Dubcnn: Remembering Nate Dogg #4: Frank Nitty Speaks

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

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For today's "Remembering Nate Dogg" piece, we caught up with one of Nate's close friends, Long Beach's Frank Nitty. A lot of you might not be aware of their relationship, but Nitty is the man behind most of Nate Dogg's collaboration with latin artists and they had been homeboys for a minute.

Frank Nitty gives us a human approach of the type of person Nate Dogg was and the positive vibe that surrounded him. Read th piece below and see the positive influence Nate had as a big homie to somebody like Nitty:

Frank Nitty: "A lot of people don't know how close me and Nate Dogg were, but he's the one who schooled me about being positive, staying positive and representing positive. We didn't have too many positive people representing and that man meant a lot to me. He was so legendary in the game and I kinda looked up to that, because at the time there wasn't nobody legendary that was actually riding for the positive side.

He always encouraged me to go to church. I looked up to him, because on top of the business he schooled me that being negative sucks you in. That's what kept me riding. I just want people to know that he was a real real positive person and a lot of people don't know how positive he was. That's why me and him bonded so much and we did a lot of work together.

One of my favorite memories with him was when we were at club Incahoots together and his baby moms tried to file child support on him and came up there with some papers and I had to throw her out the club and shit *laughs* He was like "Nitty go handle that." She came in the club to serve him some papers and I had to grab her and throw her out the club, that shit was funny. That's one of the funnier memories.

Other than that, Nate Dogg just understood the game and he understood the value of music. He used to always tell me "Nitty, I think I got a frequency that's ahead of time. We need to do some positive music." We always wanted to do a project called "Operation Save The West Coast" and that was something I started up a long time ago but it just never really happened because he was always moving. But he was into pushing this positive movement to where it's supposed to be.

That motivated me because I never saw anybody from his generation that was so heavy on pushing this movement. He used to tell me a lot of stories about negative stuff and tried to tell me that all these people in the industry ain't really what it is. He taught me a lot of stuff about the game and it opened my eyes about not caring about this Hollywood shit.

He actually kind of saved me because there were times where I was getting involved heavily in this rap shit and once he told me these stories and stuff, it just made me look at the rap game on a whole other level. Everybody is out for themselves homie. Don't nobody care about no unity. All they care about is worship, getting females and living that sodom and gomorrah lifestyle.

We always talked about how the rap game was sodom and gomorrah and we needed somebody to stand up. Still to this day, nobody ever really got up on that. Nate Dogg was different on that level. It's just sad and I'm still tripping out on this shit.. It's crazy. It feels like it ain't even happen… like damn my nigga is gone, I can never hear that nigga's authority again.. He always had authority when he talked, he was real serious. He didn't hang out a lot, he was serious, a lot of people didn't really know how to talk to him.

If you wasn't close to him or immediate family, people didn't know how to talk to him because he didn't give you that vibe. It was crazy how he looked at a lot of people. To him, either you were positive or you were negative. You had to show him that you were positive for him to open up to you, because if he didn't know you, he'd just be quiet and put his locs on and stare at you or try to figure you out. He definitely had a beautiful soul and he was big to me. He was bigger than Tupac to me, shit… That's how I look at it."

[Smackdog]

this is one of the better remembering nate dogg articles...


the other ones weren't as good

[Okka]

Another good read. Thanks for the good work DubCNN.

[Mista Rosa]

Another good read. Thanks for the good work DubCNN.

Yeah and lol at nitty kicking out Nate's baby moma.

[PLANT]

those were some great and honest words from Frank....looking forward to the next "remembering nate" episode.

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

Keep it coming!

[Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation)]

nver heard a song wit Nitty and Nate before..

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

Nitty isn't really a rapper, he's from Bad Azz' crew in Long Beach and he connected Nate with a lot of artists for feature spots etc they had a close relationship.

[MRFRANKNITTY]

I cant even front.....Nate was a complete blessing to me, he opened up my eyes in more ways than one from tha music game to just living life in general..... Like i said in tha interview he was very intuned to GOD, and our conversations was always about bringing unity back to tha west coast ....dealing with tha MUSIC game is very deep cuzz u have so many ego's to deal with and so many people competing against each other for tha dumbest shit WHEN  Music is a gift given to all kind of coultures to use as expression to give another person a visual threw frequency of what u are going threw in a rhythm form without being their.....and thats what Nate did so well!!.......He will always be remembered threw tha eyes of many that crossed his pathe......Im so sad but then again, im so happy he is not suffering no more and he can finally rest in peace with HIS creator where he rightfully belongs........I had extreme love for NATE spiritually and im glad i got a chance to bond with him  ON A DEEPER LEVEL besides tha music game.......it has been a memorial experiance and i will always cherish tha moments we shared in and out of tha music game..........HOLD IT DOWN, up their big homie..........cuzz ima HOLD it down DOWN here until we meet again, ur lil bro Frank Nitty................I like to also mention, that we created a WE MISS U tribute 4 months before he passed with tha LBC CREW that will most definitly be released. I had my close friend FINGAZZ produce tha beat THAT PUT THA RIGHT FLAVA exactly how we needed it to be...... GOD BLESS all those who followed Nate's career and remained a SOLID FAN threw thick and thin times!....................stay humble and """ GOD BLESS THA WEST""!!..............i can always be reached at @MrFrankNittyLBC all is welcome!!........

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

^^thanks for the words nitty.

[MRFRANKNITTY]

yea bro like NIMA said rapping really aint my position.......I just play tha role of helping all my west coast homies get paid either threw features or executive producing many diffrent situations......but good looking out on ur concerns.......

nver heard a song wit Nitty and Nate before..

[K.Dub]

this is one of the better remembering nate dogg articles...


the other ones weren't as good

this is a good article, aye. But it doesn't mean the other ones are bad. Not everyone remembers Nate the same way..

[MRFRANKNITTY]

no doubt bro bro........U already know how we do it........wish u was here for his viewing on SATURDAY.....I will make sure to send ur blessing with I see him for tha very last time!!......U have played a very large roll and im proud of u loco......keep up tha good deeds......

^^thanks for the words nitty.

[Darkwing Duck (The Reincarnation)]

nice post. lookin fowad to the LBC Cew-tribute.
rip nate..

oh yeah, BadAzz/Leaders Of The New School right?
ur the guy wit "that" voice?

i used to confuse you wit Frank Nitt, from Frank 'N Dank (J Dillas homies)

[MRFRANKNITTY]

ur right bro.....everybody's story is good about tha lengendary NATE DOGG i enjoyed every one......it all add's up tha same, that Nate Dogg had a classic SOUL, and he will be missed!.......

this is one of the better remembering nate dogg articles...


the other ones weren't as good

this is a good article, aye. But it doesn't mean the other ones are bad. Not everyone remembers Nate the same way..