Bad news about 213........inside.

[teecee]

Hope this hasnt been posted,, its from mtv.com....


"When Snoop and Nate Dogg tell you, "This is 213, go bust on it," you stop what you're doing and go rap on the track they're directing you toward. So goes the history of how Warren G's latest collaboration with his two best friends came about.

The song, "Fly," finds all three breaking women's hearts over the beat to Monica's "So Gone." So far the tune has been a smash on the mixtapes and has made its way onto the radio, becoming one of the most heavily rotated records in L.A.

"Nate came in and put a hook on there," Warren said a few weeks ago, speaking on the phone from Seattle. "Snoop put a verse on there. I came in like, 'What's happening?' I really listened to it after we finished. I was like, 'Where did they get this beat from? This sh-- is incredible.' I'm driving one day and I heard Monica singing over it, and I was like, 'This sh-- is crazy.' It tripped me out but we had a ball doing it."

Warren says "Fly," which was recorded in early spring, probably won't make the cut for the trio's long-talked-about debut LP, but the rhyming beatmaker promised that the group has plenty of other material to choose from.

"We recorded about 30-something songs," he disclosed. "That's how fast we work. We just pull up a gang of beats and start doing them."

213 want to limit the number of guest rappers on the LP, but Snoop wants to get his pimping accomplice 50 Cent on the album and Warren wouldn't mind having Nas, Eminem and the remaining members of N.W.A jump onboard. Warren's half-brother Dr. Dre has confirmed that he'll produce on the project and Pharrell Williams has already submitted beats (see "Snoop's 213 Working With Neptunes On Long-Awaited LP").

"I'm doing like, four tracks on the album that's off the chain," the G-child promised. "I'll probably end up doing more stuff but I guess Snoop wants to get flavor from other guys. But I know how to make it happen. Not to say that the other guys don't, but we've got chemistry. That's the formula: Warren G, Dr. Dre, Daz. The same people that was involved in The Chronic. But I don't mind getting nothing from Pharrell and the other cats because they make hit records. I don't mind getting more hits."

If it were up to Warren, the 213 hit parade would've started up a long time ago, but he blames the politics of each group member being on a different label and differing schedules for the slow start.

"I'm happy to have the chance to finally do it like we used to," beamed Warren, who started making records with Snoop and Nate when they were kids. "I've been telling Snoop for years, 'Let's do this 213.' I get tired of every time I do an interview, everybody asking me what's up with 213. I told Snoop, '[The] next time you go to a radio station, they gonna ask you that sh--.' He went to a radio station and he did a quiz and asked [the listeners], 'What would be the hottest sh-- for us to do? A 213 record, a Dogg Pound record or an Eastsidaz record?' Everybody told him 213, which is a no-brainer. Snoopy is hard-headed sometimes, but that's my dog."

One of the records they already have in the can is a track called "Rolling Down the Highway" and another is called "Sunny Days," where the three West Coast giants perform over the beat from "Sesame Street."

Outside of his reunited group debut, Warren has been working on his next solo album. He doesn't have a deal yet, but has laid tracks with friends like Raphael Saadiq and Xzibit. G has also landed a deal with JVC for his own line of products, which he designed, called "The Warren G Series of Speakers and Amps." He's even got his own JVC boombox ready to hit stores, but he doesn't have a name for it yet.

213 does not have a name for their album or a release date, but the members hope to drop the LP this winter. "



-----Damn, Warren might only have 4 TRACKS on the album?!!??  What happened to him doing at least half the album?  I like what warren says about him, Daz and Dre having the right chemistry- imagine this album produce by Warren, Dre, and a rejuvenated Daz!  WHOA!  I know this album is gonna be tight, but i cant help but feel pissed off at Snoop a little bit for wanting all these producers....THEN AGAIN, SNOOP HAS NEVER THOUGHT MUCH OF WARREN AS A  PRODUCER, wich is why hes never rapped over a Warren beat on his own albums, and which is why 213 never happened until now.  I mean, the point of 213 is to hear Snoop nate and Warren on Warrens beats (with a couple Dre ones).......i bet the Neptunes will give them a dope beat, and i am sure NAs and eminem and 5o will all be dope on the album, but i just hope the album doesnt become saturated wit guest appearances and become inconsistent and all over the place due to all the producers. peace

[UDollar A.K.A Nino]

5 Warren produced tracks:
How stupid can they be? If they did like a thing were Warren producec 4, Dre like 2 and Daz 4 then ok, but we will probably see 4 Warren tracks, 1 Dre and the rest gonna be Eminem, Neptunes, Jelly Roll and them other average producers....

Only Few guest's on the albumn: Good idea, but:

Nas: Why oh why, this is never gonna work.... totaly diffrent style's of topic and flow....

Eminem: im pretty glad to be hearing another track with him and Snoop, even though this could turn out bad....

50 Cent: hmm, hes nothing special, but if we cant get Bad Azz, E-White, Daz, Dre, RBX, Lady Rage, Tray Deee, Doggy Angells and the rest of them, then why not 50.... At least they gonna get pretty good promotion... Or?

Huh....

[quik4life]

em and nas shouldn't be on this album....it should just be warren, nate and snoop (and maybe dre on a couple productions)...that's it...

50, nas and em will ruin the true flava of what everbody expected the 213 album to be....

az

[CharlieBrown]

Looking for the positives, 213 & NWA would be tight.

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

how do u know the nas collaboration wont be tight? don't stop wit daz kurupt and nas was tight as fuck too..

em and 50 could sound real good too.. only thing thats kinda worryin me is that warren is only doin like 4 songs tho... i was hopin for alot more.. i'll just let it surprise me.. fuck it ill judge it when its out not by whats on the paper

[T-Dogg]

I'm glad somebody like MTV actually spoke to Warren to get an opinion, not just Snoop all the time. And I'm glad about that too that Warren spoke his mind there - about Snoopy bein' hard headed, about who he thinks should be doing the production, who he'd like to have as guests and so on... Seems like if Warren was in total control of this album, he'd give us, the fans, EXACTLY what we hoped for - Production by Warren, Dre & Daz and guests limited to West Site vets and a few master spitters from the East. If Warren was in charge, the product would be GUARANTEED to satisfy us. Now we'll have to wait for it and give it a few listens to see if we like it or not. But I'm hopin' for the best.

[[Stoned]Jesus H. Christ[Wheat]]

still looking forward to this album like crazy.

[bez]

how do u know the nas collaboration wont be tight? don't stop wit daz kurupt and nas was tight as fuck too..

em and 50 could sound real good too.. only thing thats kinda worryin me is that warren is only doin like 4 songs tho... i was hopin for alot more.. i'll just let it surprise me.. fuck it ill judge it when its out not by whats on the paper

true words

[lbc213]

still looking forward to this album like crazy.

Indeed, no bad newz for me, we gettin closer & closer to a 213 album so u don't hear me complain.

[Duckman]

Why does Snoop like the Neptunes so much??

[Lil Suge Knight]

Fuck Snoop, Fuck The Neptunes, Fuck Em, Fuck 50, Fuck Nas................

Snoop shitting all over this project, next we will here Jigga will be on the album, shits getting stupid!!!!!

[mauzip]

They need to put that What U Wanna Do joint on there! But on the real, only a couple of Warren G produced tracks on the 213 album is just not right. It just isn't. Snoop need to get some pepper in his ass (that's a Dutch saying ) and they need to get the album out real quick now! I bet it will be March 2004 in the end eventually

[Woodrow]

IMO, everybody's making a big deal over nothing...

This would be ideal to me.
4 Warren G tracks,
2 Fredwreck tracks,
3 Battlecat tracks
2 Dre tracks
3 "Hot producer tracks"
2 Soopafly
1 Quik track (hey I can wish)

That looks like a hot album to me, but hey, to each their own...

My big worry is that they don't keep the westcoast feel to it. How are you gonna have an album by 213 with eastcoast beats?

[UDollar A.K.A Nino]

Why does Snoop like the Neptunes so much??

Lol i dont think that he loves/likes them personally, its just that he wanna get payed.... You know a Neptunes track will probably be in the top 10....

[gFuNkA]

4 Warren G tracks,
3 "Hot producer tracks"

...that would make 7 Warren G tracks