Snoop Dogg on all-star R&B album, biopic series and dream Super Bowl plans

Snoop Dogg talks to Yahoo Entertainment about his new all-star R&B album. Snoop also reveals a potential biopic series that's currently in development, and his dream Super Bowl plans that would involve Dr. Dre.

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SNOOP DOGG: Hey, Martha. Pass me that Bic EZ Reach lighter and that bowl.

MARTHA STEWART: Bowl of strawberries?

LYNDSEY PARKER: So I watched your commercial that you did for the Bic EZ lighter with Martha. You are a busy man these days. You got the Bic lighter commercial. You're an entrepreneur. I loved you on "The Voice," and you also dropped a new album.

And I really love the video for "Look Around," where you had all these references to all the old school stuff. I'm wondering, because the NWA Biopic that came out a few years ago, "Straight Out of Compton," it was very well received, and it was very successful. And it kind of ended with the beginning of the Death Row era. How do you feel about a sequel of sorts? It wouldn't really be a sequel but a companion movie that's about that.

SNOOP DOGG: It depends on whose eyes it's told through. If it's told through the right eyes through the right lens, then it makes the most sense for me. I think what makes the most sense to me is a Snoop Dogg anthology, the life story. Snoop Dogg, where it starts with my mother and father meeting each other before I was even born to me being born to me growing through the '70s, and '80s, and the '90s, and then seeing a Black Forrest Gump so to speak, seeing me in all of these highlighted moments in American history.

LYNDSEY PARKER: It seems like you have a real plan for that. Is that something you're working on? Is there a script in the works? Is that happening?

SNOOP DOGG: Yeah, we're developing that, putting it together as we speak. Just trying to take my time and put the right information out. I don't want to just rush to it just because this project was successful, and I feel like this could come behind it now. I want to take my time and make sure that I put together the right infrastructure of how I became me, the people that inspired me, my upbringing, my mother, my father, my friends, the community, the influences, inspiration that shaped and molded Snoop Dogg. I don't see it being a Biopic because I can't get off of all of this great information, entertainment in two hours, but if I give it to you in an anthology, you're going to have to get six or seven seasons of this.

LYNDSEY PARKER: Like Netflix or something like that?

SNOOP DOGG: Yes, sir.

LYNDSEY PARKER: Oh my god. I would be so excited. I really hope this-- I mean, it's going to. Who wouldn't pick that up? That would happen.

SNOOP DOGG: Hopefully they're listening right now.

LYNDSEY PARKER: Yeah, whoever's listening, whoever's watching this, make this happen. What are your fondest memories of that era. Like, what you think would be the scenes that have to be in a series like that?

SNOOP DOGG: Definitely my childhood in the '70s, seeing how people loved each other, seeing how racism really didn't exist to a maximum, how I grew up in school, where I went to school with different nationalities, and teachers were different colors. We loved them. They loved us, and the community had certain rules and regulations. And it was just a love thing. If you messed up, you can get disciplined by anybody on the block.

It was always like a neighborhood watch. That era, the '70s, taught us how to love and how to be kind to people. Then the '80s era, that's when the cocaine, the drugs, and the gun violence. My teenage years and all of that, the things that were brought to our community by the government and the CIA, that has been revealed now, but when we were living in that life in that era, we didn't know why we were being given guns and drugs out of nowhere. And then we became drug dealers and gang bangers based on the tools that were given to them.

They didn't deal with no schools or deal with no [INAUDIBLE] anything. They just dropped off guns and drugs and gave us a path to doing that, to destruction. Then they locked us all up.

LYNDSEY PARKER: When you were talking about the stuff that happened in the '80s that you went through, was there ever a time when you didn't think you'd be here 30 plus years later? Was there ever a time when things were kind of dark and you saw a much less rosy future for yourself?

SNOOP DOGG: It definitely was dark. I mean, that era of the drugs and the gangs violence, to see 21 years old was a blessing. That's what we was always striving to actually make 21-- you know what I'm saying-- at that time. So to see 21 years old meant a lot to my era and my generation because a lot of us wasn't making it to that number.

LYNDSEY PARKER: You're going to win Emmys for this. This is going to--

SNOOP DOGG: Think so?

LYNDSEY PARKER: Yeah, I want to watch this. Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes. You're going to be an EGOT winner. It's going to go Broadway. Broadway just reopened. Bring it to Broadway.

I don't know if you remember this, but when I interviewed you about a year ago, it was right before the Super Bowl, the 2020 Super Bowl. You had this vision to be playing the Super Bowl with all of your peers with Dre and stuff. Like, do you still have a vision? You seem like a man of vision. Are you still planning something like that? I want to see that happen too.

SNOOP DOGG: Me too. Hopefully the NFL will be smart and make the right decisions. It's in Inglewood, California, and it would make most sense in the world, you know. I'm available. Dre available. Eminem is available, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar. Whoever Dr. Dre wants to pull out of his hat-- you know what I'm saying-- to make this thing a professional event, and make it big, and the biggest ever, it can happen. It's just a matter of the NFL pulling the trick.

LYNDSEY PARKER: What do you envision for your halftime show? Would you, like, fly above the crowd? Would you really, like, just go for it, like with a big spectacle?

SNOOP DOGG: I definitely would. I wouldn't just walk out. I would definitely do something that would be mind-blowing-- you know what I'm saying-- to where people would be talking about it for the next 30 years. I'm open for anything that's doable, unique, edgy, and cunning. You know what I'm saying? That's what I would-- I want something that's going to be cutting edge just to make people feel like, wow.

LYNDSEY PARKER: Obviously, like I said, you do so many things. You're a very ambitious guy. You've done country. You've done reggae. You've done gospel. What haven't you done in your career yet that you still want to do?

SNOOP DOGG: There's always [? something. ?] I'm popping every day, but musically, I would say old school R&B album I'm working on right now on my other voice. And I definitely would love to do a blues record or a jazz record.

LYNDSEY PARKER: OK.

SNOOP DOGG: Something like that. Just some relaxation. Not even really no words on the jazzy side. From the blues, something that's really bluesy.

LYNDSEY PARKER: But the old school R&B record is definitely something you're already working on right now.

SNOOP DOGG: I'm deep in that. I'm about 20 songs into that, so I got a lot of great songs, a lot of great moments that feel like '70s and '60s music, but it's all brand new.

LYNDSEY PARKER: Is there anyone on that record-- like, I know you just did something with the Isley Brothers. Like, is this R&B record going to have, like, a lot of--

SNOOP DOGG: Well, I give you a couple of names. October London, he's a special artist. Be on the lookout for him. A rebirth of Marvin Gaye by the way. Raphael Saadiq, Miguel, Anderson Paak, Mary J. Blige, Stokley from Mint Condition, and I'll just leave it right there.

LYNDSEY PARKER: That's good. I'm excited between that, the Netflix or Biopic series that's going to happen, and hopefully Super Bowl next year. Next year, actually, is the 30th anniversary of your debut recording, and I know you're coming up on your 50th birthday this year. And it can be a real fickle game, the music game, the hip hop game, and you're bigger than ever. Is there any advice you would give to your younger self now that you're looking back?

SNOOP DOGG: Don't change a mother [BLEEP] thing.

LYNDSEY PARKER: [LAUGHS] That is some amazing advice.

SNOOP DOGG: Thank you so much, Lyndsey [INAUDIBLE] won't stop. Keep that red hair.

LYNDSEY PARKER: All right, thank you so much, Snoop. Have a great day.