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Warren G in 2015
Warren G in 2015
Background information
Birth nameWarren Griffin III
Also known asG-Child
Born(1970-11-10)November 10, 1970(age 53)[1]
OriginLong Beach,California,U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Rapper
  • record producer
  • disc jockey
  • songwriter
Years active1992–present
Labels
Formerly of213
Websitewarreng

Warren Griffin III(born November 10, 1970[1]) is an American rapper, record producer, and DJ who helped popularizeWest Coast hip hopduring the 1990s.[2]A pioneer ofG-funk,he attained mainstream success with his 1994 single "Regulate"(featuringNate Dogg). He is credited with discoveringSnoop Dogg,having introduced the then-unknown rapper to record producerDr. Dre.

His debut studio album,Regulate... G Funk Era(1994), debuted at number two on the USBillboard200,selling 176,000 in its first week. The album has since receivedtriple platinumcertification by theRecording Industry Association of America(RIAA), signifying sales of three million copies. "Regulate" spent 18 weeks within the top 40 of theBillboardHot 100, with three weeks at number two, while its follow-up, "This D.J.",peaked at number nine. At the37th Annual Grammy Awards,both songs received nominations forBest Rap PerformanceandBest Rap Solo Performance,respectively.

Three songs from his second album,Take a Look Over Your Shoulder(1997), peaked within the top 40,[3]as did his 1998 duet with Nate Dogg, "Nobody Does It Better".Both the album and its follow-up,I Want It All(1999), received gold certifications by the RIAA. His fourth album,The Return of the Regulator(2001), failed to yield his earlier commercial heights. Along with longtime collaborators Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, he formed the hip-hop trio213,named forLong Beach's area code; they released the albumThe Hard Way(2004) to mild success.

His next two albums, 2005'sIn the Mid-Nite Hourand then 2009'sThe G Files,were released independently and self-produced. In 2015, he releasedRegulate... G Funk Era, Part II,anextended playfeaturing archived recordings of Nate Dogg, who died in 2011. In 2017, "Regulate", certified platinum in 1994, went multi-platinum, propelled by digital downloads.

Early life

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Warren Griffin III was born on November 10, 1970, and grew up inLong Beach, California.[1]He had three sisters and was the only son of Warren Griffin Jr., an airplane mechanic, and Ola, adietician.[1]They divorced when Warren was 4 and he lived with his mother and three sisters inEast Long Beachuntil he was just about to start middle school.[1]

In 1982, Warren went to live with his father inNorth Long Beach.[1]His new wife, Verna, had three children from a prior marriage,[1]one of whom was Andre Young, the soon-to-becomeDr. Drewho in 1984 joined a leading DJ crew, theWorld Class Wreckin' Cru,which by 1985 doubled as an electro rap group, which in 1987 put out the Los Angeles area's first rap recording under a major label.[4][5]By then, aJordan High Schoolstudent, Warren was playing football and running with friends.[1]

In 1988, age 17, Warren was jailed for gun possession.[1]While incarcerated, he took the nickname Warren G.[1]By this time, Dr. Dre was already beginning to experience success as the writer andrecord producerforRuthless Records,as well as being a member ofN.W.Awith Ruthless Records founderEazy-EandIce Cube.N.W.A’s landmark album,Straight Outta Compton,was driving the Los Angeles area's rap scene to swiftly drop electro for gangsta.[5]Once out of jail, Warren worked at the Long Beach shipyards[1]and began focusing on music after Dr. Dre taught him how to use a drum machine.[1]

By 1990, Warren G had formed the trio213[6]with two longtime running mates, Nathaniel "Nate Dogg"Hale and Calvin"Snoop Dogg"Broadus. 213 was a contributor to theG-funksound soon to emerge in rap.[7]The trio dissolved after Warren G connected them to Dr. Dre.[6]At that point, two solo careers were launched: Dr. Dre's and Snoop Dogg's, upon G-funk.[8][9]Nate, too, signed to Dr. Dre'sDeath Row Records.[8]Warren G initially helped there,[6]but not desiring a career in his mentor and stepbrother's shadow, signed toDef Jam RecordingsinNew York City.[1][10]

Career

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Start with 213 (circa 1990)

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By 1990, in his hometownLong Beach,as record producer and rapper, Warren formed a music trio with two of his longtime running mates, Nathaniel "Nate Dogg"Hale, a rapperlike singer, and Calvin"Snoop Dogg”Broadus,[11]a singerlike rapper.[8]The Long Beach trio, fond ofOaklandrap group415,named for theBay area's area code, took the name213,the Los Angeles area's.[6]Practicing and recording in the modest studio in Long Beach record store V.I.P.,[11]they cut a demo tape.[6]Dr. Dre,already a celebrity, rebuffed his younger stepbrother Warren's requests for him to listen.[12]

Before long, homemade copies of 213's songs spread inLos Angeles county,particularly the citiesComptonandPomona,and Los Angeles city's sectionsWattsandSouth Central,but no label picked them up.[6]One day, Warren phoned Dre to catch up, and found him at a bachelor party—thrown for Dre's friend Andre "LA Dre" Bolton, another record producer—whereupon Warren found himself invited to join it.[6]There, once the songs began to repeat, Warren offered LA Dre the 213 tape.[6]Liking it, he summoned Dr. Dre, who, hearing the Snoop rap "Super Duper Snooper", immediately welcomed the trio.[1]Days later, 213 moved into Dre's lavishtroubadour-stylehouse inCalabasas,home to both his wife and his recording studio.[8][12][13]

In April 1992, Dr. Dre's debut solo single "Deep Cover"introduced America to Snoop Doggy Dogg, the track's guest but instantly star rapper.[8][14]Warren helped Dre find sounds for Dre's debut solo albumThe Chronic,[7][6]further debuting Snoop, whereby superstardom chased Snoop into 1993 and, via Snoop's own debut solo album,Doggystyle,captured him by 1994.[8][15]By then, also solo, Nate, too, had joined Dre's label,Death Row Records.[8][16]Warren, returning to Long Beach, aimed to find his own way.[1][17]In 2004, a 213 album finally arrived:The Hard Way.[14][18]

Solo stardom (1993–1996)

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During 1993, at Dr. Dre's studio, Warren metJohn Singleton,director ofBoyz n the Hood,the seminal film named forEazy-E's debut single,produced by Dre.[19][20]Singleton asked Warren to produce a song forthe soundtrackof his forthcoming filmPoetic Justice.Warren thus producedMista Grimm's song "Indo Smoke",featuring Warren G andNate Dogg.[1]The single's success led to Warren's invitation toRussell Simmons's labelDef Jam Recordings,where Warren G signed a record deal.[1]Also that year, Warren and Nate, along withKurupt—whom the 213 trio had brought to Dre to help on his albumThe Chronic[8]—feature on "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)",a huge underground hit, too risque to be a single, on Snoop'sDoggystylealbum, released in November.[21]

On theAbove The Rimsoundtrack, fromDeath Row Recordsin April 1994, the single "Regulate"was a duet cowritten and performed by Warren G and Nate Dogg. Spending 20 weeks on the popular songs chart, theBillboard Hot 100,with 18 of them in the Top 40, including three weeks at No. 2 in May,[22]it was the summer's top rap hit.[6]Certified gold, half a million copies sold, since June, it attained platinum, a million copies, in August.[23]In January 2017, via digital downloading, it was certified 2x multi-platinum.[23]Back in the American summer of 1994, it stood at No. 1 on theMTVcharts.[24]Performing in Japan, he would discover fans who apparently understood no English, but knew all the lyrics. Into the 21st century, it remained Def Jam's biggest hit single.[25]Russell Simmons, a Def Jam founder, explains, "Warren's music was worldwide because the melody plays no matter what the language."[10]

Yet further, unlike other G-funk (short forgangstafunk) artists, Warren G, even called "a romantic" at heart,[26]voiced simpler concerns.[27]And his modest rap styling maximized, by heeding, his modest lyricism.[28]"Regulate" doubled as the lead single Warren G's debut album,Regulate... G Funk Era,arriving in June 1994. Selling a million copies in three days, it debuted at No. 2 on the popular albums chart, theBillboard 200.[1]In August, it was certified 2x multi-platinum, two million copies sold.[23]Its second single, "This D.J.",went gold, half a million copies, in September,[23]while peaking in July at No. 9.[22]At the1995 Grammy Awards,in March, both singles were nominated.[29]And in January, the album's other single, "Do You See",had peaked at No. 42.[30]In August, the album was certified 3x multi-platinum.[23]That month also brought some Warren G collaborations on two albums from his Long Beach associates,Twinzonly albumConversation (album)andThe Dove Shacktrio'sThis Is the Shack.And 1996 saw Warren G on the "Groupie" track of Snoop's second album,Tha Doggfather.

Follow-up albums (1997–2001)

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Warren G's second album,Take a Look Over Your Shoulder,released in March 1997. It was certified gold, with half a million copies sold, in May.[23]Sharing with theSupercopsoundtrackthe single "What's Love Got To Do with It",featuring singerAdina Howard,a spin on the1984 singlebyTina Turner,reached No. 2 on theUK Singles Chart,[31]and peaked in the US at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100.[22]"Smokin' Me Out",featuringRon Isleyofthe classic soul group,reaching No. 35, was big on the Los Angeles area's radio play.[28]"I Shot the Sheriff", a lyrical spin on the1973 singlebyBob Marley & the Wailers,yet an instrumental borrow from rap groupEPMD's 1988 single "Strictly Business",which itself samples that Wailers classic, reached No. 20.[22]Yet a letdown overall, the album missed his debut's superstar potential.[32]

In July 1998, Warren G's sixth appearance in the Billboard Hot 100's upper tier Top 40 became Nate Dogg's single "Nobody Does it Better"[22]—onNate's repeatedly delayed debut album—featuring Warren G, in another duet, which peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.[30]Here, incidentally, Warren raps abarindicating his transition to family life.[33]Warren's third album,I Want It All,released in October 1999, has Warren mainly producing—where, perhaps, his greater comparative strength among musical peers abides—while vocals go largely to guest artists, including Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg,RBX,Kurupt,Eve,Slick Rick,andJermaine Dupri.[32]Certified gold in November 1999,[23]it bears the single "I Want It All",featuringMack 10,which, becoming Warren's most recent Top 40 appearance, peaked on the Hot 100 at No. 23.[22]

Over 20 years later, his 1997 and 1999 albums remain at gold certification, which none of his subsequent albums have achieved.[23]Released in December 2001, Warren's fourth album,The Return of the Regulator,with a litany of collaborators, including theP-Funkfather and G-funk godfatherGeorge Clintonand, elsewhere, Dr. Dre producing a track, is allegedly overdone, a comeback undone by Warren's reaching beyond his strengths and being outdone by his guests.[34][35]He "wastes a hot, Dre-produced beat", in the single "Lookin' at You",alleges aVibewriter, who finds G-funk on its deathbed and Warren G "administering the fatal shot".[35]The album peaked at number 83 theBillboard200,and became his final album under amajor record label,hereUniversal Music Group,before returned on an independent label.[36]

Indie career (2005–present)

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In the Mid-Nite Hour,released in October 2005, Warren G's fifth album, his first without a major label involved,[36]was on Hawino Records.[37]Heavily featuring his native, 213 groupmates Nate and Snoop, it is devotedly Warren's own project, homemade on a low budget.[36]Music critics assess it to better carry Warren G's own virtues as G-funk'severyman.[36][37]Yet by that very virtue, as expected, it saw scarce exposure beyond Warren G's fans.[36][37]

His sixth album, in September 2009,The G Files,"still the same basic G-funk sound", adds to "that classic soul vibe", Warren explains, "a taste of that modern electro sound".[38]Disliking what he put as the rap standard of "some drums and one synth sound", he titled "The West is Back" for return to "that great soulful sound".[38]"100 Miles and Running" features Nate Dogg—recorded before Nate's strokes in 2007 and 2008—and theWu-Tang Clan'sRaekwon.[38]

From June to September 2013, Warren toured in the West Coast Fest, "an OG affair" withDJ Quik,Mack 10,theDogg Pound,Bone Thugs N Harmony,and others.[39]Meanwhile, in a guest role, Warren played OG Hemingway in the sitcomNewsreaderson theCartoon Network'sAdult Swimprogramming.[40]And in August 2014, on theMnetchannel's reality seriesAmerican Hustle Life,he directed an alternate music video for "Boy In Luv", by South Korean boy bandBTS.

Nostalgic fans would ask Warren for more of classicG-funk,and even ask for more from Nate Dogg, who had died in 2011.[41][42]The single "My House",leading Warren G's firstEP,arrived on July 13, 2015. With four songs, the EP, premised as a sequel to the 1994 original, is titledRegulate... G Funk Era, Part II.Released on August 6, it featuresE-40,Too Short,Jeezy,Bun B,and, in all four songs, Nate Dogg. With his unique knack for intuiting Warren's production cues, Nate leaves behind some of his 213 partner's favorite recordings.[41]

Personal life

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Warren has four children with his wife, Tenille Griffin. Getting older, increasingly identifying with his father, fond of cooking and storytelling, Warren G embraces "his morals and good family fun".[43]

His oldest son,Olaijah,played college football for theUSC Trojansat the cornerback position from 2018 to 2020 and was recognized with all-conference honors in 2019 and 2020.[44][45]In April 2021, Olaijah was signed by the NFL'sBuffalo Billsas an undrafted free agent.

In 2019, Warren G launched a line of barbecue sauces and rubs, Sniffin Griffin's BBQ, for retail and restaurant supply. This was inspired by his father, a cook in theUS Navyand avid barbecue chef.[43][46]

Discography

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Main articles:Warren G discographyandproduction discography

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Filmography

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Video games

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Awards and nominations

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Grammy Awards

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Year Song Category Result
1995 "Regulate" Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group[47] Nominated
"This D.J." Best Rap Solo Performance Nominated

American Music Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result
1995 Warren G Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist Nominated

Brit Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result
1995 Warren G International Male Solo Artist Nominated
International Breakthrough Act Nominated

MTV Movie & TV Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result
1995 Regulate Best Song from a Movie Nominated

Soul Train Music Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result
1995 Regulate...G Funk Era Best Rap Album Nominated

NME Awards

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Year Nominee / work Award Result
1995 Warren G Best Rap Artist Won

References

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  1. ^abcdefghijklmnopqrBrenna Sanchez,"Contemporary Musicians: Warren G",Encyclopedia,Cengage,updated April 12, 2020.
  2. ^Steve Huey,"Warren G: Biography",AllMusic,Netaktion LLC, visited May 8, 2020.
  3. ^Warren G's third Top 40 hit, at #32 in October 1996, is his 1997 album's track "What's Love Got to Do With It",featuring singerAdina Howard,but had been released first onthe 1996 soundtrack of the American releaseofJackie Chan's 1992 Chinese filmSupercop.
  4. ^David Diallo, ch 10"From electro-rap to G-funk: A social history of rap music in Los Angeles and Compton, California",in Mickey Hess, ed.,Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide,Volume 1:East Coast and West Coast(Westport, CT:Greenwood Press,2010).
  5. ^abDavid Diallo, "Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg", in Mickey Hess, ed.,Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture(Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2007), pp 319–322.
  6. ^abcdefghijMosi Reeves,"Warren G and Nate Dogg's 'Regulate': The oral history of a hip-hop classic",Rolling Stonewebsite, Penske Media LLC, December 19, 2014.
  7. ^abJeff Weiss explains, "As much as 'The Chronic' is a psychedelic and sinister warp of theParliamentandFunkadelicrecords that constantly rotated onDre's childhood turntable, it is the sound of Long Beach, too: theecumenicalhymns of the Baptist church turned into filthy harmonic gospel by Snoop, Nate Dogg, Warren G and Daz "[J Weiss,"25 years later, Dr. Dre's 'The Chronic' remains rap's world-building masterpiece",Washington Post&Chicago Tribune,December 15, 2017]. For some on this in Warren's own words, seeEbro Darden&Laura Stylez,interviewers, "Warren G talks growing up as Dr. Dre's brother, Snoop's early rap battles and his new album",Hot 97@ YouTube, August 10, 2015,22:30mark.
  8. ^abcdefghBen Westhoff, "The making ofThe Chronic",LA Weekly,November 19, 2012.
  9. ^"Dr. Dre speaks at Snoop Dogg's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony 11.19.18",The Hollywood Fix@ YouTube, November 19, 2018.
  10. ^abGill, Karam, director,"G Funk| official documentary ",SnoopDoggTV@ YouTube Premium, July 11, 2018, which webpage offers a written synopsis, whereas the Russell Simmons quote about "Regulate" may appear at about the 57:35 mark. For instead some news on the 2017 documentary, see Matt Warren,"LA Film Festival update: 'G-Funk' doc and Warren G live performance at Ace Hotel, June 16",Film Independent website, May 24, 2017.
  11. ^abIn his 1994 single "Do You See",Warren G reminisces on his background, while incidentally noting, twice, that 213 had originally been Warren G, Nate Dogg, and Snoop Rock, amid visuals that briefly show the V.I.P record shop [Warren G,"Do You See",Warren G@ YouTube, October 6, 2009].
  12. ^abP.R., "Warren G", in Nathan Brackett with Christian Hoard, eds.,The New Rolling Stone Album Guide(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004),p 859.For Warren's own telling, seeEbro Darden&Laura Stylez,interviewers,"Warren G talks growing up as Dr. Dre's brother, Snoop's early rap battles and his new album",Hot 97@ YouTube, August 10, 2015. On the V.I.P. record store, see Andrea Domanick,"World famous V.I.P. Records to close",LA Weekly,January 5, 2012.
  13. ^In Calabasas, on the hills west of theSan Fernando Valley,Dre had bought, in perhaps 1989, "a lavishtroubadour-stylehome ", and put a recording studio in an upstairs bedroom [Gerrick D. Kennedy,Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap(New York:Atria Books,2017),pp 123 & 132.
  14. ^abDavid Diallo, "Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg", in Mickey Hess, ed.,Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture,Volume 1 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007),pp 326–327.
  15. ^Stereo Williams,"When Snoop became the most wanted man in America",Daily Beast,November 18, 2018.
  16. ^By the July 1998 release of Nate Dogg's repeatedly delayed solo album, the curtain was already closing on G-funk's popular run [Thomas Erlewine,"Nate Dogg:G Funk Classics, Vols. 1 & 2",AllMusic,Netaktion LLC, visited April 24, 2020].
  17. ^Gill, Karam, director,"G Funk| Official Documentary ",SnoopDoggTV@ YouTube Premium, 11 Jull 2018, which webpage offers a written synopsis. For instead some news on the 2017 documentary, see Matt Warren,"LA Film Festival update: 'G-Funk' doc and Warren G live performance at Ace Hotel, June 16",Film Independent website, May 24, 2017.
  18. ^Jon Dolan, Joe Gross, Chuck Klosterman & Chris Ryan,"Oct: Breakdown",Spin,2004 Oct;20(10):120; Rondell Conway,"213:The Hard Way",Vibe,2004 Sep;12(9):236.
  19. ^Jerry Hellerw/ Gil Reavill,Ruthless: A Memoir(New York:Simon Spotlight Entertainment,2007),p 181.
  20. ^Keith Murphy,"John Singleton: Hollywood's ultimate hip-hop head broke ground for the culture",BET,May 3, 2019.
  21. ^About tracks on Dr. Dre's album2001,Soren Baker writes, "If fact, even songs that did not receive accompanying videos became huge underground hits, as had been the case withThe Chronic's 'Bitches Ain't Shit' andDoggystyle's 'Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None) "[S Baker,The History of Gangster Rap(New York: Abrams Image, 2018)].
  22. ^abcdefFor all of Warren G'sBillboard Hot 100appearances, see"Chart history: Warren G—Hot 100",Billboard,Prometheus Global Media, LLC, visited May 10, 2020. Yet at May 2020, the only song this adds to the Hot 100's Top 40 is "Do You See",#42 in January 1995. Incidentally, theBillboardwebpage apparently dates by latest peak position, with "Regulate", for instance, at #2 in July 1994. Apparently dating instead by earliest peak position, with "Regulate" at #2 in May 1994, isJoel Whitburn,"Warren G",The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits(New York: Billboard Books, 2010),p 696:in chronological order, "Regulate",withNate Dogg(#2 in May 1994 and three weeks); "This D.J."(#9 in July 1994);"What's Love Got to Do with It,"featuringAdina Howard(#32 in September 1996); "I Shot the Sheriff"(#20 in March 1997);"Smokin' Me Out",featuringRonald Isley(#35 in June 1997); Nate Dogg's single "Nobody Does It Better",featuring Warren G (#18 in July 1998);"I Want It All",featuringMack 10(#23 in October 1999).
  23. ^abcdefghDatabase search,"Gold & Platinum: Warren G",Recording Industry Association of Americawebsite, visited May 8, 2020.
  24. ^Vernallis, Carol (2004).Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics and Cultural Context.Columbia University Press. p. 221.ISBN978-0-231-11799-9.
  25. ^Russell Simmons withNelson George,Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God(New York: Crown Publishers, 2001).
  26. ^Eric Weisbard,"Platter du Jour: Warren G",in Craig Marks, ed., Spins column,Spin,1994 Sep;10(6):135.
  27. ^Soren Baker,The History of Gangster Rap: From Scholly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form(New York:Abrams Image,2018).
  28. ^abP.R., "Warren G", in Nathan Brackett with Christian Hoard, eds.,The New Rolling Stone Album Guide(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004),p 859.
  29. ^"Regulate" was nominated inBest Rap Performance by a Duo or Group,and "This D.J." inBest Rap Solo Performance.
  30. ^ab"Chart history: Warren G",Billboard,visited May 10, 2020.
  31. ^"Warren G",OfficialCharts,The Official UK Charts Company, visited May 12, 2020.
  32. ^abJohn Bush,"Warren G:I Want It All",AllMusic,Netaktion LLC, visited May 8, 2020.
  33. ^In the "Nobody Does It Better"single, in his third and final verse, Warren G raps, in two bars," Hot rap singles, on the charts now / Got a baby, so I'm breaking hearts now ""Nobody Does It Better lyrics—Nate Dogg",MetroLyrics,CBS Interactive Inc., 2020].
  34. ^Jason Birchmeier,"Warren G:The Return of the Regulator",AllMusic,Netaktion LLC,
  35. ^abShawn Edwards,"Warren G:The Return of the Regulator",Vibe,2002 Jan;10(1):124.
  36. ^abcdeJason Birchmeier,"Warren G:In the Mid-Nite Hour",AllMusic,Netaktion LLC, visited May 8, 2020.
  37. ^abcSteve "Flash" Juon,"Warren G:In the Mid-Nite Hour:Hawino Records/Lightyear Ent. ",RapReviews,October 18, 2005.
  38. ^abcJeff Weiss,"The G-funk continuum: Warren G talks 'The G-Files,' 'The X-Files' and West Coast hip hop",Pop & Hiss,theL.A. TimesMusic Blog, December 18, 2009.
  39. ^Rose Lilah,"West Coast Fest tour line-up features E-40, Dogg Pound, Warren G & more",HotNewHipHop website, June 6, 2013.
  40. ^For some examples, seeWarren G's profileonIMDb.
  41. ^abEbro Darden&Laura Stylez,interviewers,"Warren G talks growing up as Dr. Dre's brother, Snoop's early rap battles and his new album",Hot 97@ YouTube, August 10, 2015
  42. ^Erika Ramirez,"Warren G to release 'Regulate…G Funk Era Part II' EP this summer",Billboard,July 8, 2015.
  43. ^abThe company website of his Sniffin Griffins BBQ line shares"The Sniffin Griffins story",© 2020: "It all started with my father Warren Griffin, Jr., who was many great things, chief among them a boxer, black belt and chef in the United States Navy. As a kid, all my pops used to do was cook, create recipes and play good music. He would tell my sisters, brothers and I all about the stories of his many journeys. Even though it was fun to hear him talk about those things, it was also very interesting to me. One of the things that stood out the most to me was when he would talk BBQ. The flavor of the smoke on the meat and just the good feeling of having family around caught me up and rang a bell in my head. As I got older, all I wanted to do was be like my dad on the smoker and grill because it reminded me of his morals and good family fun; and so, a pit master was born into a lifestyle of fun, family and celebration. Warren G!"
  44. ^Ben Kercheval,"USC football recruiting: Warren G's son, five-star CB Olaijah Griffin, commits",CBS Sportswebsite, February 7, 2018.
  45. ^Within USC's conference, the Pac-12, Griffin drew honorable mention for the official all-conference team, and made the Phil Steele All-Pac-12 third team [ "Football: Olaijah Griffin",USCTrojans,USC Athletics, visited August 11, 2020].
  46. ^"Behind the scenes of Warren G the owner of Sniffin Griffins BBQ first sauce run",Warren G@ YouTube, December 7, 2019.
  47. ^Stout, Gene (March 1, 1995)."Grammys Promise a Dumbfounding Medley of Talent".Seattle Post-Intelligencer.p. C1.
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