“Before hip-hop emerged, cocaine was the biggest factor in the music industry. “Everyone should be thankful for that,” he says. Dre’s “‘G’ Thang” video and sang about “smoking indo” on his own hit “Gin and Juice.” So when he declares “weed is the most important element in hip-hop,” you stop and listen. Snoop Dogg’s cannabis credentials are fairly impeccable. They got a honey flavor to ’em, and it tastes real good. I love smokin’ blunts, though, especially this kind we get out in Cali called Mexicana. We’d have fun with those things, doin’ some ghetto-ass shit like fillin’ ’em up with gin instead of water. But homies would come over and break ’em. “These guys from Graffix used to design me bongs with my name on ’em and everything. “I used to smoke out of bongs,” he shares. Snoop applies the finishing touches to the blunt. “I still smoke with my niggas out here in New York,” he continues, “like Redman and Method Man-but when we blaze, I insist that they smoke my trees. Snoop’s long, thin fingers rip a perfectly straight crack in the Phillie, and the nuggets he spreads onto the blunt overflow with kindness. Was it Snoop who invented this classic weed slang? “Indo is this type of weed we smoke out in Cali,” Snoop explains. I’m gonna start rollin’ another one, just to celebrate the fact that I got good shit out here. “This here is what you call bait.”īait? “Yeah, bait is good herb. “Y’all are taking good care of me, though,” he confesses. They know they gotta tuck that bullshit away around me.” Their shit’s got sticks, stems and seeds. “The rappers out here be smokin’ some bullshit. “I never thought I’d get weed this good out here in New York,” he says, teasing our host. Snoop admires the immense amount of crystal-green weed on the table before him. Anything aside from rocking heavy beats, blazing delicious buds and, simply, living large is not on the agenda. The smoke he exhales uplifts the contact high to its peak, and the mouthwatering scent is enough to make it official: The next two days with Snoop are bound to be the bomb. “What’s up, big man?” he acknowledges with his signature Long Beach drawl. Dre on The Chronic, who dispelled the notion that West Coast rappers couldn’t flow, who made the entire industry fall into lust with his multi-platinum Doggystyle, who helped put Death Row Records on the hip-hop map before its fall, who brought credibility to Master P’s No Limit label.įrom a distance, Snoop’s subtle smile assures that he’s more affable than your average gangsta rapper, and his laid-back posture exudes an unmistakable peace. Here sits the man who amplified his lyrical arrival with Dr. As Snoop sits in the corner getting his hair braided by a young woman and puffing on a finely rolled herbal masterpiece, the rays of sunlight from the window behind him shine on his entire presence, and the smoke that filters out of his nostrils forms a transparent cloud around him. At a recent photo shoot, he arrives early and leaves late. If his name is on the line, it has to be legit.” “That’s the thing with Snoop-he doesn’t take any chances with people that he ain’t feelin’ one hundred percent, no matter if you’re his nephew or his son. “Snoop wouldn’t be puttin’ me on with him if he didn’t like the way I rhymed,” he says. It’s gonna blow everyone’s mind.” When Snoop steps away for a minute, Xzibit explains his role on the album. “When that shit comes out, I suggest you roll up a fat one, pop in the CD, turn off the lights, light the blunt and listen to the music that’s bound to change the rap game as we know it. Snoop passes the blunt to his nephew, Xzibit. “The album has me, Dre, Eminem, Xzibit and Mary J. Dre, the last performers of the evening, brought down the house with a rendition of Dre’s 1992 hit, “Nuthin’ But a ’G’ Thang.” The reunion is part of Chronic 2001, a Dre-Snoop collaboration due out before the end of 1999. “Yo, I can’t wait to go to Eminem’s after-party,” Snoop drawls. Inside Snoop Dogg’s trailer a couple of blunts are circulating. The MTV Video Music Awards have just concluded, and an army of NYPD stands between hundreds of screaming fans and a cluster of backstage trailers. The scene outside the Metropolitan Opera House is smokin’. In honor of Snoop’s birthday on October 20, we’re republishing it below. In this January, 2000 cover story by Pat Charles, legendary rapper Snoop Dogg smoked some trees, rolled some blunts and told us how weed saved hip-hop.
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