Club Shay Shay - Club Shay Shay - Warren G Part 1

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/SHANNON and use code SHANNON and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Shannon Sharpe sits down with the legendary Warren G, the West Coast icon who helped define the sound of 90’s hip hop and saved Def Jam from $20 million in debt with his timeless hit “Regulate.” In this unfiltered conversation, Warren opens up about his journey from Compton to global fame, the brotherhood behind the G-Funk era, and the lessons learned along the way. With a live band behind him, Warren performs his classics “This DJ,” “I Want It All,” “Do You See,” and “Regulate,” breaking down the stories and inspirations behind each record. He recalls how Snoop Dogg originally sang the hook on “This DJ” before clearance issues led him to creatively blend Snoop’s vocals into the final track. Warren credits his love of jazz—passed down from his father—for shaping his ear for music, which later influenced his smooth, soulful approach to hip hop. He reflects on his early years in Long Beach and Compton, forming tight bonds with Dr. Dre, Tyree, and Snoop Dogg, and how DJing, producing, and rapping became his passions. Warren shares how his breakout moment came when director John Singleton chose his record for the Poetic Justice soundtrack, leading to his signing with Def Jam. His discovery of a Michael McDonald sample inspired the creation of “Regulate,” a record that not only became his biggest hit but also financially revived Def Jam.  Warren opens up about the highs and lows of fame—buying a $120K Mercedes after tour money rolled in, later realizing he should’ve invested in property. He also recounts the business struggles that taught him to take control of his finances and undo his power of attorney. His resilience was fueled by family, especially an uncle who helped him regain stability. Throughout the episode, Warren reflects on missed opportunities with Death Row Records, being separated from his friends over industry politics, and how he learned to build success independently. He discusses his relationship with Dre and Snoop, seeing Dre rise with N.W.A, and the bittersweet pride of watching a brother become a billionaire. Warren remembers the loyalty of Tupac, who gave him opportunities beyond Death Row, and reveals emotional memories of Pac’s passing. He shares stories about Michael Jackson—who personally told him he loved his music—and why he once turned down meeting Prince. Warren also recalls performing at Khloe Kardashian’s birthday and producing hidden gems for artists like Young Jeezy, MC Breed, and New Edition. He names Eminem in his top 15 and praises Kendrick Lamar as the king of his generation, carrying the torch for the West Coast. Beyond music, Warren opens up about his long marriage, fatherhood, and finding peace in his passion for barbecue. Now a pitmaster and business owner, he shares how cooking gives him balance, how he built his own BBQ line, and his plans to open restaurants. Warren closes by talking about his new music collaborations with Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne, and unreleased Nate Dogg tracks, as well as his venture as a part-owner of a Minor League Baseball team in Long Beach—a way to give back to his community. From humble beginnings to legendary status, Warren G’s story is one of perseverance, creativity, and authenticity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A hundred million. Where's my money is my money? Oh, yeah. What about that? All my life. Been grinding all my life. Sacrifice. Hustle paid the price.

Want a slice. Got the roll of dice. That's why all my life. I be grinding on my life. Yeah. All my life. Been grinding on my life. Sacrifice.

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of the episode of Club Shayshay. I am your host Shannon Sharp. I'm also the proproud of Club Shaysay. Stopping by for conversation on the drink today. He's a music icon, a triple platinum selling rapper, a Grammy nominated songwriter, global and groundbreaking record producer, pioneer and West Coast legend. He helped popularize West Coast hip hop during the 1990s. He's had one of the best rap songs ever recorded with Regulate, selling over 10 million copies worldwide. He helped get death jam out of $20 million of debt, a cultural influence, a pit, a pit, chef, husband, father, and a brother, all the way from the streets of Long Beach. Everybody say, church, here he is, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Warren, Jeannie.

What's up, man. How are you doing, man? I'm good, man. What we've started doing, Warren, like when we have, such as yourself, we ask them, not only can you sit down and have a conversation and share your story, our audience really like to hear the performers perform, like to do the songs that made them household names, that made them popular, that everybody, knows who they are and then give the backdrop of how that story came to be.

And that's what you're going to do today. So we're going to start it off with this. We're going to get to start it off with this DJ. I was in Long Beach, California, and this DJ was just a song pretty much like a young teen story of a young guy that just wanted to be something in life and wanted to go in the right direction so it was a lot of pit pitfalls and things in a way but we're still able to manage to you know make my way and and build right it's kind of easy when you listen to the G-dub sound pioneer speakers bumping there's a smoke on the pound i got the sound for your ass and it's

easy to see that this dj be warring g can i get in where i fit in sit in sit in listen Let me compensate, better yet regulate, shake the spot with my knot. May, fade, because I don't like to dream about getting paid. I played ball through the halls of C-I-S with Snoop dogs. Big Brother call him dirty left. Rack them up, crack them up, stack them up against the gate. The homies trying to catch me, but they can't wait, damn. The streetlights just came on, and my mama's in the street telling me to come home.

I hit the gate, and I hot's on my swin, and I tell my homies, all right, then. Yeah, it's kind of easy when you listen to the G-dub sound. Pioneer speakers bumping out's a smoke on the pound. I got the sound for your ass, and it's easy to see that this DJ be Warren G. It's kind of easy when you listen to the G-dub sound. Pioneer speakers bumping there's a smoke on a pound. I got the sound for your ass, and it's easy to see that... Yes, indeed.

So, was the original hook sung by Snoop? Actually, yes, yes indeed it was. So what happened? Well, he was signed a deaf row. I was signed a Dev Jam and, you know, Shug didn't get along with Russell and Lior. He couldn't stand him. So that kind of like made it a conflict, you know, with getting the song cleared. So what I did, I was like, well, you know, fuck it.

If they're going to do that, let me figure out how I can still record with my friend and not get taxed for it or get sued for it. So what I did was I went ahead and I recorded the hook and I still kept Snoop up under me doing the back vocals. But what I did to his voice, because that's how it was anyway. I did to his voice, I made it, what we call, I call it the G-Chile. It's an effect that I put on the voice, which make you sound like a chipmunk. So I put that under Snoop, and they didn't even know it. They didn't even know it. They know it now.

Now they do. It's too late now. Yes, indeed. So, like, when you started, like, did you always want to be in the rap game? Was this something, or you just kind of like stumbled? into it. Well, I started out in sports. I played football pretty much all my life. But I was still in love with music at the same time. I was in love with all the hip-hop artists from the 80s. Even like Jimmy Spicer, which you have to dig deep on that one, Jimmy Spicer is a real old Jeep from New York

that had a unique style that I fell in love with. So I was a huge fan of him. And just all of You know, like the Grand Master Flash, Furious Five, all of the NWA, EZE, all of those, I was just huge. Because you being from Long Beach, L.A. right up the road, and not like you mentioned, you got NWA. You got Q. You got Easy. Dre, your big bro, who we're going to talk about a little later. You got Snoop. So it's starting to do. The West Coast thing is starting to get really, really big now. Is that kind of what made you gravitate towards it? Because you mentioned. You play in sports, Long Beach of the Football Mecca, they got some athletes come up out of there. I play with... Yeah, Long Beach Valley. Yes indeed.

I played with a few of the... Yeah. The big dogs out of there will be... Yes indeed. What really got me deep into music was my father. Okay. We used to sit... My mom, I would go and stay with him on the weekends, and we would just sit.

We would just sit and listen to jazz. Just listen to Chuck Mangione and a bunch of jazz artists all day. And, you know, he would be toking on his little bud. And we would just sit there, you know, and he'd just be turning me on to different, you know, jazz. And from there, you know, in the household, my mom made me move with my dad to Compton. Even though I moved to Compton, I was still.

going back to lonely but she didn't know it right but um that's when my relationship started with with with with dray right and Tyree and my little sister Shemika she was a baby then and verna right you know that's where my relationship started there and i was living with my dad and uh you know me Andre and Tyree we all slept in the same room and um Dre was DJing. He was a DJ. Okay. So, you know, we, I'm around all the time and, and, you know, Tyree and Andre was my big brothers, because I didn't have no brothers. I only had my sisters.

You know, Felicia Tracy and Mitzi. And just being with Andre and Tyree having big brothers, you know, I was inspired by that. Dre was a DJ around that time with the, I think it was the high power crew. And, uh. So that was before the world-class wrecking crew? This was, uh, it was right around, right around in the same, the same area. Actually, that was when he left the, uh, world-class wrecking crew. He got into the high power crew, which was him and Easy and, and, uh, Sheen and Donald

and, uh, uh, uh, Kilo, uh, it was a bunch of guys, um, him DJing, you know, I used to see it all day, all night, so I asked him to show me how. You know, one day, and he showed me, you know, put on the Shahim, I think that's what it was called, you know, the one that it's time. So he was showing me how to go back and forth with, it's time, you know, DJing. And I fell in love with, you know, I fell in love with DJ and that, along with the jazz. And then being around Snoop as a young kid and a lot of the Voltron crew, which I talk about and this DJ. Absolutely. The twins and all of us, just freestyle and rap.

And that's what made me fall in love, love with the hip hop and with music period. My dad, the Voltron crew, and Dre. You mentioned the Voltron crew and this DJ and about you guys were selling candy. Yes. Did you make a lot of money selling candy? Yeah, we was making a little. Because back then, candy was only like fidget sent a bar. Yeah, it wasn't.

You know, we would make like 50 bucks sometimes. Some people would make a hundred and something bucks. And that was a lot. Yeah, that's a lot of money. I mean, it was, it was, that's what we, we was, that was our hustle. And the crazy thing about it is we was doing that. I was doing it. My mother didn't even know it.

You know what I mean? So when I came home late, that's why I was saying when the street lights come on. You got to be old. got to be in the house. So I would, when I came in late, that extension cord came out. I was like, wow. Well, help me understand this one.

How did y'all get the money to get the candy? What we did, it was a guy named Steve. Okay. He was the supplier of the candy. He was pretty much like the big homie. Yeah, he was the plug. And he'd give us the bag, I mean the sack, to go, to go hustling.

So how much did you get, let's just say for the sake of argument, you're selling it. 50 cents how much of that 50 cents did you get to keep from each bar uh or each piece of candy that you sold well this is how we did it at the end of the day we bring back the money and we give it to him and then he would he would break us off from there um if i made like 50 bucks i probably would get like maybe 20 25 something like that that's nice look down that's a nice look come up yeah yeah and then what we would do we would play quarters get like me you

You know, we're going to get like me. We're playing that at McDonald's. That's when Big Mac Value Packs first came out. Yes, indeed. Right. Oh, yeah. All right, the next song that we're going to get, we're going to hear, is I Want It All. So, I Want It All.

I mean, a lot of times when people say they want it all, they want it all. They want the nice homes. They want the nice cars. They want to be able to vacation. They want nice looking women or whatever the case may be. So what was the thought process behind I Want It All? that was it right there. I wanted all was a record that, you know, I wanted it all.

You know, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to be able to get brand new socks and draws. I wanted to be able to get cars. I wanted to be able to put my mother in the house. I wanted to be able to help my sisters and help, you know, my friends and just do good things. Right. So getting it all, I wanted it all so I could be able to be.

those types of things and uh like i say in the song go into champagne shit every damn thing i want it all houses expenses my own business or truck in a couple of vendors i want it all brand new socks and draws and i'm bawling every time i stop and talk to y'all i want it all all all i want it all all all they say they'll go war in g with the envious stare love this game too much i wish these haters wasn't here it's a shame we came too far to turn back it's a cold war to get so hard you learn that from falling trying to walk from crawling trying to hustle up from broke to balling and yeah y'all in the fact that's on me to jigger jeezze and all my people that keep it real and do it easy believe me young fat meat is greasy and shit stink so if you pot a lick and hit a bank

and get away or get gaffled the very next day don't cry hold your head up out and remember what you told homie i said remember what you told yourself homie i said remember what you told yourself homie i said remember what you told yourself i want it all money fast cars the marines gold chains and champagne shit every damn thing i want it all house as expenses my own business a truck in a couple of pensions i want it all brand new socks and draws and i'm bawling every time i stop and talk to y'all i want it all all all i want it all all all i want it all all Oh, oh. In order to be successful, you first have to taste defeat.

Yes. Because there are very few instances where, you know, you take off and then you just ascend to a height and you never look back and you have no stumbling, you have no obstacles. You have nothing you have to overcome. In the process of you wanting it all and achieving what you've been able to achieve, what was some of the things that you look back on like damn I didn't need to buy that damn I made a mistake I wish I had a done this or I wish I had a done that I was on tour it was my first tour came back home it was the Budfest I was Al Heyman Budfest did the tour it was like a three-month tour came home the thing about it is that I didn't really

understand royalties okay back then I was just going, just doing whatever I wanted to do. Never did like a pub deal or anything. And so everything was coming to me. So I was getting checks while I was on the road. And the accountant I had was telling me, Warren, this came in, this came, and something like, damn, I like this.

It made me go harder. So when I got off tour, came home and cash, got a 600, 600 V12, Mercedes Ben. Dang, big five. Cashed it out, $120,000. Damn. Right in Long Beach, the Mercedes, the Mercedes store was right in Long Beach, California.

And I walked right in there and dropped the cash right there. And now that I think about it, I could have been dropping that on something, real estate or something like that, you know. But you live and you learn. You live and you learn. I'm more sharper now. Right. Yes, indeed. This episode is brought to you by prize picks.

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know them we had no personal tie to them so how difficult was it to you because obviously you had started you know uh NWA and dray was in that was in that was in there. And so you started to see people have a level of success. You're like, well, damn, if they do it and I, that's my brother. I've lived with him. And so if he can do it, I can do it. How much, how easy was it for you to say, well, since he do it, I can do it? Uh, I mean, it, it wasn't easy. I mean, well, I fell in love. I fell in love with, with DJ and want to be a producer and rapper. I fell in love with all three. And it was just, it was just, it's pretty much in me already from like I was saying, like from my father with the jazz. Right.

It made it easier for my ear to understand how good music sounds. Okay. And it was some, it was some, it was some hard steps there too with, you know, You know, with, even with, with Dre, just trying to let him hear me and Snoop as kids. We're trying to be like them. And that was hard because he wasn't trying to hear that. You know, you got the big guy like. So let me, so was it a situation where he felt that if he gave you that opportunity,

people are going to say, well, this is nepotism. He ain't really that good. And he just happens to be my brother. That's what I'm putting him on. And so he really wanted, like, I need someone else to say that my bro is, my baby bro. was really good before I give him that opportunity. Yeah, and that that's what happened. That actually right what happened.

One of his good friends named LA Dre, rest in peace, heard our demo, 213 demo, and he was like, have Dre heard this, and I was like, no, no, I didn't play it for him. The reason why I was around him is because he was having a bachelor party, so I talked to Dre He talked to Dre and he was like, come on to the bachelor party. So I came and music was being played and it was kind of like the same thing being played. So I gave L.A. Dre the tape like, man, play this.

So he popped it in and played it and everybody was like, this is banging. Okay. So he was like, if Dre heard this, he was like, Dre heard this? And he was like, nah, to hear it. He was like, who was that? He was like, that's Warren and his home boards. And he was like, that's y'all. I was like, I've been trying to tell you.

It's me, Snoop and Nate. Right. I've been trying to tell you. Dang. And he was just like, you guys come to the studio on Monday. And Snoop didn't believe it. You know, and, you know, we was kind of beefing a little bit at that time. Right.

You know, but I didn't let that get in the way of us, you know, having a chance to be with Dre. So called him, he hung up on me. I'm like, come on, man. So I had to call him, keep calling him. I'm like, man, I talked to. He wanted us to come to the studio. Man, let me call him on the three-way. So I called him.

And Dre was like, yeah, this is Dre. This is Andre. And Snoop couldn't believe it. And that was like the kickoff to start, you know, the whole journey right there. You mentioned that when you got up, you did your first tour, you're on tour for like 90 days. And the money is coming in, coming in, coming in.

You get back home and you got this big old sum of money, big old summer money, and coming from meager beginnings, you're like, man, I want a whip. You go plunk down 120 bands on a V-12 and a 64-7 on gold days. Hey, I hit the corner on three wheels on it. You had to switch you on that thing with that thing. Everything. So when you look back with that, and you said earlier, Instead of propping down 120 on a V-12 or probably another 30 on a six-fold, I probably could have taken that, taken that, got a piece of property, and that would have been 10, 15, 20 times what it is right now as opposed to a card that's a depreciating asset.

Yes, indeed. Was that one of, was that probably some of one of your worst purchases? Uh. I'm sure you bought some jewelry. You probably got some rags. Yeah, I wasn't like, I wasn't really a, uh. You weren't a closed guy. I wasn't a real super-closed guy, even jewelry.

I didn't even buy a whole bunch of jerry. I had G-fonged chains that I bought and passed those out to all my friends. But I say that the Mercedes, I bought a bunch of cars. I bought the Mercedes. I bought Yukon trucks. I bought a hat. Houses, two houses, I bought, just, just, I was just buying, just buying and buying. For no reason.

For no reason. For no reason, you know, I should have took my time a little better. Not saying that I'm downhill now is just, I'm more smarter now and I understand more. I was, I was, I was number like 21 years old, 21, 22, so I was like. And came into a lump sum of money, never had that money, had more money that I could even, in my dreams I didn't have this kind of money yeah yeah and uh all the ladies all of it yeah it was it was it was it was lovely man and uh you know even with uh accountants i even with uh accountants i even had a uh accountant mistake took took something out yeah where i was

given the accountant uh power returning yeah power of attorney to sign checks for me to do all this stuff. So I'm like, damn, why's my money going? Like, leaving so fast and like, what's going on? Right. Oh, we had to put this over here for this much for taxes. So you guys taking 48, 49% of my money over here and putting it in this account. And I'm like, damn, half of everything I was making was going here. But I'm like, where's my money at? Like, my money is leaving, leaving, leaving. I'm like, so I found out that it was some crookedness. And from that point, I was just like, you know what, I'm not going to ever do that again. I mail the checks to me, and I sign them, and I'll mail them back.

So that's how it was going when I was on the road. It would be sent right back. I signed everything, fan bills, and I mail it back. Is it really hard to stay on top of that because you want to focus on making the music aspect of it? You want to focus on being the producer. So you want to focus on being creative. Yeah. But in the meantime, if you're not careful and you turn over power returning,

which can give someone the authority, they're basically Warren G. Anything that he could have signed, they can sign. Any amount of money that Warren can take out an account, they can take out of this account. How difficult was that to realize like, damn, I've been got. How soon did you find out that you had been got? And then what were the steps that you took to make sure that never happened again? It was just times where I was just, like, looking at my account, I would go to the bank and look like, damn, why is my money leaving? Like, I ain't been spending money like that.

So I started digging and digging and talking to people, and they're like, did you do this, do that, do that? You know, power of attorney, and I say, yeah, that's your problem right there. So I had to undo that. I had to undo it. And then my uncle came in right around that time. He was fresh out to Marines, and he came in and, you know, got me out of that and got me away from that and took me, you know, guided me on the right path, said, warn, you got to get an accountant, and you have to have that accountant to where you don't give them power of attorney. So he was giving me all that knowledge.

And that's what got me out of it. And it was terrible, man. It was terrible. and how people could just take advantage of people like that, you know, young black cat and not know. I didn't make you want to do something bad to them, though. Man. They want to do something bad to them, boy. Definitely.

Because it's hard to come by, I mean, here you are in a situation growing up, how the majority of us grew up, especially the majority of people that's black professional athletes or entertainers or celebs. They didn't grow up. They didn't grow up with, you know, middle class, upper middle class, so they didn't have it like that. And to get it and then to have someone try and tell. Yeah. Bella, you'd be thinking like, whew. Yeah, it was, it was heavy.

I charged it to the game and I said, you know what, if, you know, the way I'm working and the way I see royalty checks come in, I get it back. Right. So I was, it made me work harder to make more. And that's what I did. And I learned the lesson, a heavy one. It cost you a little bit, but you learned. Yes, it did.

This next song, Do You See? And it's interesting because the Bible Belt, they last you for that one. Yeah, they put it on you, wore it pretty good with that one. Yes, indeed. The way the hook went, give me, give me one second fellas, the way the hook went on the first one is that, you don't see what I see. Oh, they was like, I started getting calls from everywhere, like, one, you can't do, they like, oh, and the Bible Belt trip date.

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My worth is not wrapped up in how many things I've won because what I came to realize is I valued winning so much that once it was over, I got the blues and I was like, this is it. For me, it's the pursuit of greatness. It's the journey. It's the people. It's the failures. It's the heartache. Listen to The Bright Side on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Like, and I was like, let me try to change up the melody of it. Right. And then that's when I came in and I was like, You don't see what I see.

You don't see what I see. Every day as Warren G, I take a look over my shoulder as I get older, getting tired of motherfuckin' saying Warren I told, don't hear what I hear, but it's so hard to live through these years with these funny, bunny, ain't shit changing got my mama wondering if I'm gang banging but I don't pay attention to those

father figures I just handled mine and I'm rolling with my off to the VIP you see Snoop Dog and Warren Sheet Unbelievable how time just flies Right before your eyes But you don't recognize

Now who's the real victim Can you answer that? The next is jacking or the fool getting jack Yeah, you don't see What I see Every day as Warren You don't hear what I hear, but it's so hard to live through these years. You don't see what I see.

Every day as Warren She, you don't hear what I hear, but it's so hard to live through these years. Yes, indeed. Warren, did you spend any time in church? I don't know how you thought that was going to go, do you hear what I hear? I don't know how you thought that was going to... Yeah, I grew up in. I grew up in the church. Yeah, so I thought I could use it.

They was on my head. But it worked out, man. And it became one of my biggest singles. Yes. What did that song mean to you? It meant a lot. Because that was me and Snoops, the things that we was going through before we had got into the music business.

You know, it was a lot of hustling, a lot of people. We were still, you know, trying to pursue the hip-hop, but in between that, we was hustling. We was around a lot of gang violence, just going to jail, like the county, just hanging out with all our home boys that was gangbanging. There was just a bunch of things. Nobody wasn't trying to sign us, so we was just going through a whole bunch of bunch of like pitfalls like just back to back and so we was doing it so much and we were seeing a lot of people go to jail get shot a lot of things was happening so I was like

snoot why don't we just try this and and just straighten up and say forget it and let's just get regular jobs and try to see how that work out for us and still try to do our hip-hop And so that's what we did. You know, Snoop had got a job at Lucky's grocery store, and my mom had took me down to a place called the Southwest Marine where I got hired as a fire watch and then moved to electrician. You know, I did. We worked.

We worked. Hello, Snoop was at Lucky's? He was at Stock? You know, he was the bag boy? I think I don't know. He was in there looking like special ladies. with the little hairdo. And, you know, we changed and still kept working hard.

And all over the city, just, you know, jumping in the contest. Roger Clayton gave us a shot from Uncle Jam's Army. He had a club called the Toll Jam. We'll let us come in there and perform. You know, it was Snoop Dog Warren. g-nay dog two one three in the big posse which is my home girls they all was big so they they were all security right and they used to they used to regulate they used to they hold it down for y'all hold it down and uh all of that stuff um was do you see you know i just summed it up um

in the song you know should i a go back to slang and dope or should i be maintain and try to coat or should I see just get crazy in wild but no I chose D create the G child and that's what that's what I did and what we did it's musically just working hard just staying at it how old were you when you were Snoop met when you're in you know junior high grade school how elementary school yeah elementary school um Beverly would walk Jerry Jerry is Snoop's dirty left okay which is Jerry's I mean Snoop's oldest brother Okay. Is Jerry, which I call Dirty Left and this DJ.

Right. So Beverly would walk Snoop and Jerry across the park going to CIS. That's the school. We went to elementary school. And we would all just meet in the park. Sometime we would go play Asteroys on the store, at the store on the corner before school start. But we always was together from elementary school to King's Park. That was our home base, that's where it all started to all our friendships as well, right there at Kings Park.

And that's what we did every day. It was going to school right here across the street from Kings Park afterwards, go home, do your homework. Then we back to the park playing sports or summertime, eating the free lunches or going to Cal State. And they would teach us about football, basketball, tennis, soccer, every sport they were showing us. And so we even played sports together. We played Pop Warner football for six, seven years, straight from seven years old all the way up. Snoop was one team down for me.

But we never did get a chance to play together. But some of his guys from his team, we got to play together. Right. But we've just been together, like, around each other all our life. From me, Snoop, the twins. The whole Voltron crew, all of us, was just from kids all the way from elementary school, all the way up to being successful right now, even high school. We even went to school together.

And we're still tight to this day, all of us, all us, me, Snoop the Twins, all us. When did you realize that you and Snoop shared the same way? love for music, wanted to be in this rap thing? Uh, being in the Voltron crew and then going to, uh, going to the high school football games, being on the bus, uh, battling people and at school at the rallies, uh, football rallies battling the other artists in the schools. Okay. Going ditching school to go to other schools rally to battle, they, battle them.

Battle their crew. Yeah. And that was just showing us like how talented, how talented we were. And, you know, we fell in love with that. And that, it started. Snoop had got sent up to North Long Beach, because I was up in North Long Beach, North Long Beach, right there by Compton. And Snoop had moved. His mother, Beverly, moved to 61st Street.

So he ended up coming to Jordan, because I had to go to Jordan because I was in the North Long Beach. at one day at lunch, I hear somebody warn. And I look, and I'm like, Snoop, I'm like, nigga, what's you doing up here? Like, he's like, man, mine's moved up here. So he was like, Warren, let's start, let's go after school, let's go work. So we would, after school, we'd go right to my house, hit the record on the tape deck, I get on the turntables

and start mixing some beats together and Snoop would start freestyling. And we just kept doing it, just kept doing it and doing it and doing it. And sent the tapes to Kara Lewis and Rakim, Airbnb Rakim, Run DNC. I mailed them personally, me. I mailed all our demos to them. Did you hear anything back from anybody? We didn't hear nothing back, nothing back, but I mailed them off. When you guys finally did make it, did anybody that you had mailed them?

those two did they reach back out well you know once we made it you know we was in the same room right me same shows same wherever you know MTV Awards right so it was just like it was a dream come true just to be in the same room with these guys and we told we talked about it like we sent you the demo way back then right I'm gonna tell you this you know so It was like you guys could have had us doing records with you guys. Right. You know, but it was all love though.

We was just huge fans. You guys started up in a group, the Voltron group, the 213s. When did you realize, or did you realize that Snoop needed to go his way and you guys needed to do your own thing? You mean as far as like that he was going to be solo and you and Nate was going to do your thing or was it well we we never we never like separate we was always we was always two one three no matter what right now as far as the the record industry that part they determined that Yeah, that was determined by the record companies to where we couldn't work. But we did finally get a chance to work after all of the smoke, you know, that got through all of the turmoil and we was finally able to work. But it was never like where, you know, Snoop would be like, you know, fuck y'all.

You know what I mean? We always, like I said, we was always tight. we always moved together now as far as myself moving in my own direction where i went to death jam you know that was because death row with me you know what i mean so why i don't know i guess i was just i was i was i was i was gray that because was dray was dray still at death at this time yeah he was at death bro okay well damn i mean first of all They popped the tape in. You've been trying to get Dre to look at you for a minute.

Okay, he doesn't. And then somebody else come in, they pop the tape in when you're at a function with Drake. And they're like, man, who is this? He said, man, this Warren G and his homeboy Snoop and so forth and so on. So he's there. He knows what you guys are capable of.

Yeah. Did you feel some type of way about day? Like, damn, bro, you can't even look out for you? No, I wasn't, I wasn't, I wasn't like tripping like that. I just was like, I'm going to keep. Keep going hard. Right. He's working hard.

He actually told me, he's like, Warren, you've got to be your own man. This was like... Well, he's like, with Dre, I am my own man. It's not like you... I'm good on this thing, now. But out of outside... But you got to go outside. It's okay.

But the reason, the reason I think that the whole, you know, I wasn't liked as much was because I was on top of things like I told Snoop and I told everybody that was at there for, get lawyers. right you know don't just sign any of these contracts get lawyers so I guess that upset should and he got pissed off about it so that's probably the main reason why you know I didn't get signed over there because I was just as talented as everybody else right production wise artist wise rapping wise even on the DJ level I was equal to everybody so it was it was pretty crushing to not be able to to be with my

my best friend, be with my brother, which was like a best friend as well, but a big brother. I had to do my own thing, man. And when I knew that I had to go when I wasn't able to go on tour, I was like, you know what, I'm cool. I got to go. They didn't take you on tour? No, I didn't go. You wanted to go.

I showed up. I had my bags and everything. So you were already packed. I was packed ready to go. So I didn't even care. I want to know how this conversation goes. Okay, you packed? You're like, yeah, we're going on tour.

They're like, what do you mean? You ain't got no ticket. You don't got a ticket. I'm like, where's my ticket? Like, you don't got one. I was. You crushed. Crushed.

Yeah. And I just, I was crushed. And from that point on, I was just like, you know what? I got a, you know. You really got to look at my own. I'm expecting people to do something. I just got to get it on my own. And if it happens, it happens.

And if it doesn't, it doesn't. But I know that Warren's going to have to get this out of the mud himself. And nobody's going to help me. And I should, I've got to stop thinking that someone is going to help me. And I think that was probably why you was most upset. It's because you were expecting somebody to give you a hand. Well, not a hand out. Just give you a hand.

Yeah. I pulled myself up. Yeah, yeah. And it just wasn't, it wasn't happening like that, you know. But I just, I went ahead and just, you know, I was messed up, you know, but I still, I still came around, even though I wasn't involved. I still came around. And still show love.

There was no resentment, there was no animosity, amen. Congratulations, boy, y'all doing your thing. Yeah, yeah. I was pissed because I wasn't with everybody. But, you know, I had to do my own thing, man. Do you, I mean, you was telling guys, look, man, just don't sign everything blind, man. Y'all need to get some lawyers to overlook this thing to make sure y'all not signing away everything. Yeah.

And then do you think some of those guys that did sign away everything, wish they had to listen to you in the beginning? Definitely. Yeah, because, you know, you don't own your publishing, you know. And that's the main piece of being a musician is to be able to get to have your publishing and own it. That's going to help you eat for a long time. A long time, you know. And, you know, that's what happened. Right.

You know, instead of them getting royalty checks, they would get like a monthly. A stipend or something. Yeah, like here go 5,000. Like that. Damn. When they could have been getting 30, 40, 50,000. Yeah, a lot, a whole lot, because, you know, that was vinyl. Yeah.

CDs, vinyl. There's a lot of money being made, a lot, lot, lot. And you mentioned that Shud got upset with you. You said, man, keep your mouth shut. You're messing up my business. Pretty much. Yeah, pretty much. And, uh, but how did you, how did you know that they should get

representation because no one had helped you to the game at that point in time because you hadn't been signed so how were you able to be so far so far ahead of your time at that time I don't know it was just something something just ding like in my head like we can't just sign anything just to sign it we got to get it looked at we don't know what we sign it right you know what I mean and uh it just it was just something that I just was like we need to get lawyers right and a whistleblower had told that I said that oh and uh so did she'll step to you definitely he came to me and uh hey blood we're worn up I took off soon as he said that's just so I took off and uh it was an elevator so I couldn't

I couldn't get down because the elevator was the only way to get down right so I got caught he caught me uh grabbed me it was like blood you told him to lawyers and I was like I said man you don't get your hands off me I said I'm calling all my home boys and he let me go and uh that was it you know that was it y'all had been cool since huh we had we wasn't not y'all wasn't on the I mean we are still we was y'all was okay yeah we was cordial um but I think that's what really was why I didn't get signed a death row because I was I was I was sharp about as far as looking at the paperwork, you know, and...

What year was this for you, like 91 to? That was about 90, about 90, about 91. Yeah, 91. Yeah, 91 because I dropped in those smoke in 92. So that was like 91. Right. Mm-hmm. Yes, indeed.

And then because Snoop came out with what, the dog pound, dog, what would... That came in 94. 90, okay. You have the dog, dog, dog, dog, doggy dog world, that was, that was 1994, doggy style. Doggy, yes. I said doggy, dog, that came out of 94, yeah, so that came out of 94, because I came out of 94 as well, yes indeed. When Snoot dropped in 94, and boy, did he drop? it exploded yes indeed I mean his style the the the cadence the flow everything about I mean

he had the perfect name because he looked like Snoopy so I mean it was perfect it was perfect marketing it was the perfect time and when you heard it you like it ain't never going to be the same again yeah yeah I was blown it away just and so happy to finally see him, you know, get his due. Yeah, get his due. And just to see how people was going crazy over it, how it sold out, like in every store. Right.

And it was released was incredible. So I felt the same way he did. You know, with his success, I was like, I'm successful too. Right. I was a part of him and we best friends and we get ready to win together. This is how we get in. And, you know, I was really happy for him. Yes and day. Yes and day.

Because the, uh, the chronic Drey's album dropped in 93, right? That was that was, yeah, that was 90, 90, yeah, 92 now. Well, no, that was 90, that was 91 92, okay. 91 92's right in there. So you're like, damn, bro, bro, bro dropped that thing. Like, did you, because he had been a DJ. So did you, did you know he could rap? Yeah.

Okay. Yes indeed. From the world class record crew. Right. Yeah, he was, he was rapping way back then. And, um... See, I don't remember. I just remember to turn out the light.

That was, man, that song was crazy. Yeah. It was a song called The Cabbage Patch. Yeah. Yeah, it was actually, I actually heard it before everybody. As a kid, I used to hear everything. So I actually took it one time and wrapped it around snooping them like I did it. Ha!

They're like, Warren, what do you come up with? He was like, oh, that's hard. The song came out, blew my cover. It was crazy, man. So everything, now everything, okay, Drey comes out in 91, 92. You got Snoop coming out, and you, 94, and then here come you and Nate pop on the scene. Yes, indeed. What happened was I was at the studio one day.

with Snoop and Dre and everybody, and Paul Stewart and John Singleton was there. With Dre and Snoop to get some records for the Poetry Justice soundtrack. Okay. So I'm in the studio with them, you know, like I said, I would come hang out. So what I was still working, but I would come hang out with them even though I was doing my own thing. So I'm inside the studio, so I was like John Singleton, and Paul, I didn't know.

know. So I asked him, I said, man, y'all looking for songs for the soundtrack. And they was like, yeah. And so I said, you know, can we go talk? You know, so we went to the car. I popped in a cassette in. It was endo smoke. And I played like maybe 20 seconds of that. And Paul was like, stop. He said, can I take this tape? I said, cool. So he took it. I said, just give me my tape back. so he took it and like maybe like around that maybe Monday or Tuesday somewhere around there I got a call and they was like we want this to be the first single on the Poetic Justice soundtrack which was end of smoke they just bypassed everybody else and was like we want this to be the single and that was the record that set it off for me you know as a as a so that was that was Warren

G's introduction to the world That was the world introduction into Warren G. Yes, indeed. Indoch smoke. And that record was featuring Nate Dog. It was an introduction for Nate as well, as well as Mr. Grimm, who was an artist I was working under to build up. So that's where our journey started me and Nate as far as a combination with making great music.

Right. And that led to me being signed by Def Jam. They got a call. They was like, who was the, you know, the guy that kind of has like the kind of singing melody to his voice and um so got on the phone call with him um we talked about it and you know I was like I was already prepared like let me call Graham and let him know the Dev Jam want to sign him so they was like we want the guy on the phone car they was like we want the guy that's got kind of like the singing like kind

of like the melody rap to him right I said you know like the little like who hey he said yeah that that damn i said that's me so i'm that's me that y'all want me right i'm like i'm like death jam won't me so i was like i'm right here done yeah leorre corn and chris lyddy and tracy wapes flew out to california took me out to dinner and uh i signed and that was the beginning of you know me being able to to start uh doing records and Regulate was one of the first records I did, you know, because what I did once I got my advance, which was, it was like $350,000 advance. So what I did was I went and bought all studio equipment.

Bought all studio equipment, went and took it to the house, went out and started doing record shopping. And so once I was doing a record shopping, once I was, I was, I was. getting ready to go home so I stopped by Roscoe's chicken and waffles on my way home and um get the three-piece with waffle I was gonna tear the cheese eggs oh my god I used to tear it up so I stopped at Rosco's and it was a dude outside he was selling records okay so I bought the whole Crater Records off of them I was like I get I think I gave him like 500 bucks took the whole Crater

records whether were they all new records or were they used they was used okay Yeah, I took the whole crate. When I got home, I was going through the crate. And that's when I ran across Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers. I keep forgetting. And when I played it, there was a record. I was like, damn, my parents used to bang this. So I was saying to myself, like, if I did a hip-hop song to this,

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I put the drums up under it, played a couple keys up under it, and brought it all together. You start by Roscoe, you get them eggs, you know, you're feeling good. to be outside, say, hey, you got a crate of albums, vinyl. And how much you want you for this? Hey, don't worry about it. I got a little extra chain. Here, take it.

Let me give me all of them. So in the process, you get the crate home, you go and through them. You're like, damn, I'm like, Donald's Dubey brothers, okay? Yes, indeed. Let me see, let me put this on. Okay, I keep, okay? Like, damn. Just go hard.

Yeah. Now, if I could, if I could really do something in my genre, over this, I might be on to something. Yeah. That's the way I was thinking. If I could put a song, a dope song over this beat right here, I was like, this could really be different, and it could really, you know, put me in hip-hop real good.

But I didn't, I wasn't thinking of it like it was going to be one of the biggest records ever. You know, I was just thinking of it like... Because even though Endo did what it did on Poetic Justice, this was the one, this was Warren G's introduction to the world. Yes, indeed. All across, you know, France and the UK and London and Finland and Sweden and all this, they knew... Even though they didn't speak English, they knew this. Yeah, yeah. They knew this.

Yes, indeed. Yeah. Regulate. Again. my ride chilling all alone So I hooked a left On 2'1 in Lewis Some brothers shooting dice

So I said let's do this I jumped out the ride And said, what's up? Some brothers put some get So I said I'm stuck And they straight hit the car I'm getting Jack, I'm breaking myself, I can't believe They taking Warren's wealth

They took my rings, they took my roulette I looked at the brother said damn what's next They got guns to my head, I think I'm going down, I can't believe what's happening in my own time wings I would fly let me contemplate I glanced in the cut and I see my own name and one in the home made dumbed woman woman he had the red hilly Now they got the freaks, and that's a known fact. Before I got Jack, that was on the same track. Back up, back up, because it's on N-A-T-E and me, the woman to the tea.

and need up something print but make dog in the deep chat You would don't let me ride I'm thinking into a whole new era. I'm flicking into a whole new era. Gee, funk's up to this, I dare you. Funk on a whole new level. Chords, strings, we bring melody T-funk, where rhythm is life and life is rhythm.

I'm There is no possible way that when you picked up this cradle vinyl and you pulled out that one with the Doobie brothers and Michael McDonald, that you could have possibly fathom one wildest imagination. that that record was going to change your life. I knew it was a good record, but I didn't know it was going to be that at all. Right. You know, and even like today, with the new generation, it's like it started over again.

And every generation is starting over and over again. And it's like, wow. And, hey, I love it, but I didn't think that record was going to be this big. Right. it's amazing just to be able to still eat off it eat off of it hear it I mean it's uh

because it has to be I mean you're riding in the car I mean you're riding and you hear that song come on and you're like wow that's 30 plus years ago Warren yes indeed and it's still they play that song people get up yeah yeah people still get up 30 years later yeah it's it's amazing man I just you know

I didn't I just didn't know if it was going to be this big you know I mean in the process of doing it what I did is just even all the way from the samples when I sampled it you You know, I chopped each piece and each, in the pads on the MPC 60, and when you hear it, it's me hitting the pads. Doo-da-dun-dun-dun-----------------------a-boboboom, I'm hitting pads all the way around. So once I built the track and had everything in sequence and going away and sounding good, I thought to myself, I said, I need an intro. Right.

So I don't know how this happened. I guess it's just how God worked. I just happened to be looking at Young Guns, the movies. Yes. And I heard the dude say, regulate. We worked for Mr. Tinsdale, it was regulators. Yes. And I took that, the whole piece.

When you hear the intro on Regulate, I took that whole second. and I chopped it up in different pieces, so I took different pieces and I put it the way I wanted to do it. And you got to be real handy with the steel, you know what I mean? You got to be handy with the steel, you know what I mean, earn you keep. Yes, indeed. And that just when I listen back to it, and I'm like, what the hell? How did I think of this? How did I piece this together?

it was like it was a perfect, a perfect combination. And then when I called Nate, I was like, Nate, I got a record over here, man, that's incredible. I want you to come get down on it. So Nate came over, let him hear it. He was just like, that's hard. Because I told him I want to do a record with him, like how Snoop and Dre did you think.

So let's go back and forth. And, you know, Nate was at his style was a singing style. So that's what made it even doper. Now, if I'm not mistaken, this might have been one of the, because Michael McDonald's was with the Doobie Brothers. And I think this might have been one on his first solo album. And so this was a big, ginormous song for him. So to get it cleared, you had to let him hear it, correct? Yeah, yes indeed.

He actually, he's still getting paid off of them. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, he's still getting paid. The Doobie Brothers are getting paid. Nate still gets paid. I get paid. We still get paid. So when you, when you, when you finished the product, you said, uh, Mr. McDonald, I, I would like to, I would like to sample this. I got a great track over it. And, and here it is.

Yeah, well, what, what happened, the company got it clear. Okay. And I was, I used to be in New York a lot. So I'm at Times Square just, you know, walking around us. I used to just get out to walk around. And I bumped in the Michael McDonald walking in Times Square. Damn. Crazy. It was crazy. I was like, Michael, like, it's warm. And he was tripping like Warren G. I was like, yes, Warren G. He's like, man. So it was, it was, you know, cool to meet him. We didn't talk that much. We didn't talk like long. It was just like, yeah, yeah, so. And then kept pushing. But later on down the line, what I did was he was performing where I lived at. And, uh, he was. And so me and my wife went to the concert, and I told some of his people that I was there. And so he was out there, you know, doing his thing, performing. So he got to regulate. He was just like, I want to send a special shout out to a young guy out here in the crowd. Thanks to this guy, you guys are still hearing.

I keep forgetting to this day. And he made the song called Regulate. So I'm getting ready to do my version of it right now. And he was like, Warren, gee. And then they shine the light over where I was at. And I was like, hey, hey. Like, how y'all doing? And so he did it.

And then afterwards, they invited me back there. And we had a really great conversation. And he was like, man, you changed my life. Like, with that record, you changed a lot of lives. like my son don't even listen to my version you know he in love with your version he don't even listen to mine and uh we had we had a really really great conversation man he was just so like appreciative like of what I did for him and the Doobie brothers by redoing that record and I've just I felt great to be able to to be able to do a record that put a that

put a legend already like to keep him being legendary you know and made me a legend at the same time right when it's reported that this record this album of yours helped get death jam out there do you think and they said it's made over it made over a hundred million dollars you're like yeah damn it made that much how much I get shit out I was like a hundred million. Where the fuck is my money? Yeah. Where did that?

I was, man. It was first-time artist, you know, I was only making like, I think it was like 25, 30 cents a record. Yeah. So it was, it was. So you wouldn't get that big, that dollar, dollar, $52 a record. Well, later, after the success of that record, they was doing whatever I wanted, doing whatever I wanted to do.

Right. So I went, I went from, I got all the way to $1.50. Damn. Yeah. Yeah. And that was great back then. For sure. Yeah.

Yeah, it was great. So, you know, things that picked up. But that first time deal was just like, it was kind of like. like, like a, uh, paying dues. Yeah, they get to the first one. Yeah. And, um, I'm still, uh, owner of my master publishing. Oh, well, you, you're, yeah.

I'm still owner of that, which would be reverted back to me in the next four years. And then I can, all of that'll just be me. It won't go through two or three different companies then get to me. Right. You know, everything will be coming straight to me and then I can license it. out me myself but it's hard trying to get trying to get your masters back from these companies it's really hard and especially if you don't have it if you don't have it in the contract from the jump yeah it's well it's that's just standard like after some of some people

i warn is 25 years not 35 right and um but now i guess it's 35 you know so but it's hard to get them back you know and um to me that's unfair for like a guy like myself because i helped this company that's under this umbrella become a billion dollar business here and all i'm asking for is my master yeah you feel like they should have gave you those things back 10 15 years ago yeah yeah because i mean reward me right you know i did my part you know just reward it back you know but you know i'm working on getting them back um it's supposed to come anyway, so I'm working on it. Try to speed the process up?

Yeah, I was like, I want them now. Yesterday. I don't want a wait, no. Yeah, so I reached out a few times, and it was like, no. I'm like, damn. Let me ask you this. And I've heard a lot of, you know, when you look at Michael, Michael Jackson,

Thriller. I don't believe in my lifetime there will never be an album or song bigger than Thriller. Never. When you look at it and it says that he became obsessed because he was trying to replicate that. Even though if you, for me, as far as musically, off the wall was his best work. Now, Thriller was great. Yeah.

Dirty, bad was great. Yeah. And he had other, that were great. But off the wall, for me, was his best, was his best work. Yeah. But he wanted to do thrill. He didn't understand that was a once in a lifetime. Yeah.

It's like somebody in baseball throwing a perfect game. Nobody's ever throwing two perfect games. Yeah. And that was, and he, and it's like drove himself crazy trying to replicate that. And sometimes when you don't do what you've done, you feel like you're not as successful. Did you drive yourself crazy trying to do another regulate? No, I just, I never, I wasn't trying to outdo it. I just.

I want to make great music. And if it's something does regulate or does better to regulate, so be. But I'm not gonna make myself sick. I'm not gonna drive myself crazy trying to replicate that. Yeah, no, I never tried to compete with it. I just, I knew I had a formula, though, of making great records. And the formula that I had, which is the reason why I had so many records that was successful, like I want it all, do you see, regulate, like end of smoke, all these records were great.

Because when I work on the project, what I do is I try now. This is how you make great albums. I try to make every record I do a single. I try to do that because that makes you do a lot of good records. So that was my formula with anything I did. I just do a bunch of dope records. I would try to do a single, but I wasn't trying to compete with Regulator. I was just trying to do a single every time.

like an album full of singles, that was just my process of my formula when I'm working. And the records that came off of it was big records. All of them went gold, platinum. Yes, indeed. But they didn't go as many as regulated. Right. Yeah. And that's the thing.

So you have to be able to be content with the work. Yes, indeed. And I's like, you know what, man, because, you know, like, you do a deal. and it's not 20 million. You do a deal, say, let's just five or ten. Well, man, I wasn't successful. Damn. Man, this record wasn't that good, man.

It ain't regulate. Yeah. Bro. I mean, and, I mean, you just got to dust yourself off and try again. Just keep going at it. But if you feel like, if Warren feels that I'm just, listen, at this time, this is where I am musically,

this is where I am as far as writing. If I'm giving, if I'm doing the absolute best I possibly can, I can live with whatever sound comes off once it's overdone. And that's, that's exactly how I move. I don't, I don't, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't like try. I just work. I just work and just. You don't measure success of one album by the success of another album. No.

Each is an individual project. Yes, indeed. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And that's where that formula kicks in, you know, to where each one of those projects, whatever the next project is or whatever I'm doing, like I said, I try to make it like it's a single. I try to make these, every record on there, a single. Is it true, the LL came and picked you up?

Yeah, yeah, first time in New York. I didn't believe it was him. Because I'm like, what the F. L.L. going to come pick me up for? I ain't nobody. You know, not yet. I'm just signed, you know, new artist signed a death jam. I mean, it's hard to think about artists on Jeff Jam other than LL. He built that.

He built that company. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, I couldn't believe it. I was, because first of all, I was, I was a huge fan because he was one of those artists that I talked about that I looked up to, which inspired us. And for them to call my room and say, you know, Warren, you know, Warren, you know, he called up. I was like, is this Warren?

I'm like, yeah, this Warren. He's like, yo, this is L.L. I'm downstairs, man. I want to take you around, you know, take you around the city, man, show you New York. So I'm like, this ain't a goddamn, man. Somebody's playing. So I called one of the twins. I said, twin, one of y'all come with me downstairs.

It's this motherfucker downstairs talking about E.L. So we go downstairs. It was him. And he had the drop-top back. We jumped in, and he took us to Queens. He took us, we went shopping. He took us to where he did his album, where he wrote his lyrics at his grandmother house. He showed us how the basement went down.

I mean, I ain't never seen that many clothes in my life. Like, it was all the way down the stairs on the walls all the way. The whole downstairs was nothing but clothes and shoes. And he even had the Suzuki Samurai that he had, Tina had, he did, that Tina got a big old butt. Yeah. That Suzuki samurai was sitting right there in the yard. It was old and dusty, but it was there.

And I couldn't believe it, but he really showed a lot of love, man. And he took us around, we ate, everything, and he showed a lot of love. And that right there was like, that was where I was, when I was like, you know what, I'm getting ready to put my foot in all this music that I do. You know, that right there really, really launched me into saying I'm, I didn't really, really got far. Right. Yeah. There was a quote that you said you feel like you were the, the Drake of the 90s.

Why did you say that? Because all the ladies like him. Hey, all the ladies love Warren. You know, that's how I was. I was like that in the 90s. You know, I was like a lot of all the ladies. I was a solo artist. Look good.

I had a fresh fade. Now I'm toe up ball here. I got a little gray hair. I think all the way for you. And, you know, but back then, you know, a lot of the ladies loved Warren. To this day, it'd be, you know, I'd be out somewhere, me and my wife, it'd be ladies or ladies come up like, you my, you was my crush and this, that, you know. Their grandma's now, Warren. Huh?

Their grandma is now. Yeah. But it's even younger. Yeah. I mean, it's like, you know, like 30s, 40s, like, you know. Not that I'm an antique, I ain't an antique, you know, my early 50s. But, yeah, that's the reason why I said that because a lot of the ladies, I was like the ladies man in that era.

Right. And he's a ladies man in this era. Right. Yes, indeed. Major label or independent. I just saw, I think it was Stephanie. I think Stephanie Mills. I think it's Shaka Khan, and I think Patty LaBelle, I think they're going on the tour.

And I think they asked Stephanie, you know, and she says independent. She said because the record companies mainly are marketing. She says, I know what I want. I know what I'm looking for. So for me, independent is where to go. So because all that needs to come to me, because I'm the one that's doing all the work. Where are you on that one? You independent or are you a record?

I'm independent. Okay. I'm independent. She's right. You know, I can do a lot of the stuff myself. Like, I can go. I could do, like, some of the new records I got. I could do the record.

Like, I got a record with me and Wiz Khalifa, a dope record. I think it's going to be a top 40. Taking that record and doing clips, doing, like, a video of it, and then doing clips. And then doing ads with that on TikTok and people taking it and doing their own versions of dancing to it and doing different things. That's TikTok is pretty much. Your new marketing, too. Yeah.

That's your new marketing. It's a marketing too. Instagram, you know, paying for ads on Instagram, even Google ads, Facebook ads, you know, with just a bunch of clips, just pushing those clips of what you have. And that drives all of the traffic. It drives your merch up. It drives your streaming up. But I'm going to try something. Well, I'm not going to try.

I'm going to do something different. It's not a whole lot different, but I want to try and bring back more of vinyl and CDs. Because people ain't got rid of their CD players Are they vinyl players? No. So I want to do a special edition. I'm going to do some special editions.

I'm going to print up maybe 5,000, 10,000 vignals or CDs and sell those to the true fan base. You know what I mean? And just to get that... That nostalgia bag. Yeah, exactly, because it's like... The computer world is like... We don't know how they could change numbers, you know what I mean, do all kind of stuff.

So just to do that for the fans and give them that realness again, it'll be different, you know, to be different. And I'm sure a lot of people will probably follow that motto. Actually, I got a few friends that is using that motto already. And they're successful with it. Right. Where are you on the streaming? I hear a lot of people say, man, hey, Snoot was one of the first. They're like, man, that's streaming.

He'd say, I can't keep up with it. He's like, they send me a check, you know, four, five thousand dollars. And then some people like, you know, probably getting, I can only imagine what a Drake is getting from streaming. Because he's doing a, or the weekend, or Travis Scott or Taylor Swift or Beyonce. I can only imagine because they're doing, you know, it seems like every time I turn around, Drake is this and Drake is that. And Beyonce and Taylor Swift is this and they're bad. So I can only imagine, but where are you? Where are you on the streaming?

I mean, I don't like it because what I got to deal with it because it's the way the business is what it is now. Yeah, but I don't like it because you can't really monitor, you know, those numbers. We can't. They tell you that it might be more. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. In a lot of cases, that it is more. But it's the way it again.

game so you got to change with the way the game changed but like i was saying like doing that bringing that vinyl in those CDs back that'll give you know the true fans something to really hardware you know what i mean that they can they can touch and feel because you can't touch streams or do anything you can't grab that and pop it in your CD player but you can't pop this CD in here you can't pop that vinyl on that record player and get that. The last song we're going to have you to perform is Ain't No Fun. Yeah.

How did this, how did this, how did this ain't no fun? How did that come about? Ain't no, well, I actually walked in on Ain't No Fun. We was recording that Village, Village Studio, right there in Santa Monica. And I walked in on it in, and, They was like, Warren, you want to do a verse? And I was like, yeah, I do one. But the concept of Ain't No Fun was like,

ain't no fun that the homies can't have none. We're just young teens. Even the ladies, like young teens, just having a good time, partying, having a great time, you know, having fun. Right, yeah. And, you know, I'm not. gonna get mad if she dance with you or you guys you know kissing or whatever I ain't gonna get

mad ain't no fun if the homies can't have none right so it's just like not being a hater a player hater you know just being able to have fun and be around a lot of beautiful ladies and the ladies being around a lot of great looking guys and ain't no fun if the homies can't have none the ladies is feel the same way yeah they sing it just like we sing you know what I mean right yeah oh yeah Nate killed it. Yeah. Baby, I can't sing. Before you opened up your gap.

I had respect for your lady. But now I take it all back. Because you gave me all your say. Yeah. And you even lick my balls. Oh, wow. Leader your number on the cabinet, and I promise, baby, I give you a call.

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If the homies came, it ain't no fun. If the homies came, yeah. Yes, indeed. Some people, having done this now for five years and talk to a lot of different people that do what you do.

Some people, they like it quiet in the street. It's just them, got the headset on, going. Some people, like a lot of people running around, a lot of chaos and ruckers, some people smoking, whatever the case may be. When you go into the studio, how do you want it? You want it nice and quiet. You want chaos.

You want it. Women running around. You want the home boys fired. How does Warren want it? Chaos. Chaos. Because, I mean, it's, when I say that, because you got, you know,

you have some people that, like the shit, around some people don't even do music and this that and this but those people and all that chaos in there they're going to tell you what sounded good and what ain't sounded good but ladies is going to be dancing doing their thing when they when the ladies dancing you know you got you got one you got one okay and um they're going to tell you the truth you know right and uh you know so i like i like the chaos i like a bunch of people to be in there i like for it to be a good party vibe and just feel good you know and And I like to warm it up.

I come in, you know, I have me, you know, a joint road. You know, I have me some drinking, you know, by the way, some of this good old... That's the best. I promise, look, before you, before you drink it, I promise you that is the best cognac that you've ever going to taste. I promise you. Hey, you keep it real. We're going to keep the camera to roll, and we're going to add anything. I promise you, if that's not the best cognac, no sugars.

No artificial colors. That brown is from the barrel, the oak barrels. That's a big of sugar. Wow. From the grapes. Wow. A uni blanc grate and a petite champagne. That's the combination that we use.

Magnifico. Wow. Well, hey. My home boy, Shannon Sharp. Yeah, that's that shade by La Portia. I promise, Warren, I promise you, you're not going to be disappointed. I promise you. Wow.

That is a different. That's it, yeah, that is. Now, you say you on the grill like that. That's what you say. You say you be on the grill hard. That's what I do outside of hip hop. So you're a pit master for real. The hip hop pit master for real.

Yes indeed. Yes, indeed. I got some food for you here. Okay. Let me ask you this. Of all the videos that you've been in, let's just say that they weren't yours. A G-Fing, Jen and Juice. What's your favorite video to be in?

What was your favorite one? you had the most fun uh i'll say g thing um it was that was young worn like that was before warren yes and uh i was this there supporting snoop and dray and it the whole day was just full of fun full of a bunch of people just you know we're having a real barbecue we was out there for real like really like having a real picnic and it was it was just so much fun and then They caught me in the video rolling the joint and kept it in the video because I was like, I'm trying to smoke. So I'm dancing. I'm party and they caught me rolling the joint.

So that, and to this day, everybody still be like, wooing, wasn't that you rolling that? I'm like, yeah, that was me. You know, but it was, that was the most fun I had, man, because all my homeboys was there. Yeah. Dre, D-O-C, our crew was there. I mean, it was just all our Long Beach buddies was there. It was a bunch of dudes from Compton. Even Inglewood, everybody was there just having a good time, man.

Was that the first time you had ever been in a video? You know what? I was in a... I ain't talking about those kind of video. I'm talking about that. Ladies and gentlemen, well, you know. No, I was in, uh, uh, was it, uh, easy, easy, uh, easy does it. Yeah, no, easy does it.

I was an easy does it. Me and my, my brother Tyree, they flashed on us real quick, but we was, we was in easy does it, way back in the day, yeah. But, uh, the fun, the most fun I had was G thing, man, it was, it was, it was, I had a ball. Yes, indeed. Music, you mentioned that you got a song coming out with We, So are you going to, is it just a song? You got an album coming out.

So what's next for Warren G? A lot of good music. Like I said, me and Wills got a really great record called Mad and All. Me and Snoop got a, me Snoop and Corrupt got a really dope record. It's called the Doberman Gang. I got solo records. I got a record that I know everybody is going to love this one. It's called We Gonna Dance Again.

really really dope record all all the records is dope I actually got a record with little Wayne called All Alone working on that one right you know to get the clearance on that way he did the record got to clear but right my guy love you know really dope record me and Nate got a record called I found you that's people are going to really love that combination again. I'm giving them that again. Me and, you know, never heard before a record with me and Nate called I Found You.

It's a really dope record. And I just, I got a bunch of, I don't want to give everything away, but I got a lot of great music coming. I'm still active. I'm not like done with the music because you never too old to make a hit record. Right. Just constantly working.

I'm constantly doing work outside of hip-hop as far as, you know, my barbecue sauces and rubs. I'm the hip-hop pit master. I'm doing, I'm actually getting ready to do a cook with my team up in Alabama at the Crimson Tide for 2,500 people. We're going to go in and... That's going to take you a couple days to get ready for that. Well, I'm just the guy that, you know, I'm the guy that tell, you know, I'm going to manage. But all my pit mat, my other pit masts, they're going to do their thing. This is when I get to chill.

Like what I did with the food I cooked, and I did this, you know, but I have my team and we get out. And I do that outside as well as investing in real estate, you know. So just trying to stay busy and do it all because I want it all. Right. And I can understand that. Clear this up. I think there's a misunderstanding.

The Super Bowl was in L.A., Dr. Dre, Snoop, I think 50, M., Mary Jay. And you said, you weren't, I don't know if you were. I mean, I'm sure you would have loved to perform, but you wanted, like, tickets to be like, have your son, you wanted to take your son, and you wanted to be on the field so your son can see that up close. Yeah. And that wasn't able to happen. Was there a misunderstanding?

Was there a late communication? what what clear what actually happened did you put did you put did you put the ticket request in a timely manner uh you can't definitely you can't wait till the day before to the performance no no no i had uh i mean you know i had talked to some people and and we were supposed to connect once i got there and um everything just went went blank um and i was sitting in the in the uh regular, you know, in the stands and people was like, what are you doing, what are you doing up here? Like, even like, like, I think I seen Stephen A and a couple of other cast, like, they was like, what, what's you doing up here? And, uh, no, that was Nate, Nate Burr. Nate Burleson. Yeah, Nate Burleson. He was like, what are you doing up here? You're supposed to be down there performing. I was like, you know, I'm not performing. I'm just here to, you know. Yeah, you support. That's a new player. Man, I'm just here to support, bro. Hey, I'm just happy to be in the house, you know. Yeah. And, uh, but it was just, it was just, the communication just wasn't right, you know, and, uh. In two years, you know it's bad. I think it's back in L.A. and next year.

Yeah, that's dope. But at overall, I wasn't like bitter about performing or anything like that. I was just there to support and I just wanted my son to be down there to see, yeah, see his, one of your best friends, his uncle. See everybody. And, uh, it was just like the shit wasn't happening. I'm hitting everybody. Right. We was talking to shit before all this, and now I can't get that contact. That man can't get nobody on the movie. Everybody shit shut down. So I was like, I was pissed off, but, you know, I got over it.

You know, I wasn't, you know, I wasn't tripping, but it was just like. That was just the one thing that you really would have wanted your son to experience. Yeah, I wanted him to get down there because he, he was home, from home from camp, what was it, whatever was. I think they had to buy the, because he had, he played with the bills. Okay. So they had a buy. So he was at home or whatever it was. He was off for like, I think, a week or something, a few days, something like that. I don't know, but he was at home. So this was happening. So I wanted him. I don't know. It actually couldn't have been a buy. The season was over with it. So he was home from the, from the season. Right. And so just taking him out, just taking him around and letting him hang out. You know, we're hanging out. We're hanging out. together you know and I wanted them to really see you know everybody up close up close and meet everybody and see is it's all his family and the whole nine and it just didn't happen but you know like I said I'm not I ain't bitter

about it and wasn't bitter about performing or you know and none of that you know it would have been good I would have loved to do it right hey it didn't happen but you know I ain't tripping off of it I was just pissed off we didn't get the chance to be you be a to be down there down and so I was I was mad at everybody I was like boomed them niggins but you but you put that past you now because there's too much there's too much great history because a lot of times one a lot of times people will forget the 30 great years that we've had in that one instance ruining 30 years and I'm not I for me I can see if it's 30 years a bad and one good time I said nah one good thing can't erase 30 years but one bad thing can't erase 30 years and in my eyes. Yeah, not at all. Yeah. So I'm going to get this, how did you go from music to, so you know what, I'm going to do, I'm going to do, I'm going to be a cook.

I'm going to be a pit master. I've always did it, always. So you've always been in the kitchen like that? Always. My father, he used to just cook. My dad used to cook at a lot of family functions and just watching him and being around. And the fun times we would have, you know, with cousins and friends at the reunions and good food, we eating good food, it just stuck with me. So even before I was warned, gee, Snoop would tell you, like all of them would tell you, I used to just cook.

I would cook everywhere we was at hustling, no matter what it was, just to ease the pain of things. I would cook and play good music. Right. And I kept doing it, you know, kept on and kept on. a lot of my friends was just like warm. You need to come out with a product. All you do is cook, you a barbecue guy, you're a pit master, why don't you come up

with some sauces and rubs? So talk to my pops, talked to a few of my other friends, that's chefs. And they helped me put everything together from all the way from the sauces to the rubs, did a few tastings, tasted different rubs, went into spice companies, went in the formulation companies as far as the sauces to sit down and tasting everything

until it came, it was to my liking. And all of that stuff just, you know, and food ain't going nowhere. It's a good, it's a good business. Yes, for sure. And I just, I just was like, man, this is something I really love to do. And it's a peace of mind for me to barbecue and just sit down and listen to. good music, have a beer, smoke a joint, barbecue, chill, have a good time. Do you eat pork?

Yeah. I'm in the, I didn't want to cook no pork. I'm in the Muslim reserves. One weekend out of the money, two weeks I eat, I don't eat no pork. The other than that, I eat pork. Yesterday, yes a day. I didn't want to bring no pork, but I... But you ain't cooked no pork?

I pulled it off. I pulled it off. I brought some, I, it was a, I had to go hot and fast, but I made it happen. I got some pork ribs. Yeah, yeah, I eat pork. Yeah, pig feet, yeah, bacon, pepperoni. Oh, yeah, yeah, all that, pig tail, mm-hmm, oh, yeah. Neck bone, mm-hmm.

Pig ear? Yeah. No children now. I ain't going to lie. Every year I eat some chip. chillers too? I eat some chillers every, every holiday season. Oh, holiday, okay.

My sister would cook them and then I eat them with high salt. So let me ask you, where do you dry? You like this, this is, this is a dry rub. This is a dry rub. Yeah, dry rub. Yeah, dry rub. Pretty much that one right there is more for pork. Okay.

Turkey, chicken. Seafood. Yeah, you could put it to seafood as well. And then they, not too hot. I mean, you, you ain't got too hot, do you not? No, no, sometimes people are, whew, that's good. No, I can't taste it. It ain't good if it's too hot.

It's not, it's not like burning hot. I got a we brain seat that's got a little kick to it, but it's, it's really good. So what can you taste it? Where can they find this? Sniffing griffinsbbbq.com. Okay. Yes indeed.

Yes indeed. Yes indeed. It's a really good, really good stuff. Yes, indeed. This is the dry rub, the original barbecue. Yeah. And this one, uh, so which, which one is your, which one do you like the best? This is an all purpose rub right here.

Uh, all of them. I mean, I use this one, the all purpose a lot, because I could put it on any and everything. I put it on, even fruit. I put it on my fruit. Fruit? I swear to God, I put it on my fruit, my egg whites, anything. That's after you don't find out that J ain't it. No, not at all.

you put that on the fruit you at all vegetables everything no matter what I put it on everything so tell so tell the people at home what did you what did you prepare today well today I did some beef flanking ribs it's a cut instead of having the big giant rib that dino rib you didn't it's a not the dino ribs it's a one-inch cut of the dino rib but they wanted one-inch cut okay and then I did some boneless skinless thighs and then I did some some spare ribs okay yes indeed and some mac and cheese teteas mac and cheese I got some potato salad some good some good food yes indeed can we can we get a we gonna break it out yeah yeah thank you yes

indeed y'all got funny old Chuck please oh yeah who yeah all right that's a These are beef flankings. Okay. Like I said, the thin cut of the ribs. Okay. And then you have the spare ribs. Spare ribs. And you got the, the, uh, lonely skinless thighs.

Yep. Mac and cheese, T.T's mac and cheese and potato salad. All right. Yes, indeed. Ah, let me say, my grace right quick. Oh, yeah. Which one, what should I try first? Mac and cheese?

You could try the mac and cheese. Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going to get a little bit more quick. Oh, yeah. I'm going to get a little bit of both right quick. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Oh, yeah. Like a cheese, I like it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Bones, skin, star. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, you did it.

Oh yeah. Yes, I did. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Oh, man. That's my slogan, bite through, not fight through. Mm-hmm, yeah, you're here. All right. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Man, I mean, like I was on a plantation for a couple days. I ain't had nothing to eat since earlier than morning, but it, no. You did your thing with this now. No, yeah. All things being equal.

I like pork ribs, better not like beef ribs. Because most everybody and I want to do the dino. That's too much. I can't eat that. Oh, yeah. I'm going to hear this old poke button now. All right. Mm-hmm.

I do a little something with it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Let me see. You made this potatoes out of two? Yeah. I ain't the biggest potato salad fam, so. It's got a twist to her.

I like a little cake. I like a little... Guess what I use in it, some of one of the ingredients? It do got nice little twain, like a little, and I ain't the bigger potato slice of the guy, but I deal with it. Y'all trying the food? Yeah, we're going to try it. Oh yeah.

There's any sauce on it? I don't need no sauce, and I'm good. Yeah, it's... Mm-hmm. Chicken, potato salad, pork ribs, mac and cheese. Like I said, I'm not a big beef. I'm not a big beef.

Okay. Yes indeed. But the beet rib, they're very tender. Mm-hmm. I mean, they're very, very, very. Yes, indeed. So when you travel, do you make it a point to try to go to different cities?

and try their barbecue? Yes, indeed. Every city I go to, I try. Every city, because it... Because you want to see, if there's something, could I do something different? If there's something I can add, maybe I need to take something out.

So obviously, you know, what cities have the best barbecue? Austin, Austin, Texas. I hear a lot of them on the food channel and stuff, but I see them on IG. People are talking about. Austin yeah they got a lot of they got a lot of good they got a lot of good barbecue it's a spot called Goldies that that I like actually I met a lot a lot

of these guys I met them personally the pit masses and I've talked to them they gave me pointers on smoking meat and stuff like that yeah so I mean to be good I mean for the most part mm-hmm to be really good good at this, you gotta be doing this for some years. Yeah. I'm talking about years and years. And most of them, if you're not overweight, I don't even want, I ain't try to eat no barbecue

because that means you ain't eating your barbecue. Yeah. If you cook it like you say you cook it. Yeah, yes indeed. I mean, it, it definitely, it's a lot of, it takes, you know, a lot of patience. Yeah, because, you know, you gotta prep it. Mm-hmm.

You gotta let it. marinate this long you know slow low and slow yes indeed so that's why it like the beef is so tender oh yeah the beef the beef literally literally it's just like yeah you're checking it's out the bone yeah chicken it's all it's very it's very tender bite through not fight through that's what i call it so uh what sauce did you put on the ribs i I put the OG rub on the pork ribs. Okay. I put the all-purpose on the beef flankings and the chicken I use the OG rub as well.

Okay. And then with the potato salad, I put the potato salad together and I mixed my all-purpose in with the potato salad as well. Mm-hmm. And then that's T-T's mac and cheese. Yeah. This concludes the first half of my conversation. Part 2 is also posted, and you can access it to whichever podcast platform you just listen to Part 1 on.

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