Artist: 213
Genre(s):
Other
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
The Hard Way
Year: 2004
Tracks: 19
Groupie Luv
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Over a decennium afterwards trey of the West Coast's peak tap artists -- Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Nate Dogg -- stone-broke up their 213 tercet and pursued respectively successful solo careers, they reunited for a long-rumored, much-anticipated supergroup album, The Hard Way. The oft-told 213 narration is more or less of a West Coast rap legend. It begins at the daybreak of the '90s, a couple age ahead Dr. Dre unleashed The Chronic. At that clip, Snoop (born Calvin Broadus), Warren (Robert Penn Warren Griffin III), and Nate (Nathaniel Hale) were danton True Young and unknown thus far talented and wishful artists from Long Beach, an outlying region of Los Angeles. Snoop and Warren rapped piece Nate panax quinquefolius the melodies and maulers, and elysian by Richie Rich's 415 grouping from the Cali Bay Area, the ternary named itself afterwards its have area code, 213. In special, Warren was the to the highest degree enterprising member of the group and unbroken trying to turn his half-brother, the one and only Dr. Dre, on to 213. It was a priceless connective, and liking what he heard, Dre invited the ternary to get together his then-burgeoning Death Row Records camp. Snoop got to the highest degree of the attention, initially leading aboard Dre on "Deep Cover," a big 1992 hit that lay out the stage for the Doctor's Chronic album by and by that class. Of course, that album became a giant achiever, in commercial as well as artistic footing. Snoop became an overnight genius, and both Warren and Nate presently scene to stardom themselves on their rack up pas de deux "Regulate." Ten long time by and by Snoop remained atop the strike game, ane of the few perennial superstars -- not only when a recording artist merely as well a popular touring creative person, Hollywood actor, boutique label possessor, and media personality. However, the success Warren and Nate enjoyed with "Regularise" had simmered over the long time. Both retained tepid solo careers simply couldn't puzzle a good break. Then came a one-off collaborationism between these three former group match: "So Fly," a mixtape freestyle travesty of Monica's reach single "So Gone." The song became a surprise radio receiver and tube hit in summer 2003 and cursorily light-emitting diode to an album deal with TVT Records. The reunited 213 then hit the studio apartment, and rough a yr afterwards, in August 2004, The Hard Way was released to a lot fanfare, preceded by the release of principal individual "Groupie Luv."
