Name: Snoop Dogg on Freestyling Songs for Doggystyle & The East Coast vs. West Coast Rivalry
Uploaded: 2021-11-12T18:49:29.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Snoop Dogg on Freestyling Songs for Doggystyle & The East Coast vs. West Coast Rivalry' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Snoop Dogg on Freestyling Songs for Doggystyle & The East Coast vs. West Coast Rivalry' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-12. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Can I ask you how you create a song?
Like how, when you're putting something
like that together, do you write it out on paper?
Do you just say it until you remember it?
Like Jay-Z apparently doesn't write anything, right?
- Right.
- He just keeps it all in his head.
Do you do that?
Do you write it?
- When I first started, my first album, Doggystyle,
I got two songs where I just freestyle.
One is called "G's and Hustlers"
and one is called "The Shiznit."
Those two songs, I just went there and just freestyled
whatever came out of my mind and my head at the day.
I've been good at that for a long time,
but a lot of times I like to make sure
that I'm pinpointing a specific topic,
a specific cadence, and a specific style
that I'm trying to perfect when I'm making a song.
I'm not just trying to make a record for the day,
I'm trying to make something that's gonna be here
tomorrow and the next day and the next year.
- So when you said you freestyle it,
you mean like when you walked in,
you really didn't know what you were gonna sing
when you were recording it?
- Well, the song "The Shiznit"
was supposed to be a mic check.
I was supposed to go in there and just check the mic.
Mic check, one, two, mic check,
and Dre put the beat on.
Mic check, check, one, two, one, two,
do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
Hoppin', stoppin', hoppin' like a rabbit.
When I take the Nina Ross, you know I gots to have it.
I stay back in the cut, retain myself.
I'm thinkin' 'bout the shit and I'm thinkin', well,
how can I makes my grip?
And how can I make that nigga straight slip?
Said trip, gotta get him for his grip
as I dip around the corner.
Now I'm on her, another mission, wishing upon a star.
It's Snoop Doggy Dogg with the caviar
in the back of the limo, no demo, this is the real.
I'm breakin' niggas down like Evander Holyfield, chill.
'Til the next episode.
I make money and I really don't love hoes.
To tell you the truth, I swoop in the coop.
I used to love...
Man, come on, man, quit playing with you.
That was all a freestyle, just goin' in
that motherfucker and just spit from the dome
and it just came out and Doc and Dre just made it work.
Wow.
Made it work.
But every song is different.
You know, 'cause sometimes a song would come to me
from just like hearing some shit
or just bein' out somewhere and be like,
"Damn, I wanna make a song about
"whatever I just went through
"or whatever I'm goin' through or whatever."
It's the moment, it's always a different experience
every time we make a song.
So sometimes it's something that you actually write out?
A lot of times.
The song "Murder" was the case.
I wrote that song
because I was thinking about life after death.
The song was initially called Dave, D-A-V-E,
"Death After Visualizing Eternity."
Whoa.
And it was crazy that I was thinking of shit like that
and I had made a song called "Murder Was The Case"
and that was about me losing my life.
But before I lost my life,
I did cut a deal with the devil,
but then God came back and gave me another chance.
That was in my mind,
but when I wrote it, it just became some gangsta shit,
but that was the premise behind it.
And it was just in my head,
like, "I wanna write a song like this."
And then three months later,
I caught a murder case in real life.
Whoa.
Yes, so my pen was actually right in reality,
so I had to pull back from certain things and say,
"Maybe last year, start writing about life and living
instead of always writing about dying and death."
Whoa.
Deep.
Very.
Just think about my peers.
Me, Tupac, Biggie.
Like, just think about our records.
The last records that they made,
it was a lot of death.
It had some life in it too,
but it had a lot of death in it.
Yeah, that East Coast, West Coast shit,
it became a real divide in the country with hip hop, right?
Yeah, it was because you didn't wanna be on the wrong side
and you didn't wanna, like, for example,
if you had friends, right,
that was leaning more towards the East Coast
and then you had a friend that really wanted to hear
West Coast music,
y'all might've ended y'all friendship based off of that.
Really?
It was that serious.
Yeah.
How did it, it went,
it kinda isn't that way anymore though, right?
Mm-mm.
What it wasn't.
That's good.
Isn't that like a good sign for the future?
That's a great sign.
There's people working together from all parts of the world.
'Cause, like, in the '90s, that was a real problem.
That was a real divide.
The divide was the, we couldn't control the media like we can now.
So, even back then, East Coast and West Coast used to hang with each other
and kick it and love each other, but we didn't control the media platform,
so we couldn't, we didn't have an Instagram or Facebook and none of that shit
where we can slap up a picture of me and Nas and Jay-Z and this person hanging
out.
Right.
We didn't have that.
All you had was the media saying, "The East Coast and the West Coast don't like
each other.
Which side you choosing?"
Yeah.
And that's just that.
Yeah.
And it's their job just to sell newspapers.
Right.
And then once lives were lost, then you could blame, you could naturally say,
"Tupac, okay, did somebody have something to do with that from the East Coast?
We don't know.
Biggie, he got killed on the West Coast.
That puts speculation that maybe somebody from the West Coast has something to
do with it."
So it just kept fueling to the fire until you had people like Puffy, myself,
Steve Harvey,
who were man enough to say, "Look, we need to put an end to this and let people
know
that we don't advocate that.
We really love each other.
We're a family."
And we started building bridges and started doing things together and being
seen together
and controlling our own narrative as far as what we was putting in the public's
eye.
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