Reincarnated

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!