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Born 10 November, 1970 (54 years old).
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Career of the Warren G started in 1992 .
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| Birth name | Warren Griffin III |
| Born | November 10, 1970 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop West Coast hip hop G-funk |
| Occupation | Rapper songwriter record producer DJ |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Labels | Violator Management Def Jam Recordings Restless Records Universal Records TVT Records G-Funk Entertainment Koch |
| Associated acts | 213 Snoop Dogg Nate Dogg Dr. Dre Knoc-turn'al Tha Dogg Pound Crucial Conflict The Dove Shack Twinz RM |
| Website | warreng.com |
Warren Griffin III , known professionally as Warren G, is an American rapper and record producer who, aiding the G-funk sound, assisted West Coast rap's 1990s ascent. In 1990, he formed with Nate Dogg and Snoop Dogg a trio, 213. Topping his seven Top 40 hits, the 1994 single "Regulate," Warren's duet with Nate, was a massive hit. Earlier, despite his teenage jailings in his California hometown Long Beach, having pioneering gangsta rapper Dr. Dre for older stepbrother, and having standout lyricist Snoop for groupmate, Warren G took a unique path into the rap subgenre G-funk's success.
Not joining them at Death Row Records, where he helped on their debut solo albums, Warren G signed to a Def Jam label. And less suggesting gangsta funk, yet voicing simpler concerns, rapped more simply, Warren G became G-funk's everyman. On the American popular songs chart, the Billboard Hot 100, amid 18 weeks in the Top 40, "Regulate" held #2 for three weeks by August 1994, and led his debut album Regulate... G Funk Era.Certified 3x Multi-Platinum, three million copies sold, in August 1995, it also bears his other Top 10 hit, "This D.J.," at #9. Both songs drew 1995 Grammy nominations as "Do You See" reached #42.
His second album, Take a Look Over Your Shoulder, includes three Top 40 songs, with "I Shot the Sheriff" at #20, but "Smokin' Me Out," at #35, big locally. His sixth Top 40, at #18, is Nate Dogg's 1998 single, a duet, "Nobody Does It Better." Warren meanwhile began family life, and would increasingly value it. His 1999 album, I Want It All, charted the title track at #23. Although swiftly certified Gold, half a million copies sold, both albums remain so over 20 years later, his final albums certified. In 2001, his fourth album, The Return of the Regulator, a comeback attempt with star collaborators, strayed from his strengths.
On indie labels, 2005's In the Mid-Nite Hour and then 2009's The G Files, still a G-funk with, he said, "a taste of that modern electro sound," are his own productions, but escaped popular notice. In the 2010s, amid his live shows, festival touring, and television appearances, his fan base, accessible via the digital age, asked for classic G-funk. In 2015, he released Regulate... G Funk Era, Pt. II, an EP with archived recordings of Nate Dogg, who died in 2011. By digital downloads, their "Regulate" single, Platinum since 1994, went 2x multiplatinum in 2017.
Early life
Warren Griffin III was born on November 10, 1970, in Long Beach, a city in California's Los Angeles County. Among three sisters, he was the only son of Warren Griffin, Jr., an airplane mechanic, and Ola, a dietician. Once they divorced at his age 4, he lived with his mother and three sisters in East Long Beach until he was just about to start middle school.
In 1982, Warren went to live with his father in North Long Beach. His new wife, Verna, had from a prior marriage three children. Among them was Andre Young, soon the Dr. Dre who in 1984 joined a leading DJ crew, the World Class Wreckin' Cru, which by 1985 doubled as an electro rap group, which in 1987 put out the Los Angeles area's first rap recording under a major label. By then, a Jordan High School student, Warren was playing football and running with friends.
At age 17, Warren was jailed for gun possession. Released soon after, he began focusing on music after Dre taught him how to use a drum machine. Meanwhile, still in 1988, Dre was the lead record producer for Ruthless Records and for, as a member of, N.W.A—a new rap group on the new label—whose landmark album, Straight Outta Compton, was driving the Los Angeles area's rap scene to swiftly drop electro for gangsta, while Warren, fresh out of high school, was jailed for selling drugs. Once out, he worked at the Long Beach shipyards.
By 1990, Warren had formed with two longtime running mates, Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale and Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus, the trio 213, the origin of a share of the G-funk sound to soon emerge in rap. Yet the trio, in practice, dissolved once Warren connected the trio to Dre, who thereby launched two superstar, solo careers, Dre's and Snoop's, upon G-funk. Nate, too, signed to Dre's Death Row Records, in Los Angeles city. Warren initially helped there, but, averting a career in his mentor's shadow, signed to Def Jam Recordings, in New York City.
Personal life
Apart from his music career, Warren has four children with his wife, Tenille Griffin. Getting older, increasingly identifying with his father, fond of cooking and storytelling, Warren G embraces "his morals and good family fun." One of his sons, Olaijah, played college football for the USC Trojans from 2018 to 2020 and was recognized with all-conference honors in 2019. In 2019, Warren G launched a line of barbecue sauces and rubs, Sniffin Griffins BBQ, for retail and restaurant supply.