Warren G & Nate Dogg’s “Regulate”: The Oral History of a Hip-Hop Classic

Two decades ago, Warren Griffin III and Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Hale stormed the pop charts with “Regulate,” a back-and-forth tale about an attempted car-jacking that goes down on a clear black night in L.A.’s Long Beach. Recorded in Warren G’s apartment, the smooth, Michael McDonald-sampling quiet storm peaked at Number Two on the Billboard singles chart and became one of the defining songs of the 1990s. With a reissue of Warren G’s triple-platinum Regulate… G Funk Era hitting stores, Rolling Stone talked to Warren G and his collaborators about the song that put West Coast hip-hop on a whole new level.

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