Warren G stopped by SKEE Live recently to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut album Regulate… G Funk Era. In the interview the veteran rapper zooms in on how Dr. Dre paved the way for him, and actually taught him how to produce music. Hit the jump for more of what he had to say, and the video of the full interview.
“Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio,” he said. “Back then I was just deejaying so I wasn’t really that active [or] have too much input in what was going on. So I asked him to show me how to work the MPC 60 and he showed me. I was maybe about 18, 17 [or] 18, right around there. So he showed me and after that I just started picking it up because I wanted to be more involved in what was going on instead of just a deejay. I wanted to produce. I already rapped with Snoop back in the day with the Voltron crew, I had that already. It was lovely man, that’s what introduced me into starting to create this good music.”
“It was incredible,” Warren G says of Dr. Dre’s early success. “I was in junior high school and I would sneak his jacket and wear it to school.”
Watch the full interview below.
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