"[singing in foreign language]" "My life is in stages, you know what I mean?" "Whether it's me performing live on stage or me going through stages in life." "That's what my life has always been based on." "Si, si, si." "Put your motherfuckin' hands in the air!" "Put your motherfuckin' hands in the air!" "Come on!" "Doctor motherfuckin' dre!" "La-da-da-da-dahh" "It's the motherfuckin d-o-double-g!" "Snoop dogg!" "La-da-da-da-dahh" "You know I'm mobbin' with the d.R.E." "Yeah, yeah, yeah" "You know who's back up in this motherfucker!" "What what what what?" "Well make some motherfuckin' noise!" "Come on y'all, let's go" "Top dogg, bite 'em all, nigga burn the shit up" "D-p-g-c my nigga turn that shit up" "C-p-t, l-b-c, yeah we hookin' back up" "And when they bang this in the club baby you got to get up" "Thug niggas drug dealers yeah they givin' it up..." "You know I never had nightmares but" "I was always concerned whether I was going to live to see another day." "'cause there was so much violence around that you" "Couldn't just hide in the house or turn your other cheek." "You had to be a part of it, so it was like, we had to get in the mix." "And where I stayed at was always in the mix." "You take my record off the shelf, violence going to keep going on." "If you take me out this world, violence is going to keep going on" "So you can't blame me or none of the rappers" "For it because we was just put here." "This violence was here before we got here, we just walked into it." "And then I became, you know, who I am as far as" "Having a way with words and being a little lyrical" "And rapping was starting to become something special." "I would make gangbang raps" "And the homies would, you know, push me away" ""you know, these niggas is making it." "You go ahead and do the rap thing, cuz."" "So that kind of like, was my first calling, you know." "Out of the gang-banging and into the rap." "Take a seat" "Hope you're ready for the next episode" "Hey!" "It's been two and a half years since the charismatic rapper" "Was originally charged with murder." "The los angeles jury found him" "And his bodyguard, mckinley lee, not guilty of murder" "In connection with the shooting death of 20 year old, phillip woldermarian." "You know, gangbang for as long as I could and I'm out." "And then once I'm out and become a rapper," "This sort of thing happens," "Which kind of pulls me right back into the gangbang world" "As far as the police are concerned because" "They only know what I am." "And I'm an ex-gang member." "My life was in limbo and someone's life was lost." "I didn't want to see nobody die." "That ain't what I'm here for." "I'm not a killer." "I don't do that." "So, that left like, a black spot in my heart even after winning the trial." "You know, I was at the forefront of the most violent time in hip hop." "With the most violent record label in the world." "And I didn't want that anymore." "I wanted peace, love and everybody to live." "And nobody understood that until people started dying." "How many people in the house tonight got love for my homeboy, nate dogg?" "Singer nate dogg has died." "He was 41." "He died Tuesday of complications from multiple strokes." "It was over a period of time, after he died," "With that being the main backdrop and other life experiences" "And looking at my family and where I want to be" "And how I gotta prepare myself in order to be here." "And that's what forced me to find a new path." "They want me to rap." "I don't wanna rap." "And that ain't with no disrespect but I'm tired of rap." "I've been on the top ever since I've been in." "I got rap songs that will never die." "So what else could I do in the rap world that's appealing like that?" "As opposed to me staying true to the culture of this music" "And doing what this music was made to do." "You know, as you get older you get wiser." "So, I'm 40 years old now so..." "I'm wise." "Or a bit wiser." "Like budweiser." "I wanna do a record." "A whole record." "No rapping." "I started to see similarities within myself" "And with bob as far as, you know," "Not just with smoking weed but the struggle, the love, the peace," "The power and just the style." "Not that our styles were contrast but just" "Having my own style like he had his own style." "I'm on my way to jamaica." "Gonna leave america for about a month." "Come back home a whole new man." "When it's over now" "Nothing left but the enemy" "When the show goes down" "And you silence the melody it's when you say" "I'll be the sunlight and your air" "Rude boy in a kingston that boy in England" "New york, the whole kingdom" "I ain't got the worry" "Oh when you come for me see I'm ready see" "I'm living in a sentence I was gonna be" "I heard the boys who say that they would die for me, die for me, die for me" "Going down to kingston?" "I know." "Yes ma'am." "Somebody help me wake up" "And make it rain on my head" "Let it rain, let it rain" "Let it rain on my head" "So if you don't go seek out and find with your own eyes and ears," "You won't know the truth." "And part of me going to jamaica was to find the truth." "I had been to jamaica many times but I just would go there" "And do concerts, you know, do my thang" "And keep it moving and listen to reggae while I was there and then roll out." "But I never had an understanding of it." "So I wanted to go and get a real, you know," "Full understanding of reggae, rastafari and the whole lifestyle." "Tuff gong studios." "How are ya?" "We'd be sleeping our asses off getting over here." "Been good man, you look good." "I've worked with snoop before, we did that record together with kid cudi." "For a record is really cool to do." "It's something I've wanted to be like," "Oh, executive producer for a snoop dogg record." "And snoop dogg can do anything, he's so versatile, but to do like," "A reggae record?" "And he knows what we bring to the table" "As major lazer so it makes it a little bit more definite" "So we like, know what we're doing." "Shit, it's not me, bro." "You know, major lazer means like, just to take it as far as you can go" "Without scaring people away." "That's kind of like our goal for our music." "But we end up scaring them away anyway." "All this stuff that we're doing now is like," "Writing with dre skull," "People we know that have like, a reggae voice." "We have so much ammunition that I'm just excited to get him to" "Kinda see what we're capable of, what we're ready to do." "Man, we hit it off special." "I like the way he's a leader." "He's like I am." "He brought in the team." "He's a coach," "He's an owner." "He brought in the writers, other producers," "You know, things that complement" "I mean, snoop dogg in jamaica." "It's kind of like, the coolest thing ever," "You know?" "I just want to smoke some weed with him." "I'm out on the corner" "In my roller skates" "Smoking a chalice" "Brand new day" "The dogg of the night" "The dogg of the day" "Rastafari is the only way" "Yah" "Yah mon" "Sugar" "Fuck snoop dogg." "Don't think about none of this shit he rapped about," "Raps, none of that." "They not writing for snoop dogg" "So that way, they'll take all that out." "Hustling and making money and drug dealing and shooting," "All that shit need to be outta here." "And it's straight on the peace, the love, the struggle, the reincarnation." "The first night that we came in and we was at tuff gong," "I kept asking diplo, like, "are we really doing like, a roots album?"" "Like, I have passionately" "Wanted to write reggae and do reggae for a long time" "But there are really not a lot of artists that do it." "There's a very small" "Group of people that you can do that for." "And I was elated when I found out that this was real." "He was really trying to do something that he can add to his legacy." "'cause I always said I'm never able to perform in situations" "Where I'd love to because I don't have those kind of songs." "I know obama wants me to come to the white house but what the fuck can I perform?" "Be honest!" "Snoop, this next one is like," "This hook sounds like such a snoop dogg hook" "But it doesn't sound super reggae right now but I'll let you hear it." "Oh that's snoop!" "I can't wait to finally drop some vocals in this studio, man." "Put your lighters up" "Get high with me" "Fly with me" "Ain't no dividing us" "East side, west side" "North side, south side" "Unified" "Come on and ride with us" "Put your lighters up" "Get high with me" "Fly with me" "Ain't no dividing us" "East side, west side" "North side, south side" "Unified" "Like I said, I got 100,000 songs why they killed them nigga," "Slapped a bitch, you know, I been doing that shit for 22 years," "Man, I'm the king of that shit!" "I need some of this!" "You know what I mean?" "I'll go outside right now and rock that shit right, gimme the mic!" "Most people are first aware there's a rasta came through" "Listening to reggae music from its legends like the late bob marley," "Peter tosh and bunny wailer." "Bunny waller, one of the great performers," "Original members of the group, the wailers." "I wanted to meet him for many reasons, mainly musically." "But spiritually as well because, you know," "That's my big brother and you gotta always know" "That any time you in the same field with someone" "And they've been doing it for so long and doing it so well," "It's a must to go get some knowledge and understanding and some wisdom from." "Respect." "Respect." "It's a pleasure." "It's an honor, to have" "Snoop lion in my face." "Lion!" "Lion paw." "Yeah!" "Yes lion, it's good to see the man, you know?" "Yah mon." "And then..." "And kind of work" "That you are focused on doing, as long as it's reggae," "I don't think you could come to a better man." "And I am very satisfied to know that," "Although I am here 65 years in babylon," "I am still here doing what is expected," "You know, as a rasta man should." "Playing good reggae music" "To enlighten the people globally." "Music is our tool, you know, it's our vessel." "It's our instrument." "So you're here in jamaica to do" "Some songs and make an album?" "The album is called 'reincarnated.'" "That's a very serious one, you know?" "You see, it's like, I'm in the point of my career now, bunny," "Where I have to say something." "That's what this reincarnation thing is about." "It's about me finally being able to say something on a record" "That means something." "Not that I've never said nothing," "But I'm focused now." "Yeah." "I'm feeling good to know that you" "Are here to observe," "There's a lot more work to do, you know." "We got a journey, we got a hill to climb" "And to get over" "In this dramatic, musical expedition." "And I've been observing you and I've been praying" "Through the power of the most highly" "Haile selassie I. Jah!" "Rastafari!" "Lessons, man." "I'd love to smoke with you." "Yeah, man!" "We want to bless you with some california herbs that we have." "Yeah!" "Yeah." "Smell that, mr." "Wailer." "Yeah!" "Home grown." "To be able to have a smoke session with him and chill with him" "At his house was special because he opened his doors" "To me as his baby brother." "So, our meeting was more about the spiritual guidance" "And the understanding of knowing where I wanna go" "In my journey with this music and understanding" "That rastafari is a way of life." "Well, I would love to go to the studio with you." "Yea, I don't have a problem." "Make some music." "You're a studio man, and I'm a studio man..." "So I think it's, you know, it's appropriate." "Yes, of course." "Two voices are better than one." "Of course!" "I miss my brother bob and peter" "Yeah mon." "Because we had the kind of a..." "That bond." "Yeah." "That brotherhood." "To be here now it's," "It's lonesome." "They are not with us physically now," "But they are forever with us" "Through the spirituality of what they have left with us." "And y'all started out of what part of jamaica?" "Right in trench town." "That's where the group originated from?" "That's where we started," "If you don't go through trench town" "As a musician, as an artist you have yet" "To go through trench town." "Bless up, snoop lion." "Bless up, lion," "People thought trench town was the home and the birthplace" "Of real reggae music so" "It only makes sense for me to walk through trench town" "And feel the vibe, touch the people" "Who originated what I was about to get into." "You gon' take me to jail?" "Yeah!" "Let me see it." "Yeah, the first time I met snoop was in like '97," "And we were both on the tour together." "You could tell that he has rasta" "Tendencies even before meeting him." "I mean, for example, the most" "Obvious one is herb-smoking" "And he was one of those first" "Hip hop stars that I heard" "Come across and really be a big herb advocate." "Uncle snoop!" "I think a lot of jamaican people can relate to." "Snoop came from the same kind" "Of place that my father came from," "And rose above the obstacles." "You know what I mean?" "In that kind of way," "He has been able to inspire and" "Shine light on a lot of youths" "Who come from those areas also." "Yep" "Originally, over there, is where bob marley used to live." "Where bob did his musical life." "Trench town is actually the place" "Where everything starts with bob." "So the name "trench" was named after this man." "He was actually mr." "William power trench," "A wealthy irishman who came here back in the 1700s." "So they named the town after him?" "He actually named the town himself." "Right, because he was actually living here at the time." "Until after when they left" "The land became a big squatter's settlement." "These are all persons from our community." "This man is the man, mr." "Vincent ford." "Bob's mentor, bob's good friend" "And we was also like a father figure to bob." "We call him "tarta."" "Tarta meaning father in africa." "So he was the godfather to it all?" "Right." "Everybody came to get" "Right advice from him." "Sons." "A lady at the time was crying, police came and took her son" "And bob and tarta were sitting where it happened" "When the police came and took away the little boy," "And that's how that line came in:" ""no woman, don't cry."" ""everything is going to be all right."" "So that's how that line actually came in." "Reality, life, struggle." "Any time you got struggle, you got a lot on your mind and in your heart." "It was great for an artist to come from struggle because he has more to say." "And is more relatable because more people are struggling" "Than succeeding in life." "So this is it right here." "The lion of judah." "So this represents the rastafarian culture." "So the heart of the rastafarian is also in trench town." "So delroy wilson was sleeping" "Over in that yard right there." "Right over there" "And peter tosh left the kitchen" "And he went over there as well." "One street over like that, all this talent in this neighborhood?" "Being long beach, we had our little crew together" "That was sorta like the wailers, 213." "Me and myself, dj warren g and my homeboy, nate dogg." "We was writing music that people wanted to say" "But didn't know how to say it and it felt good at the same time." "This is like, my blood brothers." "You know, when we started, we started on" "Drinking out the same 40 ounces, sleeping on the same floors," "Sharing the same blankets, wearing the same clothes," "Eating out the same chicken box, smoking out the same 20 bag." "Wake up, jumped out my bed" "Hung in a two man cell wit my homie lil 1/2 dead" "Murder was the case that they gave me" "Dear god, I wonder can you save me" "I'm only 18, so I'm a young buck" "It's a ride, if I don't scrap, I'm getting stuck" "But that's the life of a g, I guess" "Ese's way deep, shanked two in they chest" "Bests run 'cause brothers is dropping quicker" "Ugn, too late, damn, down goes another nigga" "Those lyrics were just our life." "And I don't understand why it freaked people out," "It was what we were going through, we lived that." "So it was just a matter of us, you know, taking our lives and putting it on wax." "So it wasn't no make believe situation so I don't know why it scared people." "On a mission to do something right because we recognized that there was a problem." "Little ghetto boy" "Playing in the ghetto streets" "I know reggae music is a form of hip hop music" "And hip hop music is a form of reggae music so" "It's no different." "And it's still the same message." "Aw, this is special, man." "Hell of a spirit up in here, man." "Yeah, it is." "Soul, the whole community." "I feel it." "I guess we could say welcome to jamrock." "We're at geejam hotel studios in port antonio." "It's north of kingston, it's the north side of jamaica." "And it's here, the beach is the cove here." "And this is a full-functioning studio, also like a resort." "Smoke da weed everyday" "Don't smoke the seed, no way" "Smoke the weed, hey" "Smoke the weed" "Younger generations" "Young boys and girls" "Uh, my relationship with the writers and the producers-oh, okay." "Every time you got that many characters and" "Personalities and spirits and..." "You gon' get some good shit." "Yeah, that shit do look like scooby doo" "Once you add them motherfuckers in there." "Hey, scooby!" "No, it is like scooby doo but it's the great adventures." "Dragging like nothing to your life" "Watch them, help them keep their life on track ..." "Like a satellite" "That's a crazy ass verse right there." "Let's hit it a couple more times." "Youth mon, don't go astray" "Fresh trees, young seeds" "Soul train, fertilize" "Help them keep their life on track" "Or choke them like a satellite" "That was really good." "That, that section from the top." "The smoke is my gun that's how I blow them away" "Music is my weapon" "We run and let it play" "They call me snoop lion" "I smoke every day" "The weed here is organic, from the ground," "Natural, no thc." "You find the right buds, they'll get you high as fuck." "I was in a peaceful place." "I was happy, no worries, no concerns." "That was the whole purpose of me taking this journey," "I wanted to go to a place where I could become and go with" "Nothing but the atmosphere where I was at." "What's up, brother?" "You know, meeting the rasta guys." "Every morning at the bottom of the hill before I got off into the vehicle." "Rasta man don't give up." "Rasta man live up, yeah." "Shout out to my main man, dave." "Blaze up the fire." "Make the fire blaze." "Yes jah jah, we bless this chalice in the name" "Of jah rastafari." "We call it the herbs" "And the almighty gave us that privilege" "Because he said we must use the herbs" "For our own benefits." "The herbs" "Is a healing factor" "For both the mind and the body." "Some good weed!" "Good herb man!" "Yeah, you feel that in your spirit, man." "Rastaman live up!" "Sing that song." "Rastaman live on, yeah!" "Yes jah." "Give thanks and praise" "To the most high." "All the time." "Jah!" "Every time." "All natural!" "We're going to the herb field in the mountain." "We are the hillsmen." "Straight!" "Goin' the hill!" "Damn!" "Oh my god, you got to be real careful with this shit." "Damn!" "You hear me?" "You're in blue mountain range." "We're in blue mountain range?" "Yeah, the real blue mountain." "Yeah." "Yea, the reason we have to grow the herb" "Down in this valley" "Is because of babylonians." "If you plant it nearby" "They will come and get it," "But we always find some other way" "Because they cannot stop us." "I'm rolling a blunt in the jungle." "Ain't that a trip." "Don't rush it, my brethren!" "We know sacramental smoking herb, ganja," "People just want to know why is it rastafari" "Smoke this sacred herb?" "We don't burn it for folly and for fornication" "But we burn it as a sacrament." "We praise his majesty" "When we smoke our herb." "Jah!" "Rastafari!" "Straight from the herb from the ground, baby." "Some families send away" "Herb to get some money because you know," "With a company for ten years," "All you get is hand-to-mouth wages." "So right now, our father gave us the" "Herb to make a living from it." "So we plant it, send it away" "Get some money to make the family more wealthy." "When I first heard about snoop dogg," "I thought you were a real jamaican, you know." "You thought I was real jamaican when you first heard of me?" "Yeah, man!" "Oh, that's special, that's heart." "I'm telling you, rastafari!" "Hey baby." "You look like snoop dogg." "I do, baby?" "How you doing, mami?" "Fine." "Who you say I look like?" "Snoop dogg, who sings songs." "They always tell me that." "Thank you baby." "That is from jah himself." "A nice empress, from jamaica." "She gave you a nice present." "Thank you." "So nice." "Smoke this every day, man." "Yeah!" "Yeah, we're good." "Jah." "Yes, rastafari love it" "In the mountain, you know?" "Yeah, mon." "In the mountain we shall be, you know?" "Plantains!" "And grapefruit!" "We have a drink we call "ting"" "Made from grapefruit." "I'll get it for you." "Time it." "Rastafari, natural fruit!" "My aunt used to wake up every morning to a grapefruit." "Sweet pegs from it Tangerine, mangarine." "Real fruits" "From the mountain." "Really tasty, you know?" "You know I ain't really experimental, my mother," "But this thing right here, you hear me?" "I finally made it to paradise." "That's when your name" "Fruit juice" "Number one you know you can't lose" "In the my god then they give the fruit that they choose" "Fruit juice" "In the ..." "You know you can't lose" "Take away my worry, my stress and my blues" "Sweet stuff, berry," "Cantaloupe, sour sop," "Pineapple, mango" "My taste buds tango" "Ice cold beverage in my honeycomb hideout" "Chilling with my beautiful empress with a standout ...Natural vibes when we give them..." "My princess says she love it when me right pon the rhythm" "Natural berries are so very good for the system" "Some tart some sweet" "Me just can't resist them" "Fruit juice" "Number one you know me can't lose" "In the my god make the fruit that we choose ?" "Fruit juice" "In my glass you know me can't lose" "Take away my worry, my stress and my blues" "She said the beet juice, said she really love the medicine" "Drink it down slow feel the good vibe settlin'" "The way the flavors going down she boot it up another round" "Tell me that she feel alright" "Feel the guava juice she have a healthy appetite" "Drink the red woman 'cause she don't believe the hype" "Drink the guava juice" "She have a healthy appetite" "She drink the red fruit because she don't believe the hype" "Fruit juice" "We'll develop snoop just later." "We will." "Snoop juice!" "Number one you know me can't lose" "In the mic all dem me pick the fruit that they juice" "Snoop juice!" "Oh my god!" "You know me can't lose!" "The ting sell out!" "Take away my worry," "My stress and my blues" "Snoop juice" "I just wanna be able to buy stock in that." "You got that!" "Yeah, mon." "Listen." "Imma do a lil something extra special when I take it like this..." "I put it in the oven." "Put it on broil." "Hit the blood hard so it just smokes." "Roll him around like you do a sausage." "One, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10." "It's done." "Dez is a playboy, he like to play a lot and he play like a boy." "But he has a lot of fun and he understand a lot of thangs." "That's my little cousin and um," "He always gon' be my little cousin, like..." "Oh some real shit." "We used to take baths together and shit." "Be playing." "Throwing shit on nigga's heads," "Dunkin' a nigga in the water like, that's my little cousin." "That's how I remember him and that's how he'll always play to this day." "Lassie!" "So now, I'm on a journey now." "And my lil cousin right there with me." "These are people that I trust who understand my struggle." "Man, my mama had that old school southern" "Value on whooping your ass if you fuck up." "I respected my mama and I was scared of her at the same time" "With fear and respect, so..." "I just was lacking that father support so that's what made me" "Drift off and you know, get involved with gangs and" "You know, hanging out with certain homies and doing shit" "Because I had no male, you know, guidance" "At a certain point that my mother couldn't teach me how to be a man," "She could only be my mother." "Alpha boys is a place for boys" "Who don't have the proper values and tools" "That they need to succeed in life." "The sister there that's running the school is a beautiful lady." "And it's put so many kids through that program" "That they ended up becoming great musicians." "Desmond dekker came through that school" "And a lot of other great musicians came through there" "And originated that sound and that feel and that love" "And that thang that you call reggae music right now." "I wanted to go through there and touch base with those kids" "And let them know that hey, I come from the same world." "You know, if I had a program like this where I lived at" "I'm pretty sure I would've been in it as well." "Alpha boys school caters to the underprivileged." "Those who have been assigned to us a place here through the course," "Deemed uncontrollable by parents..." "The home situation is just not right for them." "Is that something that they're given automatically or do they have to earn that?" "No, they earn and also they express an interest." "I'm sure you have heard that alpha is renown for its music." "Like, the ska, the reggae really started here." "Yes ma'am." "Yeah, mon." "Good afternoon, my young men." "With us we have our guest artist" "Here, known as snoop dogg." "That is how he is introduced, so don't" "Ask me his correct name." "We're gonna roll the rhythm, sister." "Roll it." "Same tune." "Ride it out, man." "Ride it out, man." "Ride it out, man." "Yeah, nice to see you in jamaica, man." "This is the rhythm they call the rasta reggae, mon." "And you are the brave man they call snoopy dogg!" "We are the alpha boys, ain't true that." "You know the reggae music" "You know the ska music" "Snoopy snoopy snoopy" "It's too hard to do" "Alpha boys is the place where I'm at" "I love the way they make the beat go bidda-bap" "And when I step to the stage I leave them all behind" "They never knew that I could do it but in due time" "We can play songs they play and we can play" "And I'm happy to be here, jamaica" "I say the alpha boys of jamaica" "We love the way they play" "I said the alpha boys of jamaica" "We love the way they play" "We love the way they play" "Say we" "We love the way they play" "Yeah mon." "When I was um, in junior high school," "When I went to a school called marshall junior high school," "It was in lakewood." "And that was a school where you would catch the bus" "And it was in a white neighborhood so after school," "I would go hang out with the, you know, with the white kids 'cause I got in real cool with them." "They was cool with me" "And my mother taught me to just love people" "So I didn't have no eyesight with color," "So I became friends with a lot of the kids who lived" "In the neighborhood and they would bring me to their house" "And you know, being the nigga that I was, I would steal and" "Take shit and you know, do the kind of shit that niggas do." "I didn't mean no harm by that, I ain't even gonna say who it was I got but y'all know" "Y'all shouldn't have let me in your motherfuckin' house." "It's been a beautiful day." "And you putting the right thing inside of them, too." "I didn't really try to like, get too out of pocket" "Like some of my other homies was going to jail for like, 18 months," "Two, three years." "I was only getting like, two months, 90 days," "Four months, eight months, 'cause of the crimes I was doing 'cause I knew, you know, I had to deal with my mama when I was a juvenile." "You know, she didn't come see me when I was locked up in prison" "Because, I don't know why, but to me, I feel like it's tough love." "At the time, I was mad and I was discouraged and you know," "Felt like she didn't love me and left me for dead but at the same time," "The values that she put in me would've prevented me from going there," "So it was the decisions that I made that got me there" "So I had to suck it up and man up." "See, 'cause he one of them boys that's gon' end up at that school!" "I'm talkin' bout over there!" "Right in the middle of traffic!" "Behind that red car." "That's where she said they pick up them kind of boys and bring them to their home." "You can't run away run away" "You gotta face this" "First time I saw cocaine in long beach," "Had to be like 1985." "Didn't pay too much attention to it 'cause" "I wasn't involved at the time." "I was still playing football" "And sorta kinda trying to be an athlete." "But maybe a couple years later," "It was given to me as a package to sell." "Because I was so busy about the money, you know what I'm saying?" "So, there was nobody partially that I knew that didn't bother them." "But that's sad because at the same time," "It has a horrible affect on people," "But you have the choice to choose what you do in life." "And I wasn't the one who created it" "And I wasn't the one who brought it in my community." "It was just set there and it was a means of making money." "I tried to get a job, but my job was only paying $80 a week." "This shit was paying $1500 a night." "What would you do?" "Drugs bring money and guns and that brings violence" "And that's just what it adds up to." "This is west kingston." "West kingston?" "Tivoli gardens." "Yessir." "I heard a lot about it." "Dudus, the president, comes from here." "You heard a lot about that." "Well, I heard it was sorta kinda like" "Some of the places that we grew up in in america." "Real rough and tough and dangerous and" "Criminally involved but I heard at the same time," "There was somebody there that had control of the neighborhoods" "And was doing things for the community and" "He was extradited to america," "Which left the neighborhood in limbo right now." "Christopher coke, otherwise known as dudus," "Has been described by the us" "As one of the world's most dangerous drug barons." "But dudus' supporters are furious" "The government has finally agreed to arrest him." "Point on 70 people died during four days of violence" "When police tried to arrest him." "He is regarded by his supporters as a man who" "Is stealing a robe at the government's dozens." "He provides money to support their children, puts food on their tables." "He's kind of regarded almost as like a robin hood figure here." "Dudus' family" "And around here, it's not running right." "Things have not been running" "Right since dudus is not around." "He's a good man to the community." "Everybody loves him." "He makes sure everyone is ok." "Made sure the children went to school and are taken care of." "And people lived good amongst one another," "But since he's not been here, things have been broken up." "The government has changed, that's what they say," "And things are getting worse." "Politicians aren't helping the poor." "They're helping the big guys," "And they don't do anything for the poor." "Straight from westmoreland." "Straight from west" "High grade real jamaican ganja" "Keep it private because it's not legal." "Even if you get caught with a spliff," "You are going to get locked up." "Hail our god jah rastafari emperor halle selassie I" "Who lives and reigns through the heart of all flesh." "Crowned king of kings lord of lords" "Conquering lion of the tribe of judah" "Elect of god light of himself" "Princes and princesses shall step" "Forth out of babylon and redeem" "Oh thy most high eternal father god emperor halle selassie I, jah!" "Rastafari!" "Blaze it!" "Fire upon rome" "She smoking that chalice life" "Yeah we smoking that chalice life" "When dudus was here we didn't have to be hiding and smoking." "We could have been outside on" "The streets doing this." "You know, I felt at home being there" "Because I understand what they're going through," "Being from where I'm from, so..." "Fellas and the ladies and the people of that community, so..." "This is block strikers, where we were born and bred." "The name of your block where you hang out," "You give it a name." "That's what we do here, too." "Okay, so I'm on the strikers block right now." "Yeah." "We shake it down." "We from the 21st street block, east side lbc." "Respect to the whole neighborhood!" "Every time." "Every time." "That from california." "See how that tastes like, yeah." "That real california love." "Show some love to snoop dogg!" "Show some love to a real brother!" "Damn, motherfucker!" "You hold it like a bitch." "You can't even manage it blood!" "You don't feel me, brother!" "Talking all shit, man." "Yo, hold on for one second." "What the fuck you saying to me?" "Hold up, hold on." "Let me explain this to you." "I came here to see my homies on the striker block." "Let me get in they respect first." "Okay?" "That's what I came to do." "You feel me?" "Lemme do that." "Come hit some of this california one time man, calm your nerves." "Give him my boy that." "Hit some of that california, man." "Can I have a picture with you?" "What's up, loved one?" "My dog, let's snap this, you're my nigga!" "Deuce!" "Shit, motherfucker!" "I need you to come to my barbershop!" "Can you do that?" "Respect!" "Tupac for life!" "That's your biggest fan right there!" "Respect!" "I understand him." "I feel him, I know what he going through." "Keep things together!" "Yeah, you've got to keep it straight." "Even the rooster had to say something to that!" "He not ..." "When the light went" "He say the people die still nobody no get charged murder" "Dem shy with your friend representing baron left with" "Said dat to the most strongest" "That's why me can't..." "Gang" "Dem fighting why we believe her" "So who no like me?" "Reverse don't like dem" "Shot at them across the border" "We say whoa..." "That shit go hard right there!" "You never recorded that?" "And that's for the president, right?" "Yeah." "See, y'all saying something on that song, right?" "I would love to record that song 'cause I'm out here doing a album, right?" "Yeah." "And my record, right," "Is about peace, love and struggle." "See, I got the peace and the love but I need the struggle." "So, I'd love to go to the studio with you." "We have a studio, man." "Lay that shit down." "Oh, serious?" "We have a studio, have a studio..." "Okay, well we got music." "Right in our pocket." "Just a hop, skip and a jump away!" "How bout it!" "Respect!" "Welcome." "Oh yeah, oh yeah." "Come over here, mon." "Welcome me, bro." "No, thank y'all for having me." "Yeah?" "I wouldn't wanna be nowhere but here." "Respect." "Right back." "Snoop d-o-double-gizzle." "Crazy j." "Rasta." "All the feel." "Snoop!" "It was like it reminded me of when we first started." "You know, something real, in tight, personal with all" "The homies is in there and whoever got a verse," "Everybody know his verse because we believe in each other" "More than anybody else believes in us." "The words of the carrion." "Say what!" "So call me" "Got your money" "Because papers smoke all the funny" "Need to make the moocha" "Think I wanna, uh!" "Oh!" "This is some fly shit I'm witnessing right here." "Y'all is some bad motherfuckers, man." "I'm going to say it man to man, y'all some bad motherfuckers, man." "For real." "While y'all jumping in, dropping off songs" "And pizzas and, oh man." "Y'all motherfuckers is cool." "I love the hood." "I'm from the ghetto." "These is my people." "Look, come here!" "See all these people down there?" "These is my loved ones right here." "Come on cutty, you know what it is, nephew." "Look, to be able to come to a neighborhood like this" "And get this real love right here?" "Walking to the roof reminded me of when I was doing my first video" "In my neighborhood and I had my whole community on the ground" "Watching me and supporting me and dancing to the music and" "It gave me a lot to aspire for." "We don't never take time to, you know, go up and speak on it 'cause it's a lot of bad blood and negativity but" "I remember the great times on death row." "We was the baddest motherfuckers in the world," "Um, our music was the shit, everybody loved us." "We had mexicans, blacks, bloods and crips" "All in the same page." "And that was like a first time ever." "When we had everybody agreeing because of the music that we made." "Bow wow wow, yippee yo, yippee yay" "Doggy dogg's definitely in the house" "Bow wow wow, yippee yo, yippee yay" "Death row's definitely in the house" "I told him I wanted to put daz and kurupt out as the dogg pound." "Did it, they became double platinum." "Um, tupac, I told suge go get pac out of penitentiary," "Put him on death row with us." "California love ...Bail fresh outta jail, california dreamin" "Soon as I stepped on the scene, I'm hearin hoochies screamin" "Fiendin for money and alcohol" "The life of a west side playa where cowards die and it's all ball" "Only in cali where we riot not rally to live and die" "In l.A. We wearing chucks not ballies (that's right)" "I think suge steered him where he wanted to be." "Pac wanted that." "He wanted the glamorous gangster mafia lifestyle." "And suge gave it to him." "Suge was great at giving you what you wanted." "Suge was the greatest business man to ever come out the west coast" "When he came in this hip hop shit." "Because he knew how to put us" "In a position where we were great." "Tupac was good." "When he got with death row," "He was great." "In the city (south central) of la" "In the city of good ol' watts" "They took tupac's songs and make his records sell, dope rap, dope songs." "Hung out with him, let him become a part of my family" "And see the shit that I had." "Let him get influenced by that then he brought me to his world" "And influenced me with hugo boss suits and italian jewelry" "Even explain or you know, could pronounce, none of that shit." "But he turned me on to things that made me" "A bigger, brighter person so it was a give-take relationship," "It was a love-hate relationship" "Because we loved what we did but we hated the fact that it didn't last forever." "Shakur was shot four times after leaving the mike tyson boxing match in las vegas" "In a car driven by marion "suge" knight," "The head of his label, death row records." "Actually, I was supposed to be with tupac and suge" "But we had a misunderstanding in new york." "The night before that so I didn't go with them." "So I went to warren g's house and we was playing video games" "And we got a..." "When we turned on the news, all we seen was the yellow tape and the..." "It just was all bad." "So I jumped in my hummer and we drove to vegas." "And suge was at home." "He was standing up but he had like, a patch." "His head was wrapped up." "And he came and explained to us as far as what had happened." "Like, but he was explaining it to us like joyful." "He was like, man, them niggas start shooting at us, tupac..." "Trying to jump in the backseat, I'm like, nigga get down." "I pull him down and..." "You know, he was like, and he was saying it like pac was gon' live," "You know what I'm saying, like..." "Because that must've been the spirit that pac showed him." "Like, even when he said he was driving to the hospital." "And he was asking pac, "yo, you alright?"" "Pac was like, "nigga, you the one with the hole in yo head!" "You bleed nigga, I need to be asking you if you alright!"" "And he said, "pac, light us a blunt."" "Rolling down the street with him." "And it's like, when I went to go see him," "That ain't what I got." "He wasn't moving, he wasn't talking, he wasn't breathing on his own." "It was completely different." "It's like it changed" "From the moment from suge telling me that to me going to see him." "It went bad." "And when I seen jesse jackson," "I knew it was all bad." "I'm like..." "Wow." "It was all bad." "It was all bad. 'cause I had a chance to to sit there with him." "And then just have a private moment with him and just let him know" "That I loved him and..." "You know, whether he could hear me or not," "I just wanted him to know that I loved him because" "At that time, me and him really wasn't..." "We wasn't eye to eye." "It was a minor misunderstanding and..." "It's so fucked up that I didn't get a chance to..." "That we didn't get a chance to, you know, get it right." "When pac had died, suge got locked up." "I went down to the county jail to visit suge" "And they wouldn't let me visit him." "And to me, that was the icebreaker." "Because that visit was gonna solidify me and his relationship." "We was gonna be able to look each other in the eye" ""look, I could save death row records."" "I never got a chance to do that." "The business was given to numerous amounts of people" "Who ran it the way that I don't know how they ran it." "But it began to turn on me after that now." "Then I start hearing, "they gon' fuck you up!" "They gon' cut your hair!" "They gon' do this!"" "And then he had crips working for him" "That was gon' do something to me." "And um, it just got to the point to where..." "I was avoiding, avoiding, avoiding and then I met master p." "And master p was like my savior because he came" "And he went and met with suge, he did a business deal with him." "And got him out of my business." "Took my family, moved us to louisiana." "I had a little baby girl." "Me and my wife, we married." "And got me a new publishing deal." "Got me some brand new money." "It got me three new albums." "And those records shaped me and molded me into the musician that I became." "So when I finally got back with dr." "Dre again on the 'chronic 2001,'" "I was ready." "I was gonna make a record dissing death row, like fuck death row." "'cause I just didn't give a fuck at that time." "They was coming after me," "I was gonna come after them." "But, p stopped me." "He put me where I needed to be and he gave me a peace of mind." "And it was exactly around the time that I seen the information" "From minister farrakhan because we never" "Had a leader, but we could always depend" "On minister louis farrakhan because he understood us." "And he spoke our language." "He never talked bad about us." "He always encouraged us." "So we always respected him." "And when it got bad, I reached out to him." "And he accepted me with warm arms" "And he had me come out to his house." "During that time that I met my wonderful brother," "It was at a time when east and west were against" "Each other and these beefs, if I may use that word," "Turned into death." "And destruction." "The language was foul, the words were foul," "The spirit was foul and a foul stench" "In the black, urban communities" "Began to fill jails." "So snoop and I became, I would say friends" "When the rap industry got to the point where tupac was gone," "Biggie was gone and they all came together in my home." "Assalamu alaikum." "First of all, just, I want to say this is my first saviors day" "And um, I'm very, very honored to be here." "The minister has always been there for the hip hop community." "Not to take too much time but it was about ten years" "Ago when the rapper, notorious biggie, got killed." "In los angeles." "I put a call out to minister farrakhan and we put the day," "A gathering, where all of the rappers came together" "And we ended all of our beefs and we all had peace" "And it was love and we've been living that way ever since then." "And that's all I've been on, is peace, love and positivity, anybody that knew me." "When I went to go see minister farrakhan over 11 years ago," "He gave me my mission to go do that." "And I've been on it." "I've been organizing and bringing the rappers together," "Being the main advocate for peace." "Just doing my thing and never really knowing why," "But just doing it." "So now it's like it came to a catapult with like, where" "This is why you're doing this." "This is the reason why." "So always been in you, now let it out." "That essence of him was buried under thug life, under gangster life." "Under pimp life." "Yeah, what was that story you had..." "I read about that you would..." "What happened then?" "You said, in an interview you were quoted as saying that you ordered a pimp cane?" "Well I was..." "To an extent, were you in a..." "I mean, what do pimps do?" "Pimping is what I chose to do." "I went after that." "Something I wanted to be as a kid." "It was a part of my make." "It was a part of who snoop dogg is." "Athletic, smart, charismatic." "And a player." "Some of the characteristics of a pimp growing up, you know, had these." "Because we couldn't see superstars in my neighborhood." "So our only superstores were the ghetto superheroes," "Which were the pimps and drug dealers and the..." "They were the ones who we looked up to." "And the pimp was the one who resembled having it all." "Because he had nice clothes." "Big house." "Money in his pocket." "And he had all the girls." "When I embraced pimping, it became lovable." "You don't associate lovable with pimp." "Because a pimp has no love." "So how do you get lovable and pimping at the same time?" "Who is snoop dogg?" "I made pimpin' fashionable." "They put me on the cover of rolling stone magazine," ""america's most lovable pimp."" "How many girls did you have?" "Physically, maybe three or four." "But virtually, maybe a hundred." "Those three or four would go out and recruit." "I had, I called them barracudas." "They would go out and get more." "That was more fascination and living out a dream of a kid," "You know a boy still not becoming a man." "But once I seen it," "It was disrespectful to my wife and my daughter" "And it wasn't who I was." "It was a phase." "It was like a stage that you go through" "In order to find out who you really are." "You gotta be willing to sacrifice." "You gotta be willing to put what matters first." "Because in the beginning," "I loved her a lot" "Way more than she loved me." "Before she was my woman." "And then when I became successful, it went the other way around." "And then we went through a stage where" "There was a little bit of love but the kids had our love" "And it just boiled down to the fact of if this is what you really want" "And this is what you say that you wanna be with," "You gotta make sacrifices to really lure that person in." "To make that person be a part of what you do." "Once we begin to evolve spiritually," "We look at the value of our wives, the value of our children," "And the value of family." "Pimps are businessmen." "That they're using their skill in a negative way." "So malcolm was a pimp." "Malcolm was a thief." "Malcolm was a hustler but malcolm became a world leader." "So the depth down shows us the height up." "And so now, he becomes very dangerous." "To those who want to keep the world revolving in filth" "And indecency and debauchery." "We goin' dre day, triple header." "Triple play?" "Yeah, triple play again." "We did a double play last night, remember?" "Yeah, we did." "Alright, "no guns allowed" first?" "I believe so, that record's very powerful." "Time to start doing some power." "I been smoking power, let's do some power." "Money makes the man and that's a crime" "If we all were rich" "We'd spend more time" "With our daughters and sons" "They're losing their minds" "Six, seven years ago," "And I had just got off stage and I was doing the roll back to the house," "I pull up about a block and a half, before I know it," "A hundred police pull up on me." "They all drawing down with real guns." "And they not playing." "So they finally come over, pull me out the car." "Start talking to me and they like, "well, do I know this particular guy?"" "I'm like, naw." "And they start saying, "well, he knows you."" "And he says that he sold you this gun," "That gun, that gun and that gun." "You can play dumb all you want." "We have your wife and kids under arrest and we're gonna" "Run through your whole house." "So either you gon' tell us where the guns are or we" "Gon' put your family through hell." "And I had to think." "My daughter is in the house." "My son is in the house." "Do I really want them to go through this bullshit" "That I'm trained for?" "That it, it doesn't bother me but they've never seen this." "So I said, "you know what?"" "If I give you a couple of guns," "Will you leave my house and let my wife and kids go?"" "He's like, "you give me a couple of guns, I'll do that for you."" "So I told him, "I have a gun here," "One here and one there." "And that's all the guns I got in my house."" "He put the call in, told the motherfucker on the other end," ""go look in the..." "Wap dee woop, doo wop wop." "Oh, we got one!"" "Oh, we got one!" "And another one!"" "Cool." "Let my wife and them go." "And then I had to take this bullshit ass probation." "That made me fire every security that I had around me." "Because everyone who had a criminal record couldn't be around me." "It's a violation." "So I had to fire all of my security," "I had no guns in my life and niggas wanted to kill me." "So imagine that." "Who wanted to kill you?" "I can't say." "Here we go." "Money makes a man" "And that's a crime" "With the "no guns allowed," just sounded like" "Cori b should be on it 'cause she sound good now." "And it's her tone." "And it's a great record for me and my daughter" "Because it's the things that's being said in that song." ""money makes the man and that's a crime." "If we all were rich, we'd spend more time."" "And that is so true." "If I didn't have to get money and do things to generate money," "I would spend all day and every day with my wife and my kids." "But I find myself spending all day with my dreams and my job" "And spending a few minutes with my wife and my kids." "So, I wanna try to reverse that." "Just come out of "people talking to me" it's like, I don't want to see any more of you dead." "It sounds like..." "I got you." "Let me try it again." "There's nothing left to see" "We want to see no more..." "Hey" "We don't want to see no more youth get" "Come here me now" "No guns are allowed" "In here tonight" "We're gonna have a free for all" "No fights" "I wanna get lost in the clouds" "In here tonight" "I need to hear my thoughts" "Through the music outloud" "Let the music play" "We don't want no more gunplay" "When the bodies hit the ground" "There's nothing left to say" "We want to see no more in the ...." "Hey" "To me, he's more happier." "I've heard him come home mad." "I don't know why." "Or that was just him." "And now he comes home smiling and singing, to making music." "And..." "Yeah." "Let's go back and make rasta music what it was made for." "Understand what I'm saying?" "Because we can educate those" "And take them back to the beginning of what it was." "It was all about love" "And positivity, not shooting and you know," "Beating people up and riding and killing." "It's the other meaning, so it's like, I get that and I want that." "It's the kind of record I want." "That's why when bunny wailer came by it was appropriate" "For him to get on that record because the timing was so right." "And it was his tone." "It was like, they fucking made the record for bunny." "I have been in this business for 50 years." "So I am not accustomed to doing things that is not appropriate." "As far as making records." "I am still very ignorant." "I don't know what it's all about." "And I am meaning to find out." "And to know if finding out would make me want to be involved." "Rastafari and reggae" "And this whole thing is a huge commerce." "And you have the spiritual side of it" "And you have the huge commercial side of it in spite of the spiritual." "And a part of our problem, both as a music and as a culture" "Is how this is viewed commercially." "Snoop can come in, do a nice reggae album," "And there's gonna be huge commerce behind that." "That is where I am and I can't be focused in any other direction." "Because that's my duty and responsibility" "As the surviving waller." "I know, but being here has given me my understanding on who I am" "And what I'm supposed to be doing." "I always had peace in me and love" "And unity and you know, the whole rastafarian movement" "Was a part of me but I never understood it." "So it was like, it's only right for my music to progress" "And to become more positive." "As I get older and wiser," "I'm supposed to say something." "And make a transformation because you know the brothers" "Ain't goin' to respect that." "If it's an overnight success, it's gotta be something" "That's fair to them." "That's real." "What you are doing, I think, this would be like," "The first time for america to venture into reggae music." "For bringing out the true message" "That reggae has been bringing to the world in years." "You know, so that to me, is an accomplishment." "Thank you, bunny." "When it rains" "We'll still bring" "Come again" "When it rains" "(yeah, bunny)" "Turns out you can sing, man." "When it rains" "(come again)" "Rains" "(come)" "Rastafari show love" "Keep me in my fight" "When it rains" "We'll still find time to right" "This is the best moment of my life right now." "Makes up lord or nothing" "Keep on nationaling" "Never let them play you" "Let's punch in on "poor never." get rich!" "So just do - don't skip" "Just switch in" "Poor never get rich." "Watch the rich get richer." "Yeah." "Just put "rich get richer" and then "poor never get rich."" "Watch the rich get richer" "Poor never get rich" "Yeah man, we got this." "Alright." "You killed it." "That's it?" "I think that's great." "'cause you ain't gonna fool me and throw me on the record" "Where he gettin' his dick sucked and he wop wooping" "What is the record about?" "You understand what I'm saying?" "Which, that makes sense, because" "They know who I am and what I come from." "This could be a gimmick." "I could just," "Two or three reggae songs on a gangster album." "Then it's not..." "So I appreciate that." "My nephew died, cuz." "You know, daz is my little cousin so, I feel his pain and um..." "I knew his lil nephew, too, man, lil naji." "Lil naji rest in peace." "And was, you know, happy and right and his phone, he got a text." "Then the whole mood just dropped." "And when he said that it's like ahh," "I couldn't even-you know what I'm saying?" "Daz was staying across from me." "I kinda woke up to like, all this music playing in his room and I was like," "Who's that playing the music?" "He was playing like, some shit." "Some like, forget me nots and" "He was playing the clark sisters." "I kinda looked out of my window and I see daz" "Looking out into the mountains." "And I don't know what he was thinking," "But I know he was thinking about something heavy." "But his, he seemed so positive despite what was on his mind." "And my husband was outside talking to him for a while" "And he was telling him that his nephew had just passed the night before." "And I could hear them talking and I was like," "Damn, that is so fucked up." "And that stuck with me the whole day." "It was just amazing that she was able to capture that spirit." "From being next to his room and um..." "Being able to write that down and capture that moment." "He had an ashtray and the ashtray was filled with ashes." "And immediately what came to my mind was ashtrays and heartbreaks." "And I started to just write this song and I was just" "And I just, my pen, it just kept going and it wouldn't stop, it wouldn't stop." "And it's about all the people that we lost." "When you lose as many people as they have," "You begin to deal with your pain a certain way." "And the way they deal with their pain may not be the way" "Everybody else deals with it but for them, they put one in the air." "Tonight, uh, you know," "They just gonna smoke and hopefully that'll make them feel better." "And you know, I think this song is a little bit more deeper than that." "It's about reminiscing and remembering." "And everybody reminisces and remembers in their own way." "So I tried to just embody the way they do that." "Ashtrays and heartbreaks" "A lost son" "Let's smoke one" "So goodnight" "Let's reminisce" "You're gone" "But you're never missed" "This is what I can perform everywhere next." "Essence of war, festival" "You said that night at tuff gong's." "This record is like the most powerful record we have right now." "Do you think the passing of nate dogg had anything to do with this?" "That's funny that you say that because I've thought about that." "Without knowing how he felt about it," "That's, you know, when I was writing "ashtrays and heartbreak"" "I was thinking about nate." "I could hear nate in my head..." "Singing on it." "Ashtrays and heartbreaks" "Lost ones" "Toke one" "Like, I heard him!" "Straight." "Yeah, I think that this has something to do with it." "Yeah, I think he thinks of him." "Yeah, I think he thinks he wish he was here." "To see him do this." "Nate would've loved this." "And he would've been singing all over this." "Man, that was hard." "That was real hard because that's somebody who I, um..." "Who I started with." "And when I say started with, I don't mean just musically." "I mean like, became a man with." "I met nate when I was in high school in the 10th grade and um," "We just hooked up." "We became friends from a science class to p.E." "To singing together to me going to his house to him coming to my house." "That was deep, man." "That was like a brother to me." "That was like losing my brother." "And I ain't really never gonna be able to get over that." "Dre, any words to the family?" "No, it was um..." "Stay strong, man." "Stay strong." "'cause I don't deal with death good." "I try to be strong and try to like, you know," "Keep everybody around me strong 'cause they look at me as the head of it all." "That makes me weak, but at the same time," "Death rebuilds me and gets me back strong." "While it takes a piece of me, it helps me rebuild." "We welcome calvin broadus, snoop dogg, tonight." "Uh..." "Gonna be strong for you, cuz." "1986." "Poly high school." "Yeah." "That's where me and my homeboy connected for the first time." "It was magic." "We formed a group called 213." "And through this group," "We founded dpg, which is the dogg pound." "And we spawned so many different rappers" "And so many entities of people who wanted to become rappers," "So many ex-gang members." "So many ex-drug dealers." "Whatever they were ex," "They wanted to become rappers because of what we did as a unit." "So we were very positive in what we were doing" "But we didn't know what we was doing." "We was just having fun," "We was looking up to the people that was doing it before us." "So I just want to say that, you know," "The time that I had with nate is special to me." "You know, he's like, he's like my brother." "So I just want to say that I'm so honored, I'm so happy, dear god," "I'm so blessed that you gave me the opportunity to know nate dogg." "To hang with nate dogg, to grow with nate dogg." "And to be his friend." "And to be here for this group right now" "When I really wanna cry and break down but I refuse to break down" "For your nate dogg 'cause I love you too much." "I will stand tall, this is dpg, 213 for life." "Death is so much destruction and so much mayhem" "And there's so much misunderstanding in music." "We losing so many great musicians." "We don't love them while we're here." "And I wanna be loved while I'm here." "And the only way to git love is to give love." "For all the homies that couldn't be here," "Ashes to ashes." "Dust to dust." "But here comes the king." "He might be your lord" "But here comes the king" "But I think definitely being isolated is great." "Every time we do this kind of shit, I'm usually mowing the lawn at the hotel." "This is the first time where we're like, no expenses are spared." "You know, it's gone really well." "And 7 to 10 days is like, channeling at work." "We've been really productive for sure." "It's good to have, you know, just a lot of for this project." "I've never caught anybody working on something else this whole time which is amazing." "Usually I would go in the studio, if it's like a major lazer trip," "I would go in and see whoever I'm with working on something else the whole time." "Like, snoop didn't even bring his playstation, we're just working." "We're just working down here." "Man, major lazer did that." "The sound is..." "Now that they're giving some of these mixes back, it's starting to feel reggae-ish now." "They're starting to add real drums, they even got the drummer" "From the fucking police to play on our shit." "This is major." "They rockin' man, them motherfuckers go." "Feel good." "Like nothing I've ever done before." "When I got baptized when I was a youngster in my church" "And reverend bynie took me and said," ""take me to the water."" "And the whole church started singing" "And he baptised me." "Boom." "Came out and I was saved." "I was, you know," "Replenished." "I was clean." "I was cleansed." "From all my sins." "'cause when I was young, I didn't understand" "And why they was singing and what that meant, but as an old man," "I understand" "The word, "baptism."" "Bob marley built a nyahbinghi temple for the rasta guys" "To have a spot for them and their families and their kids." "For the fellowship to live and just to express rastafari" "To the fullest." "And it's a beautiful place and I'm so honored" "That they welcomed me in there." "There is no other way to live" "Other than this way." "Purity, and love." "Nyahbinghi order" "Jah!" "Rastafari!" "Well we recognize that this is a special moment." "We are here, because" "We have a special guest..." "Guests in the house" "You must just feel comfortable." "Why did you come here?" "About the rastafarian experience." "I want to become a part of it." "I want to, um, baptize myself in the spirit." "I've always felt like I was a part of it." "In america so I wanted to come here and get it firsthand." "Jaaah!" "Rastafari!" "These brethren have been through tremendous trials." "As a child, you grew up in america," "And I grew up in jamaica, but we were exposed" "To the same misinformation, the same miseducation," "The same colonial teaching." "They branded us as revolutionary people," "Who opened the eyes of black people." "When emperor halle selassie I came here in 1966" "And h.I.M said, "oh yes!" "The rastas know what they are doing!" "Leave the rastas alone!"" "And his majesty gave the most beautiful smile," "And this was the judgment sound that his majesty said," ""traitors, woe!" "Holy traitors!" "Warriors, be still" "And know that I am he!"" "This brother here came through the gate as snoop dogg." "American international rapper." "This is how we have known him." "What's his new name?" "What are you going to name him?" "Berhane" "He says "berhane" is your new name." ""berhane," that means light." "I love it." "Because you are a shining light," "And you will no more be a dog again." "Yessir." "You're a shining light." "That light that you have been" "Carrying out there," "Some people think it has been negative" "Especially amongst the youth" "But your journey is your journey." "So now at this part of your journey," "Now that you have been renamed" ""berhane," which means light." "We're expecting you to go and shine a new light." "Jah said love thee one to another," "For him that loveth is of jah!" "For jah is love and jah know the love of jah," "And through the love of I and I will" "Always embrace you!" "Rastafari" "Oh the prodigal son returns to his" "Home once more." "He left the wicked babylon world," "Rastafari called us home!" "Glory be to jah!" "We are home once more." "Home once more, rasta child, home once more!" "Oh the prodigal son returns to his home once more." "Jaaah!" "Rastafari!" "Jaaah!" "Rastafari!" "Matriarch ma shanti, put your hands together." "Rastafari!" "How do you feel?" "Love." "I feel love right now." "Yessir." "At this time, beloved sons" "And daughters of rastafari" "We will commence the lighting of the fire key." "It's a fire ceremony to burn" "Out all corruption, all evil, all wrongs." "We invite you all to be part of the circle," "Widen the circle, open up" "The circle, make it bigger." "Wider." "And all family members, please be a part of the circle." "Stop!" "Jah!" "Rastafari."