Warren G Preps Release For EP With Nate Dogg, First Single Features Game

The LBC rhymeslinger is readying a five-song EP with the late Nate Dogg’s music and says he has about 30 other songs featuring Nate in the stash…




Thursday (March 15) marked the one-year anniversary of singer Nate Dogg’s death and Warren G, Nate’s longtime partner-in-rhyme and friend, wants people to know that as long as he’s here, he’s going to keep the G-Funk doctor’s memory alive; the Long Beach, California rap veteran plans on doing just that by dropping a Nate Dogg and Warren G EP titled No One Could Do It Better, as soon as next month.

“It’s pretty much done,” Warren G told “I might drop it April 17 right after our first Coachella show. If not, by mid-May or June. Shit…I might decide to go hard virally with it.”

Whenever fans do get their hands on it, Warren promises a full blast of G-Funk.

“It’s that genuine G-Funk sound that we’re missing,” Warren said. “I just to give people that real music again and tell people that ain’t nothing changed. Nate is still here. I got to keep my boy alive.”

The five-song EP’s first single is called “A Party We Will Throw Now,” which pairs Warren with Game and has Nate blessing the hook, as he’s done on so many choruses throughout his career till his untimely death due to complications of multiple strokes last year.

“As I travel this lonely gangsta road, just me and my negro, we still got bomb hydro,” sang Warren, doing his best Nate Dogg impersonation of the song’s hook. “We just stumbling in the nightfall, that’s when young girls go home, big girls put on small clothes/A party we will throw…a party we will throw now!

“I can’t really sing like Nate,” Warren said laughing. “The record is a really dope record.”

Warren, who estimates to have about “25-30” recorded songs with Nate Dogg in the stash, plans on dropping his own Regulate the G-Funk Era EP in mid-July. He says that EP too will have two Nate Dogg features, with the single of that project entitled “I’m Still In Love With You.”

The laid-back LBC rhymeslinger has also been keeping busy producing, as he crafted Young Jeezy’s current single, “Leave You Alone,” off the Snowman’s Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition album.

“A bunch of muthafuckas passed on that song,” Warren revealed. “[Jeezy] heard it and said, ‘G give me two weeks.’ He then called me back and said, ‘Take this off the market. We got one, OG! It made me feel good to see two young cats like [Jeezy and Ne-Yo] recognize and love and create a classic off something I did. So, that’s for the haters.”

Nas Gives New Details on Life Is Good Album

Nasty calls Life Is Good a summer album, and says that he’s getting ready to shoot the video for his latest single, “The Don”… 

Last week, Nas surprised fans when he released his new single, “The Don.” The song, produced by Salaam Remi, Da Internz and Heavy D, was a follow up to the Queens rapper’s single “Nasty,” which was released last June. Not only did it find the legendary MC in his zone once again, but it also hinted at the reality of a new Nas album,Life Is Good, later this year. Now, he’s giving some more details about the project.

“A lot of the tracks have [come from ideas] where I would take an idea from one of the guys that I’m working with and try to put it together with a different sound that I had in my head, or with someone else,” Nas recently told MTV News. “[I] just try to get people to collaborate who are not really used to working together and to get something different from me.” Though he didn’t give any further details on whom those collaborators would be, anyone familiar with Nas’ catalog is sure to expect some big-name endeavors.

During a storied career of nearly two decades, Nas has never gone this long—almost four years, in fact—without dropping a solo project. And although he served up Distant Relatives alongside Damian Marley in 2010, Nasty knows that fans want him in his purest form.

“It’s been a long time, it’s been five years since I released a studio album, solo album; so this record is everything,” he continued. “This is everything that I’ve got to say—I guess you’ve got to live a little and you put that in your music, so it’s coming from my life.”

Now that he released his latest single, the Def Jam rapper doesn’t plan on slowing down.

“It’s a summer album,” he said. “We’re gonna shoot the video for ‘The Don’ and get ready for the next song that’s in the chamber. It ain’t gon’ stop. It’s a whole story. ‘[The] Don’ just dropped, so we’re just letting that bubble and setting up the next one.”

Warren G Remembers Nate Dogg

On the one-year anniversary of Nate Dogg’s death, friend and collaborator Warren G shares his thoughts about the voice of G-Funk… 


Thursday (March 15) marks one year since Nate Dogg, the beloved voice of G-Funk sound, died due to complications from multiple strokes. On the one-year anniversary, Warren G reflects about his frequent collaborator and fallen friend. Mount  up.
“It’s been a year now since he passed away. It ain’t no fun making music without Nate Dogg. Today, I’m just celebrating his life. He graduated to being with God, a better place than here. His mom is still really hurt. It’s hard for me to call her because she’s crushed. That’s her baby. It’s real hard for his entire family. Me and his son chat back and forth on Twitter. I’ll never forget Nate. He was a genuine individual. He was the greatest cat around, ever, as far as hooks, but one thing about him is that he wasn’t just the hook man, he was a great song writer. That guy could write songs out of this world. When me and him would work we would work so fast. He’d be like, ‘Ok, I’m gonna do the hook and you just do a verse and lets go to the next song.’ Hook, verse, next song let’s go, hook, verse, next song.’ What’s so crazy about “Regulate” is it never had a hook, but it was just dope the way we did what we did on the record. I was just like, ‘Nate let’s go back and forth and let’s just talk about some of the stuff we went through on 61st Street.’ Another special moment I had with Nate was when me, him and Snoop did the 213 album. That was like some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life, just being able to finally work with the guys I started with as a family and the guys I helped build their careers. To this day that 213 album is a real classic record. [If I could talk to Nate right now], I would just tell him that I’m still being Warren and I can still hear him telling me to stay sucker free. So, I would talk to him and let him know that I’m still keeping it sucker free. I’m doing the things that you always told me to do and just staying away from the bullshit and being a solid individual. I’d tell him, ‘Man, I’m still just holding it down for you and I wish you were here and I love you.’ It’s hard for me to do music sometimes because I’m so used to tailor-making records geared towards me and him, ’cause that was my partner, you know how Snoop and Dre is, that’s how me and Nate is. That’s how it was—Nate and Snoop and Warren and Nate. I’m so used to him being right there with me, when I make my music its like damn Nate would have killed this. So, I’d just tell him, man, we miss you a lot.” 

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Prodigy Says Wiz Khalifa O.N.I.F.C. Album Title is “All Love”

Prodigy is flattered that Wiz Khalifa took inspiration from his H.N.I.C. album titles for his upcoming set…

Prodigy isn’t feeling any sort of way about Wiz Khalifa’s O.N.I.F.C. album title, except for flattery. The Mobb Deep rapper says Khalifa taking inspiration from his H.N.I.C. albums for his upcoming project is “all love.”

“Yeah, I heard about the Wiz Khalifa project coming out,” P told MTV. “I forgot the exact name of what he called it, but I read an article that he got the idea of doing that from my H.N.I.C. projects that I put out… That’s all love. I love Wiz Khalifa, I love his music. I ain’t mad at ya, dogs.”

He’s so pleased, in fact, that Prodigy wants to collaborate with young Wiz.

“Let’s do something together,” he suggested. “Let’s do a song or something. Let’s do a tour or something. I got ya back, thun.”

During an interview with Sway Calloway on his Shade 45 morning show back in February, Wiz revealed that his O.N.I.F.C. album title was inspired by Prodigy’s 2000 solo debut. “It’s inspired by Prodigy’s H.N.I.C.,” he explained. “When he dropped that, I felt like that sounded so strong.”

Still, Wiz gave the title his own spin; while H.N.I.C. stands for “Head Nigga in Charge,” Wiz Khalifa’s set’s acronym means “Only Niggas in First Class.”

In 2008, Prodigy dropped H.N.I.C. Part 2, and in February, he dropped the third installment of the series as a free download online

It is unclear as of press time if the two will actually work together in the future, but this past weekend, both Wiz and Prodigy’s Mobb Deep performed at Cypress Hill’s Smokeout Festival in San Bernardino, California.

Nas’ 10th Album Will “Tear The Skin Off Your Face,” Say Producers

Da Internz promise Nas’ 10th studio will be as sharp as God’s Son could get…

Nas may have to change his nickname from Nasty Nas to even Nastier Nas in preparation of his 10^th studio album.

That’s because Da Internz, who are producing God Son’s next LP, promise that fans aren’t going to believe how an already lyrically-sharp MC has only gotten sharper with his darts.

“This Nas album that peoples going to hear is not the Nas that is just like, ‘Yo, this is cool this is cute,’ this is the Nas like, ‘Yo, really?” Da Internz told RapUpTV. “I’m really trying to tear the skin off your face,’ pause. So like, he’s not playing around…”

Nas had originally named his next album, Life is Good, but never set a concrete release date. The album’s only proposed single thus far, “Nasty,” was released on iTunes on August 9, 2011.

In related news, Nas’ manager, Anthony Saleh, recently told that the Queensbridge veteran never had a new label called Kings and Queens. That rumor was sparked by YMCMB rapper Tyga, who incorrectly told MTV’s RapFix Live that Nas was spearheading a label by that same name.

“[Nas] actually has a label called Kings and Queens that he just started,” Tyga said. “So he was like, it’s just cliché that I sent him a song called ‘[King] and Queens’ and he just started a label called Kings and Queens, which is crazy.” When , Saleh said the report was “not true.”

Tyga featured Nas and Wale on a track called, “Kings and Queens” on his own Careless World: Rise of the Last King album.

Wiz Khalifa Says He Will Earn Nine Figures in 2012

“Oh yeah, man, I’m going to make $100 million this year,” Khalifa said. “No doubt, $100 million. The new mixtape [will] get everybody ready and get their wallets open.”…

Wiz Khalifa landed on Forbes’ annual Hip-Hop Cash Kings list last year, earning $11 million dollars and ranking in at No. 11 on the tally. Now, the Taylor Gang head honcho says he plans on making a total of nine figures in 2012.

While hosting a listening party for his upcoming project Taylor Allerdice over the weekend, Wiz chopped it up with Forbes Staff member Zack O’Malley Greenburg, revealing his plans of surpassing last year’s earnings.

“Oh yeah, man, I’m going to make $100 million this year,” Khalifa said. “No doubt, $100 million. The new mixtape [will] get everybody ready and get their wallets open.”

The Pittsburgh native is expected to have an average gross of $100,000 per night, due to his constant touring and show appearances, according to Forbes.  Wiz’s mass appeal leads to his merchandise sales doubling fellow hip-hop artists, as his loyal fans contribute between $5-$15 per head, compared to the $2-$3 per head other rappers receive. Pop artists Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift generate similar merchandise sales, yet neither of the singers approached $100 million in 2011.

50 Cent, known for his business savvy, is the only rapper able to boast a nine figure yearly net-worth in the five years that Zack O’Malley Greenburg has tracked hip-hop earnings, due to the selling of his share of Vitamin Water, O’Malley writes in the blog post. According to an additionalForbes Report, in the past five years combined, only Jay-Z, Diddy, Kanye West, and 50 cent have surpassed the $100 million mark.

Wiz published an open letter to his fans on his personal Tumblr account, apologizing for the quality of his debut album, Rolling Papers.

“No regrets though,” said the marijuana enthusiast. “We live and we learn. So for my fans sake and own personal enjoyment, Ive gone further into the world we’ve created and elaborated on our genre with the mixtape, Taylor Allderdice and of course my sophomore album, ONIFC.”

DMX Doesn’t Regret Past Decisions, Album Coming Second Quarter

DMX talks exorcising demons with faith and pushing forward with his music…

DMX has faced many trials and tribulations in his life, but the rapper says he doesn’t regret any of the decisions he’s made so far.

When XXLMag.com recently asked X man if he had any regrets about the choices he made in the past, he replied: “Nothing. I would change nothing.  Everything that I went through and got through, makes me who I am. And I love who I am.”

He also told that despite an original release date of March 27, DMX’s first album in six years,Undisputed, will drop later in the year.

“Undisputed is dropping in the second quarter,” he confirmed.

He also revealed he called on the help of his long time friend and producer, Swizz Beatz, to contribute to the project, adding that he feels like he hasn’t lost a beat in the music game.

“I never stopped being at it.  So it’s not like I’m back at it,” he said. “Every time I go to jail and come home, once a week I got a show.  So I was like, I stay conditioned.”

But DMX admits he hasn’t come this far alone. In fact, he credits God for seeing him through the hard times.

“God— He has his hand on my heart,” he confessed.  ”And I could make a mistake and that’s alright.  Not that I would try.  I’m not going to try. You know, I don’t wanna say right now. I know I’m protected so I really don’t know.”

DMX recently said during an interview with New York Radio Station Power 105.1 that he was done with the “hard stuff,” and only drinks liquor and smokes weed these days. He’s also set to appear in reality show “Relationship Rehab” alongside estranged wife, Tashera Simmons.