Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Have a really great episode for you today. I recently sat down with Snoop Dogg, who gave me an amazingly deep and funny and revealing

interview about his entire career.

He has a new album coming out November 11th called The Algorithm, and we start off talking about a few tracks from that but then

we dig into the making of his greatest hits his memories of Tupac and a whole lot more.

Let's get straight to that conversation. I wanted to start by asking about

no-Bammerweed, which is a great song. It seems like a nod to RBL posse that

Don't Get Me no bammer. We don't smoke that shit in an SFC don't give me no bammer.

We assume that was part of the inspiration.

Definitely because we don't smoke, you know, no bammer.

We only smoke fire, so a lot of my

mrfucers love trying to give me weed you know being nice but it's the only way I can

be nice back and say I only smoke fire don't give me no bammer

weed you have more a get my money and that's a really strong track and I'm a big fan of his.

I love him. I'm so inspired by him. I like his style is getting on his whole his look his aura his energy

You know so I reached out to him. It was one of those things where I love his energy and I reached out to him.

He's one of those guys who's incredibly melodic and that's a big strain of rap for the past like especially this you

know past decade but you were way ahead on that you've always been melodic where did

that come from in your flow always incorporating the melody in my flow is based off of the love of the music that I grew up listening to,

the R&B music, whether it was, you know, the Isley brothers, Gap Band, the Moments, Temptations, Temprees, Dramatics,

whatever it was one of those super groups, they always had great melodies, they harmonize well

and I always wanted to have some of that in my music so I always take a little piece of my

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