Nate Dogg

Kurupt and DJ Nik Bean Are a Tough Act to Follow . . . Literally

We spend the night hanging with the rapper and his DJ

Following Kurupt and DJ Nick Bean From L.A. Video Shoot to Anaheim Gangsta Party

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with rapper Kurupt from Tha Dogg Pound and DJ Nik Bean, a West L.A.-based mixtape impresario who has worked with Snoop and Tha ... More >>

Five Dead Rap Artists We Would Love To Hear More From

There are few things in the music business as puzzling as the post-mortem release. Usually, when an artist we love expires, our first reaction is one of excitement to hear more from them. However, looking back at the history of such releases gives us an underwhelming selection of grave-robbing cash- ... More >>

Sami Matar, Music Man

[Best Of 2012] The Muslim-radio pioneer's favorite things about Orange County

Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac's Hologram at Coachella, April 15, 2012

See also:*Tupac's Hologram: How It Was Done*Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs*Coachella: Five Signs You're An Aging Hipster*Radiohead at Coachella: No Alarms and No SurprisesDr Dre and Snoop DoggCoachellaApril 15, 2012Headlining on Coachella's Sunday night is a tough slot to fill -- by that ... More >>

Warren G Releasing an EP Featuring the Late Nate Dogg

​Warren G now has a name and release date for the EP that he planned with Nate Dogg after the late crooner's death. (It's been a year now since he died, can you believe it?) Warren G says the EP will be called No One Could Do It Better, and rapper The Game will contribute to the first single, "A ... More >>

Nate Dogg Sex Tape Being Shopped Around

​It's been almost a year since Nate Dogg died, so maybe the statute of limitations on this sort of thing has passed. But something sounds terribly wrong with the news that there's a 5-minute sex tape of the late, great architect of West Coast sound being shopped around to various port studios. Ac ... More >>

The Biggest Music Headlines of 2011

[Mental Notes] The news that kept us talking this year

DJ Quik On Eazy-E: "I'm Living the Way I Am Because I Knew Eric Wright"

Kevin Scanlon​DJ Quik (aka David Blake) started making great music in the early '90s, and has been pumping out hits ever since. But Quik's been controversial over the years and has gone through his share of highs and lows. Now, though, he seems more confident in his skill than ever, which only ... More >>

Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa at the Wiltern Last Night

Ryan Ritchie​Snoop Dogg and Wiz KhalifaWiltern December 13, 2011 To use a tired party cliche, if you remember the Snoop Dogg/Wiz Khalifa show last night at the Wiltern, you weren't there.I mean, seriously, was anyone not getting high? The answer is no.Wiz performed for about a half hour ... More >>

Foo Fighters Performing at BlizzCon

[Mental Notes] Landmark Long Beach record store to close

Five Reasons We're Going to Miss the World Famous VIP Records in Long Beach, and Why You Should Try to Save It

​In mid-September, store owner Kelvin Anderson announced that the World Famous VIP Records in Long Beach announced the end of an era. He said that the store, which was made famous by Snoop Dogg and was considered a landmark of the famed West Coast rap sound in the '90s, will fold by the end of Oct ... More >>

R.I.P. Jeff Porcaro: Five of the Legendary Toto Drummer's Best Songs and How They've Been Sampled, on the 19th Anniversary of his Death

​People say that even without Toto, Jeff Porcaro would've cemented his place in music history because of the high caliber of his drumming. It's said to have defined much of the music produced in the late '70s and '80s. Born into a musical family, he toured and/or recorded with Sonny and Cher as a ... More >>

Cali Swag District Honors Slain Member With Upcoming Release The Kickback

​ "If you can see the palm trees but can't find the beach, you might want to be careful." Although it's far from a steadfast rule, this common admonition is used by natives of Los Angeles County's urban areas to highlight its most hidden danger--the deceiving landscape. Inglewood is no exception ... More >>

Top Five Hip-hop Stoner Anthems, Interpreted

​Stoners and hip-hop go together like weed and paper. But did you know that there's a lesson to be learned from many hip-hop songs about sweet mary jane? It's virtually Ganja Smoking 101 set to music...read on and get schooled.

Warren G Releases Nate Dogg Tribute

​ Last month, we saw Warren G break down in tears at Nate Dogg's funeral. Nate Dogg, who died March 15, grew up with Warren G. Along with Snoop Dogg, they formed rap group 213 and became known as the architects of the West Coast rap sound. Warren G's biggest hit, "Regulate," had Nate Dogg on vocal ... More >>

Urban Arts Fest at UC Irvine Last Night

Albert Chen​Urban Arts FestApril 6, 2011 UC Irvine The crowd got hyped last night as hip-hop artists Fashawn, Dom Kennedy, Cobe Obeah and Yancy Deron made their way to the stage. At first, it didn't seem like the room with a maximum occupancy of about 1,000 would fill up. But around 7 p.m., the r ... More >>

Ice Cube At the Grove of Anaheim Friday Night

​Ice CubeApril 1, 2011Grove of Anaheim It's always interesting to watch an old school, West Coast rapper do his thing in Orange County. It's not that OC isn't street (cough-cough!), it's just that if you're a SoCal rapper who got your start on the gangsta' side of things, chances are you weren't w ... More >>

LBC Remembers Nate Dogg

[Mental Notes] Snoop, Warren G pay tribute in semiprivate affair

What You Missed: Nate Dogg Memorial Viewing, Break of Dawn Pop-Up, Maki Madness

​It was a long weekend for the LBC, but friends, family and fans got to pay tribute to a West Coast legend: On Friday, friends, family and fans flocked to New Hope Church in Long Beach for Nate Dogg's viewing. On the following day, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, the Game, Warren G and others helped pay trib ... More >>

[UPDATE 1,000 TICKETS RELEASED] LBC Organizers Limit Access to Nate Dogg Funeral Rites

​UPDATE, MATCH 25, 10:04 A.M.: Fans are already lining up at New Hope Church in Long Beach. See a photo after the jump.UPDATE, MARCH 25, 9:30 A.M.: According to GreaterLongBeach.com, a thousand tickets to Saturday's otherwise-private memorial service for Long Beach hip-hop pioneer Nate Dogg are a ... More >>

Paying Our Last Respects to Nate Dogg in Long Beach

​This morning, we headed over to the New Hope Baptist Church in Long Beach to pay our last respects to Nate Dogg, who died on March 15. (It's open to the public until 4 p.m. today).We got there just as the church doors opened; there were about 150 people in line. A few were wearing "RIP Nate Dogg" ... More >>

Friends, Family and Fans Mourn Nate Dogg

Lilledeshan Bose/OC Weekly​A somber send off for Nate Dogg ended at 4 p.m. today in Long Beach. His wake, held at the New Hope Baptist Church, was attended by friends, family and fans from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The church was where Nate Dogg (real name Nathaniel Hale) got his musical start by s ... More >>

Nate Dogg Funeral Service on Saturday; Snoop Announces Tribute Show on Same Day

Elektra Records​Today, Nate Dogg's family announced that there will be a funeral service on Saturday at the Long Beach Cruise Terminal, the former Spruce Goose Dome adjacent to the Queen Mary. Pamela Hale-Burns, his sister, says the 10 a.m. Saturday service will be open to the publi ... More >>

KRS-One at Detroit Bar Last Night

Rebecca Aranda​KRS-OneMarch 17, 2011 Detroit Bar It seems fitting that KRS-One decided to perform on St. Patrick's Day. As one of hip-hop's true-to-life founding fathers, deviating from the cookie cutter and weeding out the OG's from the bustas is just his forte, so it makes sense KRS picked this ... More >>

[UPDATED] Nate Dogg Passes Away at 41

Nate Dogg, 1969-2011.​UPDATE, MARCH 16, 8:24 P.M.: According to TMZ, the family of Nate Dogg believes his cause of death was complications from previous strokes he had suffered. Nate Dogg's friend and manager, Rod McGrew, tells TMZ not only was the death unexpected, but that the musician had "cogn ... More >>

Remembering Nate Dogg: Tweets and Tracks From Collaborators 50 Cent, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, the Game, Xzibit and Daz Dillinger

​Long Beach native Nate Dogg passed away last night, and although he had been battling serious health problems after suffering from a massive stroke in December 2007 (he was left paralysed on one side of his body and was then struck by a second stroke in September 2008), the news was a shock to ev ... More >>

"Merry Christmas, Motherfuckers!": Seven Favorite Hip-Hop Holiday Songs

​While it doesn't happen too much anymore these days, the hip-hop world has been known to put out a holiday album or two--and sometimes the  too-bright cheerfulness of Christmas carols pairs up extra nicely with the often humorous and/or the sometimes, uh, adult content of the lyrics.After th ... More >>

Top 5 Songs to Celebrate Prop 19 (If It Passes)

Jorge Negreros​With just days away until the Nov. 2 elections, Proposition 19--the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act--is trailing badly according to a recent Los Angeles Times/USC poll. The survey found likely voters to oppose it by a wide margin of 51 percent to 39 percent. Prop. 19 bac ... More >>

Last Night:"Quik's Groove" at The Grove

Last Night: "Quik's Groove" featuring DJ Quik and um...some other people. Friday Mar. 13 at The Grove of AnaheimBetter Than: Getting a flat tire in a bad neighborhood.  Download: The new "Fuck Y'all" single by DJ QuikBetween the soft, melodic rise of string ensembles and the thumping energy of ... More >>

Musical Advent Calendar: Snoop Doggy Dogg, et al, 'Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto'

Death Row Records--co-founded by Dr. Dre and Suge Knight in 1991--was, of course, incredibly influential in the world of west coast rap in the early '90s. And incredibly controversial.But not everything released on the label was quite as provocative as say, "Deep Cover." There was also 1996's Christ ... More >>

[Aural Reports] Long Beach's Erick Coomes Lives High on the Low End

Ruling and Regulating

Warren G

Nate Dogg Pleads Guilty To Domestic Abuse Charges

Grammy nominated artist (and Long Beach native) Nate Dogg plead guilty to domestic abuse charges on Tuesday in an Orange County court room. He broke into a house and punched his ex’s new boyfriend back in 2006. The rapper is being ordered to complete a domestic violence issues treatment program, ... More >>

A Twist of Gangsta

Warren G

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Big Respect

The Up in Smoke tour means hip-hops all grown upand safe

Not Angry No More

Warren G chills

Escape From Death Row!

The falland possible rise againof LBC hip-hop

Fresher Mode

Ugly Duckling quack old-school beats