Nate Dogg was born in Long Beach California. When Nate was 16, he dropped out of high school to join the Marines. He then returned to Long Beach in 1990 and tried to focus on music for his future. However, he did not have enough money to survive and couldn't find work so he got into the drug business. After selling drugs and having brushes with the law, he got together with his longtime friends Snoop Dogg and Warren G. In 1991 they formed the group "213". The three young rappers made a series of demo tapes and became very popular throughout the Long Beach streets. One of the demo tapes made it to Warren G's half-brother, Dr. Dre. Dre just broke up with the legendary group N.W.A. and was starting his own record label with Suge Knight called Death Row Records. Snoop got a break with Dre on the Deep Cover Soundtrack and he was signed to Death Row Records. Nate's first professional appearence came on Dr. Dre's album "The Chronic". Nate performed on "The Chronic" before he was even signed to Death Row. In 1993, Nate got a record contract with Death Row. Since then, Nate has made many guest appearences on Death Row artists' albums. In 1993, Nate began work on his first solo album. However, a lot of the songs he made were put onto other albums. After he started a song called "Ain't No Fun", Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row, ordered the song to be on Snoop's album, "Doggystyle". In 1994, Nate Dogg hooked up with Warren G and made the song "Regulate". Suge liked this song as well and decided to put it on the Above The Rim Soundtrack. "Regulate" was #2 on the singles billboard chart at one point. In 1996, Nate completed his first album called "G-Funk Classics Vol. 1". The first single off the album was called "Never Leave Me Alone" and it featured Snoop Dogg. In 1997 Nate finally decided to leave Death Row. Nate took all the skills he learned over the years with Death Row to form his own record label called Dogg Foundation. In early 1998, Nate finally finished up his new album. He decided to put a double album and he titled it "G-Funk Classics Vol.1 & 2". The first single of the new album was "Nobody Does It Better" which featured Nate's friend Warren G. Nate Dogg is currently on electra records and has featured in songs with many artists new and old newer artists being Shade shiest, Ludacris, Fabolous and has just relesed a new album called Music And Me