IN THIS EPISODE:

• (0:52) - Come hang out with me at the Marathon x Indica Love Juneteenth Party at The Woods in West Hollywood.

• (4:35) - Time to smoke up, watch the game, and chop it up with good people. Let’s go Thunder!

• (13:15) - I sit down for a smoke sesh with the man himself, Snoop Dogg.
  

SMOKING WITH THE DOGGFATHER HIMSELF!

Tammy: Should we just do a regular smoke sesh and just vibe? Since we’ve already done a traditional interview before. We can talk about your new art project.

Snoop: You know, I used to just take all of my roaches and put them in a jar. Then one day, one of my homies said “man you should really sell that shit”. I said, “nobody’s going to buy that shit! Fuck it, let’s put it on auction and start it off at $420.” 30 days later it was sold at $4,500. So we figured that’s art, that’s my art. And you can be a part of it by buying this art.

Tammy: It’s probably going to be worth a lot of money one day, like in a real art museum. The cultural story of America can’t be told without weed.

Snoop: You’re right, and that's one of one. I don’t think anybody has ever done art like this.

Tammy: Imagine if Louis Armstrong would’ve thought of this…

Snoop: I know! He would be the man, the myth, the legend!

Tammy: He was definitely a smoker! All of the jazz guys had to be.

Snoop: When I did a song with Babyface years ago, he told me “your vocals are like Miles Davis, and when you rap it’s like an instrument.” He told me that, and Quincy Jones and I have always had a great relationship. So I feel like jazz has always been in me.

Tammy: Yeah if you tell the story of weed, it really does start in the jazz era. They used to call it “Mary Warner”. There’s actually a jazz song called “Mary Warner”, and a lot of other jazz songs that were odes to weed. So, I could definitely see you being a jazz player in a previous life.

So do you listen to a little bit of everything? Or what’s your go-to? 

Snoop: My go-to is old school R&B, anything from the ‘60s or ‘70s! That shit always gets my heart and spirit right. It’s love music. Back when men told women how they felt through music. We don’t do that any more, we just get straight to it.

Tammy: Oh so you just want to be loved?! I feel that.

So, what are you smoking on?

Snoop: Some Death Row Cannabis, and using my own brand of Dogg Woods. We finally got the texture and taste right. I love them!

Tammy: That’s one of the beauties of business, you have to keep trying and trying until you figure everything out. Even Snoop Dogg has those trials and tribulations!

Snoop: I’m a sample kind of guy, any of the sampling done goes through me first. If it passes my inspection then I can put it out to the people. From the things I smoke to the clothes that I wear.

Tammy: I love that! It seems like your output is insane, because you’ve just been dropping album after album. Where is all of that creative inspiration coming from?

Snoop: I have a radar. I have a record label, and with that I know what people consider good music. I know the type of music that I’m good at making, and I know what kind of artists I love. I just want to keep doing great things while I’m here.

Tammy: You’re clearly very passionate about it. We keep getting album after album, and even a movie?!

Snoop: Yeah, I’m definitely working. The young Snoop Dogg is still here, despite me getting up there in age.

Tammy: Just listening to this, I need to thank you from every stoner in the world that’s been told that they’re lazy because they consume this plant. You have single-handedly shattered that propaganda from everything that you are doing. It seems like you’re not slowing down any time soon!

Snoop: No way. To the people who try to slander this plant: understand that it’s meditation, motivation, and inspiration. Don’t judge it until you’ve actually had the chance to inhale it. Then you can inhale it, tell it, and sell it the way I do!

Tammy: Beautifully said! You definitely did that, and then Wiz came and doubled back!

Snoop: I don’t even call Wiz my “little bro” any more, he’s just the homie because he’s passed all of that! I’m so proud of him. He’s taking it farther than I can! He is the same thing that I am, for the next generation.

Tammy: Okay so it was you, then Wiz… who’s the next in line to carry the torch?

Snoop: That’s up to Wiz, because he’s running with it like I did. I ran with it for like 20 years straight, and then he came. I think he’s got a few more years to run with it and then he can say, “who’s the next one coming out of the clouds?” Somebody has to outdo him, just like he outdid me!