None Other Than Nate Dogg

What can we say about Nate Dogg? It doesn't hurt that your cousin is Snoop Dogg. Or that your friend is Warren G. But is also helps that you have talent, and to be working hard when opportunity knocks. Such was the case in 1991 when Nate Dogg was working with Snoop and Warren G as the rap group 213. Did anything come of it? Just Snoop and Nate getting their chances on one of the biggest rap albums of all time. Which one we're talking about? None other than "The Chronic" by Dr. Dre.

Nate Dogg's deep voice and uncanny singing talent didn't get as much spotlight as his cousin's slick rapping and witty lyrics, but nonetheless, his addition to the record was enough for Dre to want to sign him to a deal with Death Row in 1993. It was a smart move on Dre's part, because in only a year, the first Warren G and Nate Dogg song came out and made some waves on the scene. That song was "Regulate."

It would be a long time between this hit single and most of his own solo work. That was because perhaps that Nate Dogg stuck around Death Row too long. With Snoop and Dre leaving, Nate Dogg stuck around the label until he himself had too many problems and left. It took until 1998 with all this mess for him to release the first real Nate Dogg album, which actually was the double album called "G Funk Classics Vol. 1 and 2."

Never Dogging It

Would Nate Dogg bounce back from his Death Row troubles? He eventually did create another. Nate Dogg album on the Elektra label, the 2001 "Music & Me." This was possibly the biggest solo success that Nate Dogg had seen to date, with the album going all the way up to number three on the hip hop charts. But in typical Nate Dogg fashion, it would be a while before his next record came out, perhaps losing any momentum he had built up with this other record. That next Nate Dogg album was originally supposed to come out in 2004, but it just recently came out in 2008, called "Nate Dogg."

But what Nate Dogg perhaps is best known for, after all, is not his solo work but much of his accompaniment with other artists. After all, that is how his career got started with Snoop, Warren G, and Dr. Dre. Nate Dogg lyrics also found their way into Tupac songs, not to mention a total of 60 other singles that made it onto one chart or another. That in itself is an amazing feat for Nate Dogg.

But in the year 2008, Nate Dogg will have to come up with an even more amazing feat. He will need to recover from a stroke. It happened just this past December 2007, and the incident was so bad that it supposedly paralyzed a whole half of his body. Strokes can be devastating, but the doctors seem to be upbeat that Nate Dogg will be back one day walking and, more importantly, singing and rapping.

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