Snoop Dogg Confronts The Man That Got Tupac Killed

this test. That... made me shoot all the security elements I had around me because anyone who had a criminal record couldn't be around me. It's a violation. So I had to fire all my security. I had no weapons in my life and the black people wanted to kill me. So imagine that. Snoop Dogg was facing death again, but this time he was at his most vulnerable point. Now he had to carefully analyze how things came to this. He broke me, man. He broke my spirit. He wins my murder case, they kill Tupac, Death Row wants to kill me.

All of this is in the same year. I don't really understand death and never did. And even when I was a kid, my friends started dying from gang beatings, like all the time. Like black people I went to school with and played football with. It was like you didn't become desensitized to it, but it's like, it's a feeling of, okay, okay, I guess this is what it's supposed to be. And I look back at all the rappers that wrote about death, they were all dead. Our pen is what we were writing. "I hope to live to be 21 and blah, blah, this and that.

And I know I'm not going to make it and death is around the corner and I'm ready to die." That's the era we come from, of preparing for death. And it made me feel like my pen created this. I have a baby, I have a wife. Yes. I have shit to live for. I wanted to live. Snoop Dogg knew he had to face Suge Knight one last time. I saw him in Las Vegas. He moved me around doing my thing. And I turn around and my security, he immediately on him. Boom! He suggests something like, "Doggy Dogg!

Man, tell this black I ain't trippin', man. Tell this black to chill out!" I said, "All right, black, check it out. You know where I am." He said, "Let me go yell at you." I said, "Let me finish this real quick." What was the temperature at that point in the relationship? Hot. OK, it's OK. Hot. Like I got blacks that wanted to do the right thing...they saw it before I did. Good. I had to tell them, "Let me scream." Good. So this is what I do. I'm like, "When I'm done with this little woo wop thing I'm with, I'm going to have my parents come up here and tell you what room I'm in.

And then when you come up to my room, right?" There won't be anyone there, just you and me." About 45 minutes in I send my black, "Go find the cousin and tell him to come up." I said, "In fact, don't even think about coming with him. I want him to feel comfortable. In fact, give him the key to the room." He walks in. The whole conversation is, "N****, I loved you, n****. I could have saved you. I had nothing but love for you.” And his conversation was, “N****, I love you.” I have nothing but love for you." "Well, why did you try to bop-boped me when you loved me?

There's blacks out there that want your head right now. Did you know? I forgive you. "I won't do anything to you. You will go and walk here and we will be calm from this day on." And we have been sincere. He wasn't ready to go to war. And then I said, "Fuck it, I have to defend my pride." But my pride would have gotten me

killed

. Sometimes you have to be smarter than the average bear. You have to know and understand why you are here. And looking at my family and where I want to be and how I should prepare to be here.

And that's what forced me to find a new path. I started writing life. Then my pen got bigger, I'm going to live my life. Let me have fun. Let me live a little. And tomorrow I will wake up. And then my life became that too. I barely made it. That's why I want to give my kids a better chance at getting ahead by putting them in an environment where they have less to deal with. They do not have gang activity. They don't worry about being shot at, looking over their shoulder, this and that. When I was younger, I had no respect.

I just did what I wanted to do. But as I become a grown man, my job is to do the right thing. You have to start doing some things that matter for the future. I feel like something had to fall from that tree. At first it is always a big family portrait. And in the end, there are two or three key people in that family photo who are no longer there. But there is something that is still there that prevents the legacy from simply surviving. Just being able to be peaceful and be smart enough to say I'm going to put that behind me and I'm just going to smile a little bit and be me.

Make people happy, inspire, influence. And I personally love the fact that people love me and follow me. I want to be loved while I'm here. And the only way to get love is to give love.