Dogg: “I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “When I’m no longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential… With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.”

Dogg: “Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.”

Dogg: “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.”

Dogg: “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.”