"For people older than me and people younger me, [the documentary] gives them a chance to know who we are as human beings,'' Griffin said. "A lot of people have the perception of hip-hop artists being ...
*West Coast rap icon Warren G, born Warren Griffin III, has teamed up with YouTube Premium for his new documentary, “G-Funk: The Untold Story of Warren G” (#GfunkDoc). The film traces the early ...
In the 1990s, three best friends at Long Beach’s renowned Polytechnic High School polished a new sound at the intersection of funk and rap music. Warren G, with the help of Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, ...
There was something special brewing in Los Angeles around the tail end of the 1980s. In the wake of N.W.A.'s classic Straight Outta Compton album, young creatives began stretching and reshaping ...
Today, YouTube released an official trailer for its original documentary G Funk. The film, which will be available starting July 11th for YouTube Premium subscribers only, follows the story of 213 -- ...
C-Knight, a founding member of Long Beach G-funk rap crew Dove Shack, has died at age 52. The news was confirmed by TMZ on Tuesday (Nov. 7), when a member of the rapper’s family reportedly told the ...
For people of a certain age, Warren G and Nate Dogg and a little ol' song named "Regulate" marks an era of smooth West Coast rap so catchy it captured fans from the biggest cities to the smallest ...
On this date three decades ago, Death Row Records producer and Dr. Dre’s brother Warren G dropped his debut album ‘Regulate…G Funk Era’. Executive produced by the late Chris Lighty, The Def ...
Many critics have labeled the ‘90s as the golden era of hip-hop, and in many ways, that’s thanks to the earlier years of the decade. Artists like Eric B. & Rakim, the Notorious B.I.G., Ice T, and Nas ...
In 1992, Dr. Dre released his masterpiece The Chronic and ushered in a new sound and subgenre called G-Funk. The sound incorporated 1970s funk grooves - inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp ...
It’s the Mexican Folk-G-Funk Rap fusion we didn’t know we needed. As if the legendary Snoop D-O-Double-G couldn’t diversify his catalog a bit more, the West coast smooth spitter linked up with Banda ...
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