audio review : Regulate : G Funk Era [ Part 2 ] ( EP ) … Warren G

This release, presented as the sequel to Warren G’s Regulate album, reeks of desperation. Fans who haven’t checked for him in years, decades even, will be inclined to give it a listen for the name alone. He’s apparently banking on that.

Part 1 is regarded by many as the best rap album of 1994, but that album, while short, is a normal one that features Nate Dogg only on its title song. Following it via an EP with prehumous Nate Dogg vocals on every song makes no artistic sense.

It’s a hasty attention grab made worse by the fact that My House, in which G mimics R Kelly’s Woman’s Threat, is annoying during the breaks and the final song, about murderous set-up hoes, is conceptually an inappropriate way to end the set.

my rating : 2 of 5

2015