According to an interview with The Breakfast Club, Snoop Dogg said he protected Warren G from Suge Knight by secretly recording Warren G's 1994 debut "Regulate...G-Funk Era".
Suge Knight was CEO of Death Row Records at the time, and Snoop Dogg said in the interview, "We was trying to protect the homie from Suge Knight at the time, Suge was taking everything so we wanted to make sure Warren G had a dope record without him being able to get it, so we silently, me and Kurupt and a few others, went to work for Warren G to make sure that his record could be what it was."
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