Mammothly influential producer and the Godfather of G-Funk, producerapper Dr. Dre's best work was on
the Death Row label. It was there where he released the West Coast's greatest album, The Chronic, and where he turned a scrappy unknown named ...
As the Death Row ship was sinking, Snoop Dogg bailed, heading over to the new
bastion of street cred, No Limit Records. Master P is a master marketer, and he knows how to reshape everyone on his roster into good ...
Two years is an eternity in hip-hop, especially for rappers arriving at the tail end
of a trend. Such is the case with Nate Dogg, a talented rapper who first made waves on Warren G's seminal Regulate in 1993 and ...
After releasing his debut album, No One Can Do It Better, the D.O.C. suffered a
severe car accident that did irreparable damage to his vocal cords. It left him with a thin, raspy voice that was simply unusable for several ...
With albums by Ice-T, N.W.A, the Geto Boys, and Eazy-E having popularized gangsta rap in
the late '80s, the stage was set for the success of Above the Law. The members of this South Central L.A. group had close ties ...
Loyal to the Game, the ninth 2Pac album released by his enterprising mother-turned-executive producer, Afeni
Shakur, is one of the more unique entries in the martyred rap legend's extensive catalog. Produced entirely by Eminem, it carries on with the approach ...
The third and commercially most successful album by Los Angeles rappers Compton's Most Wanted contained
such terse narratives as Dead Men Tell No Lies and Hit the Floor. If there hadn't been such an abundance of similar material in the ...
Anchored by the laid-back G-funk anthem Regulate, Warren G's appropriately titled Regulate...G Funk Era embodies
the mid-'90s era of Cali sunshine, endless blunts, and switch-hittin' lowriders with a welcome and somewhat surprising sense of kind-heartedness. Unlike most of his West ...
