Me'shell Ndegeocello was once asked about her musical inspirations. "I like Snoop Doggy Dogg," she declared. "He's misogynist as hell, but you can't tell me he doesn't have a flow."

A flow? "Sometimes you just put on music to hear it and it's rockin,'" she explained. "It makes you want to move, makes you want to dance, makes you want to f---!"

[Snoop Dogg was once asked about the lyric, "I mash hos like pistachios." "That's my favorite kind of nut," he explained. "And pistachios and hos rhyme. I was just eating a pistachio one night, and I said, 'You know what...?'"]

[Me'Shell adopted the name Ndegeocello as a teenager; it means "free as a bird" in Swahili.]