Tag: Nate Dogg

audio review : Xxplosive ( song ) … Kurupt + Six-Two ( featuring Nate Dogg + Hittman )

The odd song structure, which starts with a hook never heard again and separates two rap verses by what itself sounds like a Nate Dogg song demo, isn’t as off-putting as it should be. In fact it works, mostly because it all sounds good. The best part, aside from Nate’s splendid vocal melodies, is the beat; a pimped-out funk-guitar loop that sounds like it was made to smoke weed and fuck hoes to.

my rating : 4 of 5

1999

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

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