Snoop Dogg commented on the "reality" of his lyrics in The Chronic; the "reality" being him growing up poor, and having served six months in the Wayside County jail outside of Los Angeles for cocaine possession,
Snoop Dogg later commented on the "reality" of his lyrics, stating "My raps are incidents where either I saw it happen to one of my close homies or I know about it from just being in the ghetto. 
