Interview Only: Snoop Dogg believes ORIGINALITY is lacking in Today's Rap!

The Stephen A. Smith Show

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown. Snoop Dogg wants to see more originality in rap these days. Snoop and Dr. Dre stopped by The Stephen A. Smith Show, where the legendary West Coast duo delivered their thoughts on today’s rap landscape.

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0:00.0	When you have an opportunity to reflect on what you have accomplished in your career,
0:08.0	when you look at who you are and what you mean to so many people,
0:12.0	how does that make you feel at this moment in time in your life?
0:16.0	I mean, it's incredible.
0:18.0	Hopefully I'm inspiring some new up-and-coming rappers and producers and engineers but I don't look back I never listen to my
0:27.2	old music or anything like that I've never listened to my old music I never let anybody play it around me. I feel like that's masturbation at the highest level.
0:37.0	I like to masturbate.
0:38.0	And Drake, Ray and Fred have a show called Master Baters coming so.
0:43.8	It's a fishing show, my mind is.
0:45.6	Yeah, right.
0:47.6	No, but I just, I'm always thinking forward.
0:51.0	I don't live my life with a rearview mirror. I'm always thinking forward. don't live my life with a rearview mirror I'm always
0:53.3	thinking forward I don't give a fuck about what I did or what's in the past I guess I'll
0:58.2	sit down with my grandkids at some point and listen to some of the things I've done even going back to
1:11.1	1985 when I started with NWA in the whole nine and go back and listen to what I was doing at that time when I was green and shit, you know what I mean?
1:19.0	So I'm thinking about that in the future, going back and listening to the songs again.
1:24.1	I've never...
1:25.1	Me and this nigger ain't never listen to the chronic from top to bottom.
1:29.2	We never listen to doggy style from top to bottom.
1:31.6	I've never listened to any of the music I've done.
1:33.9	Me and him together have never listened to it.
1:36.4	I think it's gonna be a fun experience going back
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