're doing right now in this interview.
It is the truth.
You want be in the sweets, gud, because that's what I do. But what my records sound like, the streets are the sweets. It's both what I feel like.
It's more the streets.
I think it's more sweets. Niggas. I sound good on that motherfucker like elevated.
That's what you're supposed to sound like.
But only when I'm with you.
Is the the excellence of Snoop Dogg's vocals, the excellence of you feeling what he's saying.
It's production. You produce me. Yeah, a lot of niggas just give me beats. It's a big difference. They give me a beat and let me run off.
No, I'm in there and that's what we're doing.
Every fucking word.
I get the drive, I get the last fuck it, I get the final call when wearing the studio.
And of course, even hey, this is type of athlete I am right.
I know I'm good, right, put up fifty points a night going on with this nigga.
I'm great.
I'm liable to get a hundred points like will Chamblin on a nigga and hold.
This ship up like this with a hundred.
What is it that makes you great in your eyes?
I'm trying to be great. I'm still searching for that, so you know what I mean. I'm just doing me, man. I just wake up with ideas and just try shit. I experiment. I'm always experimenting. You know, some shit hits the target, some doesn't. You know so, but fortunately my bat average is great, no.
Question about that.
He ain't telling you stealing that. This niggas is a perfectionist. That's what he is.
He don't understand that's what he is because he don't get a chance to look at himself. But it's an honor to work with him because he's a fucking perfectionist. And when you hear it, you hear back what he's done with you. Then you hear the perfection.
How is it that you when Snoop says something like you don't take an uppportunity to really or you don't get an opportunity to step back and look at it How is that possible? Being as intense as you are, being as brilliant as you undeniably are, don't you have to look at yourself, engage, and judge what you're doing on a day to day basis in order to truly reach that level of gatness.
Yes, it's a little bit of fear, and it's a massive amount of trust because I have this man putting his career in my hands.
So I got to show up.
I wake up every morning thinking about what I have to do, when I go to sleep, before I go to sleep, thinking about what I've done or what I have to do the next morning. So it's always on my mind because again, it's a massive amount of trust that's been laid upon me, you know.
So I got to show up. I gotta make sure.
Not only him, Jimmy and everybody in our circle is impressed with what the fuck I'm doing. And that's my mission. I want to impress. I want to impress. I want to inspire and get inspired. So when I do my thing, and if I do it the right way, I get that gratification from these guys, And that's a great feeling.
Have you ever had any of them look at you and say you did it the wrong way. He just finished telling you. You'll tell him, do you.
Nigga always tell me when I do it. I know that, Oh absolutely, when he has some bad weed. This nigga gave me this nigga gave me some dirt. Yeah, nigga, because we telling the truth.
Nigga, we was steven A and he send it by the homie, right, so the homie bring it to me.
I'm growing my own weed, right, so he gotta be gott to be. Snoop doggs proved.
Absolutely sends it over Tommy.
So Snoop tech like face.
Timing is six am one morning, like, man, get this ship out of here, and this ship is trash.
Don't send this ship to me no more.
What I say that I need help.
What I say now the third bat, nigga.
I'm about to I'm about to have the world I might go by with this, you know, because I don't smoke no weed. You know what I'm saying, because right now, right now, what makes weed bad? When you say bad weeds now bad? How do you know?
How do you know?
It's from the mountains of dirt, It's from the him malayers of trash, it's just the worst of the worst has got season, and it's got it's not growing right, and they don't have the look. It doesn't have to feel, and it doesn't make you feel what you're supposed to feel.
Do you feel you the greatest judge of weed.
I got that. I'm one of them.
I'm not gonna take I'm not gonna take away from cheating your own, Bob Marley and all of the great guys that are my peers, the red Man's method, Man's be real whiskeyfands, these are my peers.
But I'm one of them. I'll say that I got you.
Let's go let's talk a little business for a second here, because still Jim Drey and Snoop talk about this for a second. What this project is, how y'all off collaborated on this. Talk about this and what you want to go about.
It's your world, doctor Drake, because you the one basically what this process is when it comes to this gin ship. Doctor dre is the psychologist, the fucking scientist.
The drinker, the tester.
I'm the marketing, the branding, the push and promot But he's the one that got that taste in the look.
Yeah, I got this. It's like Jimmy can step back, snoop and step back. I got this.
I know what it's supposed to taste like. I know what it's supposed to feel like. So yeah, oh ship, there you go.
You know what?
Excuse me? Can I have a glass?
You don't smoke, but you drink.
You already mixed it.
I'm gonna touch it. I'm gonna touch a little bit.
I touch a little bit.
I ain't.
Much drunk.
I just want my shit on ice.
She gave me a doctor Drake glass.
There you go.
I'm snooping. I've been to the laboratory.
We developed this ship from ground up, so it has our official taste.
And this is just us.
So that's our gen. This is us, So that's our gin. That's not a gen that we ball from.
Magnificent group of people that's around and these scientists and all these taste tests and all of that, and.
So you put on that white jacket and the gloves and the had and all that, all of that.
Where was I at?
I was getting ready of question? That's my next question.
This nigga was probably somewhere smoking.
Listen, you're gonna show up when it's time show, no question about it. You're not just a musician, You're not just an artist. Both of you are businessman. But Dre, obviously when people talk about you, we see this. We see because we see him so much everywhere, that the man is trying to take my job.
I'm a hermit.
Man.
I like staying at home, right. I came outside for you, man. I appreciate that.
Thank you so much, surprising and make you do the interview in his living room.
And I would have come if that's what if that's what it took to get this in absolutely, But when you have an opportunity to reflect on what you have accomplished in your career, Dre, when you get who you are and what you mean to so many people, how does that make you feel at this moment?
And Tommy your.
Life, I mean, it's incredible.
Hopefully I'm inspiring some new up and coming rappers and producers and engineers.
But I don't look back.
I never listened to my old music or anything like that. I've never listened to my old music. I never let anybody play it around me. I feel like that's masturbation at the highest level.
I like to masturbate.
Andy and Fred have a show called Masturbators coming right.
No, But I just I'm always thinking forward. I don't live my life with a rearview mirror. I'm always thinking forward. I don't give a fuck about what I did or what's in the past. I guess I'll sit down with my grandkids at some point.
And yeah, and.
Listen to some of the things I've done, even going back to nineteen eighty five when I started with n W A and the whole nine, and go back and listen to what I was doing at that time when I was green as shit, you know what I mean. So I'm thinking about that in the future, going back and listening to the songs again.
I've never Minis Nigga, ain't never listened to the Chronic from top to bottom, and we never listened to Doggy Style from top to bottom.
I've never listened to any of the music I've done.
Me and him together have never listened to it.
I think it's going to be a fun experience going back and listening to just like everything that I've done in the trajectory and start growing music.
With Doggie Stall before we put Missionary out, so we can make sure it's all the way.
About that Missionary.
I love to talk. He told me about this months ago. He told me about this, and y'all got this coming out now? And when did y'all make that decision to collapse?
And the Doctor Drake talks about Doctor Drake, Doctor Drake, I don't know.
I thought it was funny as shit, you know, our first collaboration being doggy style and flipping it calling ad missionary.
I thought that was funny and fun No.
No, it's the title itself, no question. But I'm talking about the overall work, the decision to regroup.
To Doctor Dre seeing me out there freelancing doing my ship, he was like, let me do your next album, give me two weeks, two weeks.
No, no, and I'm always gonna stick to my story.
That's not what we that's not what that is.
You said, that's what we're gonna start with this now.
No, you said we can do it in two weeks.
Not do it, I mean we can work together starting.
No, nigga, don't don't fucking backpedal. Now. You said, yeah, we can get the album done in two weeks.
Right, I did, and then this was it. Okay, I'm gonna take that. I'm a man.
I'm gonna stand on business. But your favorite line through this whole motherfucking process of being just give me two days, two days, and two days ends up being twenty days and thirty.
Yeah, I said two days about forty times.
Right, But I ain't mad at it when he says to what I say, you get.
Yeah, But what made you decide to do it?
Was there?
Did you just want to or were you see were you seeing his work as great as he is and you were saying something's missing?
Well, I'm seeing Snoop and what he's doing is his trajectory and how he's doing his thing, And I'm like, yeah, he's about his fucking business and he's doing something that's great, especially his coaching the football teams, the little league football teams, and it's like everything.
That he's doing and I want to be a part of that.
I stay wanted to be a part of Snoop's legacy and what he's doing, and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to reconnect with him and do this project.
And you know, I love him and he's my brother.
So you've been nominated sixteen times. I think it's a crime that they haven't blessed you with grammar. I think it's ridiculous you alluded to that not happening for you.
Let me step in.
I don't think we should fucking like go down that role because please, if and when he wins, I don't want it to be like they gave it to me this type of conversation, you know what I mean.
I feel that's fair.
That's fair.
Grandma always told me let your work speak for you, So that's right. So you'll never hear me crying about it, complaining about it. None of that ship My My, My, My, Grammy is my kids in the football league that made it to the NFL. That's my granmed boy.
You remember you and I talked. Hell, I ain't never want no damn journalism anymore. I never want to what you want to. I never want to commentation sports commentator.
We want we talked about.
Yeah, but everybody's fucking with you, That's what I'm trying to tell you.
So it's a it's a beautiful feeling, But I.
Think about look at how everybody's fucking with Snoop, right, you know what I'm saying.
That's what really matters.
Can Grammy match that feeling. No no way, no no way.
That's what I'm saying.
Now we're gonna go get that.
Yeah, anyway, that's his mission for me.
Said at the beginning of the project, that we get that, we get that, we're gonna earn that. We ain't got to talk about why he didn't have it up until now to talk about I.
Wasn't get in the touch, just so you know, I wasn't going to why he didn't get it. I was going wonder what the mission was moving forward, my brother?
Check me.
But you see how you protected I feel you?
Did you feel did you feel he was straight into defense mode? Like, wait a minute, let me watch it. I can't He's going to Snoop Dogg defense mode. I just got to sit back and.
Be like, Okay, that's what it is.
You're protective of each other. Yes, how protective are you of him?
I would not let a motherfucker disrespect him, his legacy and none of the ship he's ever done for me or anybody else in the game. And I respect him enough to if he calls me and I'm out of pocket and he gives me information to get my ship right, I don't ever disrespect his checking I love to get checked by Doctor Drake.
Right, is it possible to disrespect Doctor Dre in this business? How is it possible? I'm trying to figure out how.
No, but when your brothers sometimes you have missed communication. As long as it's love as the front piece to the vehicle, we always get over that. Like he always say, there's two people. He can't never be mad at me and his son. He said, every time I walk in the room, he could be mad as fucking me. Then all of a sudden, he just don't be mad.
No, man, it's fucked up because they know that, so they message you right.
Studio or some shit. As soon as I see that smile, Man, it's like a man.
He'd be texting me all the way there. What the fuck is you at?
Nigga?
We've been here for thirty Where you at?
And I walk in and be like, well, my nigga, Doctor Dre.
I'm looking at you right now. I'm looking at all of this. Four studio albums, five collaborative albums, three compilation albums, just elite on every level. You got twenty albums. I told you you forgot how many.
Albums you had?
Is it twenty twenty? It's twenty ship two years old.
Yeah, I'll be fifty three Sunday, fifty nine, I'll be I'll be sixty years old in February.
Can I say that Stephen as some sport?
What should you?
And Doctor Drake gonna know what I'm talking about. But to me, doctor dre is the next Sabing of hip hop.
Nick Saban's seven time champions six championships at Alabama universally recognized the great sion college football coach in the history.
And I say that because look at all of the NFL stars that he put through the league at the Hall of Famers. Just think about his track record as far as production and the artist that he started. That's why I say he's the next saving. He's got a great career for himself, no question. But what about the people he put on? That's where I'm going with you next.
What about those folks when you reflect on who you've helped along the way. I'm sure you don't want to play favorites.
I get that part, But I know him as right with but but.
But but speak but speak, but speak to it what you believe? You know when you hear and see the work of other folks. Snoop is somebody that obviously touches you in a very very positive way. Anybody else out there, I imagining them in them, anybody else?
I mean, you know, everybody that I've worked with, you know, has touched me and touched my career in a certain way.
You know what I mean.
It's like every artist that I put my body into has helped me and my family in a certain way.
You know.
So does any one of them stick out? Of course Snoop does, right, you know, this is my brother. But you know we've got you know, fifty and Eminem and Kendrick and Anderson pat you know, I just I just love getting in the studio with people that.
I love to get down with. That's all it is. To it. As corny or as generic as that may sound, that's just what I do.
What would y'all tell an artist today that, you know, in aspiring artists, you want to make it. You want to get in the room and put that work in.
Be original, Be original, because right now it's so much copycat mimicking sound, and I like imitation.
Be original.
Find your voice, find your production sound, find your ear for who you are, and be original, even if it ain't hitting stay you.
Find your collaborator, just like I don't.
I don't like the fact that there's like nine different producers on one album. I like the idea of one producer on one album. The continuity, the continuity is everything.
And where did that come from? Where did it come from? Where you got casts that want to be with nine different producers on one album and stuff like that? When the hell at that start?
I don't know, I don't know, but it's I don't like it.
You know, if you're an if you're a producer, you should be able to produce the entire album. That's what I thought it was supposed to be. That's what I was doing at the beginning.
There's a lot of beat makers, though, Doc. That's what the difference between your era and this era is that there aren't too many producers as much as there are beat makers.
It's so easy to make beats.
They giving you all these computer package that has the drum loop, has this has y'all had to make the loop.
I feel like it's a change that's happening right now, you know, from all this mumble wrap thing and everything that's happening right now, there's somebody and somebody's garage that's happening right now. That's going to be the next Snoop or Dre or next Prince or Michael Jackson or whatever that's coming up with something that's gonna change the game.
It's got to happen right now.
And it's wide open because everything that's happening right now, and the music game is especially hip hop, is weird as fun.
I was getting ready to go there. Why do you feel that it has to happen now? What is it about now that's happening that there's a level of urgency that makes you say change for the better.
Well, it's going to get back to the musicianship. That's that's all it is, you know, like real players. And I'm seeing it happen. I'm watching I'm you know, I'm on the Internet and I'm watching Instagram and things like that, and there's like these kids that are coming up that can really play, that can really play, and can really write and sing and really doing some interesting rapping and shit like that.
So I'm waiting for that to come back.
When did it go around from the stamp? I'm just talking about the industry itself in terms of people doing things in a manner that you.
Might By the way, I'm not disrespecting anything that's happening right now. I'm just talking about some substance that's to get ready to happen moving forward.
Okay, got you.
I think the fundamentals was taken out of it. Like you had to have skill, you had to have professionalism in order to be an artist.
Now you just have to have a phone.
So it's a big difference when you have to have certain things to be qualified as an artist. Now it's just a phone makes you an artist, and something stupid or something crazy on the internet gets you five minutes of fame, and you take that and make a record and you got a two and a half minute song that's saying the same thing that somebody else just said. Now you consider it hot as opposed to it used to be about creativity and understanding the musicianship. You know, harmony melodies that don't even matter no more. It's just auto tune.
Something.
I want to sound like him.
I want to say what she said, but I want to, you know, do the same things, but just in my own way, as opposed to let me be original.
One of the things that I've always said is that when people get on artists, I've always come to the defensive artists, and I look at the industry itself, because if you're trying to make it and somebody's over and they're telling you this is what it's goool take in order for your for your for your music to be played, for you to develop and cultivate whatever your brand is, somebody is over you saying this is the way to go. And if you feel compelled, if you if you really really want to make it, sometimes you got to listen to them. Well that's how I felt.
We never made music for that reason. We never made music for the radio, right. We never was like, let's make a radio version. We always made music that felt good to us. Then when it got out to the public, it we had a label that had ideas of do a radio version, do this, but we never went into it with that intent.
Go ahead, and you're gonna say something about that, yeah, I mean, I've always been a fan of shock hop.
Just we just do what we feel in the moment, and.
That's what I've been doing from the beginning of my career. From NWA, Fuck the Police and straight out of Confident in the whole nine.
It's just like we're just doing what we feel. Yeah.
Absolutely, we just put it out there and you know, at the beginning, we're like, fuck the radio. If they don't play it, it doesn't matter because we know what the streets is gonna say, you know so, And that's still my mentality.
Mentality, that's why you still win it. Steven A Smith Show in the House Special Edition Snoop the One and Only Doctor Dre right here with your boy back with more in a minute. Okay, everybody you know what Tom. It is is Tom for steven A Sports Picks. Everybody already knows I live and breed sports. Okay, but sometimes that's not enough and I need to actually be right there in the middle of all action. So how do I fix that? I'll tell you how I use prize pickts. Of course, you see, Prospects is the largest daily fantasy sports platform in all the land, with over three million members. With prize picks, you just choose two, three, even up to six of your favorite players, and then pick more or less when their projected stats for the game. All right, choose all the players you love to watch, Jamar Chase, Steph Curry, Garrett cole Coco Golf all in the same entry and get this sign up a code that says and Prospects will give you fifty dollars instantly when you play your first five dollar lineup. You don't need to win your lineup to receive the fifty dollars bonus.
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What's up?
I ain't getting in your pockets.
It's your business.
I just want to I know this beats by Dre. Everybody got one. Everybody got one. You collaborated with Apple to launch the streaming service Apple Music. That's Apple, bro. I just want you to know that I looked at that market care you know, change people like ESPN and Warner Brothers and Fox, and you collaborate them. They worth a few hundred billion. I the Apple then market cap was like at three trillion. That's a lot of money, Dre And the way I look at it is that there ain't no way they could be that successful if it were not for you. Could you talk to us about how.
I know what I'm not you know what, Steven, I'm not going there.
I'm just saying.
Just say, life is good and I'm very comfortable right now.
It's very comfortable. But could you elaborate on the entrepreneurial spirit and how all of this came about?
Well, it came about.
I have to give Jimmy Ivan and a lot of other people credit for that. It's just like, I'm just a creative man, you know, just a creative I'm a creative person. I'm a creative person. I'm yeah, I'm an innovator and all of that. And I get in and I play my position. I say what I have to say to make things move around, and everybody else does their thing and we collaborate. And to be honest with you, man, and there's nothing that I've ever done in my entire life that wasn't a collaboration. You know, I love collaborating. As a matter of fact, I don't even want to do anything alone. Wow, that sounds boring.
As fun, I think it sounds.
I think it's a big collaboration with everything that I've done, from you know, beats by Dre, from the music, the films and everything. Everything is a collaboration.
I remember you act a little bit and trained to day in a couple of other spots.
Well, I want to talk about it.
I'm just I'm just asking.
I mean, you know that's not that's that's not my proudest moment.
I'm acting. You know, I tried it. I'll try. I'll try.
I don't want to be.
Anything. I was all right, but I'd rather be on the other side of the camp. I feel you.
But when you think about who you are and what you've done, particularly from an entrepreneurial position, and what advice would you give to the youngsters out there who have similar aspirations, because you know everybody looking.
At it's about collaboration.
Casting is important, and what I mean about casting is finding the right people to collaborate with, finding a partner, finding your Snoop Dogg, you know what I mean, finding your Eminem, finding your Jimmy Ivan, finding somebody that's really great to collaborate with.
How do you do it?
Well, I'm not being you, but I'm saying, how do you know?
Right?
Well, it's just as difficult as anything else, you know, finding the right person to collaborate with, finding the right business venture or whatever, you know, finding that person that is like minded that you can collaborate with, that you guys are thinking the same and you're on the same mission. That's what it is, which is a really difficult thing to find because you will find a friend somebody that may be yanky or something like that, that may be greedy or narcissistic or whatever the fuck. It's really important to find the right people to collaborate.
How how the hell have you done it? You collaborate with everybody?
Uh, real is rare, you know. I'm the people's champ. You fuck with everybody like. That's how it's so easy for me to do it, because I just fuck with everybody. And it's like if you of my spirit and you my life, and I get down, like you get down, I give it a try, Like I don't have no problem with trying shit.
I don't mind living on the edge.
But when you do that again, I'll ask you the same question I just asked Doctor Dre finding the right mix, finding the right person to collaborate.
How do you.
Determine what is right and what is wrong for you?
The spirit gotta be right first and foremost. Our spirit's got a match, Like we gotta damn to be the same people. Like when I work with for real, where's Khalifa? Whoever I work with other than doctor Dre's the spirit thing. It's like we brothers, we friends, we family. It's not just an opportunity to work with each other. It's like I get a chance to embody you and your team and your spirit, and you get a chance to do the same thing with me.
So when we collaborate, it feel like it's family rather than just a moment.
Let me tell you something. People tell you who they are. You just have to listen. Everybody tells you exactly if you're supposed to be fucking with them.
They tell you you just have to listen.
So their body language, their body language, certain ship that they say, they let you know, they let you know, listen, don't fuck with me.
I'm bad for you.
Wow.
You just have to listen to that shit.
And if you have to pay attention nigga say hey, steven A, don't fuck with me, don't fuck with me.
I'm bad for you.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you didn't listen?
And absolutely, anytimes, absolutely, and every time. What you do is you give people the benefit of the doubt. You try to believe that they're going to be a good person, and you try to believe that this motherfucker has your best interest at heart. And every time they tell you off top, they tell you with the body language or with their words or whatever, the fuck if you should fuck with him or not. And it's your fault if you keep pushing with that certain motherfucker.
Is the definition of somebody who's not like that, somebody that's got your spirit right, somebody that you think is the right person to collab with, simply or as simple as somebody who's rooting for your success as much as they are rooting for their own.
That that is a key component. It has to be somebody that genuinely loves you. You don't want to work with nobody who hates on you behind closed doors, like you want somebody that champions you, that speaks on you, that really represents you. So that way when you're together, you know, it's the same feeling when you're not together.
That's it.
You ask the question, how do you know? They tell you just have to pay attention to what they're saying and what they're doing. They let you know if you should fuck with him or not.
Do you know more now, at the age of fifty nine fifty two, I know.
So much they need to go to if it goes back to that whole generic fucking saying like I wish i'd knew than what I know now. I mean, I wish whatever the fuck I wish I knew then. What I know now is it's that same thing. You have to pay attention to the signs. That's all it is. People, like I said, they tell you exactly if you should be fucking.
With him or not.
They tell you they speak it or they move it. That's all it is.
Snoop, let me dissect you a little bit here outside of your music. I mean, let me bring up I mean, now you're on the voice, you're the voice. I mean, it doesn't stop with you, man, it doesn't stop. I'm just saying, do you ever find they're gonna start calling you shack? You know that right they're gonna start calling you shack. You'll be like, can somebody else have a job? I mean, you're doing it all, brother, you're doing it. I'm telling you right now, Dre, this brother can walk into sports commentary now now. And I'm not just talking about this box office. I'm talking about talking sports breaking that shit down. This brother is better than most right now, right now, I'm looking at you like that. It doesn't start with you. It really really doesn't talk to me about the Voice right now and that and and that new project that you are you are part of right now.
I took that deal with the Voice and didn't know what I was getting into, but I'm glad I did because it gives me a chance to coach a lot of artists that are young, just like I was, rough around the edges. So I give I give them information to lich knowledge. And then at the same time, it's a fun experience for me because I get a chance to just sit back and be a real person rather than be a superstar, and get on the one on one with these artists and inspire them. So it's a great look for me and it's a great feeling. I didn't know what would feel like that. But I'm having a great time with the whole cast over there.
What about the Olympics. You did the Olympics too. I mean, I don't know if we'll ever get over listening to you call boxing.
Paul and a.
Lord does not like listen in this new commentation.
It's wild, but it's big time. I'm like this. He's right, he's right, and he says ship that a lot of us wish we could say, but we don't have We can't say it on certain platforms. So that that that's what you.
Bring to the table.
And I don't know if you if you realize this, Snooper has actually opened up opportunities for people who are already in the sports world before him because they let you know, you do what you do. Like getting joke, But I'm loving it because you know, listen, it's got to be upon there. There got to be somebody that says the stage to hell.
But it was people that I was aspired to be. So it's not I'm not the pioneer.
I'm just the one to take the flagship to run with it when somebody passed the batime to me, so naturally I got a pass it to somebody else. You know what I'm saying. So it's about when you get that opportunity, what do you do with it? Are you professional Snoop Dogg? Orre you gonna be high on set? Are your line is gonna be dragging? Or you gonna know what you're talking about. Every opportunity that I get, I always outwork the contract, always make sure the study to be on deck, to make sure that I know information wise what I'm supposed to be talking about. So if anything comes to me, I have an answer for it. If and I don't have an answer, a freestyle my way up out of it. But it sounds professional enough to know that he's qualified for the job.
Is that why you feel you've ultimately not only have been exceptional to what you're doing, but you've evolved to be in that mentor kind of individual. Is that the kind of advice that you give to a lot of cats when to come up who look to you wanting you to espouse your words to them. Is that what you're telling me?
It's crazy, Steven, that they look at me as Uncle Snoop and as somebody to get information from. When I was just a young, wild individual that had none of this wisdom, and now that I have it, I love giving it away. I love talking to athletes, entertainers. I love when it's an issue in the hip hop industry or any industry where someone needs me to step in and be the resolution to it, or I feel like that's my mission, that's my journey, that's part of the carrying the torch. When they gave me that torch, that lady said, the only people that get to touch this torch are peace bearers, people who are peace messengers, and you are a peace messenger.
And that's what makes Snoop dogg undeniable and forever.
People say that about you too. Those Drey a lot of people that talk, I'm telling you, people who talk about you, they love you, they revere you. They talk about how you give them words of wisdoms, how you espouse a lot of the same stuff that Snoops that Snoop has told me this on many occasions. I'm just letting them tell it to my audience. But he's told me this personally, the kind of information that he just finished articulating, and he always talked about how you say the same exact things. He's open about it, though you're not why.
I am open about it. It's just you know, they know, right, we know, you know what I mean. It's just like it's not for the cameras and all this shit. You know.
My thing is they know what it is with me, They know what love is. And my definition of love is so much deeper than most.
And why do you say that.
I don't boll My definition of love is just like it's it's family, it's it's so you know, it's.
I don't know, I can fuck with you, but anybody else try that, it's gonna be.
It's that. It's a really deep definition for me.
Doctor Dre don't mind sharing the ball. Like you know, You've got a lot of people that like the hot dog and just keep shooting and keep trying to score. Doctor Dre want to make sure everybody get the ball.
I want to make sure everybody's eating everybody's hat.
He makes sure everybody get the ball. That's one thing I don't.
Yeah, we don't.
We never talk about money, We never talk about credits, none of that. Ship it's just all love and respect. That's how we operate.
How do you react if you see somebody that you love, that's a brother, that you know's hearts in the right place, but they're getting in their own way. What's that? Like, what's a conversation?
Well, that's that moment. That's when the big brother ship comes out. You know, I'm I'm gonna talk. You know, I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say. What the fuck I have to say? Like, Nigga, you fucking up?
You're gonna say it's just like that, Nigga.
You fucking up. We need to pull back. What what the fuck are you doing?
I'm laughing when I'm serious this Nigga, they talked to you like you want to punch you like it be that serious?
But my face, Like, Nigga, what the fuck is wrong with.
Wrong?
What the are you doing?
Especially if you're in his living room? You feel cornered when he starts saying that kind of ship.
You like because because like Nigga, what the is wrong with you?
Because you're mad about them getting in their own way?
He went when he went to his high voice, Nigga, what that's a problem. Nigga went to his high voice.
Yeah, was a motherfucker.
What could possibly get in you away at this stage and point in time in your.
Career only me. The only thing that can get in my way is me making.
A great fucking ass. That was a great fucking ass And how.
Does that feel?
And I'm.
That could never happen. I stay to myself. I'm a fucking hermit man. I stayed to myself. I stay in my house. I don't even like leaving my house. Like I said, I came out here to do this shit.
But you and stupid. That's it.
I want to you know, I like staying at home. Everything that I need is in my house. I like staying at home, and.
I'm comfortable and I enjoyed my solitude.
But what I was asking was to know that the only to reach a point in time in life where you know that the only thing that can get in your way is you. Nobody else can fuck with your life but you. That is a level of freedom most human beings on this planet, that's what I feel they have.
That's exactly what it is a certain level of freedom that I have.
It's freedom and it's bliss.
That's the level that every woman and man should try to get to in life. That's called mastering yourself. When you master yourself, you understand you don't require nobody but yourself, and it's only you that can make it better or make it was.
Let's get to Missionary again because obviously y'all collabsed in nineteen ninety three the first time, thirtieth year anniversar Rica and now here you are again. What's this album gonna be like us? What's this album gonna be like? I mean, the floor is both of y'all. I'm proud of the time.
I'm really proud of it.
I'm proud of what we were able to accomplish. And Snoop coming in the studio, let me take the drive and see He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, take the driver to see doctor Drake.
Drive. Go ahead, go ahead, because yeah you got that. Yeah.
We were able to just go in and write and produce and we had a fuck I don't even know how many last we had during the fucking process of making this album.
But how long did it take you make it?
You know what I'm not sure about.
You know, I'm only bringing it up because you kept saying two days.
He said we could do it in two weeks, but you know, I would have to say actual worktime a few months, you know, maybe five or six months or something like that.
Off and on.
We just work when we had time to work together, got it? You know, we're both doing shit, you know, and like what you know? You got some time next week? I need three days or whatever, you know. So that's how it happened.
What can we expect from this album?
Elevation? He got me rapping like I'm living. Just picture that rapping like you living? Yeah, the way I live right now?
Like and how do you live right now? Explain?
I live like a boss.
I live like a leader, like a mentor, like a father, like a role model, like an example of what you need to be. I think my past record that I made with him was we trying to figure out who the fuck I was?
Who am I? What's my name?
Drinking chin and juice, trying to figure this ship out. He was trying to figure out himself as a producer. Now I think we perfected our craft and this is the highest level of perfection because I allowed him to perfect me. Which that's when I'm at my best not to fight him, not to man. I think we should do the song like this, No fuck that? What you think the song should be called? Which way should I be rapping? How should I stop?
Pause?
And do what pop my p's do this, follow full direction, lay down and let him put this project in effect. And I just think that it's the best work that I've done. I listened to it over and over again. I played in front of people, and when I played, I played it for Antwine Food Quad the other day. That's the Nigga that gave me the idea the lyric book.
He was like, it needs to be a lyric book.
That's what Yes. Nigga was in the back of the Sprint Evangga. We was at the Pittsburgh Still a game. In the back of the Sprint event.
I was banging on the JV that Nigga was like, Nigga, this is exceptional. Nigga.
It's somebody you know.
You know when we did the first album in ninety three, I was still green. I'm still learning the self mixing board and ship like that. But I'm seasoned now, so you know, I think this is some of the best music that.
Checking takes good.
Now say it.
In your fifties, you're sitting here telling me that you think this might be your best work.
Yet you don't ask questions like that to rock and roll musicians. You don't never answer. You don't never ask what the age? You know what I'm saying, So we should be age appropriately saying that our music is always going our way. Who how old we are, because that music that we made thirty years ago still sound bad some of the ship that's out right now.
So what makes you think we can't out do that?
Oh?
I think you can.
That's what I'm saying that.
That's why age.
That's why when you hear it, it ain't gonna have shit to do with age.
It's timeless.
That's the only thing that's age is relevant and disrecord because it's timeless.
What are you hoping to accomplishments? I'm asking you. It might be just great music, but with you, it always seems to be something.
I gotta hear this.
My thing with this album is to reset the music industry.
Reset the music.
Yeah, so get back to musicianship, get back to making quality music, get back to having a whole body of work, and get back to having a project that visually connects to the sonics.
Yeah.
I think that right now the artists and producers are using all the same software and all the same technology, which is why all.
The music sounds the same. I think that all the.
Music that has come out over the last five, maybe even ten years of using the same drums, the eight o weight, the rolling eight oh weight drum. All of these artists are using the same exact drum beats, right, which is a little bit of a cheap in my opinion. So I'm waiting for the musicianship to come back, artists that are actually like, really playing, not depending on the computers. I want to hear what the next level of hip hop is going to be and where it's going to go.
How did it get to the point where the artists work compared what depending on the instruments, the equipment as opposed to then natural gifts.
What happened when the it happened, Well, it started happening because of computers in the Internet, and this software made it easy. You could just go and download a beat and wrap over it and make a fucking hit record, you know what I mean. But now I think it's getting ready to turn back into real musicianship and people that are really studying music, getting in the studio and really.
Getting down like that.
So, and the reason why I say that he's right for that because most of these hit records are based off of a sample. You're taking somebody music that was a hit and you redoing it.
Right, but now they fucking it up.
It ain't like they making it better, like we complimented the sample that we use. If we took a sample from somebody, we didn't make your record appreciate. We actually made it appreciate because you made more money because you had more eyes on it.
And now it has.
A different sound or a texture to it that you probably didn't know.
It didn't exist at that time.
And people in the business they're gonna be receptive to it because you're gonna show You're gonna show them you don't you don't have to do what you've been doing in order to succeed. I imagine that's your goal.
Yeah, absolutely, I want to. I want to hear where it's gonna go next.
And hopefully it's like guys or girls that study and actually are playing.
That's where I wanted to go.
You know, people talk about the power of music and the influence it breeds, and I'm thinking about you, Jimmy Ivan, what you're doing at USC and the millions y'all gave the aspiring students. I want you to talk about that for a quick second, I want you to talk about some of the stuff you doing. I'm gonna get in that flag football joint as well. Yeah, but I want you to talk about what you and Jimmy Ivy and doing over at ull See and how that's been panning out.
Of all that the USC thing.
It's like the education system has been just the same curriculum year after year.
After year after year.
And but I feel and what we feel they're doing is training kids to be employees instead of leaders. You know, that's the same curriculum that's been happening year after year after year. You're training kids to be employees, you know, so why not train kids to be leaders?
You know?
That's what our academy is doing at USC and everything that we're doing with these high schools that we're trying to build change the way that the education system is operating for these kids.
How's that coming along?
Its coming along great.
We're at the beginning stages of it, and it's it's going great. You know, we have kids coming out of our academy that you know, Google are hiring, an Apple They're they're hiring as well. It's like kids that are brilliant that are leaders, you know. Like I said, the education system for this time, from the beginning of the education system, has been training kids to be employees.
Right. Ah, I'm guilty, That's all it's about.
I'm guilty of that. I should I ain't step out and try to be an entrepreneur. Tell my fifties. I'm late as hell to the party.
Because you have to get up at you to be a school at eight or nine o'clock, and you get out at four, three or four o'clock.
It's like you're training kids to be employees.
Snoop, What about you? I'm looking at Snoop Youth foot go ahead. Ain't nobody stopping them. I know I already got a contact high. Good though. I mean with everything that you've been doing, your Snoop Youth Football league, flag football, and obviously this album is gonna take off. You know, I'm gonna be talking about it. It's just gonna elevate your impact. How does that make you feel? How much differently do you feel about yourself when you think and imagine the impact that you're going to have moving forward, because it's only growing. I don't know if you if you've noticed this or not, but the Snoop impact has only grown, it hasn't lessened.
I like that.
I like the fact that it's the demographic of it all, like it's it's little babies all the way up to senior citizens. Shay, when we was on your show today, she was telling me about how her daughter listens to my music Doggieland then we was at another function of other night and somebody was telling me and Dre how they listened to my kids music, dogg Line. This is music that I made for my grandkids that's becoming a big hit for me on the low and it's not publicized because I don't want it publicize.
It's something that I'm doing for the kids to give them education.
Like Dre said, to change the system, Like I'm not changing the curriculum, but I'm changing that toddler age from toddler's to five. What type of music are you listening to? What inspiration are you getting before you start learning about education in school? So that's the thing that I'm most proud of. Then I got the Snoop you Special Stars what we deal with kids with autism and special needs, and that's been going on for like six seven years, and we show parents how to take those kids that they've been hiding and bring them out and have a good time. We've been doing great functions with them, Like these are the moments that mean the most to me. Like that's my accolade to be able to give back to a kid that has no opportunity because I was that same kid. Dre was that same kid. We had to make the most of whatever we had. But now that we have so much, it's only right to get back so they can work with more than we at.
And how do you feel, both of y'all where y'all come from, Kelly, we feel good, man. I'm just looking at it's a special thing when you consider. To me, it's the road travel. It's not where you at, it's what you had to go through to get there.
That council man, we made our cities proud. We made our cities worldwide, like Compton is loved and respected around the whole globe, just like Long Beach is. And it's a beautiful thing that we could take something that you looked at in a negative manner and we can make something positive out of it. And now it's an honor to be from those cities.
Imagine what we've been able to acomplished. You know, Compton is only nine nine square miles. It sounds big as fuck, right, you know, it's yeah, it's imagine what we've been able to accomplish over the last thirty years, what we've been able to build, you know, us as a duo, all the things that fall with us and under us, and what we've been able to accomplish, and not only that, how many people and kids and families we've been able to help and.
How much gang violence that we stopped from coming together. That's the ultimate Like and before me and Dre got together, Compton and Loan Beach didn't see how to eye. So when we got together, we forced the issue because our music was so good and it connected both of us to where we realized, man, what were tripping with them for men in my homeboys, and it established a relationship to where gang violence dropped between those two cities. And that's something I'm proud of because I know you're so many people that was gang bangers became rappers.
Look at what we've been able to do and what we've been able to accomplish, and how many people we've been able to touch in a positive way, that's what people need to look at.
You know, y'all are giving them no choice, and I'm not with you. Y'all are giving them no choice whatsoever. And I know this because being in the media business, I'm like, what the hell you're talking about them?
For this?
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Oh oh shit?
What was what was?
What was that moment? Like?
Dra I mean, listen all timer right there that Okay, I have to say this. I've never in my life looked more forward to a Monday morning in my life. You know, that was the most nervous ever, you know. I mean I didn't have butterflies. I had bats rolling around in my shit.
You know you were nervous.
I was nervous as shit, you know, because anything can go wrong.
I'm on my way to to sofar stadium that Sunday morning. I knew we were rehearsed and everything was right, but anything can go wrong. You're depending on literally three thousand people to do their job properly. Right, you know, to get the stage set up in six minutes and we have I think we had thirteen minutes on the stage, so.
Nobody could fuck up.
You're talking about depending on three thousand people not the fuck up, right, and the cameras and all of this shit going in and you know, thinking about this while we have to perform at the same time was crazy. So but everything went off and every everything went off great, and we had no hiccups. There was actually, uh two mistakes during.
The show, but.
They'll never know, they'll never know.
But yeah, you know the mistake was he forgot to tie his shoes and then somebody.
Had fell off.
Small.
I'm not asking about it.
Because you know, I wasn't nervous, Nigga, I was. You was ready, Dre.
I'm going to snoop next. I ain't got nothing to ask about kend. I'm tired of Kidre tomorrow, Drake all that bullshit.
All right, here's what.
I want to ask Drake. I plan on going to jay Z, I plan going to the NFL.
Okay, here, okay, give it.
To I need part two, except this time part two of what super Bowl? Super Bowl? I mean having Mary j Eminem Ken Drake. You know, Fitty, that's cold, that's cold, all right? But but but but I want to see you again, right, I don't know.
And Snoop I want Snoop. I'm talking about without everybody. Yes, I'm talking. I'm talking Snoop. Right, I'm talking Dray and Snoop. I like Snoop, I don't like.
I don't.
I'm twenty apples. You certainly got enough material.
Only thirteen minutes.
It's only thirteen minutes, that's what.
Where's the next super Bowl?
Listen to New Orleans Risk Frisco.
I'm trying to tell you I'm sh Oh Goodell twenty six.
I'm just letting you know who's gonna show up in Fresco. Oh ship.
They might need they might need y'all the fish.
This album should be bang. This album should be banging bodies like bang bang bang.
I'm gonna give y'all both the last word.
I didn't know that because I.
Can't thank y'all enough for taking time out. I really really appreciate it.
Thank you for having He knows I've loved you for years.
My brother, Oh my god, you're the best. And this is my brother right here, missionary in this album. What it's going to mean to the culture, what is going to mean to the industry, is what it's going to do. I want to give you the last word, and that what you're hoping for from it moving forward, considering all you've already commis.
What I'm hoping for from this album is I'm trying to impress producers and especially engineers with the sonics because I put my body into the mixing and the engineering and the whole shit, and that's what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping to inspire the new and up and coming young engineers the way I was inspired by Bruce T. Whitteon with the Thriller album, because that was my go to when I was trying to when I was an up and coming engineer and learning how to mix and turning knobs and shit like that. So hopefully I'm an inspiration for all the new and up and coming producers and engineers.
About you, just to you know, add to my legacy. You know what I'm saying.
It ain't about numbers, it ain't about nothing, but the way it makes you feel.
Nigga, you showed up on the album.
This record makes me feel, It make me know the record make me no real shit. The record makes me feel good, and I hope it makes you feel as good as it makes me feel like. I ride around listening to this ship like it's out now. I pull up in the Little Woop Wop yesterday with my boombox banging it.
They don't even know what I'm banging. They just rocking to.
The Yeah, he fucking murdered it.
So what about dra the greatest motherfucker to ever do it? You understand me, And he did it. He did it again. This is what he do is in his DNA not to do nothing but this and now, the way he took his time with the sound and the sonics, it don't sound like nothing that's out. It don't sound like nothing we've ever done. And I'm not saying any of the shit that I've ever said, So for him to be precise with the words, with the production, with the with the feeling, with the things that I'm saying, like, and we wrote some of these records before a lot of this shit happened, so a lot of the records come into life right now as we speak. So it's like for him to have that vision. That's what I love about him. As a producer, he embodies the artist. He don't just make a beat. He like, I need to know who the fuck you is, what you own. So when I project this record, it's a piece of you. It's not just something that you're running. What it's gonna be a piece of your life.
Got a little surprised with the birthday.
Boy for me.
Yes, sir, Oh yes, sir.
You the one told us she turned fifty two years old.
Fifty three? Are we going fifty three? Oh?
Yes, we did birthday? Hell, we're doing this song.
I don't know, I don't know.
We got a look, go go go ooh man, this motherfucking cake.
Thanks man.
Alright, that's it for the stephen A. Smith Show. I'm out of here. The one and only Snoop Dogg, the man himself, the myth, the legend of what only doctor Dre. Thank y'all for blessing me with y'all presence until next time, everybody, stephen A Signing off.
