"It was doing beautiful, man, getting great reviews and great ratings," he says. "But I felt like my fee should go up. All I asked for was, like, a million, but they wouldn't even give me a million. So I walked away."
Indeed, for playing Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch, he received only US$500,000. "But now, it's going to be more about, `You have to pay me what I'm worth.' If I'm in a movie, and 70 million people leave the movie saying, `Wow, Snoop Dogg was great,' don't you think I should get at least a million dollars?"
Coach Snoop
It often seems that the only time Snoop isn't getting high is when he's coaching football. "Around those kids," he says, "I'm as straight as motherfucking six o'clock."
One evening, he ambles on to the field at practice, coach's whistle dangling from his neck. The Rowland Raiders are entering the play-offs with a record of eight wins, no losses. Later on, back at the Tabernacle, Bigg Slice is messing around with some videos he's taken of the competing teams.
Snoop comes in and says, "We got Woodcrest coming up. We seen them last night, and I'm glad, because they got a few things."
"But not enough," says Slice.
"Better aim for a pressure point." Snoop thinks about this. "Better aim for the head," he says, chuckling. "Fuck the chest, legs, arms. Go straight for the head. Woodcrest in trouble. They in trouble!"
In a way, Snoop is all about strategizing, aiming for the head, looking toward the future and working out ways to leverage the Snoop Dogg franchise. After seeing how much money former boxer George Foreman made from the George Foreman grill, Snoop decided maybe he should do the same thing and is now in discussions for a product to be called the Snoop DeGrill.
"Why not?" he asks, reasonably enough. "Everybody wants to be down with Snoop Dogg. I like to barbecue, and I know a lot of other people like to barbecue, so why not give them a grill that's customized in the Snoop Dogg fashion, where they can say, `Hey, I know Snoop Dogg's probably barbecuing right now, watching football!'"
Snoop says that he's a good person "97.5 per cent of the time." He says that he lost his virginity in 1982, when he was 11. Then he says his best-ever orgasm was probably his first one, only to retract that a second later.
"Probably my best one was the first time I made love to my wife," he says. "It was in this little cheap-ass hotel in North Long Beach. She made me wait a whole year. That's why I love her so much."
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