Well, I loved Snoop from ever since and when he turned into Snoop Lion, I was checking to see how he was coming. The subtlety of a little girl coming up, going out of her house and going to the corner to get some ice cream and all the shit that she sees from going out of her crib, just going and coming back, it’s real subtle. Which you mean, with the little girl walking through the neighborhood? We were trying to have some visuals that would go with what we’re saying and not be too preachy or heavy-handed. It’s all just forever relevant, those things always apply to the times, the things that I’m saying. Everything I’m saying has been said before. I ain’t saying nothing that ain’t been said before. Well, things are crazy, but things are really good. That’s how you feel it is out there? You get that feeling? That’s about how crazy shit is, how long before the fucking cops show up, motherfuckers show up beating on your door. You have a line – “It can’t be long till the military come with a knock on your door.” What’s that about? And then at the end, I say “Most of the rebels are gone.” It’s like, might be one or two. What’s cool about the track for me is it kind of says a little a bit about everything that’s going on without pointing a finger at anybody and saying, you know, “Stop this crazy shit.” Was there something specifically going on in the world that inspired the lyrics? Read Rolling Stone‘s 1989 Cover Story on Eddie Murphy It feels like a pretty legitimate song to me. I got so much stuff that’s like so way beyond actor’s singing shit, like this track “Red Light”, you just listen to it and it is what it is. There’s a strange like, “What the fuck is this thing?” And I didn’t want to be part of that so I stopped putting stuff out. I always do joke stuff with it but it’s always there and I always do it seriously and I stopped putting stuff out because I didn’t want to look like those actors that be putting out records. If you go back to Saturday Night Live, my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff – like in Shrek, the donkey is always singing. That’s a classic! But you know, if you look all my stuff. I think the only time we’ve heard you sing reggae in public before was the SNL “Kill the White People” thing. You, know what happened is, I wrote some words and I was like, “How do you see these words and not have it be pretentious and weird and preachy?” The reggae track best suited that story the way that story is told in that song. Were you thinking Marley, specifically, for the vibe of this song? Bob Marley and the Beatles, that’s my big, giant music influence. You actually played me some Marley on guitar the last time we spoke. I was like, “I gotta keep grown if I’m trying something.” How can I become grown and still have it be danceable and not look like I’m trying to sound like everybody else.