This is not good at all. Here’s hoping to a swift recovery, but any way you parse it, two strokes by the age of 40 usually means you aren’t long for this world.
I’ve never really articulated how great I think Nate Dogg is, but for my money’s worth (all $6.54), he’s my favorite R&B singer of the ’90s. Currently, R Kelly is winning this decade, mainly by default.
I once wrote an essay (humor me) tying the foulness of this decade to the lack of classic Nate Dogg singles. Needless to say, this development does not bode well for the future of this nation.
In the meantime’s, let’s have a look back at the old master.
Warren G & Nate Dogg-”Regulate”
Nate Dogg ft. Warren G-”Nobody Does It Better”
Nate Dogg-”I Got Love”
Ludacris ft. Nate Dogg-”Area Codes”
Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch & Nate Dogg-”Oh No”
Nate Dogg & Snoop Dogg-”Never Leave Me Alone”
E-40 ft. Nate Dogg-”Nah, Nah, Nah…”
2Pac, Nate Dogg, Outlawz and Suge’s fake Snoop, Top Dogg
Warren G, Snoop, Xzibit & Nate Dogg-”Game Don’t Wait”
Mista Grimm, Warren G & Nate Dogg-”Indo Smoke” (Video Embedded Not Available, But You Can Follow the URL)
Kurupt ft. Nate Dogg-”Behind the Walls”
Kurupt ft. Roscoe & Nate Dogg-”Girls All Pause”
6 comments
Tray says:
September 15, 2008 at 5:37 pm (UTC -7)
The link to the essay (which I’d be very interested in reading) goes to the allhiphop news story. Why does he get so many strokes? And to be the best r&b singer of a decade, don’t you have to make good albums?
Passion of the Weiss says:
September 15, 2008 at 5:57 pm (UTC -7)
I was kind of joking. It’s far from an essay, but the link is fixed.
I love how the same people that ride for Wayne (I know you’re not as bad as most) use that argument against Nate Dogg. If you make a greatest hits of songs featuring Nate Dogg (which I once bought a bootleg of to give to a friend for his birthday), it can stack up to any 90s singer in my mind. The videos posted amount to probably less than half of his great material.
And his solo album wasn’t bad at all.
Tray says:
September 15, 2008 at 6:17 pm (UTC -7)
Yeah, in fairness, Kells’s albums are generally shockingly bad affairs. I guess it’s just a rule of the genre that 80% of your album has to be this snoozy, 50 bpm, “let’s make a baby” shit.
Funky Funati says:
September 16, 2008 at 12:08 am (UTC -7)
i hope he’ll come out of it, they say (dubcnn.com) he can’t breath on his own right now… is that proof that smoking too much weed can fuck u up that bad? or was he on some other shit?
i donno, but Jeff, you’re right, Nate Dogg is one of the reasons the 90′s are so unfuckwithable.
is there another guy in this game that’s his name’s been on so many hits? i don’t think so…
no, not even Lil Wayne
i also wnna add that the 213 album is underrated as hell! it has some of his best moments there and his star shines the brightest…
Nati.
Jerusalem, Israel.
Dudeasincool says:
September 16, 2008 at 12:59 am (UTC -7)
Damn, they’re deleting those videos right and left since you posted this.
DocZeus says:
September 16, 2008 at 8:08 am (UTC -7)
If loving “21 Questions” is wrong, I don’t wannabe right.