The family of Nate Dogg announced Tuesday evening that the hip-hop legend had died at the age of 41.
Born Nathaniel Hale in Long Beach, California, Nate Dogg grew up singing in church before joining the Peace Corps at 16 for a three-year run. After that, Nate formed the trio 213 with childhood friends Snoop Dogg and Warren G in the early 90′s, which was the inception of the revolutionary sound in hip-hop known as “G-Funk”, and the rest is music history.
Throughout the course of his 15+ year career, Nate Dogg’s smooth, soulful, and unmistakable croon earned him over 200 guest appearances on a variety of seminal hip-hop albums, 12 top-40 hits on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, 14 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart, three solo albums of his own, four Grammy nominations, and the indisputable title as the voice of hip-hop.
A series of strokes in 2007 and 2008 left Nate Dogg paralyzed on his left side but his voice was reportedly unaffected and many wondered if he and when he would resume his music career. Although some reports stated he had been working on new material, nothing had materialized by the time of his death.
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