Season 2 of Snoop Dogg's reality series is about to premiere. He tries to
convince his son to place a greater importance on education than he did
growing up.

E! CHANNEL -
Snoop Dogg and his litter are back for season two of "Snoop
Dogg's Father Hood". The reality series follows the hip hop legend, his
wife and three kids as they go to high school, take football classes and get
into acting and singing.

The show illustrates a softer, more responsible side to a man known
for his gangsta rap, love of marijuana and numerous arrests.

"I wanna cry one day and say that my son made it, he broke the
chain," said Snoop Dogg. "He did something that's never been done in
my family. That's a tremendous goal, to go through college. I just want to see
him make it because if he goes, his brother and sister are going to want to go
and it's going to start a new tradition of wanting to go to college out of my
family as opposed to just hurrying up to get out of high school so that we can
do nothing"

Snoop Dogg grew up in Long Beach California with his single mother and
was affiliated with the notorious gang the Crips. It's a world away from the
upbringing his kids are experiencing.

"I went out and got into mischievous things that messed me up,
that got me jail time, I joined gangs, I did things that were negative,"
said Snoop Dogg. "As an adult I don't want my kids to do it so I choose
not to live in my community that I grew up in, I choose to give them different
options and I choose to not even expose them to what I was brought up around
because I don't want that influencing them, making them feel like they want to
be like their daddy, I want them to be their own selves."
The season premiere takes place on November 30.