i said, "well, [...], "then every young person should see snoop dogg, "should hear snoop dogg too, becausethere's a war going on down the block." and that's another ugly reality of our lives, you know, that we live with and that we, you know, can't hide from our young people. they have to address the issue of poverty. you know, we don't spend any time, energy, or enough money on war-- the war on poverty. you know, we need $32 billion more to fight, you know, for our military right now, i saw in the paper today, but what about the war on poverty? what's the real number we're going to invest to win that war? and so, you hear the voices of those people who are suffering. you can't break the mirror. you have to look in it and address the condition that they're suffering in, and so that's my opinion, and, you know, if all we ever did in rap was make snoop dogg records, that'd be fine by me. i mean, i'm always aspiring to make records that have solutions as well as point to conditions that are problems, but i mean, you know, i'd love to hear, you know, many more people like mos def and common an