Snoop Dogg Says Trying To Make Peace W/ Diddy & B.I.G. Sparked Suge Knight Fallout: “I Wasn’t W/ The Bulls**t” [Video]

[With a storied hip-hop career ultimately starting with Death Row Records, Snoop Dogg recently talked about his exit from music mogul Suge Knight’s former label during an MTV2 “CRWN” appearance.]

When you have a leader and he’s leading you in the wrong direction, it’s your job to wake up and take the lead.

You can’t go down that dark alley when you see it’s a dark alley. That’s why Dr. Dre left. That’s why things started to fall the way they fell because it was a dark alley and he led us.

Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

[Suge Knight was] hypocritical and I don’t mean to talk about him because I love Suge Knight to death to this day for what he did for me and the opportunity that he gave me. But there is such a thing as hypocritical. You can’t talk about and then become.

The same way he talked about all of them people being in videos and all of that, six months later he was in videos doing the same exact thing.

He was on the front of magazines. On the front would be me and 2Pac. “What are you doing? Why are you up here? It’s not enough room for all three of us. But, you know, it’s hypocritical.

Just to share this with you and y’all, when he was locked up, it was a pivotal moment where I wanted to go see him and I couldn’t see him because they shut the visiting down. But I was able to get on the phone with him and I was like, “Cuz, why don’t you let me shake Biggie and Puffy’s hand on TV and end this so we can figure out a way to move forward?”

The word I get was, and it wasn’t from him, but the word that got back to me was, “F*ck them b*tch a** n*ggas.” That’s the word I got back so it made me feel f*cked up because it’s like, you see me trying to reach out and show love and this is the message that you send?

Then slowly but surely, they turned on me because they seen I wasn’t with the business, I wasn’t with the bullsh*t. I was with the realness. I had my son, I was about to have another baby, it was like, I was going through sh*t and I’m trying to live.

I’m trying to live, y’all n*ggas trying to die.