Warren G and Dr. Dre are steps brothers by marriage.
Dr. Dre’s mother and Warren G’s father married each other and brought both families together.
At age 17, Warren was jailed for gun possession. Following his release, he began focusing on music after his stepbrother Dr. Dre taught him how to use a drum machine.
In 1990, Warren G together with Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg formed the hip-hop trio 213, named for Long Beach’s area code. While practicing with 213, and working a full-time job, the young Warren used all his free time creating his sound and aspired to make it big.
The trio 213 dissolved when two of its members signed with Death Row Records.
During his early solo career, Warren G worked with artists like MC Breed and 2Pac, but his big break came when his vocal collaboration with Mista Grimm, on “Indo Smoke”, appeared on the Poetic Justice soundtrack (1992).
Warren’s outstanding rap led to a serious collaboration with his stepbrother Dr. Dre. Dedicated to hard work, that same year, Warren G made major contributions to Dr. Dre’s album The Chronic (released in December 1992), including sampling for “Nuthin’ but a G-Thang”.
Dr. Dre is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Beats Electronics, which had been acquired in 2014 for $3.4 billion by technology giant Apple Inc.
He is also the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment after previously co-forming and owning Death Row Record.
On February 21, 2001, Dr. Dre became the first hip-hop producer to win a Grammy for Producer of The Year. He was also nominated for four other awards including: Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the track “Forget About Dre” with Eminem.
He won an MTV Music Video Award in 1995 for the hit single “Keep Their Heads Ringin.”