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Warren G
Solo artist Long Beach United States
Warren G is an artist from Long Beach. Warren G has 6 chart appearances on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 1994–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Regulate”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #89. The station that charted Warren G most often is The Current (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1994.
Warren G, the Long Beach rapper, producer and DJ born Warren Griffin III in 1970, is credited as a pioneer of G-funk, the laid-back, synth-whining sound that pushed West Coast hip-hop into the mainstream in the 1990s. He's also the man who introduced Snoop Dogg to Dr. Dre, which puts him somewhere near the foundation of the whole thing.
His breakthrough was "Regulate", the 1994 single with Nate Dogg, smooth and rolling, carried by a groove as easy as a Sunday drive. It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 18 weeks in the Top 40, and his debut album, Regulate... G Funk Era, entered the Billboard 200 at number 2 and went triple Platinum. "This D.J." followed it into the top 10, and both songs picked up Grammy nominations.
Later on he formed the trio 213 with Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, named after Long Beach's area code, and in 2015, four years after Nate Dogg's death in 2011, he released Regulate... G Funk Era, Part II, an EP built on archived recordings of his old partner.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Warren G on radio countdowns
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | Regulate | WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s |
| 2023 | 545 | Regulate | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time |
| 2023 | 179 | Regulate | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s |
| 2022 | 112 | Regulate | The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s |
| 2018 | 719 | Regulate | The Current's 893 Essential Songs |
| 1994 | 89 | Regulate | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 |
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