Warren G: Regulators Mount Up!

I want to thank all of you guys for the questions you asked. I truly appreciate every last one of you and thanks for loving my music. Happy Holidays to you and your family. -- Warren G

What are your thoughts on regulating?

i think its necessary when you get disrespected or taken advantage of

What's your favorite Nate Dogg memory?

Working on songs like indo smoke and regulate where the studio was field with beutiful ladies and weed and liquor and food.

Hey Warren, I've been a huge fan of yours for years - and I think you've always been under-appreciated. Can you tell me what your creative process usually is? How long does it take you to write a song, how hard work is it?

Thanks a lot.

all i do is get in the lab and listen to the oldies and smoke a joint or 2 and the ideas just start to flow. plus women also

Before you're about to commit the act of fornication, do you ever tell the girls to mount up?

All the time

What is a hobby of yours that people might not expect?

skiing

Hey All! Give me one second.

How different do you think the game would be if we didn't lose some of the big players? (Pac, Biggie, Nate Dogg etc.)

Wow it would be great because i would be producing for them without all the beef.

Warren.... Will you sponsor my softball team?

yes indeed

Are there any artists or groups that you haven't worked with but would like to?

Outkast,Erica Badu,Anthony Hamilton,Drake,Lauren Hill,Jay Z,Rick Ross,Kendic,Maroon 5,Dej Loaf, Rick Homey Quan and musch more

What's your connection to Santa Ana? You always shout the city out. Why?

I worked there as a kid selling candy

Big fan. Who's your favourite Muppet?

Kermit he reminds me of snoop

Kind of a basic question, but what was your favorite song or album you made or worked on?

Mine is Regulate (which my dad listened to in the car on repeat for a good week or two.)

Mine was in the midnight hour

Is the G Funk era ever going to end?

Is it just me, or does Suge Knight look like the black Stay Puft Marshmallow Man? Maybe he looks different in person or something

G funk will never end

How did you wind up sampling I Keep Forgettin on Regulate?

i just wanted to try some different type of music to rap on

Hey Warren what's up! I signed you up at LA Fitness back in late 2012 in mission viejo, just wondering did you ever use it? Haha I never got to see you after that day! If not hope you staying healthy brother. Keep it G.

Nope!

I don't listen to much hip-hop. Hell, I don't listen to much music at all anymore. But I distinctly remember shoplifting your Regulate album from a K-Mart in Lakeland, Florida around '95. Sorry, man. I think it's the only CD I've ever stolen.

Does stealing from retail only impact the store's revenue or does that directly affect the artist?

Also, how's the east side of LBC these days and who, exactly, did Nate Dogg kill in your song? Gonna need names. I'm not the police, I promise ;)

lol Im glad you stole it. that let me know i did a good job the only person that lose is the store because they already purchased it to sell

Do you still live in coto?

lol

How did you end up deciding to use a Michael McDonald sample??

It was dope and i thought a rap would be different and dope on that type of music

"Regulate" is not just one of my favorite 90s hip-hop tracks but also one of my hip-hop cuts from a mostly hip-hop laced movie soundtrack. Other than "Above The Rim" and "Regulate", what, in your opinion, is the best hip-hop fused soundtrack and the best hip-hop track from a movie soundtrack?

Poetic justice and the song was indo smoke

Have you ever been in a situation in real life where someone told your rings or your Rolex? I can't imagine that was a good feeling.

Yes i was the one who was jacking for the rolex so i told the story from there eye and others who beeb through that.

Thank you for everything you've done, I'm a big fan!

Can you tell us something about yourself that the average person wouldn't expect?

Im a dad that really try to be in my kids lives and to show them how to be men and not followers but teachers.

What musician(s) do you secretly love and consider to be a guilty pleasure?

Ri Ri

Back in July, you began working with a Korean hiphop group called BTS.

What cultural and musical differences took you by surprise (if there were any) and what have you taken from this experience?

Its not much difference. They could rap just like artist here. The experence was cool to see hip hop around the world.

What new-school artists do you like?

Drake,Rae Shrummerd,Dej Loaf,Mike Slice,Kendric Lamar,Problem,Yg,

Dan the Automator calls you up; he wants to work on a project with you and Mike Patton. You in?

Im down to work with all who is dope

Warren, massive fan from NZ (Regulators worldwide!) I am a massive fan of your music, love those tracks u was spittn back in the day, Transformers, relax ya mind, recognize, so many ways. You is such an OG even as a young hog. Get in da studio with snoop and spit somthing Olskool for us long time lovers! Anyway tell me bout those dudes tha twins and how u came about them? would love to kno how things got poppn back in those days. BTW im 19 yrs old, lovin ya tracks that be rockn when i was just a baby!!!

Dam man you hit me with the bop gun lol. All the people that was on the album are from long beack so ive known them all my life.

Huge fan of Regulate. What is your most fond memory of working with Nate Dogg?

Actually doing the song as far as going back and forth

Warren,

Why do you think many members of the outlawz (like Napoleon) changed their lives after their friend Tupac's death? Did you also ever re-evaluate your purpose of existence after your friend Nate died?

You Grow up once you get older and as a man you change so that what it was

Hey warren! I've been a fan for years, and had a huge crush on you growing up. (I'm a girl) I cried when Nate Dogg passed away, and when I listen to him, I get taken back to a part of my youth. It's a sweet feeling. What reminds you most of him? Thank you for teaching me how to regulate, and just so you know, if I had wings I would fly.

What reminds me of us is when im in the lab doing music

If you could change one thing that occurred over the course of your career what would it be and why?

Being a straight producer because it give you more freedom to create them people have to create off your idea

Hi Warren, huge fan of your work and all the other artists that came out of the West Coast during that time.

Could you tell us one of your favorite memories from the early days of working with Snoop and Nate in your group 213? I’ve always wondered what you three were like together.

I use to love rocking all the local clubs and football rallys we were hood stars then lol

Hey Warren- thank you so much for doing this AMA!

How has your relationship with Snoop changed over the years? How did it change or stay the same with Nate over the years as well?

Thanks!

Me and snoop dont talk as much but he is still one of my good friends but ask him that when you see or get a channce to ask.

What inspired you to start a career in music?

The hip hop artist before me

"I Want it All" is my favorite album of yours. It has such a unique sound, and the production is brilliant. What's your favorite track from the album?

Having Thangs. Listen to what nate said and that's what we stuck by

Hey Warrren, love everything you do. You've mentioned how you want people to respect the art of rap, so how do you feel hip hop will/should develop in relation to staying true to the artform?

By keeping those smack battles goin and artist like M&M keeping the Mc music out there

What are your thoughts on rap nowadays?

Its cool. You have some great artists out and you also have some bullshit artist out but the good out weigh the boo boo lol

are you gonna collaborate with local long beach artists like vince staples, joey fatts or boogie?

My arms are open to them they just have to contact me

Hey Warren g. What's good big homie. Have you got any classic nate dogg storys?
Also thank you for the many years of classic west coast bangers

much love. We use to argue and then work and make a hit and chill with beutiful ladies

Warren! Been a fan since I was kid! Why did you sign with Def Jam and not Death Row? Any regrets on that decision? Also, if I can ask one more question, who are you diggin' in the music industry today?

Deathrow had a huge roster and def jam was ready for me to put out music asap.

Hey Warren, are you still in touch with artists you worked with on your earlier albums, such as Da 5 Footaz and Mr Malik? Any plans to collaborate with them again?

Also, thank you for Regulate, it was the soundtrack which accompanied my teenage years.

Yes indeed they will always be my folks and they still getting checks from that album lol

Mr. G, my brother Tony lives in Long Beach and says he met you once. Can you wish him a happy birthday?

Happy G Day Tony

Warren G! Love your music,

What is the most valuable piece of advice you've ever been given?

Make sure to own your publishing

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Boom! I word for mr tinsdel as a regulator lol

Who's the best rapper at the moment?

Me lol

Huge fan Warren! What other G-funk artist would you recommend to me and others? I have spent quite some time searching for other artist that have the same relaxed and chilled feel as yours and nate

Mike Slice

Do you like traveling? What are some of your favorite places to visit?

ATL is one of my favorites

I always get pumped when I hear Regulators come on haha. What was your favorite moment while making sons in the nineties?

Just being with all my friends that i do music with

What are your thoughts on Ferguson, Missouri/Micheal Brown and the choking death of Eric Garner in NYC?

No justice and Sad and Hurt for the parents and wives and brothers and sisters and fathers and family.

At what point on the rise of gangster rap in the 80's and 90's did you realize "oh shit, this is going to blow up!"?

it was blew up already

are you gonna release some of nates music thats still laying around in the vault?

I have songs i may release other are to precious i have to keep them

I went to see you in concert at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix, Arizona a couple a years ago and you canceled. I was so bummed! Are you going to come back to Phoenix again?

Im sorry about that it was not my fault its the buisness

Warren G, the man, thanks for doing this I am a big fan.

How did you start producing those funky ass beats? I am using garage band and it simply isn't making the cut or enabling me to play around and learn as much and touch into MY soul. Do you have any recommendations?

Is there you just have to feel it out it will come as long as your dedicated

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KRS ONE,RAKIM,ICE CUBE,TUPAC,BIGGIE

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For sure have him hit me

Who's the hottest chick of all time?

Wow! its alot of them. I just love beutiful women period all women