Warren G has been a mainstay in Hip Hop for decades, and he recently reminisced about some good times he’d had with Dr. Dre and Eminem in their younger, more halcyon days.
Back in 2000, the Up In Smoke tour featured a variety of performers, most of whom had become well-known thanks to their affiliation with the West Coast. With Dre and Snoop Dogg as headliners, Warren G was just one of the many supporting acts on the tour — and needless to say, he’d had the time of his life.
“We was high the entire tour,” he told HipHopDX exclusively on the BET Awards red carpet. “Best memory ever. One of the best memories I have was when we was in Miami. Dre rented the whole club, and we had a ball.”
He continued: “We had been working and working and working. So we just had a chance to relax for the day. He just rented the club and we had a ball. I can’t go no further than that.”
But while Warren G may remember the Up In Smoke tour fondly, Suge Knight doesn’t exactly have the best memories of the “Regulate” hitmaker.
Appearing as a guest on the The Gauds Show back in April, a clip from the podcast sees Warren G go into detail about the nature of his and Knight’s relationship back at the height of his career.
“Snoop told Suge: ‘You could have had Warren G. You let Warren G go.’ Them n-ggas was trippin’,” Warren told host Ray Daniels. “And I was trippin’ too! It wasn’t like I’ma let you n-ggas just come and try to get off on me or try to do whatever y’all do. N-gga I got Regulators! I didn’t want it to be like that.
“And I still be saying Suge is a good dude. He was a good dude, it’s just that when all the money shit started kicking in, all that other shit started kicking in, the Hollywood shit started kicking in, that’s when he changed.”
He continued: “I still said that these was my people even though these n-ggas would be tripping on me at certain places. And I was just like, ‘I’m not gon’ let you n-ggas tell me Nate can’t perform with me.’ And this is my fucking stage up here with the Billboard Awards? The big stage? He’s performing n-gga. Stop it.”
That up in smoke DVD was amazing.
Pre Internet tours were amazing. No social media bullshit.
Just great times without cameras and cellphones.
Sickest dopest funnest concert of my life. I went to the Phoenix AZ show. Dre surprised the fuck out of me with the concert set up. Big ass skull talkin to the crowd. Weeeeeeeeed smoke so thick that shit was keeping everyone high. Dre, Eminem, cube, x to the mutha fuckin Z (xzibit for you kids), All of them .. The DVD don’t really tell you how stupid loud the stadium got with each artist although Eminem murdered the absolute most! Warren G, Nate Dogg…. that show was off the chain from start to end!!
I will never forget going to the Anaheim show and on the way hearing on the radio that the SWAT team arrested Nate Dogg that morning for kidnapping his by momma. We were so fuckin pissed that he wouldn’t be there. As soon as Dre/Snoop performed The Next Episode, the music stopped and we hear “HOLD UP” and Nate Dogg ran on stage to finish the song. The crowd went fuckin nuts!
They put Eminems name on the headline just for clicks lol
No bro, he was just as big of not bigger in that time and still is and he ripped the stage apart when he performed. I wouldn’t disrespect his influence, his mega status, or his energy. Eminem is a great and a goat for that matter.