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Creativity Quote by Snoop Dogg

"When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg"

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Snoop turns retirement into a punchline and, in doing so, sneaks in a thesis about how celebrity actually works in America: as long as the persona stays nimble, the job description is optional. "When I'm not longer rapping" (his grammar slightly off, the vibe perfectly on) frames rap as a phase you can outgrow, not a sacred calling you die in. That casualness is the point. It undercuts the usual mythology of the tortured artist and replaces it with something more West Coast and more entrepreneurial: reinvention as play.

"Scoop Dogg" lands because it’s a flawless compression of brand logic. The rhyme-adjacent wordplay keeps the Snoop name intact while translating it into a family-friendly, consumer product you can literally taste. He’s winking at his own commodification - the way a rapper becomes a logo, a voice cameo, a meme, a lifestyle aisle. And he’s also reclaiming it: if the culture is going to turn him into a product, he’ll choose the product, the tone, the joke.

There’s subtext in the sweetness, too. Snoop’s career has long been a negotiation between outlaw aura and mass-market likability, from gangsta-rap notoriety to television grandpa energy. An ice cream parlor is the cleanest possible image: neighborhood, nostalgic, disarming. The line imagines a future where legacy isn’t a marble statue but a storefront - still public, still performative, just softer around the edges. It’s not an exit plan so much as an expansion pack.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Dogg, Snoop. (2026, January 15). When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-im-not-longer-rapping-i-want-to-open-up-an-159707/

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Dogg, Snoop. "When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-im-not-longer-rapping-i-want-to-open-up-an-159707/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-im-not-longer-rapping-i-want-to-open-up-an-159707/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Snoop Dogg (born October 20, 1971) is a Musician from USA.

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