RIP Nate Dogg

BBC- US singer and rapper Nate Dogg has died at the age of 41, according to reports.

His friend and collaborator Snoop Dogg paid tribute on Twitter, while the Press-Telegram newspaper in his home town of Long Beach, California, cited an announcement from his family.
Nate Dogg, real name Nathaniel Hale, went to school with Snoop and sang on Warren G's hit Regulate. He also worked with Eminem, Dr Dre and Mark Ronson.
Other collaborators Ludacris and The Game also Tweeted messages in tribute.

 

On Twitter, Snoop described Nate Dogg as a "true legend of hip-hop and R&B", adding that he was "one of my best friends and a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at Poly High where we met".
Snoop, Nate and Warren G started their careers in a rap trio in Long Beach called 213 in the early 1990s.


This is a sad day for me.  Nate Dogg made some of the smoothest tracks known to mankind.  He supposedly had two stroke a while back and just didn't pull through.  Forty-one years old is just too damn young.  Here is some of his best work and this song should makes everyone's day a little sunnier.

"Ate a whole damn box of fruity pebbles in one day, and ain't got no job!"  Preach, grandpa, preach.