
Nuthin' But a G Thang
Dre built G-funk on a Leon Haywood sample, handed Snoop the mic, and gangsta rap reached number two.

Dre built G-funk on a Leon Haywood sample, handed Snoop the mic, and gangsta rap reached number two.

Roger Troutman's talk box over a Joe Cocker sample, and Shakur's first single after Death Row sprang him from prison.

Jay-Z wrote every line of it, Scott Storch played the piano figure, and Dre's seven-year album silence ended.
Dr. Dre produced it, George McCrae supplied the sample, and Snoop's unhurried drawl became the West Coast blueprint.

Dre stacked Atomic Dog over Parliament and Funkadelic, and Snoop's debut single walked straight into the top ten.

Dre and Mel-Man built it on a David McCallum orchestral cut from 1967, arranged by Axelrod, and Nate Dogg closes.

Warren G looped four bars of Michael McDonald in a Long Beach bedroom, and Nate Dogg sang his half.

Eminem wrote the verses as a reference for Snoop Dogg, by Dre's account, and Dre kept the guide vocal.

A Mothership Connection sample, RBX writing Dre's verses, and the Grammy win that turned it into a hit.

Predator-era Cube with Das EFX in tow; the remix rode the Message beat to number one R&B.
DJ U-Neek's beat, Shatasha Williams on the hook, and the harmonized Cleveland flow Eazy-E had to be talked into releasing.

A Faustian bargain told in the first person, later expanded into an eighteen-minute film Dre co-directed with Fab Five Freddy.

Sam Sneed and J-Flexx started it as 'The Heist'; Dre and Cube's first record together since N.W.A.

Snoop wrote the hook but label trouble kept him off the record; Warren G took it to number nine.

Dre put music under Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's a cappella original, and Snoop made the story his.
Bryan Dobbs looped Lakeside's 1980 hit, and Coolio rode it to number three dreaming of somewhere trouble-free.