The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson On Leaving The Streets For Acting, Michael K. Williams, 'Trap Queens' + More

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Today on The Breakfast Club, Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson On Leaving The Streets For Acting, Michael K. Williams, 'Trap Queens'. Listen For More!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We're all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody. It's the Gennie, N.V. Jess Hilarious. Charlemagne, the guy. We are the breakfast club. Law and the Rose is here as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed.

We got Snoop in the building. What up, Snoop? Yeah, yeah, thanks, man. Felicia, Snoop Pearson, what up? Of course, the new season of American gangster trap, Queens is out right now. But how are you doing, Snoop? We ain't seen you in a long time. We ain't seen in a minute.

First of all, Snoop ran in here. So if you see her breathing hard, don't be on the internet talking about Snoop in there on grounds. It's New York traffic, man. I had to get out of the traffic. It's the whole hoteling, man. All right, so you got it just rang. I ain't lying. I ain't want to hear your mouth.

How are you feeling, Snoop? I'm feeling blessed black and highly favored. There you go. There you go. I like it. What's your? You're good, man. That's all you're giving you a minute.

We're giving you a minute. We used to be out with me in the clubs all the time. I don't know. Every night, Steve used to be out with me. I ain't lie. That's, that done cleared up now. I got older, man. I only get three drinks and it's over.

This is a rap? It looked like I probably had a whole bottle and only had two shots. I know you're here to talk about American gangster trap queen, but I have to ask you about the wire because it's been celebrating 23 years of the wire. That's been that long? 23 years. Yeah.

And, you know, earlier this year, we had Trey Cheney and who else was up here? A bunch of the brothers from the Y was up here. Andy DeRes over was up here. What did DeWire mean to you, 23 of the Y'I? The Yen meant everything because that's where I came from. That's where I started from. You know, I didn't know that I knew how to act or, you know, just to be in this entertainment business.

period so you know the wire just mean everything from you know well for those those that don't know how did you get the role in the wire like break that down of how they chose you your character and all that yeah because that's a couple of us thurs that had auditioned but they gave it to you no no that wasn't that wasn't the case uh Mike they didn't ever have a part for me so that's why you see Felicia Snoop Pierce on there they kept my name and everything even my nickname the same you know what I'm saying so It's like, you know, I met Michael K. Williams, God bless the dead.

I miss you. I love you, bro. I met him in Club One. Remember Club One? And he kept looking at me like I was, you know what I did something to him. So I never watched the wire. Everybody was watching the wire. I was outside, you know what I, hustling.

So I seen him. He kept looking at me. You know, looks could be deceiving. He got a scar on his face looking crazy. So I was like, man, what's going on? Yeah, I'm ready to go lay for you outside. And my boy was like, nah, man, that's Omar, the gay person from off the wire. Now, I was like, oh, where?

So Mike came over there to me and he was like, man, you're a boy or girl. And I was like, man, listen, I don't play like that. I love, you know what I mean? Can I say? I love pussy, you know what I'm saying? Don't play on you like that. Yeah, yeah. You can't say, puk.

Yeah, yeah. You can be with your little gage. Yeah. But yeah, man, I told him, but I don't play that. No, he's like, nah, nah, nah, nah. Like, I love your swag. I love everything about you. Yeah, man, give me your phone number.

And I'm looking at him like, what? Phone number. Like, come on, man. But, you know, I gave it to him, and the rest was history. I went, like, a block away, the way they were shooting at, like, because I was living with my grandmother, you know what I'm saying, at the time,

because me and my female friend was beefing, you know what I'm saying? So, he was a block away. I was on Oliver and Morphe. No, Lord Bitch kicked you out. Yeah, yeah, she kicked me straight out. I was with Oliver and Morph and he was on Morph in Landville, so that's a block away. I ran up there, and the rest was history.

They, you know what I mean? Start, you know what he said. They love how tall. talk, you know. See, my vocabulary wasn't like this at first. Everything was, Yadamine. You feel I was saying, I ain't, man. I was like, oh my God, I had to clean everything up. So, you know, yeah.

And you was, you was like in the street, from what I, from what I heard back in the day, used to sell heroin. Yes. So you was really in the street. So you kind of got typecasted a little bit. Yes, yes, most definitely. That's why I did the Spike Lee joint, because I didn't want to be typecast.

Spike highlighted me like, yo, man, come on, him and Mike. and my guard brother. Like, come on, man. I played a prostitute. Damn. How did the streets accept you at that point, though? Did they be like, all right, Snoop, go do your thing, man.

You don't need to be out here with us, no way. And when did you realize you didn't have to do that shit? Yeah, when you quit. I quit when I was on the wire. I mean, I quit when my trap phone kept ringing and then Ed Burns, David Simon, and, you know, Nina was like, Like, yo, like, come on stop. You know what I mean?

Like, we want you. You is amazing. See, people, you don't see yourself what your worth is because it's you. Yeah. You know what they see, like the outside person see you, and they let you know, you probably think they hate in or, I mean, whatever. But, you know, them people said that I was a star, man. I believed them.

And I just stopped. I promise you, I just stop. But, you know what I mean? The last time when I got, you know, I mean, incarcerated, I was, around people trying to keep it real. You know what I wasn't selling no drugs. I was just there. You know, so, you know.

You're working on something else with A. Burns, too, aren't you? Yes, my life story, man. My life story, yeah. It's a series, yeah, me. We are in development right now, you know what I'm saying? Looking for the highest bidder, still on the table, you know what I mean?

But it's a series. It's about my life story, man. It's trials and tripulations that I went through. It ain't nothing like, it ain't going to look like the wire, but it is because I'm from Baltimore. You can't get that about me. I mean, I love my city. You know what I mean? So it's like, it's a series, man.

And it starts for like your childhood. Yes, yes, yes, yes. When I was first born, you know what I mean, I died three times addicted to crack because my mother was, you know what I'm getting high, you know, I'm adopted, went to jail, you Well, prison at the age of 14 and a half, you know, for first degree murder, nothing that I, you know, I mean, proud of or nothing, but it's my life. I can't change it. So I have to make changes when I get older just right now, you know what I mean? So I can make the right decisions.

And you've lived through experiences that most people only see on shows like The Wire. How do you think your early life shaped the way you approach like you're acting and your storyteller? For the gangster shit, it's like, man, it's interesting. me. You know what I mean? It's like, you know, but the other actor, like, uh, like my female part, uh, like my versatility, uh, you know, I'm still working, man, I know how I'm walking hills now. Okay. Six inches. Oh, yeah. Okay. So Tammy and Ikehers, uh, taught me how to do that. Oh, now. So, bring down the prostitution. Tammy and Ikea. Yeah, Ikea. God, that's my goal.

assistant uh Tammy Varene with that's uh I thought you made I thought it was some girl named Tammy you met in Ikea nah you're not I kid this nigga can't have for nothing so when they approach you to do the prostitute role yeah look at you all the way in that first or was you know so break that guy I don't know what that phone calls I look at you we want you to play a prostitute yo so Michael K. Will is God bless the dead I love you bro he hit me it was like Spike was you for a role, and I was hyped, like, Spike, oh, yeah, son, what's up?

Legend, I can't. So, once I got around Spike, Spike let me know what it was, and I was looking at Spike. Like, is you serious? But Spike helped me, and another thing, Spike helped me, man. Spike took me to, what was that, Eldos, that's what it's called? Aldo's the shoe store? The shoe store. And they helped me try to walk in hills, man.

Spike did, man. Spike took his time with me. Pick my hair out, my dress. You know what I'm saying? No talk like this. And I was like, ah. You know what I'm saying? Yes, yo.

Like, me, Spike. I love Spike, man. Spike is the real good. What was your first time in the six inches like? Because that's with Spike. No, no, no, no. I was with Dream Happening. Did you do smaller hills first?

Huh? Did you do smaller hills first? and then the sixth and you went right to the six straight to the six so you jumped out of butters and went straight to the six baby that's right and look the first time when I was sure dream happened uh uh uh Michael K Williams I was trying to walk almost broke my ankle dream was like nah nah just lay her up on the chair just go ahead lay there like pretty I was like oh shit did you have fun yeah I had fun yeah I had fun yes yes I have fun that's dope when people see things in you that you don't see in

yourself. Yes. That's always a plus. Like, I never try to take people advice as criticism. You know what I'm saying? Because it's like, yeah, man, like, nah, like you said, like, you looking in so you can see something that I don't see. You know, that's all. And you talked about your life after prison. What was the single hardest moment in that journey that, like, what kept you moving forward after changing your life after coming out of prison? When I first came home before the wire, I had I had, what, three jobs. I had working for four, making bumpers.

And then, well, now I had two jobs. Making four bumpers. Then I went to the book factory. And then once some people was like, yo, you know what I mean? No, we fine your ass because you have criminal background. I'm like, yo, what the fuck? I'm gonna throw a book at somebody and kill them. Like what you were talking about?

You know what I'm saying? It's a book fact. We stocking books. You know what I'm saying? And right there, I was like, man, forget that. So I took my last little check. And I went and got me some yams. You want to know what that is?

Yeah. Yeah, Grams. That's great, but you blessed, though, man, because so many people end up in that situation and they don't get a second chance. Yeah, but at the same time, man, like the last time when I just got incarcerated, like a lot of people turned their back on me, man.

That shit heard it because it was like, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, everybody knows that I came from the streets, but they still thinking that I'm in the streets. Nah, I'm sitting here trying to keep it real You know what I'm trying to keep it real And people ain't trying to keep it real with me You know what I mean? But they just hid for the glands

And the glitter You know what I mean? But when I got in trouble the last time I was little with Mike, Mike move And then like I was in the Bronx 176 in McCones And my mad mother living room On the blowup bed for a year and a half

You know what I'm saying And it's how bad you wanted I wanted it bad I ain't want to sell drugs because I wasn't selling drugs. That shit hurting me, man. You know what I'm saying? And people was trying to sit there. Oh, you did this.

I ain't did a motherfucking thing. But there, the wire on the wire, they're headlines. So they take a make you, you know what I mean, grab you into the headlines. You know what I'm saying? It was like, I was like, oh, oh, that's how you play. I mean, that's why I stopped doing interviews. Because every time it's like, yo, I say some people will go ahead and misconstrue what I got to say. You know what I'm saying?

Or make headlines what they want to. Nah, man, I ain't going for that, man. Like, real talk. Like, one time I took a reporter out, I ain't gonna say those days. Like, I thought she was cool. I'm paying the tab and all that. You know what I'm saying?

We sit there at most, eating, um, chilling, eating crab legs, all types and shit. He had a hook up. And this lady sit here and, uh, just talk real greasy about me. I was like, day. Oh, after that? Yes. In the, like, yeah.

Was y'all out in an interview or y'all was just chilling? No, we was chilling having a conversation, like, like us, and she's a reporter. And she went and just wrote shit that, I was like, man, oh, went to my victim, family house, all types of stuff, like, and you could have just told me that, like, you could have wore me, you know, but we was Kiki and a Kaka, oh girl, get another drink, you are, you know what that type, we was cool, that ain't, you would have thought we were best friends. And that's when I knew right there, I was like, man, these people don't love nobody. That bitch is just doing their jobs.

You know what I mean? So, you know, it's no hard feelings, but I had to learn. You live and you learn. And once I was coming from the street, so I didn't know how the industry played. Now I know. How is that now, though, like what? I don't take nothing to her. You know what I'm saying?

You say something crazy about me? I fuck around, spoke a blunt and laugh at you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But you know, nothing. I don't take nothing to the heart no. What's the biggest misconception about Snoop, you think? That Snoot was in the streets.

When I left the streets, I was on the wire. You know, and that was true spill. It was just, you know, like, my fare can't turn my back on my family. You know what I mean? Like, come on, man, that's where I come from. These four corners with Oliver and Morphette, that's where I come from. You know, so it's like, like, how can you all, I mean, let me, give me a chance to grow.

Give me a chance to figure. it out. It was just coming so fast. I was like, oh, shit. So do you feel like you're rolling in the wire hurt or help? No, I think it helped. And I think I did. I mean, I take full responsibility for everything that I probably even got in trouble for. Because I, like, people, when I first got all, people say, go here to move to L.A. I'm like, man, I ain't Hollywood. I'm Hollywood. I'm hollyhood. And I'm in trying to save my, you know, save my neighborhood, save my city. And I could, you know, I mean, help from afar.

What's that balance like now for you knowing that, like, okay, you're helping but from afar. You got things you need to protect, but you still be connected to your people. Yeah. Like right now, I always do, me and Ms. Elvina, shout out to Ms. Elvina. I love you, baby. me. Ms. Elvina, she always helped me with shoe hoops, not guns that I do in the city of Baltimore for my city back school drive. I come out my pocket. Ms. Alvana keeps saying I need sponsors. But you know, I come out of my pocket because people don't know I'm in the hood.

I always see what we need. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, yeah, man, I just come out my pocket and do it myself. So, and what else you said? No, I'm just wondering that. You know, you were talking about trying to figure out. The balance is, like, growing in it. My balance is now that I help from a far. You know what I mean? I go home. You know what I mean?

I always go home. I'm always home. But I mean, I just, from a fall, man, I just, I got a hell from a far. Because I know too many people in the city, man. I can shake somebody hand. I'm caught up in the fucking indictment. You know what's saying? Like, that shit just be stupid.

It's just crazy though because your town where you from is what gives you your balance. To me, it's when you move. move out to them places like LA is when you lose your stuff. When you got your boots on the ground still in your city, that's when you... But at the same time, when you know your city and you're from there and you end the streets, I ain't even talking about the county or the suburbs. When you end the city, you know what it is. So you ain't got to stay right there to help.

You know, I wanted to ask, you know, I know you and Michael Kay was so close, right? Help yours. So how did his death affect you? Man, it hurt me so bad, hear me. I got the phone call from Jamie Hector. At first I didn't know what he was talking about. I'm something kind of like a psychic because I felt something, but I thought it was about me, you know, and, man,

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talked to him a week before, you know, and it hurt me. It hurt him. It heard of me. Like, because we had so many plans and, you know, that's how I got my story. If you would have never said nothing to me, y'all, when he never seen, heard no snoop. You know what I mean?

I probably would have been dead or in jail. Did you ever ask him? Did you ever say to you, him? What did God say to you in the club that night when you were staring at me? Like, what did you see at me? Did you ever ask him that? He just said he's seen an angel.

He always called me his angel. He always called me his big brother. His big brother. And, you know, that's going to be a whole other segment, man, because I fuck around getting here crying, all the type. Snoop a punk. I don't care. It's my brother.

Now, la, and that's another thing, too. We, us black people, you got to show your emotions, you know what? And if you cry and let out some of that frustration, I promise you. Or just go ahead and pray to God and cry. You ain't got to tell your friends, family, nothing. Just let out some of their emotion. I promise you, some of the killing

and some of that hurt in this world is going to stop. What's your religious background? Like, you seem like you talk a lot about faith in all that. Because that's all I know is God. You know what I mean? That's it. That's it. That's all, man.

Like I said, I died three, times, you know what I mean, been shot at like 80 times, like, you know what I mean? It's just, that's all I do. That's all I know is God. I believe in God. I believe in angels. I believe in, I believe in hell on earth. I believe that we, this is hell. Once everybody closed their eyes, because everybody got a death wish. Amen, I mean, the death date. So, I mean, once you close your eyes, that's heaven on earth. I heard the guy that, uh, they OD, then over there on Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore for them drugs

the man said that he was mad as shit that they brought him back because he was so peaceful you know what I'm saying? So, you know, I think it is I think it is Hall on Earth. When you was on the wire did you feel like a sense of responsibility

to represent Baltimore accurate? Most definitely. That's why I was telling them people like, nah, we don't say that. You know what I'm saying? We don't say that. What is it stoop? You have I mean?

We say step or the block. You know what I'm saying? Like stoop. I was like stoop. No, we say steps. We ought to step. Yeah, me, shit like that, but, you know. So they had you, so did you have to do like, did they tell you to do that?

Like, yo, go do some dialect training with him. No, they was like, they was like, like, they gave me my script, my script, and I read the script, and I'll be like, uh, script advice we don't say that can we can well can I change from that and they'd be like yeah change that for everybody so you know it's like little things how you feel about the corner when it came out I never watched I was incarcerated oh okay I never even watched season one or two of the wire what I told you I was outside of her sleep all right now you be inside I ain't never watch it come on sneak I don't even watch myself on TV because I already

know what I did because Because I'm my own worst critic. You know what I'm saying? I'd be judging like, damn, I could have did this better. Yeah. You know, things like that. So. How'd you feel when they killed you off?

I think I was mad as shit. You was making $80 grand an episode I heard. Yes, man. I was getting it. You know what I mean? I ain't had to sell them. You know what I was coming to be? Like, you know, let me own something.

That's what's tough, you know? Did they give you a heads up? Or you just found out that's easy? No, I got the script. And I was mad as a motherfuckerfucker. You have me? And I was like, that I was like, Like who?

Tristan, but I never go to alley. But piss on yourself. Damn. When you first got the wire, how much were you making when you first got it?

Man, the bitch is trying to give me, oh, excuse me, go ahead, man. Get him free, man, talk, buddy. The whole was trying to give me $200. I was like, $200, bitch. My block making $10 grand a day.

So what the fuck? I don't need that. There's a matter here. $200 per episode. No, no, no, they, because I ain't had no sad card and all that. Oh, yeah, man, they tried to, I had to, you know what I mean, go through the steps, the channels, you know what I? She wasn't with the union.

Yeah, so I had to, I had to get two speaking roles, two or three speaking roles, and then I could get in the union and start making that money. Yeah, so my first words, you want to hear my first words? Yeah, it was about time. It's about fucking time that I'm up here on the breakfast club. You've been in before? No, I haven't, Shial. Yeah, you're lying.

Snoophe you've been on him before. I know, I was a Wendy Williams with Charlemagne. You came up. You've been at the whole building, man. Snoop, yes, you did. No, no. I mean, I'm trying to say I was at Wendy Williams. Man, if I bought him, man, I wasn't.

I wasn't here, Jeff. Snoop been it before, y'all. I don't know. I thought y'all ain't like me. No. I said Evie at his little comedy joint with his wife. Remember y'all had that joint. Yeah, yeah.

Come over there with Evie. Y'all. I got to look this up. I don't believe that you never been here before. I ain't never been up here. No, see, me. Thank you. Thank you.

That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. Shilda. I don't know why. I don't think you too, I remember. I remember you there. Everybody on the wire been up here, you but me. They even had Idris Alba up this month.

Nah, you've been on breakfast club before, yo. Nah, man, it's Wendy Williams. Pull it up. I'm looking right now. I don't see it. I'm looking right now. You got to look that up in the archive. I swear you've been up here before.

Little sugar plums over here, lie, man. Little sugar plums is crazy. What advice would you give the young people in Baltimore, or anywhere, who feel trapped by the environment? Just keep going. It don't matter if your mother, father, sister, brother, don't believe in you. You know what I'm saying?

Well, believe in you. Don't believe in you. Whatever. You know, just keep going. Just had a faith, man. Whatever you put your mind to, just do it. You know what, man? Just do it, man.

Like, because this world and this life don't wait for nobody, man. Like, they want to pass you, they're going to pass you by. It's either you doing good or you're doing bad. They still want to talk, so you might as well go ahead and do good and shit on them so they can keep talking. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, and keep golfers. I'm very religious, man.

I ain't lying. I pray. That's what took me so long. I had to pray when I come up here. You go to church? Yeah, Pastor Jamal Bryant when I'm in Atlanta, you know. But I'm not like the church is, but I do most definitely pray. I have to pray before I lay down, before I leave the house.

You never know. Getting home at night is an underrated blessing. Anytime during the day. Yes, especially these days, man. It's just crazy out here, period. So you're here for the new season of American Gangs of the Trap Queen? Yeah, American Gangs to the Trap Queens. And that's narrated by The Brett.

Yeah, the Brett. Do you see her on it or does she? No, I didn't see the bread on that. She just did it when they called her. So we all had our own separate sessions. Okay. Cool. You like working on it?

Yeah, it was one episode. The reason why I did it, let me clear this up on the Breakfast Club. You know, I love all you track queens. I love y'all there. But BT, when they reached out to me to do track planes, I said, nah, you know what I mean? Because y'all don't have the money that I want, you know what I'm saying? And BT said, hold up, Snur, we got you, what you're looking for. So I was the highest ever, ever paying trap queen.

You know what I'm saying? It's a bar sitting right here. And I did that episode so I could let the kids know what I've been through, my trials and trip relations, you know what I mean, because I ain't been around. been around. I mean, I've been around. I'm around, but I'm not around. But I just let the kids know that, you know what I meant through? You see what I meant through? Somebody would have to chop that fucking head off. You know what I mean? Fucking with my life. They would have been killed theirself. But, you know what I did that so I just let you all know, like, it's still,

it's still hope. It's still faith. It's still, you know what I mean? It's still life out here. You know what I mean? It's still everything, man. Just keep going. Like, and Just to let them know, I'm saying it over and over again, just to let them know that trials or trip relations that you go through don't make you or break you. Is that hard for you? Like going and just recounting, like, just recounting, like, different things you've been through and your story

and talking to different things that you already got with. Yeah, some things. And some things in the script, y'all going to be like, yo, yes, yes. I have a series. Well, yeah, I have a series. So, you know, I mean, my life is too, much to put in and cram up in one movie. You know what I mean?

So, you know, you want to act a joke, gentlemen, I'm giving out jobs. So get at me, Sean. And then, all right, so is that what made you want to do your life story yourself? Yes. You know, on the track queens? Yeah, no, I had told them. Like, yeah, I mean, like, yo, if I do the trap queens, this is how I want it. You know what I'm saying?

And just to let people know, you know, where I've been at, what I've been up to. and here you go. You know, like... I just want you to know Jess don't like that you ask me before you ask her. What?

What? No, Jess know what guy she got. She's from home. She's not. I'm mad at all. First of all, you know, my baby mother on a load.

You know, and my baby mother on a low before I baby fall. I remember when we were at the Root picnic and you jumped on stage for Jess. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

I love to see by so Joe. Stop playing me. Was it tougher to navigate the streets to Hollywood? Hollywood. I had to learn it because I ain't know nothing about it. You know what I don't know everything about it, you know what I'm saying?

But Hollywood, nah. And people, like, for our veterans out there, like, you see a person coming into this industry, please give them, like, some type of advice. You know what I mean? Please let them know, like, the do's and don'ts. Because I just came in here first and went crazy. You know, Mike, he was doing what he doing. Paul, God, dang.

Head first and went. Oh, pause. No ditty. That's the whole point. No ditty. I mean, that's had no ditty. About that pause. But just get them advice, man.

Like, just, I mean, words of encouragement, man, just to let them know, like, yeah, I mean, the dudes and don'ts in this motherfucker. You know what I mean? So, you know, that's it. That's why you had Mike, though. Man, Mike was getting high, man. Sighting up. My brother was getting high, man.

My brother was getting high, man. I mean, shit. My brother, listen, boy, that's why I said when I get my series, you're going to see it, man. My brother, Mike, I love him to death, but you would have never know it. My brother was high as fat charles ass on the wire, but you never knew it. Period. The best thing on that bitch. That's why I was so real, so authentic.

Yeah, me, yeah. Can't wait at my brother's story come, man. What did you keep laughing at him? See, me, y'all. My brother was getting high. My brother was high as fat, he still gave you good advice, though. Man, brother ain't,

but brother wanted to rent. I had to go get him. Go get him inside me, man. That's what I said. That's why I made that little speech. Like, you know what I mean? Just get people worse of encouragement. Jesus Christ, though.

Just get people words of encouragement, man. You know what I'm saying? What other stories you want to tell you? behind the camera, Snoop? I don't know, man. For real, you know, because now you're making films and shit, yo. So now what else you want to say?

Whatever story you want to tell, you, y'all. I show the man and envy. It's like, he's hot, y'all. I can't with Snoop, yo. I cannot with Steve, you know. How they're real lovers No, that's how they're smoking this morning. No, that's how they're going to smoke.

Oh, my goodness. No, she opened here telling her so, Joe. She said, Amy and Charleney, they're real lovers. Like, what? And then just go to that girl and she's fucking shit, yo. I can't miss them, whoa. Yo, yo, y'all. It's no American Gates to the Trap Queen

of all now. Now, if you don't know what trap queens is, they break down. Each episode is a woman who is out there hustling and getting to it. And this episode is about Snoop. Yeah, first one, episode one, season four. Hey, first episode. That's right. Yes, sir.

When you look, my last question, when you look back at your life does far, Snoop, is there anything you would change? Like, do you have any regret? When I, um, in 95, when I went to prison. for the murder charge. You know, because that broke her family heart, broke my family heart, you know, especially my grandmother.

That's why I turned myself in. Because of mama, you know, mama's like, man, they're going to kill you, girl. You fucking shrubbed you. They're going to kill you. You 14 fucking shrubbed you. So, you know, I think, yeah, that, yeah, most definitely.

Is there anything you've done to try to reconcile that situation with the family? Yes, I try to reach out. Well, I seen her mother when I was in prison, you know. She was talking smack and stuff like that. And when I got up on it, because, you know, people always talk smack when you ain't around. And then once I got up born her, you know, I told, I said, man, wow. When I got up on her, I told, I said, man, I know you mad at me, and I know you hurt. I know you won't never forgive me.

But just pray, you know, and I'm asking God to forgive me, you know. So it ain't nothing me or you could do to bring her back, you know. I'm so sorry, you know. I just, you know. Did you see her? In prison. Oh, you see her? She came to visit you.

No, no, no, no. She was locked. My mother was locked up. Yeah. Her mother had got locked up and came where I was at. Did she accept the apology? She gave me a hug, but she told me flat out. I ain't gonna never forget you.

I can't do nothing but to accept that. You know, like, you know, I did something to hurt you. You know, I take my responsibility. And that's a lot of things. I mean, a lot of times a lot of people don't take their responsibility. You know what I mean? I take my. No didn't.

You say that you... Come on. He said that you regret, you know, going to jail. But I think that that probably definitely is the reason why you still here. You know, that could have saved your life because, like you said, Mama told you, yo, they're going to kill you. You're going to have got killed out there if you just kept running or whatever because all that shit do catch up, you know, with you.

So I think the best thing was you turning yourself in, you know, I mean. But you regret taking the life is with you. Yeah, I regret taking the life. Yeah. Yeah, most definitely. Well, Snoop, we appreciate you for joining us. I swear you've been up here before, but if you said, you've been up here before, man.

Nah, but listen, soon as soon as I start filming, I'm coming back up. Hell, hell. Yeah. I remember you was on your body when you was up here. Yes. That's what I remember. That wasn't me.

Y'all got me best up. That was another stud. Yeah, there I got the dutch. Ain't no stud like Snoop. Man. I know what I got the dach's fucked up. Yeah. And Snoopy

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