dubcnn.com : First, I'd like to know if you were part of a gang, and if yeah which set you claim.
Well, I'll put it to you like this, when I was young, in my teens, that's the life that we grew up in, you know what I'm sayin? You couldn't get around it, you had to be involved in the gang bangin', and the set that I was involved in around that time was Insane Rollin Twenty Crips, back in the day though. Now, I'm a grown man, I got kids and I'm a respectable person and I realise that being involved in shit like that back in the day wasn't good for my health, and it's not good for the teens health today! I think that everybody needs to wake up and see that ain't the life to live and that's not the life you want for you. And I went through a lot of that stuff, jail, sellin' dope, shootin, poppin' guns all that! Shootin at people, people shootin' at me I went through all of that.. And if I could go back and change that shit I'd change it, I'd change it like a motherfucker!
dubcnn.com : How did the group 213 form back in the day?
Well you know, me and Snoop, The Twinz, we was back sellin' candy back in the day, and we used to rap and shit, so we just hung together back then, and then Nate, he played basketball for the church, and he and Snoop linked up playing against each other basketball. Nate was singin at this church, and shit, we just connected all together, we grew up together all our lives, King Parc, and playin' football, playin sports doin' all kinda shit, the gang bang shit we just stuck with each other and Nate could sing, Snoop was rappin' and I was rappin! We just stuck together as a crew all our lives, you know? From elementary!
dubcnn.com : Why didn't ya'll record an album in the early 90's?
We didn't make a album together because we was... Well actually we did a demo together.. And that's one of the things I'ma feature on my website, therealwarreng.com when it's up and running, I got a club that I'm starting, and Ima give away our demo! Our 213 demo back in the day, this was done in like 88, I'ma give it out as a bonus when people join the club along with a T-Shirt, a Key Chain, you know other things that they can't get, and alotta exclusive shit that they wanna see! Remember, THEREALWARRENG.COM!! *laughs*
Anyway, back to that, we was together all our lives man! Back then we had done a demo and we was trying to get put on after we did that! But wasn't nobody tryna hear it! We went to alotta people gettin turned down, dissed, so we just had nowhere to go! So we just let it go on the underground, and then it just started surfacin up in different cities, like it hit Compton, everybody like "who the fuck is 213, who the fuck is Snoop Dogg, who is Warren G, who is Nate Dogg!" It would go to L.A. "who is these niggaz in l.a., who is 213, etc" BAM it hit Pomona, it hit Riverside, it hit allll the cities surrounding, all the hoods, the ghettos, and everybody was wondering like "damn, who the fuck is these niggas??". One day I went to a party that Dre was givin and shit, he said I could come, so I went. Shit, motherfuckers wasn't playin' no music no more, they ran outta music and shit, so I threw our shit in that motherfucker! Then everybody was like "DAMN! Who is that?" And I was like that's Me, Snoop and Nate! That's us, who I've been tellin'
ya'll about, and Dre was in there he was givin the party for his homeboy named L.A. Dre and they was like "who is this?" I was like "Dre, this is me, Snoop and Nate this is what I've been trying to tell you about!!!!!" He's like "Check this out, ya'll niggas come to the studio Monday." So he gave me the number to the studio, and I go back and I holla at Snoop. We was goin' at it at that time, so he was mad at me, I was mad at him, but I was like fuck that, I called Snoop and I was like "Snoop, I know you mad at me I'm mad at you, whatever, but I got some good news for us. Dre wanna hook up with us on Monday in the studio!" He was like "Fuck you nigga I'm hangin up!" And he didn't believe me so I called him back I'm like "SNOOP CUZZ I'm not playin man! We can call the nigga right now!" and he wanted me to call him. So I called the nigga and Dre picked up, they put him on the phone I'm like "Dre, I got Snoop on the phone man he don't believe that you want us to come up there!" So he was like yeah, he wants us to come up there, and shit, it's been on ever since! That's when they started workin, that's when they came up with that Deep Cover "187 On A Undercover Cop!" they came up with that, and then the Chronic, we started workin' on the Chronic, and then
motherfuckers blew up! And then I felt kinda bad because I wasn't really involved in alotta shit that was goin' on, so I just started doin' my own thang you know? I looked at it as if DJ Quik rappin', my brother rappin' and I can rap plus I'm a DJ and I can produce, so I might as well do my own album since niggas ain't really lettin me get involved in the program that was goin' on, so I was like Fuck it i'll do my own motherfuckin thang! So I went and did my own thang and came up with Regulate, I came up with This DJ and all these other hot ass songs, and just put that shit on the demo, and I did Indo Smoke actually, and that's the one that opened the doors for me. that was with me and Mista Grimm, and I gave that to Paul Stewart and John Singleton, and the motherfuckers got it and just lost it! And it took off, it was hot! Everybody was goin' bezerk! I mean that's what kinda set it off man, it was big man, and I'm still doin' hot shit, I'm gettin' ready to drop a EP!
dubcnn.com : Yeah, we'll come to that later..
Yeah, I'ma drop a EP, it's off the chains, the G-Files EP, I'ma keep droppin' those back to back, it ain't gone stop it ain't like I'ma just give you these and it's gone stop! Nah, it's gone keep movin'! All I gotta do is therealwarreng.com! Real shit!
dubcnn.com : Although you are Dr. Dre's step brother, you always seemed to be a bit in the background with the DPG's, how come?
Uhh, shit I ain't in the background I just don't get up all in the limelight you know? And as far as when people say me and Dre step brothers, yeah we step brothers, but we been together all our life so I don't look at it like that and I'm pretty sure he don't look at it like that. It's all good, we brothers!
Well, I'll put it to you like this, when I was young, in my teens, that's the life that we grew up in, you know what I'm sayin? You couldn't get around it, you had to be involved in the gang bangin', and the set that I was involved in around that time was Insane Rollin Twenty Crips, back in the day though. Now, I'm a grown man, I got kids and I'm a respectable person and I realise that being involved in shit like that back in the day wasn't good for my health, and it's not good for the teens health today! I think that everybody needs to wake up and see that ain't the life to live and that's not the life you want for you. And I went through a lot of that stuff, jail, sellin' dope, shootin, poppin' guns all that! Shootin at people, people shootin' at me I went through all of that.. And if I could go back and change that shit I'd change it, I'd change it like a motherfucker!
dubcnn.com : How did the group 213 form back in the day?
Well you know, me and Snoop, The Twinz, we was back sellin' candy back in the day, and we used to rap and shit, so we just hung together back then, and then Nate, he played basketball for the church, and he and Snoop linked up playing against each other basketball. Nate was singin at this church, and shit, we just connected all together, we grew up together all our lives, King Parc, and playin' football, playin sports doin' all kinda shit, the gang bang shit we just stuck with each other and Nate could sing, Snoop was rappin' and I was rappin! We just stuck together as a crew all our lives, you know? From elementary!
dubcnn.com : Why didn't ya'll record an album in the early 90's?
We didn't make a album together because we was... Well actually we did a demo together.. And that's one of the things I'ma feature on my website, therealwarreng.com when it's up and running, I got a club that I'm starting, and Ima give away our demo! Our 213 demo back in the day, this was done in like 88, I'ma give it out as a bonus when people join the club along with a T-Shirt, a Key Chain, you know other things that they can't get, and alotta exclusive shit that they wanna see! Remember, THEREALWARRENG.COM!! *laughs*
Anyway, back to that, we was together all our lives man! Back then we had done a demo and we was trying to get put on after we did that! But wasn't nobody tryna hear it! We went to alotta people gettin turned down, dissed, so we just had nowhere to go! So we just let it go on the underground, and then it just started surfacin up in different cities, like it hit Compton, everybody like "who the fuck is 213, who the fuck is Snoop Dogg, who is Warren G, who is Nate Dogg!" It would go to L.A. "who is these niggaz in l.a., who is 213, etc" BAM it hit Pomona, it hit Riverside, it hit allll the cities surrounding, all the hoods, the ghettos, and everybody was wondering like "damn, who the fuck is these niggas??". One day I went to a party that Dre was givin and shit, he said I could come, so I went. Shit, motherfuckers wasn't playin' no music no more, they ran outta music and shit, so I threw our shit in that motherfucker! Then everybody was like "DAMN! Who is that?" And I was like that's Me, Snoop and Nate! That's us, who I've been tellin'
ya'll about, and Dre was in there he was givin the party for his homeboy named L.A. Dre and they was like "who is this?" I was like "Dre, this is me, Snoop and Nate this is what I've been trying to tell you about!!!!!" He's like "Check this out, ya'll niggas come to the studio Monday." So he gave me the number to the studio, and I go back and I holla at Snoop. We was goin' at it at that time, so he was mad at me, I was mad at him, but I was like fuck that, I called Snoop and I was like "Snoop, I know you mad at me I'm mad at you, whatever, but I got some good news for us. Dre wanna hook up with us on Monday in the studio!" He was like "Fuck you nigga I'm hangin up!" And he didn't believe me so I called him back I'm like "SNOOP CUZZ I'm not playin man! We can call the nigga right now!" and he wanted me to call him. So I called the nigga and Dre picked up, they put him on the phone I'm like "Dre, I got Snoop on the phone man he don't believe that you want us to come up there!" So he was like yeah, he wants us to come up there, and shit, it's been on ever since! That's when they started workin, that's when they came up with that Deep Cover "187 On A Undercover Cop!" they came up with that, and then the Chronic, we started workin' on the Chronic, and then
motherfuckers blew up! And then I felt kinda bad because I wasn't really involved in alotta shit that was goin' on, so I just started doin' my own thang you know? I looked at it as if DJ Quik rappin', my brother rappin' and I can rap plus I'm a DJ and I can produce, so I might as well do my own album since niggas ain't really lettin me get involved in the program that was goin' on, so I was like Fuck it i'll do my own motherfuckin thang! So I went and did my own thang and came up with Regulate, I came up with This DJ and all these other hot ass songs, and just put that shit on the demo, and I did Indo Smoke actually, and that's the one that opened the doors for me. that was with me and Mista Grimm, and I gave that to Paul Stewart and John Singleton, and the motherfuckers got it and just lost it! And it took off, it was hot! Everybody was goin' bezerk! I mean that's what kinda set it off man, it was big man, and I'm still doin' hot shit, I'm gettin' ready to drop a EP!
dubcnn.com : Yeah, we'll come to that later..
Yeah, I'ma drop a EP, it's off the chains, the G-Files EP, I'ma keep droppin' those back to back, it ain't gone stop it ain't like I'ma just give you these and it's gone stop! Nah, it's gone keep movin'! All I gotta do is therealwarreng.com! Real shit!
dubcnn.com : Although you are Dr. Dre's step brother, you always seemed to be a bit in the background with the DPG's, how come?
Uhh, shit I ain't in the background I just don't get up all in the limelight you know? And as far as when people say me and Dre step brothers, yeah we step brothers, but we been together all our life so I don't look at it like that and I'm pretty sure he don't look at it like that. It's all good, we brothers!