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'I'm yet the aforementioned person, but when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all'

Photograph: Rebecca Smeyne

On Monday night, Snoop King of beasts (né Dogg) and Diplo stood on the roof of Miss Lily's, a piece of Kingston in downtown Manhattan, and officially announced a couple of collaborations together: a new album entitledÂReincarnated (Vice Records) and a documentary, both direct inspired by their fourth dimension in Jamaica. Based on looks and demeanor, the two could exist boxed in equally Felix and Jack: Diplo, looking nattily tailored in a grey suit, searched for a place to accuse his BlackBerry, while Snoop, draped in Kobe's Olympic jersey, puffed on long-rolled joints and hid under a rastacap and shades. After playing a few songs including "Fruit Juice," which earned applause from a room of journalists, their dynamic became clear: Snoop may be driving, but Diplo has his hand on the wheel.

The Fifty.A. City Council just approved a ban on medical marijuana shops. I was merely wondering how y'all're going to treat your glaucoma from now on.

Snoop: Are you serious? They really passed that?

Diplo:ÂMy dealer'south gonna be actually pitiful.

Snoop: Well, I'grand gonna go to Northern California.

Diplo: I think y'all can still go to Colorado.

Snoop:ÂNorthern California's closer.

Yous announced the project with a trailer that uses a song past the Abyssinians; the first single utilizes 1 of Diplo'due south favorite samples, "Artibella" by Ken Boothe. These are sounds from the Sixties and Seventies; how exercise y'all make the one-time sound new once again?

Diplo: You know, when it comes to reggae music, they've been using 'riddim' since the Seventies "" like, "Truth and Rights Riddim" "" you have that still being used, you even so hear that getting played on new records in different riddims. But no 1 e'er used "Artibella" like that; [Boothe] loved the record when we first played information technology for him. You know, reggae's a really cool genre because it always reinvents itself. One-time versions, new versions, taking elements from the stone globe, hip-hop world, everything. Information technology's like a sponge. Our record, similar all Jamaican music, is a brew of that culture, and you never actually hear near making new things once more. Reggae's just a fresh sound, yous know?

I don't want to put a characterization on your relationship, but would you say information technology's complicated? It's serious? It'south … uh, widowed?

Snoop: [Laughs] Human being, nosotros have then much fucking fun, just when it's time to go serious, nosotros get serious.Â

Diplo:ÂIt'southward all fun and games until nearly 2:00 a.thousand., when he smokes enough weed and it's fourth dimension to tape the vocals. [Laughs] Then we're kind of scared of him, and then we get information technology done. We accept those four hours of primetime, and then it's back to fun again. He's fast. Information technology takes like, 20 hours, simply those terminal four, it'due south fun.

Snoop:ÂMy pre-game is like a motherfucker. Gotta get your pre-game, baby!

Rastafarianism is all near positivity. Can yous say 1 prissy thing well-nigh each other?Â

Diplo: He'southward funny equally shit! Working with him is hard, because he's so funny.

Snoop: And I beloved his … leadership. The way he organizes and puts together the right team. Like, that means a lot that he cares plenty near the projection to put the right people on the instance. The people who tin can handle and can take criticism and make it work: bend information technology, break information technology, arrive fit, and at the end of the 24-hour interval, play team ball.

Diplo: Large shout to Ariel [Rechtshaid], Dre Skull, Angela [Hunte], Jahdan [Blakkamore] and Moon. That'southward the team. Nosotros made this tape together. It'south like vii of us, and we couldn't have done the tape without any one of us. It'due south like a puzzle, together.

Snoop, if everyone is your nephew, what are your family unit reunions like?

Snoop:ÂA bunch of erstwhile motherfuckers saying, "What'southward up, Uncle Snoop?"

Back in 2002, 2003, your "izzle"-speak spread across the songs and became a sort of cultural touchstone. Practice you foresee the same affair happening with Jamaican patois?

Snoop: Oh, most definitely, because I inspire and I influence. It's non by gimmick or intention; information technology's only feeling, and hopefully my feeling becomes your feeling. Information technology only feels expert, and hopefully it'll make you lot experience expert.

Diplo:ÂThere's a young artist nosotros worked with in Jamaica named Popcaan; he'due south on the record. He makes upwards words that nobody … he just makes shit up! He'south crazy! He'south like a young Snoop. Nosotros were down there, and "" my patois is what it is "" but he'south on some adjacent-level shit. He was an inspiration to us. Jamaica's like that: always reinventing itself, up to the minute. Similar, the slang, you've got to proceed upwardly with that shit. And that's what Snoop's always done.

Snoop, I saw a video of you meditating with the Nyabinghi rastas back in February. How much would you lot say your trip to Jamaica was like George Harrison going to India, or was it closer to Mac and Devin going to loftier schoolhouse?

Snoop: I call up information technology was more closer to Malcolm 10 going to Mecca.

Diplo: Yeah, 'cause that's bigger than all of it.

You're credited with bringing hip-hop to the suburbs. Recently, y'all've taken to calling yourself "Bob Marley reincarnated." Is this all an effort to win over those terminal few remaining white kids out in that location?

Snoop:ÂCrazy equally a motherfucker, man! [Laughs] Nah, what it is is trying to bring some love and awareness to some cracking music that was created, that was made to grow and made to have a life, to have the right attention put on it, and then hopefully it'll do what it's supposed to do. People, no matter who they are or what color they're made, this is some great music and it'south made for everybody.

Diplo: I think that when Snoop talks about "Bob Marley reincarnated," he'south been saying that for years in his lyrics. It'southward not literal, but I recall what he'due south maxim is that Bob Marley'due south message is and then important and what he represented was important. It wasn't virtually Snoop or the person, it's about the message that Bob Marley has "" his family and legacy. He changed the earth! I didn't even similar Bob Marley's music when I first heard. Like, I had "Legend," just I was like, "Ugh, all the white kids have it in their high school dorms!" Then as I became older and a producer and a music fan, he became my favorite. I got into what he was, and I saw him as a songwriter and as a person who changed the world and changed Jamaica and the worldwide music-scape. I thought, this guy's super-important, and that's what Snoop alludes to with that. It'due south bigger than all of that: it's near the message and the positivity in the music. [Snoop]'s a big fan of the Marley family and we connected down there with them, and I think that what they represent is bigger than … anything. Positivity is what we smoothen through on our album.

Is this merely a 1-projection collaboration, or do you run across yourselves working together in the future?

Diplo:ÂSnoop Panthera leo will make 200 records. This is the starting time i. As long as we're alive, nosotros're going to go on making records that are astonishing, because I call back people are gonna say this is a gamechanger. I already see, every bit the producer, people are going to be like, "Damn. He's bringing dorsum the idea of an album." People don't think nigh that anymore.

And what is the status of Snoop Dogg? Is he coming dorsum?

Snoop:ÂYou act like I'm motherfuckin' Batman and Bruce Wayne and shit! You crazy as a motherfucker. I'1000 nevertheless the same person, dog! It'southward only when I make the music that I make, when it comes to reggae music, I engulf the whole spirit of it all. It's but like when I do rap music or whatever way of music I exercise, I have to engulf the character I do and bring that to life. The phase that I'chiliad at with information technology right now, information technology's just similar, the Panthera leo overrules. So it'southward not like you won't hear me being Snoop Dogg, but this is where I'm at. This is where I feel is best for me right at present, best for us, for music in full general. Information technology's to project this.

Over the past 20 years, you've built upward the Snoop Dogg brand: you've sold millions of records, washed a few movies, at least ane Television set evidence. When you decided to alter your proper noun, just how high were yous?Â

Snoop:Â[Laughs] Really, I wasn't loftier. I was on the basis. [Raps] I was low, to the flo', like Han Solo. Y'all doubt his hand solo, you might not see him hit you!

Diplo: That's the perfect way to end this.

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