He’s not just a rapper.
Over the decades as a chart-topping musician, pop culture icon, and erm… illegal activities, you can’t deny American rapper Snoop Dogg has gained an abundance of life experience.
Born on October 20, 1971 in Long Beach, Snoop began his career in music back in 1992 after Dr. Dre discovered him and included the artist on his album ‘The Chronic’.
From here, his first solo singles Who Am I? (What’s My Name?) and Gin and Juice took over the charts, both reaching #1 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart.
In addition to his music, Snoop Dogg’s carefully cultivated—and at times cartoonish—public persona has made him a popular icon. His West Coast slang and exaggerated verbal tics quickly entered the popular American vocabulary beyond the lips of his fans, across the entire population.
This created further opportunities for Snoop, becoming a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows and building up a substantial number of film credits, including Training Day (2001). The rapper also lent his distinctive parlance to such animated series as The Boondocks and The Simpsons, as well as the features Turbo (2013) and The Addams Family (2019). He starred in Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood (2007–09), a reality television series chronicling his home life, and he appeared with lifestyle innovator Martha Stewart on the cooking show Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party in 2016 for two seasons.
Snoop has been involved in a string of illegal activities, however these have not set him back as he has established an incredible career as a musician and maintained a popular personality status. Snoop Dogg has released he has released 17 studio albums, five collaborative albums, three extended plays, 25 mixtapes and 175 singles. He has had 14 top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Across 20 years, Snoop Dogg has never missed an opportunity to be expressive, building a classic collection of meaningful quotes. And ingrained within them all, are his views on success, music and riotous upbringing.
1. That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
2. Drop it like it’s hot.
3. I want to be loved while I’m here, and the only way to get love is to give love.
4. lot of people like to fool you and say that you’re not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That’s what I learned from selling crack.
5. What people don’t understand is joining a gang ain’t bad, it’s cool, it’s fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it’s cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family’s in the gang. We’re not just killing people every night, we’re just hanging out, having a good time.
6. Sometimes, a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
7. I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg.
8. When I’m no longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
9. You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.
10. I smack up the world if they rude to you ’cause baby girl, you’re so beautiful.
11.The best advice I’ve ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you’ll go far in life.
12. If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.
13. You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it.
14. A lot of brands, you can’t touch them. When you’re dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it’s a part of you.
15. I love making music and I’m falling in love with making records, so it’s like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
16. To go sit down with people you’ve got a misunderstanding with is a big step. It shows that you have no hate in your heart, and you really wanna resolve it.
17. I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
18. You can teach an old dog a new trick if that old dog listen.
19. There’s nobody doing rap like I do rap.
20. I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn’t about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that’s when I started to relax.
21. I move with the time. Whatever’s happening in time, I’m in.
22. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, someone comes into your life who will take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill, someone who’s tighter than a twin, more with you than your own shadow, who gets deeper under your skin than your own blood and bones.
23. It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
24. An older guy, he’s going to show you things that a young man can’t show you. He’s going to show you how to stay alive. He’s going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I’m saying?
25. If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
26. My liberty is about living. It’s about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn’t reflect that. But now it’s different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.
27. I’m in the game for real; it pays to chill. I walk in the club and they front the bill.
28. Look at music for what it’s worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it’s all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way.
29. Yo’ what’s up? This is Snoop D-O-Double-G sayin’ stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace.
30. I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.
31. The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.
32. It’s hard to say goodbye to the streets. It’s all how you do it. You can pass by and say, ‘What’s happening?’ and keep it moving, but it’s a certain element that’ll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that’s the separation of it all.
33. What you want dog? I’m on a million-dollar mission.
34. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
35. That’s why I’m so successful because peace is my main thing, it’s not about money. It’s about making sure everybody is having a good time and loving and living and enjoying life.
36. There’s so much that I want to do. I feel like I’m the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he’s bigger as a businessman.
37. So what if I’m smokin’ weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It’s not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It’s a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.
38. On ‘Old School,’ I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ I was more of an actor. I wasn’t Snoop Dogg, the rapper.
39. Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
40. If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.
41. It makes me feel the way I need to feel.
