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Snoop, what about Season 2 is different from Season 1?
I mean, there's a lot. My son is getting older. He's in high school now, so he's becoming a young man. There are different attitudes and adjustments. People learn some things in the house that are a little bit strange and crazy. But these things are all part of life. You know what I'm saying? My life is weird. It's not based on the regular get-up-in-the-morning, eat-breakfast, go-to-work, read-a-newspaper, come-back-home... It's crooked. It's different. My whole family is like that. The TV show really gives you a dose of that. It's kind of hard to explain. You just gotta tune in every week, stay focused and enjoy every minute of it.
Your kids are pretty entertaining on the show. How did they feel about having cameras in the house all the time?
Sometimes it's a great day, and sometimes you don't want to see them. You know how it is. Some days you wake up and you're feeling great, and some days you don't feel good. They're kids. Sometimes they want to be filmed, and sometimes they don't. But it's all about the spirit of me and their mother. If me and their mother are having a great time and enjoying it, they enjoy it too. But if we have an attitude, then the kids got an attitude. It's like that. Some days we just don't feel like shooting. We don't always feel like being happy and jolly on camera. Sometimes we don't feel like making America smile.
So there were days you just kicked the cameras out of your house and just said, "We're not filming today"?
All the time!
Fans know that you're a huge football fan. And many may even know that you're actually a youth football coach on the side. Will we be seeing a lot of you coaching this season?
Every year I look forward to coaching them little kids. And I'm able to show those guys that I met in the NFL. This year I was able to have a couple of NFL buddies of mine, who are very well known, come and meet the kids at practice and work out with them. You know, to give them a little hope, a wish and a dream that they could be something special in life. I remember when I was young in 1979, Doug Williams came down. He was playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and he signed autographs. When he signed an autograph for me, that definitely made me think that I could become a quarterback, that I could become something. Having that hope and a wish can do a lot for a kid. I just want to give the kids something that I was given by Doug Williams when I was young.
So what NFLers will we see on the show this season?
LaDainian Tomlinson came by. He's the LT, the infamous. And then my main man came by. He used to play for the Los Angeles Rams back in the day. Wide Receiver. Ya dig? Harold Jackson.
You've mentioned before that you want to be an NFL head coach. Do you think you'll end up doing that at some point?
You know what? If I can believe it in myself and put God first in everything that I do, then there's nothing I can't do. The thought that I would have ever become this great rapper that everybody loves around the whole world came from just wishing and hoping and thinking that I could do it. You know what I'm saying? "I think I can." I read that book, too.
How has the rap community reacted to your show?
They embrace it. They embrace everything that I do because it's love and information. It's something that people love seeing, as opposed to me getting on TV on some raunchy show that's mean and disrespectful. You know, something with me and bunch of girls, no values, no love. I coulda did that. I coulda did a "Girls Gone Wild" TV show.
Easily. Easily, you could have.
But I chose to do a wholesome family show. It's a show that I believe the rap community and people in general will embrace.
Snoop, are there TV shows your family watches together?
Nope. But I watch TV all the time. I used to watch "To Catch a Predator" all the time. That used to be my favorite show. And then the whole world started watching it, so I was like, "I can't watch that no more." My new favorite is "The First 48 Hours." That's off the chain. Anything real dealing with criminals and them getting caught, I love that kind of stuff. Especially "To Catch a Predator." I just enjoy that. I love how they set people up and the guy who hosts the show, Chris Hansen. I was one of the first people to watch that show and give it great reviews. I told people they should watch it because it was very informative about child predators and whatnot. Especially when I see these people in Long Beach and San Bernardino living near my house, and I'm like, "Wow."
So what shows did you watch growing up as a kid?
I watched "What's Happening!" and "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons." I'd watch "The Richard Pryor Show" and "The Benny Hill Show."
There was a time when there were a lot of a great shows centered around African American families, but now those are hard to find on the tube. Why do you think that's the case?
Because they're not writing any African American shows on network TV. They're writing "Desperate Housewives" and "ER" and "CSI," those types of shows. They don't want to take the time to write a show based on a black family. That's why Tyler Perry is making so much damned money with "House of Payne." He has no competition. The night that he comes on, all the major networks don't have any black shows on. So everybody that's black is not going to watch that white, you know, bulls****. They're going to watch something that they can relate to.
Right.
And when Snoop Dogg comes out with his own black television show that's based on a script, you'll have another great black show for the major networks. Be on the lookout for that.
What can you tell us about that?
It's already in the works. I wish I could tell you what it's about, but I don't want someone else to beat me to the punch. It'll be Eddie Murphy or someone doing my show.
Or maybe Dave Chappelle.
Dave Chappelle's my nephew. He's my peoples. We're family.
What's this we hear of you doing a Johnny Cash tribute album?
That's something special and was brought to my attention that I could be a part of it. I wanted to do it because I love his music. I got a chance to meet his family, went to his house and got to visit the places where he was right before he died. I just got caught up in the spirit of his music and his vibe. I wanted to be a part of it. I love his music. It ain't got nothing to do with gangsta rap, being balck or the 'hood. I love Johnny Cash as a person and as a musician.
What will you be performing on that tribute album?
I did a remix of "Walk the Line."
How are you feeling about the state of rap music these days? Is it being portrayed accurately by the media?
I don't care how it's being portrayed because everyone that's in it is getting what they're supposed to be getting out of it. Rap music was created by us, for us. So as long as we're still in control of it, it don't matter. I'm glad that the record sales have kinda dropped off, because now, it puts hip-hop back into the rightful hands of the owners who it belongs to. And that's the hip-hop community and not the record labels. People up-top think they can dictate what hip-hop is and what it's about. Now that everyone knows what it's about, just by being on a video or being seen, it's about making good music again. They're not playing nobody that's good or whatnot. They're not giving nobody a chance. It's the same repetition over and over again. It's robotic. Now people are challenged to make better music and get back on their horse in terms of creating something that's different.
Lastly, anything that we should look out for in the season premiere of your show?
Just look for me. If you're down with me and my family, tune in.
"Snoop Dogg's Father Hood" premieres Sunday, Nov. 30, at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on E! Network.
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