Rapper and producer Warren Griffin III, better known as Warren G, was born on
November 10, 1970, in Long Beach, California. He is widely regarded as one of
the artists who helped shape the West Coast sound of the 1990s. The stepbrother
of Dr. Dre and childhood friend of Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg, he founded the trio
213 before helping popularize G-Funk, a hip-hop subgenre that relied heavily on
samples from 1970s Parliament-Funkadelic albums. His studio debut Regulate... G
Funk Era from 1994 reached number 2 in the US, stayed in the charts for over a
year and achieved triple-plati...