Nate Dogg Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Nate: There's no telling where I would be if I didn't know how to do this music thing. Sometimes I would be about to lose my mind and want to knock somebody in the head or something, then I could hear a song and just chill out. It calms the savage beast.

Trivia

Nate's tour bus was stopped by police near Kingman, Arizona for going 85 mph in a 75 mph zone. A search of the bus revealed marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and stolen firearms. He was arrested and later freed on $3,500.00 bail.

Nate is nicknamed the soulman of G-Funk.

Nate appeared on the celebrity edition of the gameshow The Weakest Link in 2002.

Nate appears in the music video for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg's 'The Next Episode' in 1999, and in 50 Cent's '21 Questions' in 2002.

Nate produced his first single with Warren G, 'Regulate'.

Nate is known for his smooth, melodic voice, and as one of the few hip-hop artists that harmonizes his vocals, instead of rapping them.

Nate started singing as a young boy in the New Hope Trinity Baptist Church choir in Clarkesdale, Mississippi. His father Daniel Lee Hale was the Pastor.

Nate dropped out of high school at age 16, to enter the United States Marine Corps, he served three years before receiving a dishonorable discharge.