Snoop Dogg has said that having a family has changed his work lyrically because he has "a different perspective and view on life" now.
The rap veteran told Sky News, "What's changed for me is that I have a family. I have a different perspective and view on life; I have more concern with life.
"Twenty years ago I didn't have no responsibilities, I was an ex-gang member who was still affiliated with gangs. I was hard headed and didn't listen. I had nothing to live for but me."
Snoop, who was branded a "misogynist" by Opray Winfrey due to his lyrics, added that he doesn't regret writing the songs he wrote as they represent how he felt at that time, "I am more sensitive and more vulnerable writing-wise and accepting a woman for being a beautiful person, as opposed to me saying she is a b***h or a w***e because that was how I was trained when I first started, so I have no regrets."
He continued, "As I grew I fell in love with my wife and started to love my mother, my grandmother and my daughter. I understood what a woman was and I started to write about and express that,” he said about the process that he had to go through to arrive at his current attitude. “Once I figured out there was room to grow and learn and to be a better person, then I incorporated that in everything I was doing. I don't feel like you can be ashamed or mad about not knowing - if you don't know, you don't know."
