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Warren G Regulate G Funk Era Zip4/25/2021
Upon release in December of 1992, it became the first gangsta rap album to earn ubiquitous rotation on MTV.Home News Best New Music Reviews Albums Tracks Sunday Reviews 8.0 Reviews Features The Pitch Lists Guides Longform Rising Photo Galleries Video OverUnder Liner Notes Under the Influences Podcast Events Newsletter Advertising Masthead Careers Contact Accessibility Help More Pitchfork Pitchfork Music Festival Chicago Pitchfork Music Festival Paris Pitchfork Music Festival Berlin Pitchfork Radio Pitchfork Podcast Home News Reviews Best New Music Features The Pitch Video Podcast Staff Picks Events Toggle main navigation menu Open search module Expand audio player Home News Reviews Best New Music Features The Pitch Video Podcast Staff Picks Events Toggle main navigation menu Open search module Expand audio player Gangsta Sermon: Warren Gs Regulate.
G Funk Era The story of G Funk linchpin Warren G, from his fated break at a bachelor party hosted by Dr. Dre to his debut LP, which soundtracked the summer 20 years ago. Stop for a moment and conceive an alternative history in which Dre never rolls in his 64 with Snoop Dogg a what if scenario as universe-skewing as Archduke Franz Ferdinand eluding assassination, or the Portland Trail Blazers selecting Michael Jordan. Nate Dogg might have been robbed of the opportunity to mentor the gangsta-rap generation on daily weed smoking and polyamorous love. Its a world minus that one little fight that made the Fresh Princes mom ship him to his auntie and uncle in Bel Air. Tossing a friend the car keys, Warren told him to dig the 213 demo tape out the carquick. Warren G, Calvin Snoop Doggy Dog Broadus, and Nathaniel Nate Dogg Hale, lifelong friends from Pop Warner football and the streets of eastside Long Beach. Maybe it was like being at the Atlanta soda fountain when the ex-morphine addict who invented Coca-Cola rolled up to offer the initial fixcomplete with the tonics namesake secret ingredient. He was like, Yall need to get your shit together before you do what I do. Within months, hed officially launch Death Row with bodyguard-turned-prince of darkness Suge Knight, who extricated him from his previous contract through lead-pipe diplomacy. After hearing 213, the producer told Warren to come to Hollywoods Solar Studiosand to bring his friends. Hearing that Dre loved it was one of the happiest moments of our lives, Warren G says. He was my brother, the guy who I looked up to and learned from as a kid. Underground mixtapes and local shows had only yielded minor notoriety. Ducked penitentiary chances and bullets outnumbered record deals. But collaborating with Dre was 213s collective dream, so much so that Snoop remained skeptical even after Warren broke the newsonly believing it after Dre personally invited him to the studio in a three-way phone call. Gangstas Life found Dre reconstructing a beat that Warren G had originally flipped from En Vogues Hold On. Snoop snapped like a pit bull and Dre extended a permanent invitation. The project lacked a name until a weed dealer materialized in the studio one day, offering the latest horticultural advancement: Hydrochronic. Kurupt was raised in Philly and Hawthorne, but linked with 213 after battling Snoop out front of The Roxy nightclub in West Hollywoodimpressed, Warren G swapped information with Ricardo Brown and produced his demo. There was a lot of drink, a lot of smoke, beautiful women, chicken breasts from Popeyes. He mined Leon Haywoods I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You from a Carson record bin, which supplied the strut to Nuthin but a G Thang. ![]() The G Child was also immortalized as the caller in the skit that kickstarts Deeez Nuuuts. But while the would-be auteur went solo on the cover, The Chronic was a communal triumph.
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