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People's Party with Talib Kweli

Warren G on the Early Days of G-Funk, and How and Why he Brought Melody to the West Coast Sound

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

West Coast G-Funk legend Warren G sits down with Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh to share stories from the recording sessions of “The Chronic,” and “Regulate,” as well as his most beloved albums. Warren G also expresses his love for east coast hip hop, his passion for BBQ sauce, and how the 1995 Source Awards changed G-Funk forever.

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0:00.0

Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.

0:03.8

You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented

0:08.0

co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our

0:12.8

episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,

0:18.4

subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.

0:22.0

In your documentary, you talk about having hurt feelings, being disillusioned when

0:27.5

death row started taking off and you had a sign of death row.

0:31.0

Right.

0:31.8

And you and Shug had a little issue over you not signing to death row. Can you walk us through some of that?

0:37.9

We didn't have no issue. I was down with death row. The things that happened was just, you know,

0:46.5

contracts was put in our face to just sign. And I was just like, no, I was like, I told

0:52.9

Snoop, I said, no, don't sign that. Because you, I mean, you don't, you don't know what you sign

0:58.0

it. You know, you got to get a lawyer to look at that stuff. And I was a young buck saying this.

1:03.3

And I'm not going to say who it was, but a whistle blower

1:13.4

went and told him that what I told Snoop and everybody. So he was just like,

1:19.3

hey, blood, what one, yeah. And I was like, shit, what's up?

1:24.3

Hey, blood you told him not to sign that contract.

1:27.7

I took off. But you couldn't get, it wasn't the only way you could get out was elevator.

1:34.4

Right. So I'm hitting that football.

1:36.6

Yeah, I'm hitting the elevator trying to get off the elevator and he grabbed me.

1:42.8

And he pushed me up against the wall. And I was like, blood you told him not to sign that contract,

1:48.0

blood, I said, nigga, if you don't get your hands off me, nigga, I'm calling my brother,

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