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The Daily Intelligencer brings the positive but provisional news that Snoop Dogg may be thinking hard about hip-hop’s tendency to misogyny.

At Monday’s Hip-Hop Summit Action Network awards gala at Capitale, honoree Snoop Dogg repented for some of the harsh language he’s used against women in his songs. “I’m not trying to do anything to offend nobody, but y’all’ve got to understand, I’m from the East Side,” he said. “I worked hard to become a man on my own. My mother showed me how, but she couldn’t really teach me how to become a man. My father wasn’t there. I never knocked him for that. But the playas that I learnt from, they taught me the wrong way. … It wasn’t until once I got older and got married and had a daughter and had kids and started to realize that now my music is starting to swing in a different direction, because I understand that I was wrongfully taught.”