{"id":15264,"date":"2025-05-24T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15264"},"modified":"2025-05-24T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:05:55","slug":"snoop-dogg-says-adversity-is-like-the-gym-for-your-soul-and-offers-3-pieces-of-advice-for-usc-business-school-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=15264","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg says \u2018adversity is like the gym for your soul\u2019 and offers 3 pieces of advice for USC business school grads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and investor<\/strong> spoke at the commencement ceremony for the USC Marshall School of Business on Monday. Snoop Dogg gave the graduates three pieces of advice and hailed the virtues of overcoming obstacles. &#8220;See, adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts. It&#8217;s heavy, but it builds you up.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.\u2014better known as Snoop Dogg\u2014spoke at the commencement ceremony for the USC Marshall School of Business on Monday and passed on some advice for graduates. <\/p>\n<p>The hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and investor also hailed the virtues of overcoming obstacles, saying he has been an underdog his whole life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But guess what, I didn\u2019t let none of that stop me,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GyUk9omYAdU\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GyUk9omYAdU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he said<\/a>. &#8220;I stayed true to myself. I stayed focused on the vision, and I turned them no&#8217;s into yes&#8217;s. See, adversity is like the gym for your soul. It hurts. It&#8217;s heavy, but it builds you up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the LA Memorial Coliseum\u2014not that far from where he grew up in Long Beach\u2014Snoop Dogg also said graduation is more than just getting a diploma: &#8220;It&#8217;s about the grind, the sleepless nights, the sacrifices, the prayers you whisper when nobody was watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The underdog has &#8220;the realest story,&#8221; he added, because when you come from nothing, &#8220;you appreciate everything, you hustle different, you love different, and you lead different.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That set up his advice for the graduates, telling them to do three things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stay humble: never forget where you came from. Stay hungry: keep that fire in your soul. And stay true: always be real with yourself and the world, because the world don&#8217;t need no more copies. It need originals. And trust me, ain&#8217;t nobody else can do what you do like you do,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snoop told graduates to keep believing in themself and keep pushing, reminding them that, &#8220;It&#8217;s always the underdogs who end up running the game. Trust me, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m running the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After becoming a hip-hip superstar in the 1990s, Snoop Dogg has become an entertainment icon, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/11\/14\/snoop-dogg-taught-martha-stewart-how-to-make-a-deal-i-wait-for-him-to-negotiate-the-contract-then-i-go-and-follow-him\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/11\/14\/snoop-dogg-taught-martha-stewart-how-to-make-a-deal-i-wait-for-him-to-negotiate-the-contract-then-i-go-and-follow-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">famously teaming up with Maratha Stewart<\/a>, appearing on TV shows like NBC&#8217;s <em>The Voice<\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olympics-2024-snoop-dogg-interview-c639ee0165a3c19df13c08e54ce4a816\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olympics-2024-snoop-dogg-interview-c639ee0165a3c19df13c08e54ce4a816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stealing the show at the 2024 Summer Olympics<\/a> in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been building a lucrative empire of his own. In addition to his numerous endorsements, he has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/07\/25\/snoop-dogg-ice-cream-dr-bombay-walmart\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/07\/25\/snoop-dogg-ice-cream-dr-bombay-walmart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">line of ice cream<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/03\/17\/snoop-dogg-launches-coffee-line-indoxyz-indonesia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/03\/17\/snoop-dogg-launches-coffee-line-indoxyz-indonesia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coffee brand<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/08\/16\/snoop-dogg-breakfast-cereal-snoop-loopz\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/08\/16\/snoop-dogg-breakfast-cereal-snoop-loopz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">breakfast cereal<\/a>, to name just a few ventures. <\/p>\n<p>Snoop also cofounded Casa Verde Capital, an investment firm focused on the cannabis industry, while also investing in companies like Klarna, Reddit and Robinhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m trying to be one of those examples of someone who creates his own everything, owns his own everything, and has a brand strong enough to compete with Levi\u2019s and Miller and Kraft and all of these other brands that have been around for hundreds of years,&#8221; he said in a 2021 interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/30\/business\/corner-office-snoop-dogg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/05\/24\/snoop-dogg-graduation-speech-advice-usc-marshall-school-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and investor spoke at the commencement ceremony for the USC Marshall School of Business on Monday. 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