0:00

Moe Monroe just wanted for the financial terrorist

0:02

attack. Black Monday. Black Monday was

0:04

my idea. It's me. It was all freed

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himself. Moe's

0:10

back, baby. We're

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excited to bring you a special episode of our

0:17

brother and one of the greatest rappers of all times,

0:19

Snoop Dogg. But we're here to let you

0:21

know that this interview happened before the

0:23

tragic passing of Kobe and Gigi and

0:26

the rest of the people on January, So

0:29

obviously, if that would have happened,

0:31

the conversation would have been a lot different and

0:34

uh, you know, more Kobe and more

0:36

heartfelt. But this is previous, so we

0:39

know how important Snoop is to the city

0:41

of l A and how much he and Kobe

0:43

had a great relationship and they were brothers. So

0:45

we just want to give you guys that information before you

0:47

guys watched this episode, and um, we're

0:49

excited about We're excited for you to see it. Snoop dog

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Game is a great show, a real lived depth interview,

0:54

a lot of stories about death row, a

0:56

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0:58

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1:01

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1:03

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1:13

Enjoy. All

1:24

right, welcome back all the smoke.

1:26

It's been a minute, bro, we're driving mother, Okay,

1:30

I've been doing good. Man. We got a legend in

1:32

the building today. Man, So when I grew up listening

1:34

to idolizing two became a friend mentor.

1:37

O g to me, um Man, we're gonna welcome

1:39

Snoop Niggers.

1:42

What's happening. Hey, we're gonna

1:44

get all the smoke to day. He's

1:47

extra comfortable as we like everybody, but

1:49

we want to get right into it. Man, you

1:51

came in you one of

1:53

the you know ones that made it. You came from

1:55

a street gang,

1:57

bang in life too. I'm

2:00

mogul, you know, worth a lot of ms.

2:02

Like talk to me what that transition was like? Well,

2:05

I was telling somebody the day in the meet and

2:07

I was like, imagine all of the fortune five

2:09

hundred drug dealers that got locked

2:11

up before marijuana was legal. Imagine

2:14

how fly they would be and I shop they would be.

2:17

I'm just one of those guys that just happened to beat

2:19

the system. And I take my hustle,

2:21

I take my streets savvy, I take my experience

2:24

around people the the way my

2:26

mother raised me. My mother raised me to love

2:28

people. Right. I was born

2:30

in the seventies, so I was raised

2:33

in the era where it wasn't about color.

2:35

So I had friends that was white,

2:37

Hispanic, Asian, everything,

2:40

you get what I'm saying. So I was taught to love people.

2:43

So when I was able to get into the music

2:45

industry, I was writing music for

2:47

people, I was meeting people, and I was becoming

2:50

accustomed to learning what people love. And that's

2:52

what made me likable, eventually made me lovable,

2:55

and that's why I'm still here. And that's why my longevity

2:57

is with within the rams of meat and the

2:59

peace put it out, you know service. That's why I'm the

3:01

people's champ. So they say, your

3:03

mom, your mom was man

3:07

man mom sung in the church, led the choir,

3:09

did all that good stuff. And you know, my

3:12

whole family was connected to music, but nobody

3:15

actually made that breakthrough to actually like

3:17

get a big deal and become a

3:20

big story. There was like a lot of writers, a lot of

3:22

behind the scenes, a lot of artists

3:24

that was connected to my family. But I was

3:26

like the first one to actually break the mold. But

3:29

it's the years of them not making it,

3:31

which was the spirit of me pushing through. Come

3:34

on, man, you know you can't do it without the forefathers

3:37

and the grandmothers and the people that did it

3:39

before you. They gave the foundation just their

3:41

prayers along. Man, that goes a long

3:43

way to Jack. They don't understand when

3:45

they say I'm praying for you, how serious that

3:47

is, Like we really be needing that. Like

3:49

I always say that everybody parents or everybody

3:52

that that's has people in their life that's older that

3:54

always say I'm praying Tell your friends Snoop

3:56

Dogg, I'm praying for him. I appreciate

3:58

that. And I tell people all the time, you wonder why

4:00

people, especially our generation, be

4:03

so hurt when our grandmothers died, because that's

4:05

the only people we feel like that we know that was praying for

4:07

us every day all the time. They told us that every day

4:09

I'm praying for on my

4:11

head about praying for me, and then when I come

4:14

to see you. She had Jimmy swagger. She

4:18

was dumping boatloads of money in Jimmy's

4:20

pot. You understand, Jimmy Swagger got

4:22

to raise three million dollars every day,

4:24

baby, three million. Yes,

4:28

sir, Hey,

4:30

let's take a real small chronic

4:33

break real quick. Man. We appreciate you because you

4:35

didn't say that, right, Matt, you gotta say, can we

4:37

have a moment of silence for this small crime?

4:39

Bright legendary

4:42

You can say that though exactly that that was your

4:44

tone, but you know, because that's how we wanted to come

4:46

into and it didn't initially work out. But you know when

4:48

I said we you know, we got snoop online,

4:50

but were don't have to be able to the blow one

4:52

for the Poe one. So it took a little finessing,

4:54

but you know, shout out Brian, Brian made that happen.

4:58

Brian finally

5:01

came through line, Brian came through. Appreciate

5:05

But anyway back, you've been someone that's been able

5:07

to I guess connect

5:10

different rules almost uh, someone who's

5:12

a bridge builder between the

5:15

streets and business, through football

5:18

and in the communities, uh

5:21

music, Uh, and it goes on. And where

5:24

did you learn how to bridge those

5:26

gaps and and bring all

5:28

these different people together? You

5:30

know what n B I think it became something

5:33

that grew on me. I think it was always in

5:35

me. It just grew on me as far as

5:37

like the like my arms and my legs,

5:40

something that I moved with every day. It

5:42

grew on me like that to where it was something I had to

5:44

move with every day because I come from violence.

5:46

I come from negativity and hate and the

5:49

negasin bitch ass neggasine win supposed

5:51

to be cool with them nea. I come from

5:54

that energy. So me making

5:56

it was if I make it,

5:59

I won't the niggas that don't post to

6:01

like me to like me. Let me write

6:03

something that they're gonna like, let me do something

6:05

that they're gonna like. I may offend

6:07

my neighborhood more than offending

6:10

your neighborhood because I'm stepping outside of the box

6:12

and breaking a chain of

6:14

negative energy, and I'm bringing people together who would

6:16

have never came together. And it's by coincidence,

6:19

by the glory of God, that Death Row

6:21

Records was built off of bloods and

6:23

crips because prior to that, there

6:26

was no communication with bloods and crips, Like

6:28

our communication was like, nigga, what's happening, what's

6:30

up? Disrespect on every level. So

6:32

when Death Row Records came about, it forced

6:35

us to communicate and to collaborate and to

6:37

be around each other and either nigga

6:39

man up or or hole up or

6:41

whole show up. Nigga ain't knowing between you

6:43

have to get down or lay down because it was

6:45

always somebody aggressive there. But

6:48

it taught us how to be better people.

6:50

And like, I like these niggas. Let me now,

6:53

y'all, you like the same cereal. I like nigga,

6:55

You like

6:57

nigga, all this ship, I like you like like you know,

7:00

just like you know what. It's the stereotype

7:02

that we gotta break, And I was just willing

7:04

to be the nigga that just was like fuck

7:06

it. In the beginning on Death Row, Sugar used to get mad

7:09

at me because I used to hang with his homies

7:11

too much, meaning that not

7:13

like like mad mad, but like nigga,

7:15

you're going on in the hood with this nigga and

7:17

buying dogs and doing all kinds of ship with

7:20

this nigga. This niggas a killer, so

7:23

you brought him around me, Like

7:26

that's what I'm supposed to do. I ain't supposed to be a shell nigg

7:28

im supposed to get out and move around, and I

7:31

moved around and I became a piece for motherfucker

7:33

because I've seen that we was all alike, and I've seen I

7:35

had power, and I've seen when I walked in the

7:38

room, people listen and people

7:40

react different. So instead of me being

7:42

the nigga that's like, get

7:44

that nigga, Get that nigga,

7:47

I was like, Hey, go get that nigga, Go

7:49

get that nigga. Come here? What's that name? What

7:51

y'all tripping off of? Man? Y'all

7:54

both got love, man quick man, get this nigga.

7:57

Hook, Get this nigga your number? Quit playing nigga.

7:59

We are family. Use your shot calling in a positive

8:02

way, right. Never

8:04

seen me for always the other way.

8:07

Haven't ran into any kind of trouble with that anyway,

8:09

put back always because that's considered

8:12

it as soft. Actually, me and

8:14

Tupac our clash was that because

8:17

remember when Tupac got out, he was on a different

8:19

path. After when

8:21

he got out, I was fighting a murder case.

8:24

That's different than niggas

8:27

hadening. That's totally different. But

8:29

if you ain't going through it, it ain't and

8:32

if you're young, it looked like

8:34

stripes. It looked like

8:36

nigger. That's what you're supposed to nigga. Come on, let's

8:38

get back in this ship, because that's the kind

8:40

of nigga. He was like, Nigga, I take my

8:43

stripes and get back. And that's the kind of nigger I

8:45

was until that happened,

8:47

because a life was lost. It's different,

8:50

you get what I'm saying. So I was emotionally attached

8:52

to that, and I couldn't find myself

8:56

being mad at niggas no more and having

8:58

beef. And he wanted me to not

9:02

like certain niggas in there, like fuck

9:04

them niggas, and I was like, no, mm

9:06

hmm. They didn't do nothing to me. That's

9:08

all real man standing though. If you don't like if

9:11

if you don't like somebody, I don't like them. But at the

9:13

same time, if it's somebody

9:15

I don't know and they got beef,

9:18

I'm not gonna jump on the side because I know one of them

9:22

is different. Us three

9:26

you pocket you, biggie, I'm snooped.

9:30

We're all friends. At the same time. We didn't hung

9:32

out at the same time, we didn't smoke weed,

9:34

chopping up about bitches and all kind of ship ninety

9:37

three ninety four. Then

9:40

could go to jail cause

9:43

get out, cause get shot. Now

9:46

he tripping on Cuz. But I

9:48

go and see Cus and they

9:50

don't do nothing to me, and everything is cool with me,

9:52

and I'm leveling it out, like I don't think Cuz did

9:54

that to you. Then I say, hey,

9:57

sure, put Cuz with us, get him with us.

9:59

Now he with us? Now he really wants

10:01

me to ride on him

10:04

when I could beat the hold on. Let me show you that he

10:06

didn't do it, but niggas

10:08

didn't want to hear that funk

10:11

that he did it and shoot pushing right with h Yeah

10:13

he didn't suck him. Niggas when it's like no, no,

10:15

no, I can get us all on the room

10:18

when we can get some understanding, because

10:20

I think we'd be better making money together. He's

10:23

niggas is rapping just like us. They're

10:25

taking the same stop. They really our

10:27

little homies, stop

10:29

pressing and learn how to be partners.

10:32

Could be beneficial. Can

10:34

you imagine big pocket Snoop

10:36

all over something and they wanted that. Y'all

10:39

wanted it too. I wanted it

10:42

pocket Sho at one point, Park

10:44

wanted it because he would him and Biggie

10:46

was the tightest friends before he got on Death

10:48

Fro. Before he got on Death

10:50

Fro, was that almost the

10:53

would you say, almost the battery in his back. He

10:55

was just out nigga. It's some footage

10:58

of Tupots bringing Biggie two l a

11:00

party. Nigga. We was all rapping on the mic. Warren

11:03

G was on first, Biggie

11:05

me DC was

11:07

there. It was an event that Tupac

11:10

brought that nigga too, and

11:12

we didn't know cause at the time we were looking at this big

11:15

old fat nigga rapping like this nigga hard is a mother

11:18

because he was whopp. It was cool.

11:20

It was love shout out DC.

11:22

I'm from Texas, so you don't have no nigga. That's

11:25

my mentor nigga. That's my sense sake nigga,

11:28

that's the god. I'm his

11:30

voice. Know that. So

11:33

you're breaking too the game? Really? Uh

11:37

you know? It was when you pulled up on the

11:39

chronic and really changed the world.

11:42

How did you andre make that connection?

11:45

DJ warren g Um.

11:47

Warren G was a Snoop dog

11:49

fanatic, like he loved Snoop Dogg more than

11:51

Snoop Dogg. He believed in me more than

11:54

anybody. So whenever I would make cassettes

11:56

and ship like that, he would always try to get my

11:58

cassettes in the right hands of people. And he

12:01

just was like just the worst nigger

12:03

but the best name. I ain't

12:05

related to him at all with him and Dray and

12:07

Drake was a step brother. So

12:10

he pressing the line, pressing the line so

12:13

he could always go to inn w A functions. They

12:15

had a bachelor party one night. So

12:18

Warren goes to the bachelor party with our

12:20

cassette. Music stopped.

12:23

He throw the cassette in the

12:25

cassette banging. Everybody at the party like who

12:27

is that? He like, that's my own boy snow.

12:30

So the next day Dr Dre calling

12:32

like they I like what was on the tape?

12:35

Come to the studio. So I come

12:37

to the studio and record

12:39

a song. I bring Nick dog when we record a song called

12:41

Gangster's Life. That's the first thing we did.

12:44

And he was like he's starting the label and this and that,

12:46

and we just started buying and I started

12:48

coming to the studio every day, no

12:50

money, just every day writing,

12:53

writing, writing, until we finally

12:55

just like we called a motherfucking

12:58

hit. He had moved me into his house and

13:00

the deep cover soundtracker came about, and he was

13:03

like, I need a song for the soundtrack. I'm

13:05

gonna go to the gym when I

13:07

get back, I need a song to be done.

13:09

I'm like, well, what's the movie about. What's the soundtrack

13:11

about? It? Like ship up? He called

13:14

the company. It's about an undercover cop selling

13:17

somebody selling dope to an undercover cop. And

13:19

I'm like, damn, I got caught for selling dope

13:21

to undercover cops. That's why I went to jail.

13:24

So I'm like, all right, cool, I got it. I'm like, how

13:26

you wanted to start off? He like, I

13:28

want my first lines to be Tonice. Tonight,

13:31

I get in some ship deep cover

13:33

on the incognito tip. That's

13:35

how you want to start off? All right? Cool? Too

13:37

nice? Tonight I get in some ship deep

13:40

cover on the incognito tip, killing

13:42

motherfucker's If I have to pilling cap

13:45

tools, let you niggas know I'm coming at you. I

13:47

guess it's part of the game. But I feel

13:49

for the nigger who think he's just gonna come and change

13:51

things with the swiftness. So get it

13:54

right with the quickness and let me handle

13:56

my business, y'all classes.

14:00

So that's the first song, y'all together.

14:03

That's the first song that we put out. We recorded

14:05

G Thing before that. Yeah,

14:07

but I had a motherfucking toothache, and I

14:09

went and got some peels from my

14:11

auntie and violated my probation and had to go

14:13

to jail for like four months. So

14:15

that prolonged that ship. Yeah, so,

14:17

y'all thing, then you got locked up. We

14:20

recorded G Thing first and I got

14:22

locked up. Then I got out, and then we did deep

14:24

Cover, and deep Cover came

14:26

out first, and then we re recorded

14:28

G Thing once my ship had got healed, because

14:31

my voice was like sucked up. But once my ship

14:33

and got here and my ship was crisp as a mother, I

14:35

heard that ship and in my airphone,

14:38

I'm like this nigga, Dr Dre's the ship cut.

14:40

My ship sounded cleanland one, two,

14:43

three into the folk. That ship was like crystal

14:46

clear. Because remember I was rapping on bullshit

14:49

ass equipment before I meet

14:51

this nigger. So imagine that they're going to walk man,

14:53

then all of a sudden they get some beat by you

14:56

know what I'm saying. Here your voice like that, It's like,

14:58

oh man, that ship is mind blowing. Then

15:00

at the same time, it's like d O C is right

15:02

here and the nigga the

15:05

the rap was so dope. That nigger only helped

15:07

me with four lines. And

15:09

normally when I was righting, like before that, he would

15:11

be helping me with everything, he'd be like, no, you got the

15:14

modest, modest around over there. You gotta

15:16

put that first. Man, that

15:20

gotta go right there, Doggie dog, you gotta you

15:22

gotta cut this ship out right here. Ain't nobody

15:24

gonna say that ship and it's right here.

15:27

And when they put that right there, doggie dog,

15:29

when I did g thing that nigga just said

15:31

one line, he was like we

15:33

had got to the end and nigger got stuck. He was like

15:37

like this that in this center.

15:39

It's like that and that's okay, cool, That's

15:42

all I need because he gave me that one motherfucking

15:44

line and that ship ended. That ship

15:47

doesn't like my nigga dgo seat. No one

15:49

could do with better. And I was stuck. He was like

15:51

like this that in this center

15:55

because it was about the way the cadence,

15:57

because we was already saying like this and like that, but

16:00

was saying like this that and this

16:04

cat, and they had cats.

16:07

That's that Texas ship, y'all

16:12

Texas niggas moved to a different drum.

16:15

Yeah, well you better know it. That

16:17

drum is all that's motherfucker's on time though, So

16:20

that puts you on the map, obviously. Is

16:22

it like going from being a hood superstar

16:25

too a real up and coming

16:27

star. How do you handle that? Wow?

16:29

Um? The first phases the

16:32

the show The Box. I don't know

16:34

if you'll remember that show where you could

16:37

order videos all

16:39

day. Yeah, you

16:41

could order and then take you the next one that's coming,

16:43

So jukebox and then they called it the Box. Remember,

16:46

So, I didn't have no where to stay at the time g thing

16:48

was popping, So I spend a night in my cousin.

16:50

How she lived in Perkorima and Perkoma

16:53

is all blood. So she

16:55

lived an apartment to and so ghetto at like

16:57

the apartment builders on Baby Boy that event,

17:00

living living the same

17:02

kind of ship nigging upstairs. So

17:04

I'm upstairs sleeping ship. I

17:07

wake up in the morning. In the video,

17:09

just coming on back to back to back. That

17:11

my fucking thing came on like twelve times

17:13

in a row, like nothing else but that just

17:16

because who were ordered just come yeah, No motherfucker

17:18

just came on. I'm like, damn, this is

17:20

my fucking poppet. I hear a bunch of

17:22

niggas downstairs. I'm

17:24

like, damn, I ain't got no gun. I'm like my cousin,

17:27

she a female, but one

17:29

of the niggas as the leader is her baby

17:31

daddy.

17:34

Come on, my Nigga's got to be a reason. So

17:37

the baby daddy come up in that motherfuck he

17:39

liked. He looked at me. He

17:42

won a trip, but he can't because the music

17:44

is banging so hard. He like, hey,

17:46

blood that that music

17:48

you got with Dr DR That ship hard. I'm

17:51

like, good looking Caul. And

17:53

then it was like a weird because

17:55

remember I'm telling you this is one bloods and cryptic. It wasn't

17:58

like so when he's saying, and I'm

18:00

saying, this is still meat, like nigga still

18:02

like because now I would

18:04

be like, hey, homie, a

18:07

dog, it wouldn't be no a blood a

18:09

cousin, But back then that's what it was. So it was like an evil

18:11

look off. And then he looked at me, and

18:13

he was like me and my homeboys,

18:16

we funk with you good while you over here. And

18:18

I was like, all right. That's when I knew that

18:21

my music had prevailed to

18:23

the point to where I'm in the neighborhood

18:26

when niggas could have my head. But the

18:28

music means more, and they want

18:30

to keep me around because they want to hear what else I

18:32

can do. That's

18:35

heavy that language though, But

18:39

to even be in their hood showed

18:41

a lot like what the nick

18:43

even doing upter? That's this, that's this relative

18:45

blood. That's all I'll keep you. That's this relative.

18:48

It's my cousin. She didn't tell me she lived in a blood

18:50

neighborhood. It's something

18:52

in the morning, I gotta figure out I'm getting the funk out of here.

18:55

Then I gotta walk downstairs and

18:58

I got on all blue. I

19:00

can't even change there ain't nothing to change into.

19:03

Fuck it. What's happenings

19:06

that? So

19:10

we finally get to and

19:13

where you drop your own album?

19:15

Right, take me to that and just where you were?

19:17

How old were you at that point? Twenty

19:21

yep? Just now. My record came out in November.

19:24

I had just turned two. Yeah,

19:28

what the chronic album was like that

19:30

ship didn't feel like my record, but everybody was

19:32

trying to make it like this show album. Like me, I

19:34

don't think like that. This Dr Dre ship like

19:36

I'm just happy to be a part of. But

19:39

when I got done with my record, it

19:42

was a different kind of feeling because it was like

19:45

with Dre record, every

19:47

nigger in America was bumping it. Well

19:50

my record, White People

19:52

was playing and that was crazy

19:54

because it was like I always

19:57

made music for everybody, but just to see

19:59

the kids coming up to me like loving

20:03

me, like it wasn't no fake ship. It wasn't no like

20:06

we just like him. They're like, we love you,

20:08

and our parents don't even want us to listen to your

20:10

fucking music, and we're fucking listening to it,

20:12

and they come to concerts

20:14

and they're rocking out and

20:16

die hards. And he gave me a

20:19

different perspective on who I

20:21

was and what I was supposed to be doing. You

20:23

know, I'm in the beginning. You know you're gonna be making making records

20:25

for my niggers. I'm making records for the hood. But

20:27

now I was like, hold on, I'm bigger than that. I got to make

20:29

records for people and for the whole world. This

20:31

so I was raised anyway, going back to my mom,

20:34

going back to that circle. You

20:36

know, your upbringing is what you're gonna

20:38

become when you become a grown man. You know,

20:40

shout out to all of the great mothers that

20:43

raised great men that don't

20:45

get credit, you know what I'm saying, because

20:47

a lot of these great men had great

20:50

women in their lives that shaped

20:52

and molded them and gave us some concrete

20:54

to stand. Though. This

20:57

is crazy,

20:59

it's facts though. Right

21:03

when I say master p, what does

21:05

that mean to you? Harriet

21:08

Tubman mhm, underground

21:11

railroad. Um,

21:14

this nigga was the boy

21:17

man you know I'm from. That's five hours he

21:23

man and was giving him life. Right,

21:25

that's a great way to put it too. He

21:27

gave us life, man, and he put us

21:29

all together. He freed us all and

21:31

put us together because he knew our energy would match

21:34

and we all was there for each other. It was like an all star

21:36

team he built. And when he brought me

21:38

up, I feel like I was like the first, you

21:41

know, free agency in

21:43

hip hop to actually execute the championship.

21:47

A lot of niggas, you know what I'm saying, I'm

21:49

being honest. I

21:52

have to say it because ain't nobody gonna say it me.

21:54

Nigger. I went from winning championship for death Row

21:57

to no limit as the team that was winning at

21:59

all, they was the motherfucking Warriors, Nigga, they was

22:01

doing it, and I jumped right in and

22:03

plug right on, right

22:05

on. I plug right in, get

22:08

my three in, did my three years. And they guess

22:10

what I did when I finished with those three East

22:13

Siders doggie style records

22:15

in the chronic two thousand one. Back

22:18

to another championship with

22:21

my righteous owner, with the

22:23

nigger that yestead I played with the best.

22:26

But he got a new team. Now he got

22:28

Eminem he got fifty

22:31

cent, he got all these pieces.

22:33

But remember I'm n G. So

22:36

what do I do? I groom them.

22:39

That's why they respect they g now

22:41

when they all big dogs. Now

22:43

Eminem's are goon in the game, fifty

22:46

cent tycoon in the game, and

22:50

they respect Snoop Dogg the

22:52

same way they did when they first came in. No

22:54

matter how big they get from

22:56

the get go, I wasn't too big

22:58

to say hello. A lot of niggas

23:00

get too big to say hello. You know when you're

23:03

so big and with that nigga,

23:06

Now you better because he may take your

23:08

spot one day. He may be the one,

23:10

not the two. He's

23:12

fifty as an executive. Now Nigga's

23:15

on ABC, Hello,

23:19

America's broadcast channel ABC.

23:23

Let's transfer move over to your film career. You

23:25

got a lot of movies. You play yourself a lot, but you in a lot

23:28

of movies starts getting hut, which is one of my

23:30

favorite movies. I'll laugh at that. You know that

23:33

that nigga really hit me in real life and starts hut.

23:35

I'm gonna take you to the scene. It was

23:38

the golf course scene, me and Vince Vaughan.

23:41

So when we were rehearsing, we rehearsing

23:43

in the scene, it says, well, Vince

23:45

is gonna say in line and then Snoop's character, Huckey

23:48

Bear is going to interrupt him, and Vince is gonna say,

23:50

hey, don't you interrupt me? So

23:52

okay, me and the director, Tod

23:54

Felters, we get to understand it. So it's time

23:57

to shoot. So now we're on set. So Nigga

23:59

like man and they saying

24:01

his lines. I'm already and doing

24:03

my ship and they can say something like, hey, man,

24:05

that nigga said, he slapped

24:08

the dog shit out of me. Nigg

24:10

on my mama, he slapped

24:13

the dog sh out of me. So that the nigga

24:15

and me was from the punch him right. But

24:17

the actor in me, I

24:20

sold it, you sold it was

24:22

like, and

24:26

I shrug it off and I went to my next line

24:28

and I did that ship and I killed your nigga, and they was

24:30

like cutting. Everybody started clapping and

24:32

the nigga, Vince Vaughan hugged me, tied his mother fuck

24:34

said, man, don't don't kill me. Man. I

24:37

just felt the urge. Man, just feel like I

24:39

said, you told the urge you dog here, motherfucker.

24:41

You slapped

24:44

the ship out of mecause that's

24:47

what happens when you're on the set of a movie and you're working

24:49

with real actors. Ship like that just happened. I said,

24:51

I don't want to be no more real actors. Put

24:53

me with some niggas. Man

24:59

coming hard of some the body. But

25:01

what's it like to like, I said, So you're transitioning

25:04

from the streets to a

25:06

global superstar and then now you're sucking round.

25:08

Now you in movies like, tell me what's what's

25:10

going through your mind during this time? Matt, you

25:12

know what's crazy because I always from

25:15

church, my aunt das Mama,

25:18

my Auntie Elane, and church. She used to always

25:20

put us in place. She used to always put us in

25:23

theatrical ship where we have to either play characters

25:25

or memorize lines or be somebody

25:27

famous for Black history. Benjamin

25:30

Bannaker uh uh,

25:33

James Washington Carver, all kind of motherfuckers

25:35

that we had, Frederick Ducks. We had to do research on these

25:38

people that we have to become them, and we have to act

25:40

like them. We have to present that. Then when

25:42

I went to school, I did like certain things

25:44

in school that certain classes

25:46

that I took that would give me the opportunity to

25:49

to give a little bit of that. Then when I became a rapper,

25:52

rappers had personality. When

25:54

I came out, all of them,

25:57

it was never a dead dull rapper.

26:00

Niggas couldn't just be yeah, hey, we ain't yeah

26:02

yeah. Niggas had personality. Look

26:04

that style, they had all that ship

26:06

that was like flatboyant, like

26:09

you know what I'm saying, Like that ship. So it's like when

26:11

I got a chance to act. I

26:14

was like, I never went to act in school,

26:18

but I'm not gonna blow the opportunity

26:20

and my reputation is.

26:22

And you can ask anybody that's ever worked with me

26:25

on the movie set is Snoop

26:27

Dogg comes to the set and he knows

26:30

your lines, your lines, your

26:32

lines and his lines, and

26:35

the motherfucker is flawless. I

26:38

just did a movie with Eddie Murphy, nigger,

26:41

and I ain't bragging. I'm just giving you some facts.

26:44

When we first hit the set, it's

26:47

the first day. Nigga

26:49

say action. True. Nigga

26:53

said, hold on, let me one more time,

26:57

action one

27:00

more time. Damn Snoop Dogg got

27:02

a nigga rattle. Damn

27:05

nigga, Boss, I'm supposed to be rattled by you. You

27:08

understand me. Boom knocking

27:11

out the part, Boo wo whoop. Come back to the thing

27:13

like, Nigga, you're a professional nigga the way

27:15

you and to me, I ain't did

27:17

nothing but just what I'm supposed to do. But

27:20

to an onlooker, and the motherfucker has been doing this ship for

27:22

a long time. The way I do it with is and the way

27:24

I get it done, it's like nigga, this

27:26

is what you meant to do. Like certain

27:29

niggas on the b ball court, they just gifted.

27:32

Like some thing has gotta practice and ship

27:34

and all the left and weights and all this

27:36

extra ship. That something is just like right

27:39

there, that's the dunk

27:41

on the nigga. Something

27:46

has just gotta do mode than others, you know what I'm saying.

27:48

And then something has just naturally got it, man Like,

27:51

it's just like that. Like I look at y'all

27:53

the niggas that made to the NBA, right, how

27:56

many motherfuckers didn't make it? That was better than y'all.

27:58

Know. A lot of my is maiden, most of them

28:01

in jail. They were way colder than me. That's

28:03

what I'm saying. It's just a matter of the

28:06

way you did it at ease I

28:08

had, but you did it at ease too.

28:11

The favor gonna give it to you. But you still gotta do what

28:13

at ease because if you do it reckless and you're gonna lose

28:16

favor. Yeah, almost poked it off a couple of

28:18

times. We almost right

28:21

here and perfect combination. What

28:23

was the best acting experience

28:25

swords people you got to work with you felt,

28:28

was it you just spoken. What was that probably coming to America

28:30

to you telling about no dollar? Miite?

28:32

Okay, okay. But

28:35

the people that I had the great experience of

28:37

working with. One of them was Fred Williamson. That's

28:40

the hammer played the Super

28:42

Bowl one, played a super Bowl one. He

28:44

was a star, he was a lieutenant.

28:47

But he told me because I had a long conversation

28:50

with him, and um, I was like, Fred,

28:53

I really want to start doing

28:55

this acting thing. Heavy. What

28:57

should I you know, do wishould

29:00

request or whatnot? Because I just want to be good

29:03

at what I do. He said, look here, young man, let

29:06

me tell you something. When I started making movies,

29:09

it was three things that had to happen. Well,

29:11

I wouldn't funk with the movie. I

29:14

got to win all my fights. Got to win

29:16

all my fights, that's number one.

29:20

Got the funk all the pretty girls I'm gonna

29:22

get that's number two. And

29:26

I got to live all

29:29

three of them. Things got to happen in the

29:31

movie for me to be in them. And I looked

29:33

at every movie this nigga was in and

29:35

it's the same, and they get beating

29:38

up niggas from the beginning, sucking

29:40

a bad bit in the middle, and that nigga

29:42

lives at the end and in that time.

29:46

But just listen to them in that time

29:48

and in real life nigga

29:50

would get beat up. We're gonna take

29:53

your bit, and you're dead by

29:55

the end of the movie. These

29:57

are three things that's happening to you. Black actors,

30:00

get that part in your head. So

30:02

somebody had to create a stigma

30:05

of hold on, we

30:08

wanna see some superheroes

30:10

that look like us. That's

30:12

where the super Fly in the Shafts and

30:14

the Black Dynamites and the Dollar Mites, that's where

30:16

they come from. Because it had to be somebody

30:19

that set the trend on You're

30:21

not gonna do me like that. I'm

30:23

not gonna be in it. So that's

30:25

why when I got to a certain point of doing movies,

30:28

I pulled back from Hollywood because they

30:30

always wanted to kill a nigga. They wanted

30:32

me to die in the movie the last movie

30:34

I died in. Me and John Singleton had

30:36

to understand it. It was like, look, I

30:39

really don't want to die in no more movies because because

30:41

I just don't like the spirit of that ship. I like

30:43

to live. He was like nigga the

30:45

way you're gonna die in this movie, Nigga,

30:48

You're gonna live forever? And

30:51

what was I to do? Nigga Rottney from

30:53

Baby. Like

30:57

a lot of your movies, like you got thirteen appearances where

30:59

you play your self, the

31:02

cameos is harder because what

31:04

you don't want to do is you don't want to do the same

31:06

ship twice. Like I could play me, but

31:09

I could. I got different versions of me. So

31:11

you've seen me and Reincordnated,

31:13

which is the reggae version of me. Then you

31:15

see me in the Bible of Love, which is the Gospel

31:18

me. You see me and Coach Snoop, which is the

31:20

coach version of me. You see me and some gangster

31:22

ship shooting the nigger. You see me and some pimp

31:24

ship. So it's like, it's different versions

31:27

of me that I can give you, but I gotta

31:29

know when, nah, I

31:31

can't do that. That ain't cool,

31:34

nah, because it was one movie that I just got

31:37

that they wrote it for me to play Snoop

31:40

Dogg, but I changed it up and

31:42

made my name Lingerie because

31:46

he was more profound

31:49

for what I was doing. You did

31:52

and it pay it all all?

31:56

That't the writer credit. You

31:59

gotta know what the mix and master ship, what

32:03

you touched on. Its crazy, though, because there

32:06

are so many different versions of you, and

32:08

you get paid for every different

32:11

version of who you are. You touched the gospel

32:13

realm, you've touched the reggae realm. You've touched the gangster

32:15

wrap realm. You've touched the family comedy

32:18

like you've done all

32:20

that. You showed the eight or nine

32:22

different sides, but all them people always

32:24

have a lot of different size, but they don't get paid for every motherfucker's

32:27

side they got. You get paid for every side you got. You also

32:29

want the MVP of the Hey,

32:34

Jack, I do this basketball show. I gotta

32:36

give your proberts. Don't don't talk about that. You

32:38

probably was one of the oldest that all them

32:40

young entertainment. You got it dubbed

32:42

up on them and you got the win. Yeah, but you

32:44

know what it is. They scared me on that ESPN

32:47

Celebrity Basketball Ship. They'd be always having

32:49

them whenies out there and all we

32:52

don't really wants and motherfucker's that don't

32:54

get down nigga and they have one nigga that's good

32:56

going out there putting up twenty five. I'm like they

32:59

put some real nick us out there. Man Quabo

33:01

had a good game in his spot. That

33:03

motherfucked our legend. Shout out about

33:07

the ship Nigga, that young niggas ship. Hear

33:09

me, like, I give props to niggas that deserve

33:11

that young nigga is ship man. He put together

33:14

some fly ship with Nigga was out there competing and getting

33:16

it in. I'm talking about like, come on, man, but

33:19

Snoop came in. It came to the game hotp

33:23

what I played in some of these put

33:26

it up and left, came killed for like

33:29

ten minutes, yeah, then left. That

33:31

was it. Next thing you know, people like where Snoop bad?

33:34

My chucks? It ran out of game on

33:36

the flat now. But he came in instantly.

33:39

You must have stretched in the sprinter. Come

33:41

on, man,

33:44

we were came in. We we

33:51

we keep you loose, man, We keep really

33:53

stretch it really do clastic.

33:56

Tell me what it's like working with Martha

33:58

Stewart. Oh man, Martha

34:00

Stewart. She's like your

34:02

coolest aunty man, right, you know, like when

34:04

your mom drop you off and be like I'm taking you down

34:07

aunty house to stay over there for a couple

34:09

of days, You're like, oh, thanks, Mom, it's the coolest

34:11

motherfucking aunty. She's gonna let this just

34:13

come over and she's gonna cook for nig

34:15

and she's gonna, man, you know what I'm saying, Like just cool

34:18

fool cool like. But at the same

34:20

time, she's real educational.

34:23

So if I'm doing something wrong, but if I'm out of adequate,

34:25

she always gets me back in order and puts me back

34:27

in place. And but if I'm doing something right,

34:30

she's quick to compliment me and give me all of the love

34:32

that I need. So her spirit

34:34

is genuine, is beautiful and just. You

34:37

would have never thought, But if you really

34:39

know good people, you would always thought that

34:41

we deserve each other just like any other.

34:43

Two people that you may not know. Put them

34:45

in the room together, let them talk and see what happens.

34:48

Pretty sure they love the same things, and they probably

34:51

the best of friends if you let them communicate. Shout

34:54

out mother, stood man, she went and did

34:56

a time like a real one. Yeah, she said, six

34:59

nines a bit. Yeah, shout out Martha. Because

35:01

he told and she don't know nothing. Martha

35:05

said, take these two and put him behind my back.

35:11

Pull up, Martha. You welcome on all the smoke any

35:13

time, any time. Bring some some

35:16

some of that infused. Yeah.

35:20

What's the challenges? The challenges from

35:22

transition the gangster wrapped to being like a global

35:25

star like me personally, like being

35:28

a basketball player like a lot of people, and he don't even

35:30

know how to ship. I've been through, you know what I mean.

35:32

As far as I'm perfect example, I'm

35:34

probably the only basketball playing in history that went got

35:37

nine hard at this part in the house while the

35:39

house getting reidy, see what I'm saying. So I

35:41

know you've seen, you've seen, We've seen different

35:43

ships, and a lot of people don't see you know what I'm

35:45

saying. So being growing up

35:47

in that then becoming this global star going

35:49

around the world doing how did that transition?

35:52

Like? Was it hard? It was real hard

35:54

because it's not you all the time.

35:56

It's the company you keep. And a lot of times

35:58

when we make it, we like to break. Everybody

36:01

would us, and this ship ain't for

36:04

everybody, and we gotta

36:06

learn the hard way. Sometimes, you know, we get lawsuits,

36:08

we get certain things that happened based

36:11

off of the company that we keep. So we gotta learn how

36:13

to separate and elevate

36:15

at the same time. Some of the people that you

36:17

brain definitely deserve to be there and gonna roll with

36:19

you, But it's got to be about you

36:21

first. You gotta get your game together,

36:24

and then once you get your life right

36:26

and get situated and organized, then you can start

36:28

plugging and playing everybody else that's

36:30

important in your life. And that

36:33

usually is the wrong thing that we do. We try

36:35

to plug everybody else up before we get our own

36:37

feet planet and end up losing it all

36:39

because somebody did somewhere. You gotta

36:41

end up paying laws. So you gotta do this. You gotta help

36:43

this and help that one. You didn't have nothing to do

36:46

with nothing. Yeah, you know, I learned

36:49

everybody ad meant to benefit off your blessing. You

36:51

know what I'm saying. We we we got we grow with We grow up

36:53

with big hearts, and we grow up with big families, and we talked

36:56

to love and try to take care of everybody.

36:58

But on the way to success, you

37:01

found out the hard way that that ain't the way to do it.

37:03

You want to pull everybody else, but everybody ain't meant

37:05

to benefit out your blessing. And we learned at the hardway. Well,

37:08

I like to use Lebron James is a great

37:10

example of how he

37:12

put niggas to work. He gave

37:15

a spot, but he gave him you

37:17

have to work. We didn't do that. We gave my

37:19

home was a sack and the job, and we gave him

37:21

the money. We gave him the bag money and we

37:24

ain't gotta do nothing or you security. We

37:26

ain't securing ship, running

37:29

niggas off, running my fans off, Like

37:32

come on, man, like we gotta be better than that. Like

37:35

Lebron did a good thing. He talked how

37:38

to like self empower like they

37:40

don't even need him no more, Like that's

37:42

how I supposed to be the right way, Like

37:45

how do you not need me? M Because

37:48

I wouldn't put my foot down off of what you gave

37:50

me. But that's why he got he so respected by athletes,

37:52

basket you know, rappers, everybody, because

37:55

he did it the right way. So many of us, me

37:57

personally, I brought a whole bunch of homeboards and

37:59

me when I came into the league and was

38:01

thinking that same idea Lebron was thinking. But

38:03

we didn't have the game plan, we didn't have the

38:05

blueprint, you know what I'm saying, We didn't. We didn't have the smarts.

38:08

And to be honest, we didn't have the intelligence. You

38:10

know what I'm saying. We were two in the street. You know

38:12

what I'm saying. We we we we We still had that nigga that that

38:14

nigga mentality, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

38:17

So, so to see him do it, that's

38:19

why I give him so many props because I know so many people

38:22

came along and couldn't get it done. That's

38:24

you gotta give him because he's the blueprint.

38:26

I mean, that's the way you want to do it. Like as

38:29

an old dog, I could look at his blueprint

38:31

and say, I'm gonna take a couple of pages

38:34

out of your book came do you mind? You

38:37

understand what I'm saying Like that, And that's how I'm supposed

38:39

to be. Why you can always teach your old

38:41

dog a new trick if he's willing to listen. Wow,

38:45

So creating basically

38:49

a whole genre of music in the nineties to

38:52

what music is today. I heard you speak on

38:54

another podcast, Shout Out Arian Foster

38:56

Shout Out Arian Dope Dope interview.

38:59

You talked about one of the your the commissioner

39:02

of this thing. Where do you feel the

39:04

state of music was from the rules

39:06

and the way the game used to be to

39:08

what is that now? I

39:11

think it's just less structure because it's so easy

39:13

access, meaning that anybody can get

39:15

in. Like it used to be at time to

39:17

be a musician you had to have everything

39:20

look um,

39:23

communication, skills, dance,

39:27

um talent, talent I

39:29

mean I mean not to mention, I mean, you know what I'm

39:31

saying. When it was things that

39:33

that that were a part of your criteria that had

39:36

to come with the package in order if you'd even get

39:38

listened to by anybody that was serious.

39:41

And then it became uh

39:43

point where you could do it yourself. But

39:46

then you start watering it down when you've got so many people

39:48

doing it themselves and who have never been trained and don't know

39:50

that the understanding of the dynamics of what music

39:53

is so now that anybody

39:55

and everybody can do it. There

39:57

are no rules of regulations. That's why mother's

40:00

come in the game and be

40:03

hot and then turned snitch

40:08

and still be liked.

40:11

What the fuck like?

40:14

What the funk kind of ship is a rat? Don't

40:17

y'all watch movies cheese

40:20

like rats. Man, Please, I

40:23

despise. I need some D con Remember

40:25

Mohammed Ali had the d coon trap

40:29

a motherfucking rat. It's

40:32

a new time, man, It's insane.

40:36

But then if you speak on of you a hater, right

40:39

because you don't understand

40:41

his fan base. What do you got

40:44

a bunch of rats niggas? What's happening? What

40:48

goes with this ship here? Man? I mean, I'm

40:50

not even gonna try to understand it. I'm just gonna stick to the

40:52

rules and regulations that apply to me

40:56

and my g code and just continue

40:58

to do what I'm doing. And you know, I know

41:00

that it will stand the test of time because I stood

41:02

the test of time. And that's why I've been able to

41:05

because I I go by the golden rule.

41:07

I do me. I

41:09

mean to me. Rap music is so influential

41:13

that what you guys are rapping about back

41:15

in the day people were doing. Now what they're rapping

41:17

about is these pills and these heavy

41:19

drugs getting kids addicted.

41:22

And then people are dropping off artists and their

41:24

fans, Like, what is your thought about the way the drug game

41:27

is glorified in

41:30

current music? Well, remember

41:33

when I got in crack. Cocaine

41:36

was out of high So what

41:38

my mission was was to make this the

41:41

forefront and the kill crack,

41:45

because I sold crack and I've seen the

41:47

effects of what it did and how it

41:49

really It sucked a lot of my homies

41:52

up, homies and bitches and everybody just

41:54

sucked him all the way up. So I was

41:56

like, let's push this and put this in the universe

41:59

and making a better world. And

42:02

it did. Like everybody was

42:04

on weed, like it's legalized now, you're

42:06

welcome from the chronic to

42:09

hear. So our energy was

42:11

get them off of that, get them on this, and

42:14

get everybody communicating, because one thing about

42:17

this it brings all of

42:19

us together. Look at all the people in this room right

42:21

now on a fucking weed show. Everybody

42:23

feeling good too, but

42:26

everybody loving their job though, like it's

42:28

sat one of the test jobs where you're like, I

42:30

gotta go fucking work with Stephen Jackson,

42:33

fucking Matt Barnes, those fuckers gotta

42:35

fucking take ship from those Fox all day

42:38

fuck and nobody's saying that ship. Nigga's

42:40

like, well, y'all going ship, We're going to

42:42

work with madd and Jack nigger ain't

42:44

really be doing ship with just you know whatever

42:47

the fun stand

42:49

right here and hold his camera for about minutes

42:53

and and heal all this good content.

42:55

Yeah zo being and out every once in

42:57

a while, and then ship

43:00

and I guess I'm done. I

43:02

already know what it is, man, this is the best life.

43:06

Tell me what Sugar,

43:09

the good and bad uh

43:12

did on the influence of your life, the

43:15

sugar Knight, I'll speak on the good

43:17

because everybody know the bad. The good

43:19

is that he talked ownership,

43:22

he talked strength, he talked unity,

43:25

he talked um being

43:28

a fucking man, Like,

43:32

that's key, being a fucking

43:34

man. How about that? Like,

43:38

and that goes a long way, because there's a lot of motherfucker's

43:42

that's not teaching you to be a man, and

43:45

I'll just leave that there. But teaching

43:48

you how to be a man in this industry when

43:51

his industry don't give a funk about nobody.

43:55

This industry treat everybody the same either

43:57

you're pamper, your whole and now

43:59

in between. So for him

44:01

to teach us how to be men helped

44:04

us break the stigma if you're gonna be a pimp or whole

44:06

You're gonna be a man first, So you're

44:08

not gonna give me the bullshit as deals. You're not

44:10

gonna talk to me anyway, You're not gonna do me any

44:12

kind of way. I'm a musician first.

44:15

This is my art. This is what I love to do, just

44:18

like the for the foundation before us, to Sam

44:20

Cooks, the James Brown's, the people that

44:22

fought for this ship, that own their

44:25

own ship, you know what I'm saying.

44:27

Like he was one of them, motherfucker's to teach

44:29

us how to keep the foundation going. Nowhere you

44:32

could have strong record label owners like

44:34

MASTERP, Cash Money

44:37

and any other label that came behind that was able

44:40

to that was able to just do

44:43

that ship. The rapper I was here before us, So

44:45

j Prince was like, you know, he was in the game, him

44:47

and Uncle. Look, the Niggas was there before us, but

44:50

anybody after us. Sure,

44:52

Knight basically gave the niggas foundation on how

44:55

to be how to be men in this industry.

44:57

Y'all made great music together. But

45:00

I mean what you in pox relationship was like because as

45:02

you touched on earlier, you guys are kind of on two different

45:04

paths. When you guys really really started rocking.

45:07

Nah. See, when we really started rocking was

45:09

before death Row. That's how he got

45:11

to death Row. We really started

45:14

rocking when um and Michael Rappaport

45:16

was there, when I fucking Mattie at

45:19

the Poetic Justice Rappart. Yeah,

45:22

Ricky Harris was the fucking like

45:25

MC or the the host at night and

45:28

I grew up with Ricky Harris. That's my cousin.

45:30

Yeah, when

45:33

I get to the party, Ricky

45:35

Harris is dead. John Sam

45:37

went to Janet Jackson all the Stars and ship

45:40

is there and they got like a DJ booth

45:42

and they got like a microphone.

45:45

So Ricky Harris grabbed the mike and he know I

45:47

get out, so he liked,

45:50

yeah, I got more. My cousin, sloop

45:52

rock in the house and who whoa whoa

45:55

and then pockets right here. So

45:57

and then when Ricky finishing what he's saying, Tiga

46:00

pot grabbed the mike and started

46:02

rapping. I'm like nigga

46:04

out with my intro. So

46:07

when he but it say it's a little blind, I

46:10

grabbed a mic and I started rapping. Then

46:13

he grabbed a mic and store, this is one mic, nigga.

46:15

This is when they only had one mic, so they had

46:17

to wait patiently and kindly and

46:19

didn't grab it with aggression. After Nigga finished,

46:21

Nigga said, so,

46:23

then then we're rapping and rapping, so we both go about

46:26

like four five times. Then

46:28

we stopped and then my nigga lay Law from above.

46:31

The Law was there and he walked

46:33

us outside and he was like, Snoop,

46:37

did you meet my nigga. I'm like, nah,

46:39

what's up? Shooking nigger hand and they

46:41

could roll the blunt. I'm like, Nigga,

46:43

what's that. Ain't like Nigga's a blunt. And

46:46

Nigga rolled the blunt lick

46:48

that motherfucking lit it smoke

46:50

that motherfucker. I'm like, let

46:52

me get your number. Come, I let you got

46:55

his number. Maybe like a

46:57

month later, I finally called him and

47:00

I'm like, what's happening, what's up with you? Like, I'm at

47:02

the house some frying some shrimp. They

47:04

could come by. He was in the scene though, and

47:06

they got a house full of Niggas he was frying

47:08

shrimp, they got flowering ship in his hands. It's

47:10

the first time I gonna funk with him and the

47:13

nigga like you ever see

47:15

my movie. I'm like, no, theyre

47:17

using the movie. He's like, yeah, they got

47:19

got a movie called Juice, Nigga. I'm

47:22

like, let me see it because and they gave

47:24

me a big ass laser disc. That's when

47:26

laser dis is out. And this motherfucker was about

47:29

this big nigga was squared. He

47:31

gave me that motherfucker I ticket to the house and and DC

47:34

had a laser this player too. Put

47:36

that motherfuck in. They could watch Juice and

47:38

fell in love with that nigger. I was like, cud this

47:41

nigga hall, Me

47:43

and all the homie start listened to this nigga music,

47:46

getting all this ship. Me and them started

47:48

hanging out, started fucking. Wouldn't even fucking

47:50

with him. And I did my

47:52

record that I did, the Murder was the Case soundtrack,

47:56

and I wanted this song he had called how

48:00

many do you see life so hard

48:02

on the nigga when you're living like a g I

48:05

wanted that song bad, and he

48:07

was like, Nigga, I

48:10

paid him thirty five thousand. I man suld get

48:12

him thirty five thousand. Sugar was like, Nigga,

48:14

who is this nigga? We're give him thirty

48:16

five thousand dollars to this motherfucker. Ain't

48:19

ship, I said, man paid the nigga. Man

48:21

this nigga the ship. The song is bombed,

48:24

So sug pay him. Nigga.

48:27

We didn't even use the song, my

48:29

mom. We didn't use the song because

48:32

he rapped on the song. But I

48:34

wanted to rap on the song, and I was like, I was

48:36

debating when I wanted to use him, and and

48:39

it got too late and we didn't use it. But

48:41

long story short, when he got back

48:44

out and got on death Row, I

48:47

had already paid for so I used the song and

48:49

I did the lyrics over on the the

48:51

movie that he was on before he died, the oneing

48:53

that are a lot. What was the name of that movie, Yeah,

48:58

yeah, Gridline. It was on that

49:01

motherfucker's Gridlock, and we used it for

49:03

that. But I had paid the nigger like oh

49:05

years before that. And this is when Sugar

49:08

wasn't sucking with him. Sugars like, don't get that nigga

49:10

all that money my cause he's worth

49:12

it. Cause so he was my friend before

49:15

death row, right, so building

49:18

a brotherhood with him. So when he

49:20

was locked up, naturally, I spoke

49:22

to Sugar and was like, we need

49:25

to get Cuss out and put him with us

49:28

because he will make

49:30

us better and he's gonna push

49:32

me and he's just the ship just because we need his

49:34

spirit here. So that was the first successful

49:38

free agency acquisition that

49:41

I acquired with Sugar Knight as like

49:43

a general manager to

49:46

bring Cuds to the squad and then

49:48

put him on the team and say Dash stop,

49:51

dog father, get that nigga

49:53

everything, And that was the best thing to Happitune

49:56

was dash right. People

49:58

don't know that give him everything. Gave

50:00

everything. The Dads was hungry

50:02

right at that time though, because Dre was

50:05

like the man and Dads

50:07

wanted. Dads has got that complex about it where

50:09

he don't like being too. He want

50:11

to be the one, so

50:14

he couldn't come after me because I'm his cousin, so

50:16

naturally he want to come at the production.

50:18

So he producing horror and trying to make ship.

50:20

That's like on the level of Dr

50:22

Draft, not better than Dr Drell, trying to get

50:25

to that level. You know, that's that

50:27

drive, that's that competitive spirit of having

50:29

great niggers on your team. It

50:31

pushes you to be great. You got a

50:34

bunch of sorry motherfucker's on your team, you're

50:36

gonna be sorry. That's why the

50:38

teams that can't win. It's a look

50:40

at the bench. I'm

50:43

sorry, motherfucker's over there. But then look

50:45

in the office too, right,

50:48

Nipsey hustle his legs.

50:50

And what does his legacy mean to you? Nipsey leaves

50:52

the legacy of gangsterism,

50:56

uh, business education

51:00

mentorship in

51:02

future? Um just

51:05

because he touched on everything and I spoke

51:07

oh and

51:10

he knew it, like we didn't know it what

51:13

nobody really knowing? How deep?

51:15

Cause was while he was here, we

51:18

was rolling wood, he so we was enjoying

51:20

the experience. So when you

51:23

fully get to enjoy the experience, then

51:26

you understand because all while

51:28

we was listening, we was making our own music and we

51:30

was doing other ships, so we couldn't listen like we listened

51:32

to it when he passed away, we listened

51:34

to it with a understanding

51:38

because we ain't gonna hear him again. So

51:41

now you understand it. He knew

51:43

what he was saying because he could

51:46

have said anything. Why would he say that?

51:48

Why would he write that? He

51:51

knew? Like we all know when I write what I right,

51:54

I wrote murder was the case before it happened.

51:58

I didn't wan't no murder case to happen. Yeah,

52:01

but I knew that death was around me. So

52:04

I had to write it to where I could survive. It's

52:07

the only way I could write it. Everybody else

52:10

was writing their death.

52:13

Listen to my peers in

52:17

ninety three. They all write

52:19

about their death Snoop

52:22

Dogg the only one that didn't die does

52:25

he had a relationship with God.

52:28

I prayed to God in that song, despite

52:30

making a deal with the devil, but I

52:32

prayed to God. That's

52:35

game. M. You've

52:38

spoke in the past about people like yourself,

52:41

Jay Puff, really coming

52:44

together, unified and really

52:46

doing some meaningful ship speak

52:48

on that um. That's

52:52

just being together means a lot because

52:54

the world don't never get a chance

52:57

to see all of these black business

52:59

minds collaborate. You know, we

53:01

always do a song with he may got

53:03

a song with him, He did this with him. But to collaborate

53:06

on some business that can last forever, it's

53:09

important because it it

53:12

shows brotherhood and it builds something that's gonna

53:14

last forever because we all don't lose.

53:17

You got people that don't lose coming together.

53:20

That's something that's eternal, and it's

53:22

not even an ego thing. It's about who's

53:25

gonna be mad enough to say, let's do it. I

53:27

always bring it to the table, everybody

53:29

knowing the life of the party. When I come in, I always pushed

53:32

the line up, let's do something together.

53:34

What's your initiatives so I can help you first

53:36

and foremost what you need me to

53:38

do for you? All right? Cool, that

53:41

we got that out the way. Here's what I want to do

53:43

with you. Let's get some money. How

53:45

about that? Everything

53:47

that a conversation about that. That's

53:50

one thing that people don't know is how insane

53:55

your hustle is and how many different things you got

53:57

your hand in. And really it's

53:59

and I've seen you in action when you're when

54:01

you're in the process of deals and situations, you're

54:04

really just being you and open these people eyes up

54:06

to a whole new avenue. You know.

54:08

I heard you're in the text pace now and they want you to come speak

54:10

to tech stuff. And but like you said, you can't

54:12

give all that game away for free. You don't know. They gotta

54:15

break bread effect there, they know it. I

54:17

need to bag and I need a piece of some of these companies

54:19

in there. But it's

54:23

very important to know your brand and know your worth

54:25

because a lot of times we've been

54:28

used. And you know, for

54:30

example, an athlete that went to a certain

54:32

college on university. When he's at that

54:35

university, he makes

54:37

that university millions of dollars because he plays

54:39

his ass off on the basketball court to football

54:42

field. He wins in the championship. He

54:45

doesn't make it in the NFL with the NBA. How

54:49

does that athlete continue

54:51

to make money? The university ain't gonna

54:53

pay because they ain't been paying. But if

54:56

he was smart, he was branding

54:58

while he was at the school. He was aden

55:00

up ship while he was there to position itself to him

55:02

when he finishes, the alumni, the

55:04

state, the city, the community

55:07

gonna give him some sort of business

55:10

or something to tie him into making money because

55:12

he was so impactful to that

55:14

position at that school that's constantly

55:17

growing and getting big deals year after year. But

55:19

if you ain't talked that, you

55:22

only concerned with the moment. That's why I say

55:24

the difference between the u c l A Kid and

55:26

the USC kid. The u

55:28

c l A kid is always thinking

55:31

futuristic and what's

55:33

ahead of me, the USC kids that I've

55:35

dealt with always about the moment, and

55:38

we gotta break that and start thinking about

55:40

how to do things together and be about us

55:42

as a brotherhood and not just about the moment.

55:44

And what can I do for now? Now? What can

55:47

I do that's gonna last when

55:49

I'm gone? That's the key, you think,

55:51

because us, us in the hood,

55:53

got something to do with it. I think you

55:55

are seeing the hood has a lot to do with it. But I just think

55:57

the mentality of the professors,

56:00

the teachings and the alumni

56:02

in the direction everything

56:04

runs from up top. So however

56:06

the ship is ran up top, his eye is gonna get to you on

56:08

the bottom. And the way it's

56:10

ran up top and U s l

56:13

A, I just feel like it's more of a brotherhood and the

56:15

fraternity and we got your backing. We're

56:17

there for you, Like as C

56:20

is, all right, what have you

56:22

done for me lately? Because they banned

56:24

some of my niggas that won national championships,

56:27

they can't even come up there. How the funk y'all gonna

56:29

do that? But I can go up there. I ain't want ship

56:31

for y'all. I ain't done nothing. I

56:33

ain't even went to one day of class. My

56:35

picture on the wall, you know,

56:38

so you're using me. But

56:40

the motherfucker that brought kids didn't brought money

56:42

there. I don't got no action what

56:46

I'm supposed to do? Be happy my faces

56:48

on the wall. It a

56:50

funk about that. I got three humeboys that went

56:52

to U s l A. Him bearing Enrico, and

56:55

I didn't made money with all of them,

56:57

all of all of them got something going on, all

57:00

them smart brothers, you know. So you

57:02

see he realized that, you know, his son came over. You've

57:04

seen him in plenty of jerseys that

57:07

you know, he realized that, you know, better

57:10

late than never. So

57:12

what what would I would have went? If I had went

57:14

to college matt Where I would have went? I

57:19

used to have a couple of chicks over that way, I wouldn't triple, you

57:21

know, football. So

57:25

I feel like there's been a

57:27

few points, as fans we know, kind

57:30

of turney points in your

57:32

life, you know, being acquitted a murderer, um

57:35

and then the trip you made to Jamaica and

57:38

when you came you came out of that. It's a snoop.

57:40

Lying as you say, Blessed Star talk

57:43

to me about how those experiences

57:45

kind of shaped your adulthood. Was

57:48

the acquittal shake your livelihood?

57:51

You know, my wife, which

57:54

was my girlfriend at the time, was

57:57

pregnant with a little snoop and

58:00

Spank was born. So it

58:02

was me looking at am I gonna be a part

58:04

of these kids lives? And

58:07

if I do get opportunity, how

58:10

am I gonna be different? How am I gonna be better?

58:13

And once I did

58:16

get acquitted, my whole mission was

58:18

to be a better person, a better man, and if

58:21

that meant cutting certain people out of my life, that's

58:23

what it meant, like with a quickness.

58:26

So you know, when you got things like that where

58:28

life is on the line, it's

58:31

easy to make a decision, you

58:33

know what I'm saying. And that

58:36

was like it

58:39

was real for me, but at the same time, it was necessary

58:42

because that's what kept me alive because

58:44

without it, AUTO went back to doing

58:46

the same bullshit and

58:49

probably being cut down. But

58:52

realizing and um making

58:55

changes and being a better person. I

58:57

was able to create, like a football league

59:00

all kind of ship from

59:02

that negative this man from

59:05

all of that and then the reincordnated

59:07

situation. Jamaica was

59:11

in the beginning, I just wanted to go out there and just

59:14

experience something

59:16

other than the hotel room because I used to always

59:18

go out there and just hanging the room. So

59:22

from doing a record to

59:24

being affected by the people that took me to the

59:26

not being e temple, something

59:29

hit my spirit. Man. It was like I came

59:32

there open anyway, so I

59:35

wasn't like trying to like not find

59:37

nothing. I was there looking and it

59:40

found me. And Rostafari

59:42

was like, it was who

59:45

I was, Like, you don't know who you are

59:47

and you travel, and when I seen

59:50

other things and seen what

59:52

it was about and how it was

59:55

actually who I was, it

59:57

helped me to get a better vision on what I was supposed

59:59

to be do one and I was in two thousand eleven. So

1:00:02

look at two thousand eleven snoop

1:00:04

line to where I'm at now

1:00:06

two thousand. All of the great things

1:00:09

that I've done, all of the the

1:00:11

up the uproar of things that I've done

1:00:13

better people helped Cared

1:00:19

tell us a little bit more about your league, because

1:00:21

I mean that was something that was started. You know,

1:00:23

I know your son played and you

1:00:25

didn't really like the league and then but

1:00:28

just really more creating a league for neighborhood to keep

1:00:31

these kids out of troubling. Ha. Man,

1:00:33

your kids are going on to professional careers. Where

1:00:35

the league was created in two thousand and five

1:00:39

just because I wanted to create a league that could

1:00:42

help out single parents and you

1:00:44

know, people from the hood that really didn't have a lot of

1:00:46

money. Football was like three hundred dollars per kid

1:00:49

to play when I started my

1:00:51

league, So if there were three kids

1:00:53

in one house, you look at

1:00:55

about a thousand hours for one parent

1:00:57

to pay for football, not to mention cleats

1:01:00

and love pieces and jerseys and on

1:01:02

kind of extracurriculuship you gotta get. So

1:01:05

I was trying to figure a way to make

1:01:07

a league that could have great

1:01:09

football, have good

1:01:11

organizations, and

1:01:14

have a nice price connected

1:01:16

to it. But grades was implemented,

1:01:19

so you had to have a two point or g p A to play.

1:01:22

But if you maintain a two point on g p A,

1:01:24

your parents would have to pay one hundred

1:01:26

dollars for you

1:01:29

to play. But if there were two kids in the

1:01:31

house, the second kid was fifty

1:01:33

dollars. So and this was a clause

1:01:35

that we put in. Matt

1:01:38

and Jack, your cousins y'all

1:01:40

don't stay together. But Matt,

1:01:42

mom are gonna pay for you to play. So

1:01:45

hunting for Matt fifty for you. That's

1:01:48

the plan Buck fifty. So

1:01:51

you see how took the price and sliced

1:01:53

it in had But I put Grazes the initiative. So

1:01:56

it wasn't just all this nig is just making money.

1:01:58

Now I'm making about the grades. We gotta start

1:02:00

somewhere, two point oh in a lot, but it's it's a start,

1:02:03

it's average. We're gonna

1:02:05

teach you how to be average. Then we're gonna teach you how to come

1:02:08

up. I graduated with a one point seven. But

1:02:10

so you gotta start somewhere, thought it

1:02:12

too. You

1:02:15

gotta start somewhere with these kids though, man, And

1:02:17

when I was growing up, we always

1:02:20

to say the best athletes

1:02:22

was the dumbest. When I

1:02:24

was a kid, it was always the dumb

1:02:26

job that was the best nig on the

1:02:29

team. He was the best athlete,

1:02:31

But he's the dumbest, motherfucking class. He would sunk

1:02:33

up in school, he would wouldn't remember the plays,

1:02:35

come to the game late. That's just what

1:02:38

it was. So I wanted to build

1:02:40

an era of we

1:02:43

want the scholasticket m athlete.

1:02:46

There was scholastic. We

1:02:49

wanted to be a scholar and

1:02:52

an athlete. You understand me, because

1:02:54

I've seen the game grow.

1:02:57

Football got smart. It

1:02:59

was just pitch right, pitch left. It

1:03:02

was schematics, it was numbers,

1:03:05

it was assignments. It was

1:03:07

and in order to win, you have to adjust. So

1:03:10

I had to adjust as a coach. So I had to adjust

1:03:12

with my playbook with my football league

1:03:15

to give them different ship and make

1:03:17

my league fun. Because Vince

1:03:19

Staples played in my league and this is the ship that

1:03:21

he said that touched my heart. He was like, nigga

1:03:24

called me coach snoop. Nigga

1:03:27

said, coach snoop nigga, When

1:03:30

you let us

1:03:32

put our names on the back of our jerseys,

1:03:35

that was the best ship ever. Not

1:03:38

their last names, but they sweet

1:03:40

name whatever their hood name were. That

1:03:43

blew they fucking mind when I did that. And

1:03:46

that just was me just being a real nigga, Like

1:03:49

this nigga name hit chill up. This nigga

1:03:51

name hit him man. This nigga named man Chap,

1:03:54

like you know what I'm saying.

1:03:56

And then them kids weren't

1:03:58

crazy and Vince Stay pull as

1:04:00

a grown ass rapper said, you

1:04:03

changed my life. You changed all

1:04:05

of my homeboy's life when you did that, because

1:04:07

we was bad as funck and all we want

1:04:09

to do is playing your league. And one

1:04:12

of the homies had to stand on

1:04:14

push cans down to get fifty

1:04:16

dollars to play, but he raised fifty dollars so he could

1:04:18

play. Like it's stories like

1:04:20

that that my league was built

1:04:23

on. That's like, that's my baby.

1:04:26

And I got over five kids

1:04:28

that then graduated from high school, over

1:04:31

three hundred that then graduated from Division

1:04:33

one program, and over twelve that mayor

1:04:35

in the NFL. That's better

1:04:37

than some my school. Come on, man, we've been when

1:04:39

just two thousand five tell

1:04:42

me what what the most reported? That's the obviously

1:04:44

the most rewarding part of mentoring

1:04:47

for you. It's just showing them there's another

1:04:49

way. You know what. The best part in n B I

1:04:51

ain't gonna lie to you is want a grown man called

1:04:53

me coach. That

1:04:56

ship is like the best feeling in the world, man,

1:04:58

because that means you meant a lot,

1:05:00

because I know when I called my coach

1:05:03

coach, I can see how it touches his heart that

1:05:06

I still call him coach as

1:05:08

a grown ass man. You know what I'm

1:05:10

saying. Like, he came to my concert the other day,

1:05:12

right, one of my coaches, and I brought

1:05:15

this nigga back to coach my little league team because we couldn't

1:05:17

beat this particular team until we brought this nigga back and

1:05:19

then we wanted off. Coach, Murol Nickel,

1:05:21

you know, I love you, Coach,

1:05:24

come to my show soon

1:05:26

as I get off stage. This is what the niggas

1:05:28

saying. Man, he was

1:05:30

up there for a long time. Man, you start drinking

1:05:33

water to hydre, I

1:05:35

said, coach, I've been drinking water all

1:05:37

day. No, I'm just saying you need

1:05:39

to highsta. That's just the coaching you. Man. I'm

1:05:42

good. This is the ship I do, coach. This ain't football,

1:05:45

this this ship is my lane. Nick I just scored something

1:05:47

touchdowns, you

1:05:49

hear me. I don't sweat this is what

1:05:51

I do. But that

1:05:53

is the best for them in the world. When I'm

1:05:55

at a gas station, right and

1:05:59

I'm by myself, like two in the morning in

1:06:01

a car pull up with folk niggers, and I'm

1:06:04

scared as a motherfucker, and the

1:06:06

niggers jumped out of the car and one of niggas like, what's

1:06:08

up, coach? No like

1:06:19

ship that is good? Right?

1:06:23

Used to be a time when that car and pull up? What's

1:06:26

up? Niggle from?

1:06:28

Yeah? See,

1:06:31

we live to learn. Ye know what

1:06:33

I mean. I'm gonna smoke the rest of your joint.

1:06:35

I have smoked all my blood. You do what I say? There,

1:06:38

you go, Jack, you appreciate

1:06:41

it, Harry

1:06:43

Tales, and make believe the Battle

1:06:45

of l A. I mean you nigga

1:06:48

got us right now, They got us right now, and our customer.

1:06:50

You heard that I went off, did y'all? I've

1:06:52

seen it. What you know, we saw it right

1:06:55

in the locker room too, the

1:06:57

locker room down. Yeah, that

1:07:00

was signed out.

1:07:03

Broke them niggas in. I rather

1:07:05

them though, matter on something like because

1:07:09

they got to understand what they mean. That a right,

1:07:14

You niggas could go oh and

1:07:16

eighty two. Beating

1:07:19

them niggas across the street matters

1:07:21

more than anything. That's like Ohio State

1:07:23

Michigan, that's like any other

1:07:25

rivalry in sports, Like they

1:07:28

mean more than the Celtics nigga. Okay,

1:07:32

and the Celtics got championships, but

1:07:35

right now they got the mouth and the so

1:07:38

you gotta shut that, shut that up. But

1:07:41

I already know what the plan is. Let

1:07:43

me hear Let me hear it, Coach. When they get to May,

1:07:48

when they gets to the merry month of May, we're

1:07:51

gonna see how y'all play we

1:07:54

played them. That's the only thing

1:07:56

that's missing is the tone

1:07:59

of the gay that little nigga,

1:08:01

Beverly I

1:08:06

walk an alley with. I will

1:08:08

go in the alley with him and slap

1:08:10

the nigga's auntie. That's

1:08:12

sant Patrick. Now

1:08:15

I'm nickel because he's a goon.

1:08:18

He takes Lebrono. That

1:08:20

last play, Oh that was so

1:08:22

goonish, Like, come on, man,

1:08:24

he's a gooney man. Man,

1:08:26

you gotta give him his man. I don't like him niggas,

1:08:28

but I love him niggas. I mean, it is what it is, man,

1:08:31

Kauai know what it is. I'll be wearing his sweatsuits

1:08:33

and ship fucking with you, understand

1:08:35

me. But I think at

1:08:37

the end of the day, if we both

1:08:40

make it to the championship, the Western

1:08:42

Conference finals, we

1:08:44

got something for them, because like they're

1:08:47

shooting they wide out right now, Seattle.

1:08:50

I disagree, y'all, got the top record.

1:08:53

The chilling, that's what not

1:08:56

once they see right now they're like three. But

1:08:58

it don't matter what I said. The leg is

1:09:00

gonna win, but the clip is chilling right now. We

1:09:03

don't need to be mean to say they

1:09:06

be clipping honorary

1:09:09

Laker too. I mean, so, I just love the

1:09:11

battle. I grew up a Laker fan, died hard Legger fan.

1:09:13

But I really feel like we kind of put the Clippers

1:09:16

back on the map. So I really took pride and trying

1:09:18

to put them on the city. It'll never be. It

1:09:20

will never be. The Clippers will never be with the Lakers

1:09:22

are no matter. It just never happened. I ask you this,

1:09:24

do you think this team better than Live City were

1:09:30

what I'm saying, We're playing

1:09:33

CP at the one. I think I think

1:09:35

the only thing they was missing was a Lou Williams. Oh

1:09:38

yeah, that's nothing. We

1:09:40

had a Jamal Cross. The

1:09:43

only thing we're off the same

1:09:45

exactly. The only thing we was missing was chemistry.

1:09:48

That's what held us back. We got in our own way and

1:09:51

injuries. Yeah, because CP

1:09:53

and Blake, Oh we did it, yeah, but I think

1:09:55

we kept ourselves on When it to me, that's one

1:09:57

of the teams that should have ended thing that I know the

1:10:00

Clippers that it's gonna be effective

1:10:02

if that that nigga Kawhi Leonard i Q so motherfucker

1:10:05

highs like niggas don't even

1:10:07

take that into the equation. But I'm a sports

1:10:09

guy and I always have to look at that part of the game,

1:10:12

like the i Q can win more than ability

1:10:14

and skills. He's

1:10:16

so sharp that he understands the dynamic

1:10:19

of First of all, I've seen the nigga workout when I went

1:10:21

to the finals against Golden State

1:10:23

right last

1:10:26

year. I've seen this nigga workout because

1:10:28

I was there early. He was

1:10:30

the only niggle on this goal that Nigga would

1:10:32

shooting nothing but mid range, mid

1:10:35

range, mid range. I watched

1:10:37

the next nigga come out three three

1:10:40

three, three free through

1:10:43

three three. I said, Oh,

1:10:45

this nigga is smart, see because

1:10:47

everybody want the three, but

1:10:50

the mid range is a guaranteed too.

1:10:53

If your i Q was right, you're

1:10:55

gonna hit that mid range more than you hit that three.

1:10:58

Then when you want the three, there it's

1:11:00

there. That's why this nigga

1:11:02

is so good. A lot of his intelligence and gang

1:11:05

smarts and the composure for sure come from being

1:11:07

around Tim Duncan. But I'm watching

1:11:09

I'm watching his the way he liked.

1:11:11

He don't get right on nothing. And they could be down by

1:11:14

fifteen and they can pull up

1:11:16

hit that mere range. You're back on d Patrick

1:11:19

Beverly didn't got a neigger to throw the ball off on his own

1:11:21

feet. Now they're down by level, they're

1:11:24

clapping and ship and the ship here comes

1:11:26

to bullshit. Williams didn' hit the three

1:11:28

from the corner and fell out and they gave him a four

1:11:30

point play. I'm like, oh my god,

1:11:34

the dread lock like the predator coming through the

1:11:36

middle, and we just we just we just

1:11:38

we just y'all. The Lakers need Jamal Crawford.

1:11:41

That's who we need. That they

1:11:44

need someone he

1:11:46

can aswer. Oh

1:11:51

I say, I say, in the merry month of May,

1:11:54

we will have an acquisition because

1:11:56

I just everything ain't what it's

1:11:59

supposed to be at. Something missing. It's

1:12:01

some missing. Jay Crawford and the

1:12:03

White Howard. I got to give him a shout out, the

1:12:06

new Dwhite Howard. This nigga

1:12:08

is the Comeback Player of the Year or

1:12:11

whatever that award is for.

1:12:14

H am I right, A wrong, Yeah,

1:12:17

that's what I'm saying. That ship from

1:12:19

what the way he looked last year to now, he

1:12:22

went through a lot last year. He looked good

1:12:25

last time. Not even

1:12:27

that when I seen him with the Hawks and the all

1:12:29

the mother sorry teams, he looked bad.

1:12:32

He looked amazing right now his spirit

1:12:34

has looked, has rebound his

1:12:37

deep and like that, Nigga is the ship. I

1:12:39

watched the Lakers, Nigger, that's my squad. And

1:12:42

then too, what a lot of people

1:12:44

gonna tell y'all he going in the game plan

1:12:46

against the second unit. Ain't no second unit

1:12:48

and no league can stop Dwhite Howard.

1:12:51

So that's another reason why he shined. He planned against

1:12:53

the second He really he can dominate against starters.

1:12:55

It looked like he on our planet now the

1:13:00

way he playing in

1:13:05

just because I can't see that just natural,

1:13:08

just wake up in my game. I

1:13:10

think he just had one of those welcome

1:13:14

to the friendly Scott, you will

1:13:17

be flying at an all time. But

1:13:20

it was redemption. I think he knew this is his last

1:13:23

chance, you know what I mean? He looked good. I'm

1:13:25

happy for him, We're proud of him. I love him.

1:13:27

I loved him when he came the first time. I love him

1:13:29

on the second side. Good Ship, d White. That's

1:13:32

what's up? What should have been your most favorite Laker

1:13:34

moment as a you

1:13:38

know what? One of them is this right? When

1:13:40

the Lakers won, Right and

1:13:42

Nigga's won. I think they beat the Trail Flagers

1:13:44

in that game. And uh when

1:13:47

when that motherfuck up

1:13:49

and she caught that motherfucker nigga,

1:13:51

Me and my homeboys kicked the locker rooms.

1:13:53

We kicked it in and went in there with him

1:13:56

nigga and busted in Nigga

1:13:58

and came in that mother fucking was doing the interviews

1:14:01

with Jim Hill and all kinds of niggas. We was excited

1:14:03

like a motherfucker because that's when Shaq

1:14:05

was the realist nag in the world. He'd

1:14:08

leave tickets at the thing for

1:14:10

nigger and he would leave wearing wrist band

1:14:13

and he'd be like, when you just

1:14:17

take it off and give it to the next person to come

1:14:19

in. And that's how we used

1:14:21

to get right.

1:14:23

That's when the Skype whatever that ship was, I think

1:14:25

with sky page or skyping or something, and

1:14:27

I star always hit the nigga. Big Daddy I

1:14:30

need some tickets to the game. And this was the big game

1:14:32

against the Trailblazers, and I'm

1:14:34

nigga. When the niggas won, we came in that locker room

1:14:36

and it was just like we was a part of the team.

1:14:39

And Phil Jackson was looking at us like we was crazy

1:14:41

and the motherfucker he was looking like, how did these niggas

1:14:43

get in here? Were like, Nigga,

1:14:46

we went, We went the niggas, That's

1:14:48

how we got in and they

1:14:51

won that motherfucker. That was like, because

1:14:55

yeah, all the mother Championship moments was like,

1:14:57

I was just a fan that ship felt like I was on

1:14:59

the Yeah. And then let me let

1:15:01

me stop lying. When they beat

1:15:04

New Jersey game Folk,

1:15:06

they swept their dog head asses. And

1:15:08

we was in New Jersey and and and jay

1:15:11

Z was there and all kind

1:15:13

of New York niggas was there, and me and Nate

1:15:15

Dog. We had flow seats, nigger. We was on the

1:15:18

float, Nigga, me and Nate

1:15:20

Dog and we watched them count

1:15:22

that ship down. N

1:15:25

Hey and the Los Angeles

1:15:27

Lakers are like two thousand three times

1:15:30

defending give

1:15:32

me the ball, a shock on me the ball,

1:15:35

trying to run out with the ball. Nigga

1:15:37

chase me. Now, hey, that's property of the NBA. Nigga

1:15:40

niggah gave me the ship. I'm

1:15:42

gonna fight this nigg over the ball and it's nigga tossing

1:15:45

and ship. Give it to him,

1:15:47

big Home. I'll get you another one. Motherfucker's

1:15:52

well. People, we appreciate because when

1:15:55

you came and started riding with that, we believe team. Yeah,

1:15:58

we had a lot of fun hunt them there when we had

1:16:01

beat Uh. Y'all niggas was representing

1:16:03

California. Man

1:16:05

please, y'all was representing Golden State,

1:16:08

California. And I liked the way y'all

1:16:10

played, and y'all spirit

1:16:12

was like it was like mine, Like

1:16:15

I funk with y'all. That was

1:16:17

a hell of a team y'all had to. I

1:16:19

had brought him down to my birthday party. Remember

1:16:22

you're around the time too. He's

1:16:26

supposed to do actually thirty minutes. Let me tell you how

1:16:28

I really kept it. It was supposed to be on the stage

1:16:30

thirty minutes. He ended up being almost three

1:16:32

hours, and and in

1:16:35

his rider he wanted to uh PlayStation

1:16:38

in the back with games and food and all that. We left

1:16:40

all that motherfucker took my xbox though

1:16:43

you know what said say,

1:16:46

could that nigga Stephen Jackson drink a lot

1:16:49

of henness? She could I cook? Hearing all the threes

1:16:51

and handing out like that, like

1:16:54

that nigga is a jay nigger. And

1:16:56

they got there hentied out here threes on

1:16:58

y'all, nigga talking ship, ready to fight with

1:17:00

every and anybody. So we go,

1:17:03

we're gonna so we're gonna do ah. It's

1:17:05

we're gonna animation. Animation part to

1:17:07

this so by the time we're gonna make all this ship work, so

1:17:09

we're gonna animate. The night we beat

1:17:12

Dallas and go to State and we ended

1:17:14

up at your hotel at the rist Remember

1:17:16

that, boy, do I ever?

1:17:19

We have some strong conversations that hold

1:17:22

on. Let but let me tell you how to it started.

1:17:25

You're sitting at a desk with a fifty box

1:17:27

of swishes. We want swishes. Then you had a

1:17:29

fifty box, you busted down, hit

1:17:32

it, pass it to him, and we go around

1:17:35

rolling another You did it for about an hour and a half

1:17:38

and we didn't move. My sister

1:17:40

was so how My sister didn't smoke. She was so host she

1:17:42

passed out. Maybe we was watching us there.

1:17:45

You had the blue Carpet treatment cartoons. You

1:17:50

know, you hadn't put it out yet, you were showing us it. Yeah,

1:17:54

what what did the hotel people do? Bro

1:17:58

hotel? So the hotel people come, ain'ting on the

1:18:00

door, and we as athletes were like fun, were

1:18:02

trying to prep. We're in the season still, so

1:18:04

we're thinking like, oh, ship, here we go. They

1:18:07

come in, Hey, snoop, the gang

1:18:09

fellas. They

1:18:11

unscrew the windows, lift the windows up just

1:18:13

so the smoke, and go out, ask us if

1:18:16

we need anything. We all look like that's

1:18:22

when Stern was the president. Stern

1:18:26

had understanding. They

1:18:29

came and unscrewed the windows at the wrist. But

1:18:31

the whole night was crazy. So we beat Dallas. We

1:18:33

were the only teams they

1:18:36

got seen a HBO

1:18:38

special on that nigga blowing like a broke

1:18:41

stow that nigga. I'm

1:18:43

like, good, that's yeah.

1:18:47

But that night, so we beat them. So we go back to Jack's

1:18:49

apartment and we start doing what we do. So we

1:18:51

drink and smoking, celebrating, and then Nellie lives

1:18:54

on the top floor, so we go up to Nellie's

1:18:56

penthouse. He got a gang of people

1:18:58

in there, and we come in there as soon as he come in and uh,

1:19:02

j hey, fellas, what do you what do you

1:19:04

here? Says in the back rolling Dubis And

1:19:06

we look at each other like what my motherfucking coach telling

1:19:08

us someone's in the back roller. Week So we go out there and start

1:19:11

smoking with him. You know what no NBA

1:19:13

team doing, Like, come on, man, man, Don

1:19:15

Nelson coach in the seventies, nigga. I

1:19:18

remember seeing that nigg on the sideline the seventies

1:19:21

nigga. That nigga is hard because

1:19:23

I want to me I want to hang out with y'all, coach man.

1:19:25

Wait, we're gonna take a trip out there and do that. Hey,

1:19:30

I want to try to Nellie Cush this big

1:19:32

snoop dog. I want to give you the five star green

1:19:35

thumbs of approval so that way you can be

1:19:37

official like a Reugh free with the West, we

1:19:40

were doing the do we believe doc and everything. So

1:19:42

just come with us out there with us. Man, Come on, man,

1:19:44

I've seen his get down man looking

1:19:48

flies with motherfucker Nellie. How

1:19:51

was that place though? Let me tell you this

1:19:54

is pre Steph Curry and them

1:19:57

y'all had that motherfucker. And it

1:19:59

was Loan in there too. It was it was it

1:20:03

was made. You can smell. But on the way in that motherfucker,

1:20:05

it was so littening. And I was openen California.

1:20:09

That ship was so locked because I know my dad used to tell

1:20:11

me, he said, you know, all these white people are smoking

1:20:13

silets. I'm out here just smoking my joint the only bottom.

1:20:17

They were special, man, they were special.

1:20:20

That was man. I hug out with the owners kids.

1:20:22

Man, the two little dudes, I let

1:20:24

him wear my little chain. Happen. Yeah,

1:20:28

Man, we start

1:20:30

studied that out. So let's

1:20:32

transferum, the current state of the NBA. What

1:20:35

you think about the league right now? You know we play like a

1:20:37

lot of us they alread like when y'all older guys

1:20:39

hating. I don't think the game is physical. I don't think guys

1:20:41

care as much. I know what I had to do to get to the NBA

1:20:44

second to last draft pick. I know I had going

1:20:46

overseas and all this ship. I know what I had to do. I

1:20:48

know what the game meant to me, and I know how Man and

1:20:50

Matt played the game until we couldn't play

1:20:53

no more. We played it with a certain passion um.

1:20:55

The game has grew a lot, you

1:20:57

know, thanks to Lebron, with guys getting

1:21:00

hate a lot of money. You know, the game that they're having to day where

1:21:02

they can choose where they want to play. But the

1:21:05

competition, it seems like and the and and and

1:21:07

the fight to win, it seems like it's kind of dripped

1:21:09

in the way. What what what is your uh? What?

1:21:12

How do you think the game the state of the game is right now? Do

1:21:14

you think it's like it's in a good place or shouldn't

1:21:16

go back to the old type of style like the rough

1:21:18

style, guy sewing they care more about

1:21:21

the game. I

1:21:23

started watching basketball in the seventies, gus,

1:21:25

so you know the fight come

1:21:28

with that, man, please. I

1:21:31

watched Kareem and he's getting the fight and didn't get

1:21:33

suspended, came right back,

1:21:36

sat down for commercial. Nigga check her and we'll be

1:21:38

right back back

1:21:40

in the game. Looking for real. These

1:21:43

motherucker's be getting man. I just

1:21:46

I just don't know, man, like I say, And

1:21:48

another thing, and I'd be wanting to speak on It's like they'll

1:21:50

be putting too much on some of these new players. Man

1:21:52

like they're good, but they're not that

1:21:55

good. When they were talking about Luca

1:21:58

Donche just being the best twenty year old, that

1:22:00

rubbed me the wrong way. For one,

1:22:03

Moses Malone came out of high school

1:22:06

and nigga, you ain't nowhere near Moses Malone.

1:22:08

Motherfucker at Moses Malone average a double

1:22:10

double nigga with the Houston

1:22:13

Rockets. Don't get it fucked up. Then he came

1:22:15

to Philadelphia and beat us

1:22:17

four games than none with Kareem

1:22:20

and Magic, took them to

1:22:22

the prominent. I cried like a fucking baby. He

1:22:26

broke my heart. They made me cross. He

1:22:30

was twenty years old, but he came in the league

1:22:32

at twenty. I didn't see him

1:22:34

at twenty, but when I seen him do

1:22:36

what he did, I could imagine what the nigga was

1:22:39

doing that twin And the league

1:22:41

was harder back then. That's

1:22:43

one thing I'll definitely give it to you, see

1:22:45

what I'm saying. Starting back then, definitely, but even up

1:22:48

until kind of we almost stopped was it was

1:22:50

just a much more physical tougher

1:22:52

to get it done. That

1:22:54

y'all niggas had at the Palace made

1:22:56

them solve in the league up speak

1:23:00

on it because the league was real

1:23:03

until that point. Like ship, motherfucker,

1:23:05

gett into a squad. It is what it is. I mean,

1:23:07

you know, fucking and I may see

1:23:09

you after this and funk your ass something that it is

1:23:11

what it is. It's what it is. If

1:23:14

you bought that life, that's what it's about. After

1:23:17

that, they started. If you

1:23:19

jump off the sideline, you get to spend

1:23:21

it for three games, which funck did the first

1:23:23

Phoenix Suns when they came up the sideline,

1:23:26

like you you softened in the game up he comes

1:23:28

through the lane. The the

1:23:31

was it the Jordan rule at first? Man? Damn

1:23:35

it damn

1:23:40

like they softened the ship up, like come on, man,

1:23:43

like make this ship what it used to be. It's

1:23:45

the same for football. It's like they softening

1:23:47

that up. It's like you gotta lead the ship for

1:23:50

what it is. But what I do like about the NBA

1:23:52

is that the players are in control.

1:23:55

I like that point because

1:23:57

the half control means everything and

1:24:00

their voices heard. They're not

1:24:03

like shut up, nigga and

1:24:06

throw the ball. Nah, you

1:24:08

tell me to shut up and driple nigga. I may dribble

1:24:10

up on your ask for the TV show and all kinds

1:24:13

of ship's gonna You're gonna leave me alone,

1:24:16

you know what I'm saying. So it's like that's

1:24:18

the plus to it all. And then y'all got a

1:24:20

motherfucking commission that's flexible. That's

1:24:22

like, all right, he in there, what you even

1:24:24

talked by the best, so you know

1:24:27

how to do it? No, not to do it. They can get up

1:24:29

in there, mix it up and get get to understand

1:24:31

it, get flying with this ship. Let it be

1:24:33

about the players. Let let the players

1:24:35

grow the league. Let the players be the stars,

1:24:37

let them shine, let them be the voice of the league. Whatever

1:24:40

views that they got, match that. If

1:24:43

they got social ingested, you match that. Whatever

1:24:46

match that, get on it, get

1:24:49

on it with a quickness. Because y'all generate

1:24:51

a lot of money. Y'all make a lot of motherfucker's want to be a

1:24:53

part of this ship. Come out for him. The platform is

1:24:55

huge. Now. The next step is taking marijuana

1:24:57

out like baseball did because baseball

1:25:00

got smart and said, well, ain't

1:25:03

nobody really hitting seventy home

1:25:06

runs? Were smoking a joint? Now

1:25:08

these steroids nigger may hit hunting

1:25:10

thirty shot home runs and be a different

1:25:13

color in for five years. Sammy hand

1:25:16

side down bleached

1:25:18

your whole life. Toy story here to ask Nigga,

1:25:26

but my whole thing with that thing, it's not even

1:25:28

so much the Major League Baseball says smoke weed. They just stopped

1:25:30

testing for it. I think the NBA is worried about

1:25:32

their image, like we're sending the wrong message. But it's

1:25:34

not even the images. The images. This

1:25:36

when players like yourself and you and

1:25:39

players can admit to Hey, when I played,

1:25:41

I smoked. It actually helped

1:25:43

me. And that's why I'm able to speak

1:25:46

in my right mind and conduct business and have

1:25:48

a show and have other businesses because I

1:25:50

didn't get addicted to open yours, none of the other ship

1:25:53

that y'all was trying to give me. So now I'm

1:25:55

able to conduct a regular

1:25:57

life and raised kids and still have babies after

1:26:00

I get out the league because I didn't suck my ship

1:26:02

up and throw my ship off, and I'm able

1:26:04

to still be a productive

1:26:07

citizen without my

1:26:09

sport that made me so much money and

1:26:12

not being addicted to nothing that's connected to the

1:26:14

sport. Who's

1:26:16

your favorite player to watch outside of Lakers?

1:26:18

Like we know you know you're a big Laker fan.

1:26:20

Who's who's someone you watch outside of the Lakers.

1:26:24

Damn Um. I

1:26:27

like that new nigger from Memphis. He

1:26:30

cold, he cold,

1:26:34

he little, but he cold a lot of games.

1:26:37

I like his heart like you can't

1:26:39

buy hard like you know what I'm

1:26:41

saying, Like, you can't buy that like

1:26:44

and when you got that in you, that go

1:26:46

a long way. Like when they put some

1:26:48

goons around him, oh shipping

1:26:51

matter there and get him somewhere

1:26:53

else. He nasty.

1:26:56

He like Kimba Walker looking Boston.

1:26:58

You know, I like you put him the team with

1:27:00

some niggers that can get out now. He looked

1:27:02

good now and I set out there struggling every night

1:27:04

to try to beat five niggas by himself. He

1:27:07

put them to the Big Three championship. Yeah,

1:27:09

who that you? I

1:27:12

want you to Please tell them

1:27:15

you're from. When you walked out the arena

1:27:17

to the back to the locker rooms.

1:27:19

Please tell them because you stopped somewhere

1:27:21

else before you got to meet. Let him know

1:27:24

how you know what steps on the way to my locker

1:27:26

room. Well, when I walked out, the

1:27:28

first locker room I've seen was the victorious

1:27:31

team and they was in there popping champagne

1:27:33

and pouring champagne with each other. So

1:27:35

I was like, I'm dressed to fly for this ship. So

1:27:38

as I continue to walk my

1:27:41

two cans, Sam nose

1:27:43

of mine, my nose always nose,

1:27:45

but your nose nose. It

1:27:48

was like, hold on, we need to go down this way. It's

1:27:50

smell like we need to be in this area. So we're walking

1:27:52

and walking and then somebody say,

1:27:54

hey, my niget jacking him

1:27:56

and there. Oh that's all I need to hear. I

1:27:59

go in there with them, a couple

1:28:01

of little bitties in there. We get the little bitties out

1:28:03

of there, take a picture with him, smile bit get

1:28:06

gone, now to be grown,

1:28:09

chash side of head, get them out

1:28:11

of there. And then we commenced to fine

1:28:15

and the Clippers locker room. Fine,

1:28:21

losing team, but we had the championship.

1:28:24

It was it was emotion too. Was remember to see

1:28:26

you came in there? Yeah, yeah, that was dope to man,

1:28:29

you made me feel how deep that moment. He

1:28:34

was on a losing team and uh, you know, we all

1:28:36

are talking, but ceo Q come

1:28:38

in there with his wife and

1:28:41

just tell me how much they appreciate everything I've done. For the

1:28:43

league and what I give to the league, and that meant a lot because we're

1:28:45

just lost, you know what I'm saying. But qu to bring

1:28:47

his wife and the shot. You know what I'm saying, That man a lot and you

1:28:50

know he was there to see that moment. You help the league

1:28:52

win. How was the kid? That

1:28:56

overall picture was you brought a league up

1:28:59

because of the way you play, the way you're having your

1:29:01

business, the way you committed

1:29:03

to it. You make it easy

1:29:06

for the next retired

1:29:09

athlete to say, let

1:29:11

me gonna try that ship. Because I was

1:29:13

in Arizona thanks

1:29:16

to Matt with my Nigga easy riding

1:29:18

and I was like, Jr. You need to get in the

1:29:21

Big three. He's like, you think cute?

1:29:23

What had me cute?

1:29:27

N JR. Rider Cube saying,

1:29:31

tell him to come to the combo Nigga

1:29:34

and you're gonna get picked. Nigga. You JR.

1:29:36

Nigga, Nigga

1:29:38

show up and show up. N I miss you, Nigga,

1:29:41

and the league is you. The League is

1:29:43

us. It's like it's it's the rebirth

1:29:45

of you. Nigga's man, and

1:29:48

you can have your great ship. Nigga. Continue on, Mobley

1:29:50

and motherfucking my mood. Niggers

1:29:53

out there, great up, nigga. Go this

1:29:56

us nigger,

1:29:58

This is us nigga. We can't a right that ship. This

1:30:00

USA m J L. Kobe

1:30:04

Kobe Man all

1:30:07

time, greatest time lank,

1:30:10

all time, greatest magic. Okay,

1:30:12

give me your talk, give me your top five, the magic

1:30:15

Kareem Kobe Jordan's

1:30:19

shack. That's your

1:30:21

all time top fix. Lebron's number six.

1:30:25

Maybe further back, Will Okay,

1:30:27

well, gotta come, Will

1:30:31

the sixth man. Got to have these were

1:30:33

coming in here like the dog and niggers out

1:30:36

who can deal with that? Off the bed? Yeah? And

1:30:39

then Lebron, you go, Will Lebron, that's

1:30:42

nice. Backup right there, six seventh man. In

1:30:45

case Magic need a breather, You're

1:30:47

gonna do it all. That's what I'm saying. With

1:30:50

that run man, please on

1:30:53

NBA two K you can have it like that. With

1:30:59

your longevity and being

1:31:01

an entertainer, what's

1:31:04

been the secret of maintaining

1:31:07

a relationship with your

1:31:09

your family dynamic? What's been the secret? Nothing's perfect,

1:31:11

everything is up and down. But tell me what would

1:31:13

have been your tricks to maintain just

1:31:16

trying to keep them involved? Um

1:31:19

with my family. I

1:31:21

try to like this ship is like a juggling

1:31:23

act. And if you got a family, you understand

1:31:26

what I mean. From the mother

1:31:28

to the kids, to the grandparents,

1:31:31

to the siblings and all of the ship

1:31:33

to come along with it. I just try

1:31:35

to keep them all attached, like in some form

1:31:37

of fashion. That's why I built the compound, because

1:31:40

that was my way of saying, how can I

1:31:42

have something that's all of ours, that's

1:31:45

an epicenter that we can always come to

1:31:48

if we need to get away, we need to talk, need

1:31:50

to cry, laugh, making music, video's

1:31:53

party, whatever this is it.

1:31:55

And I had to build that because

1:31:58

for a moment, I only had that

1:32:00

you know what I'm saying, and they had

1:32:02

to get in where they fit in based off you

1:32:05

know, my plays. But to be

1:32:07

a better family man, a better business man,

1:32:09

you build ship for the family and for the business.

1:32:12

So that's why I built the compound, and that's why

1:32:14

the family has been executing on the level that we

1:32:16

have for so many years, considering that

1:32:19

I have epicenter where we can

1:32:21

do that, where we could chop it up and get it right when

1:32:23

it's wrong. Me

1:32:25

and you personally spoke because I was real. I

1:32:28

was a football player first and just loved

1:32:31

yourself the athletic busin you

1:32:35

said, you what you

1:32:37

questioned my football? No, No, I didn't

1:32:40

had check all the records.

1:32:42

I had to cough anyway out

1:32:44

of here. Check

1:32:47

the replacements. Yeah, I

1:32:51

was gonna stop on the football. So we got plenty of people

1:32:53

to speak to that anyway,

1:32:55

As I was saying, we was talking about your son playing

1:32:58

going to u c l A, playing football and

1:33:00

then him stepping away from

1:33:02

it because it wasn't really what he wanted. Talk

1:33:05

to me a little bit about that. Who That

1:33:08

was a heavy one in the beginning, because you

1:33:11

know, as a father, you

1:33:13

know, you you live through your kids. Ain't

1:33:16

no other way around it, especially

1:33:19

if you didn't make it in sports

1:33:21

and your kids making it in sports, you

1:33:24

basically you are them.

1:33:27

You living for them with them,

1:33:30

and you are them. So when

1:33:32

he makes it, we make it.

1:33:36

And for him to get to that level of going

1:33:38

to a Division one program where Jim

1:33:40

Moore and you know, coach

1:33:43

ARBs all came and recruited him and you

1:33:45

know, got him there, and

1:33:48

it's like he's projected to do so many great

1:33:50

things and then don't even show up to

1:33:53

the first practice, just

1:33:58

nowhere to be found music about

1:34:00

it, and I was

1:34:02

so excited, even though he chose a school,

1:34:04

but I was excited for him because he was going to do his

1:34:06

thing. And I knew that when he chose

1:34:09

that school, he was gonna have longevity after

1:34:11

football. So

1:34:14

he don't show up ship going bad. We

1:34:16

like six seven days into the first week

1:34:19

a camp, finally sit

1:34:21

down and catch up to him, and it's

1:34:24

like a burden is off his shoulders when he say

1:34:26

what he say to me, like in

1:34:29

so many words, I've

1:34:31

been playing for you my whole life like

1:34:35

and he had coached

1:34:38

him since he was six years old. I

1:34:41

made that nigger play show ask

1:34:43

all there and he became good.

1:34:46

But I was always

1:34:48

say in daddy ball, you're

1:34:51

either gonna make your son the greatest athlete

1:34:53

in the world, either gonna hate the funk out of you. Ain't

1:34:55

no in betweens. And I made

1:34:58

him the greatest athlete in the world that I could, and

1:35:00

I beget I begin to see he was gonna hate

1:35:02

me. So him pulling back

1:35:05

made us do this

1:35:09

because football was gonna do this. This

1:35:12

brought us here to where now I gotta

1:35:14

support you not what you're

1:35:16

doing, but support you no

1:35:19

matter what you're doing. And then I

1:35:21

got got to a point to

1:35:23

where I've seen that he needed me as a kid. So

1:35:26

what he's six to a hundred and eighty pounds,

1:35:28

looked like a grown ass, and they're gonna sun he a kid

1:35:31

them your babies, Matt, when they grow up like

1:35:34

they're getting taller, they steal them little bitty

1:35:36

babies that cry

1:35:38

and do all that soft ship their babies.

1:35:42

And it's like, no matter how big they get, you gotta

1:35:44

always remember that. So I had to keep that in mind

1:35:46

and not be mean,

1:35:48

but be understanding and

1:35:50

say I got you now, I

1:35:52

live your life, m what

1:35:55

you want to do? I got you. Now

1:35:57

I gotta pay for You'll

1:36:00

ask to go to U c l A when you had a

1:36:02

full scholars but

1:36:04

I got you. How much of this ship?

1:36:07

God damn you? Sure

1:36:09

you don't want to go to a community college? Niggas

1:36:13

something that's

1:36:15

interesting here though, because I coached my boys. But one

1:36:17

thing I learned early too, it was to never

1:36:19

pressure them to do you know, I made

1:36:21

it, I played my my I spent my fifteen

1:36:24

years. You enjoyed the ride, You saw what it

1:36:26

was about, but it's always on your time. So if you want

1:36:28

to work out, we could work out. If you don't want to work out, if you want

1:36:30

to be good, you want to be better, you want to continue to prove

1:36:32

us on you. And it finally just turned

1:36:34

the level and they finally go

1:36:36

shoot dah, let's go dribble, let's let's let's

1:36:39

go do this, let's go play. And it made me feel

1:36:41

good because, like I said, I was never gonna push

1:36:43

him so that he had a coach Cordell

1:36:45

at six years old and

1:36:47

seven years old. At eight,

1:36:50

nine, eleven twelve, I stopped

1:36:52

coaching. He was on my team, but

1:36:54

I never talked to him. He

1:36:57

played wire receiver and he

1:36:59

played defensively. Only

1:37:01

time I would talk to him as if I would give

1:37:03

him the signal to run the nine route or

1:37:05

to run a slam route. I wouldn't talk to

1:37:08

him at all because I've seen that he

1:37:11

was better getting coached

1:37:13

by somebody else, and

1:37:15

he was better just being my son. On

1:37:18

the ride home, we was on some like what

1:37:22

you want you want to buy her fresh?

1:37:24

Nigger? What Bert

1:37:28

nigger? Don't want to hear nig? You know you were supposed to catch

1:37:30

that ball nigger that x M was wrong and I

1:37:33

told you the why four or five six, two three, x

1:37:35

L left two three five? Isn't that the

1:37:38

funds? All these numbers shut the funk up practices

1:37:40

over? Wouldn't what's your top

1:37:43

three movies all time? The

1:37:45

mac? Can't

1:37:48

you buy that? Yes? Don't make me going to yes,

1:37:51

get into it. Just I'm cool. I'm cool angle to do it right

1:37:54

now. Uh, let's see what

1:37:56

two is? Godfather and

1:38:02

it's got to be a Eddie Murphy movie because it's

1:38:05

probably gonna be Trading Places or

1:38:08

forty eight hours. Classic

1:38:12

top three movies you played in the

1:38:15

roads? You liked training

1:38:18

Day, Uh, star

1:38:20

skiing Hutch and

1:38:23

Bones as I got to the

1:38:25

wheelchair training Day? Yeah, but well

1:38:32

Bones, I got to be uh with

1:38:35

Pam Grier that's

1:38:40

you know what that means? Man? Please?

1:38:44

Who would play you in your life story? Fuck?

1:38:48

I don't know. Maybe something young actor that's flies

1:38:50

and motherfucker that's up, up and coming. I

1:38:53

don't know right now. I would say Wesley

1:38:55

Snips, but that nigga too. Chocolate. Biggest

1:39:02

regret up to this point. Biggest

1:39:05

regret. Uh, I

1:39:08

have none nor regrets. I

1:39:10

love it how

1:39:14

old are you right now? Nine?

1:39:17

Brof what we're doing for fifty? What

1:39:19

are we going? I'm about to be forty in March, bro

1:39:21

fund of let all my ship go great because I'm gonna

1:39:24

sleep with it. Looking you're gonna stop dying it. I ain't died

1:39:26

it. That's

1:39:28

what I haven't done. Like

1:39:31

you didn't

1:39:34

die your ship. You over looking like Bernardi niked

1:39:37

real quick before we finish up. You're

1:39:39

kind of the poster boy. You've been

1:39:41

telling us this ship before about

1:39:43

weed and what it does in the powers. What do you think

1:39:46

of the state of cannabis

1:39:48

right now? They're starting to legalize and all

1:39:50

the ship to come with it. I'm so happy

1:39:52

for the awareness of cannabis and how

1:39:54

it's becoming so

1:39:57

necessary. So rather than the topic of

1:39:59

discussions, so many bars, dispensalies,

1:40:01

so many states, cities,

1:40:04

um, so many politicians. It's like that

1:40:06

a great discussion is great for

1:40:09

health benefits, is saving a lot of people, is

1:40:11

keeping people here? Is keeping

1:40:13

our sandy level? Right? Um?

1:40:16

I think if the motherfucking president smoked some dope

1:40:20

or smoked some weed, he wouldn't

1:40:22

act like he was on dope. He understand

1:40:24

what I'm saying. So with

1:40:27

that being said, the growth and

1:40:30

how it's growing and

1:40:32

becoming a vehicle, I'm

1:40:34

happy at that, but I would like to see all

1:40:38

of my niggas that's locked up for

1:40:41

weed to be released a sap

1:40:44

like right now, like just

1:40:46

because like why not not?

1:40:49

Why we're the NBA version of you because

1:40:51

everywhere we go we smoke always.

1:40:53

Yeah, we're gonna. We was raised. We

1:40:56

was raised on and weirds was raised on

1:40:58

me too, because this nigga is crazy because

1:41:01

like you know, as you get older, you start

1:41:03

getting like nice, right, So I didn't

1:41:06

got older and nice. So we had a

1:41:08

friend of ours wedding and turks

1:41:10

and cacos and a whole other

1:41:12

country. Right, So I got weed.

1:41:15

But I'm trying to be it's a wetness. You know. It's

1:41:17

my my white home girl. There's

1:41:19

a lot of white people there, so I don't just want to act

1:41:21

a nigga just coming in. So I

1:41:24

come in. I me and my wife and my daughter were

1:41:26

sitting down being respectable, and hey, how

1:41:28

you guys doing here? What's going on? Hey snoop, Hey,

1:41:30

hey it's going out all

1:41:32

that bullshit here this nigga, Weirds

1:41:35

walk in, walk

1:41:38

right to me. What's up. I'm

1:41:41

like, hey man, I'm trying to be different today.

1:41:44

Oh fuck it, you're just

1:41:46

gonna turn me out like that. Huh. Now,

1:41:49

everybody looking at me like we thought you were better than

1:41:51

that. Well fuck it. He brought the ship in.

1:41:54

But that's a product of what I've I've

1:41:56

raised shouts. What

1:42:00

would the forty nine year old you tell

1:42:02

the one ye old you about this game?

1:42:07

Oh man, I would have uh

1:42:10

been a little bit more selective

1:42:12

with the people that I put

1:42:15

in positions of power. M

1:42:17

hm, Like that's

1:42:20

very key, like to give people

1:42:22

power. Everybody

1:42:24

don't deserve it. That should be earned. When

1:42:27

you earn it, you get it, does somebody

1:42:29

give it to you? It's really like

1:42:32

miss misuse or Yeah,

1:42:35

that's what I learned. Last question,

1:42:38

what do you know for sure that Snoop

1:42:41

Dogg gonna live forever? M It's

1:42:45

a great way to wrap it. What do you know

1:42:47

for sure? I'm about to smoke as soon as we get

1:42:49

it finished, I'm

1:42:53

gonna make ten million. Can

1:42:56

I guess that? Whatever you need? Hey

1:42:59

man, that's all. Hey, we want all

1:43:01

the man. We appreciate Snoop

1:43:03

for coming through the show time d o double

1:43:06

hey man. Shout out to the showtime executives

1:43:08

for um being uh

1:43:11

smoked friendly. Appreciate you

1:43:13

all, and now you got to You said you're coming with us to tow

1:43:17

you're on the way. I'm coming to funk

1:43:19

with you. Why I normally have a begging

1:43:22

segment, I don't

1:43:24

know. This is a different one, snoop.

1:43:27

So I you know why I came back from that. Remember

1:43:30

last time I've seen you, what you blessed me with? Did

1:43:32

I hit you a grocery bag? So

1:43:34

I'm good, We're good. We're good. No begging

1:43:37

today, first time, first time for first

1:43:39

show, elvera. What my grocery bags looked like?

1:43:42

Healthy cent sex with the green

1:43:44

tied the big ones talk to him like a real guard

1:43:46

man. I took it all home, they talked back. How

1:43:50

about you calls though, h how about you call?

1:43:54

Street prices are dispensiony price? Because

1:43:56

I know both know what did you pay? Oh

1:43:58

I pay? I didn't pay a dime. That's that's what I

1:44:01

didn't pay a dime. So that's why the

1:44:03

beggart segment is getting counseled today. Three

1:44:06

nine. That's what we call it. Man,

1:44:08

that's a wrap We want to thank our guest Snoop,

1:44:11

my brother Jack another it again.

1:44:15

All the Smoke twenty takeover

1:44:18

Showtime YouTube, Basketball channel

1:44:20

in all platforms, streaming, podcast,

1:44:23

all of them. Mo

1:44:29

Monroe's wanting for the financial terrorist

1:44:31

attack Black Monday, Black Monday, what's

1:44:33

my idea? It's me It was a Wall Street

1:44:36

himself. Mos

1:44:39

back Baby,