tavis: you've been snoop doggy dogg. >> doggy dogg, snoop dogg, yeah. tavis: snoop dogg. lion. >> hello. [laughter] tavis: i ain't mad at you. but again, i'm just curious inside the game. what's that process, that transition like? how difficult is it to make the switch when your fans know you one way, or are you finding it relatively easy to do? >> you know what's crazy, is that some people still call my doggy dogg, some people still call me snoop dogg, and then some people call me snoop lion. tavis: yeah. >> then you got some people who be like, "snoop dogg. i mean, snoop lion." [laughter] then somebody like, "man, snoop lion, man, that ain't his name. what name is he going by?" tavis: yeah. >> i'm like, man, you can call me whatever you want, because it's still me. it's all within who i am. it's just to me, snoop lion is the growth of snoop dogg into the full manhood and third eye open and more wise and more educated and more articulate, was speaking something that needs to be said as opposed to just having fun all the time. we have too much fun and we don't deal with w

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i asked if they knew who snoop dogg was, and all hands shot up. they knew nothing of the story or of people who whom we owe so much. but it still seems to gall the united states and western communities. so for that reason i am suspicious of our embrace of haiti. and it bothers me, and it is extreme to say what i said. but sometimes one has to wonder if they would be better off if network left them alone -- if america left them alone. his next question was -- >> host: president obama's africa policy. pascal said that -- >> guest: i'm very concerned about that. i, i just think that when you get american military involved with your military, the disengagement does not come without consequences. i am -- typically these things lead to bad ends. and for the countries involved. when your country becomes of strategic usefulness to the, to the united states, you find that the management of your own democracy will be infinitely more difficult to administer. and the complicit spirit of black elites in america and how to awaken that. >> guest: oh, as i've got

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snoop dogg? it's pornographic and invites people to think authentic blackness is you have got to be hip hop and hard, education not valued. to me, this is the tragedy of our day. >> chris: david, your take, where are we 50 years after i have a dream? >> not only 50 years after i have a dream,chris where we are 237 years after the founding of this country. we reversed course on what was a worldwide tragedy. racism exists. we can't pretend it doesn't exist but we can't pretend that it exists everywhere. so all the things juan talks about are true. we have advanced 2013. what we haven't done is left some of the old arguments aside. we need to tackle the new challenges its moral decay in this country because when it happens in the black community it's not just in the black community it's the american community. what we see happening whether it's e.p.a. sing gel parent birth rate. failure to graduate. functional ill literacy in detroit. this is a major urban environment and major failure. this is some

. >> you have to be willie nelson or snoop dogg, basically. >> bill: right.ave legalized it, why not d.c.? >> i think d.c. has bigger problems to solve. the whole congressional backyard thing doesn't help the cause either. there are people fighting for statehood or whatever cause du jour there is in the district, and i think going on a weed crusade is not the best use of resources or manpower in general. >> bill: you have to pick your battles, basically >> yeah. >> bill: where are we with medical marijuana? >> it is legal. i think there is 10 or 15 people at this point that are licensed, but you have to have either aid, glaucoma, cancer, ms or some other autoimmune disease. there is no chronic pain that will allow you to just walk into a doctor's office and get a card. it's still pretty strict. >> bill: we're excited because one of the dispenries is going to be right across the street and right across the street from popeye's chicken and duncan doughnuts, which you went to this morning. now we know why you went there. >> i still like old fashioned doughnuts.