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Warren G opens up about the time Suge Knight pressed him after he advised Snoop Dogg not to sign his Death Row Records contract while on Talib Kweli's 'People's Party' podcast.

February 6, 2022 According to Warren G, he refused to let Suge intimidate him and threatened to call for backup including one particularly trigger-friendly friend. I said, N-gga, if you dont get your hands off me, Im calling my brother, Im calling all my homeboys,' he said. He let me go. And I had one of my guys with me; luckily he didnt have no gun cause he was a gunner. If hed have had something, he probably wouldve shot him and I didnt want him to do it, but he probably wouldve. I know how he is. Despite escaping from the altercation unscathed, Warren G says that moment set the tone for his future dealings with Death Row, who would often freeze him out of tours and other projects. Worse yet, being cut-off from the label meant Warren was forced to go back to the hood to regroup. From that point on, we didnt see eye to eye, he added. I didnt hate him, but when it was time to start hitting the road and doing things like that, it was like, We dont got a ticket for you, you aint going. Im like, Why? Shit, what the fuck is that?! Dre was like, Go and be your own man. Do your thang. It hurt. It was fucked up. I had to go back to the hood, sleeping on the floor and all I had was my crate of records that I was helping out with The Chronic, I had my MPC60 drum machine, my Teknik and my Numark mixer. However, it was those very tools and that desire to succeed that resulted in Warren G signing to Def Jam Recordsand becoming a star in his own right. But that combination right there made me into doing Regulate G-Funk Era and doing records for 2Pac Definition of a Thug N-gga and MC Breed Gotta Get Mine all that led to that, he said. I never had no hate or nothing towards nothing that happened. I just kept it pushing. During the interview, Warren G also addressed Snoop Dogg s recent comments that he helped ghostwrite his 1994 debut album Regulate G Funk Era which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and has since been certified triple platinum. They was saying, Snoop said he wrote your whole album! A gang of muthafuckas hit me, so Im like, What?!' he said. I see the interview and it was like, he did say it. So I hit him like, Look, whatchu mean you wrote my whole album? Come on, Snoop. That aint how we get down, cuz. I approached it and he corrected it, but then I did another interview and I told the people Im never gonna let this music shit come between me and my homeboy. He was going through a lot, Im not gonna sit up there and be tripping on him; he just lost his mom But it got ironed out and you know, thats my dawg. Read more