"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics"
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The subtext is structural, not sentimental. Snoop’s “we should make it that easy” is a challenge to the grown-ups who love lecturing about “choices” while underfunding the alternatives that make good choices plausible. He’s pointing at the logistics of hope: transportation to practice, safe fields, fees waived, tutors who stick around, adults who show up. Football and academics aren’t just hobbies here; they’re a rival infrastructure of identity, status, and routine. He’s proposing a competing gang, with homework.
Context matters because Snoop’s credibility isn’t borrowed from think tanks; it’s earned through proximity. Coming out of Long Beach and building a career that’s long outlasted rap’s trend cycles, he’s become a mainstream institution without losing the ability to speak in plain terms about how systems recruit. The quiet insight: prevention isn’t a slogan. It’s convenience. Make the right thing the easiest thing, and you change the story before it becomes a statistic.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dogg, Snoop. (2026, January 15). It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-so-easy-for-a-kid-to-join-a-gang-to-do-drugs-116735/
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Dogg, Snoop. "It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-so-easy-for-a-kid-to-join-a-gang-to-do-drugs-116735/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-so-easy-for-a-kid-to-join-a-gang-to-do-drugs-116735/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

