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Do or die yo

Back in the days

At Poly High

Old school

Old school mother...

[Warren G] I didn't even know

that Nate could sing like that.

The soulfulness

that was comin' from his voice

was just... was incredible.

Just woke up

Off my bed

And to my surprise

I had to brace myself

I couldn't believe my eyes

[indistinct]

[man] Hey! This sh*t burn

my motherfuckin' eyes, man!

She said to listen homes

[Snoop Dogg] Nate Dogg was lettin'

me use his car for the prom,

'cause I didn't have no car.

And we used his car

for, um, grad night

or whatever that was

when you go to Magic Mountain,

and we dogged his sh*t out.

I mean, me and Warren G

drove that mothafucka

till the brakes was gone.

And that was like... [chuckles]

That was like the first time

213 was really like...

We got a group, man.

And, uh,

we just started creatin'.

[Snoop Dogg]

And we liked the group 415,

which was from the Bay Area,

so we was like,

"Sh*t, we gonna be 213,"

'cause we

from Southern California.

[Warren G]

Nate was the soulful vocalist,

but keeping it gangster

at the same time.

I was the producer/artist/DJ,

and Snoop was just like

the architect, the player,

the pimp, the gangster,

all in one.

We wasn't sh*t

until we all came together

and took all of those powers

and maximized our strengths.

You know, people knew

who we were,

so we would come in the club

and come in and just turn

the whole club upside down.

You know, and I set it off.

You drink whiskey

I drink wine

Come on everybody

It's gangster time Boom!

[hip-hop music playing]

You know, those were,

like, some of

the funnest times of my life.

[Snoop Dogg] It was just

Snoop, Nate Dogg, Warren G,

always was about the group.

All of us.

[Warren G] Music, family,

you know, and just friends.

That's what it was.

That's how we became

popular in the city.

You know, that's when 213

actually started

to mean something.

[Snoop Dogg] Naturally the

neighborhood loved it, but...

it's trying to get

the world to love it.

And once we would

take our cassette

to certain people and have

meetings with record labels

or executives or whatnot,

or people that we could get

to at that time,

we weren't what they

were lookin' for. Never.

[funk music playing]

[Warren G]

Dre came into my life,

I probably was around

seven, eight years old.

My father married Andre's mom.

I didn't have no brothers.

["La Dre" Bolton]

People say they're brothers,

people say

they're step-brothers,

I say they're brothers.

They grew up

in the same house, so...

Dre, at the time, too,

was really trying to figure out,

you know, his path in the game.

You know,

I mean, he was producing

World Class

Wreckin' Cru's stuff,

but I don't know if his heart

was totally into that style.

So he started working

with Eazy-E and me

and started doing

the NWA thing.

[Warren G] The World Class

Wreckin' Cru and the NWA,

they inspired us a lot,

you know.

We was around that

and just wanted to be like them.

Oftentimes, Warren would come to

the studio to hang out with us.

Um, this was before Death Row.

I mean, you know,

I knew Warren G was...

He was always there.

So I never not saw him.

[Warren G] We shot Dre a tape of some

of the music that we had, but...

I don't even know

if he listened to it or he...

He did or he didn't.

He was just like... [scoffs]

Snoop used to

get discouraged a lot,

you know, because

wasn't nothin' happenin'.

My mind was tellin' me,

you know,

"Man, f*** this rap sh*t.

Ain't no money in it."

So I would give up

and not focus on my craft.

At one point,

I had got so frustrated

where I just took

all of my rhymes,

I had about, like, 100 raps

all wrote down on paper.

I just took all

them motherfuckers

and just threw them

in the trash,

like, "F*** this sh*t.

It's all what..."

And motherfuckin' Warren G

went in that motherf***er

and pulled all them

out of the trashcan.

All of them.

It's like, you know,

to be able to believe

in somebody

to where it's like,

"You know what,

I can't let you give up

because your dream

is our dream.

If you make it, we make it."

[Warren G] You had three guys

that, you know, was talented,

but at the same time,

we still was tryin'

to survive and really

the only way we knew

to get money was to...

you know, get into the,

you know, the drug trade.

[Too Short]

Go find me a rapper

who didn't start his career

on crack cocaine profits.

There was not

a lot of people who saw

the path of staying away

from that sh*t.

'Cause you taste it,

you're hooked.

You try it, you're hooked.

If you sell it, you're hooked.

[George H. W. Bush] Frequent use has

almost doubled in the last few years,

and that's why

habitual cocaine users,

especially crack users,

are the most pressing

immediate drug problem.

All of a sudden, you had

this influx of this new drug

that's making all kinds of money

and creating addicts.

You know, I remember doing

music, and we were doing clubs,

and cats was hyper in the club

till like 6:
00 in the morning.

We thinkin' it's just the music.

Nah, cats was...

back there, like, zoned out,

not even blinkin'.

Dope game just

blew out of proportion in L.A.

and cross-country.

To win in the war against

addictive drugs like crack

will take more

than just a federal strategy.

It will take

a national strategy.

[Daryl Gates] It is a rock

house and a smoke house.

That is they buy rock here

and smoke it here.

[Nancy Reagan] I can't say enough

for the, uh... for the police

and the SWAT team,

They're just doing

a fantastic job.

[Too Short] When you have a

million-dollar business,

and it's street money illegal,

you gotta protect it.

We went from just guys havin'

six shooters and shotguns

and sh*t like that

to f***in' M16s

and all this sh*t.

Man, it's like

you got a f***in' gun

that's gonna shoot...

pop pop pop pop pop pop...

and not stop

for a long f***in' time?

This influx of drugs,

guns, addiction,

Reagan and Bush

disenfranchisement.

[Kurupt]

When Reaganomics kicked in,

it took away

all the after-school programs.

So what else is there

for you to do

but hang out in the streets?

You got your friend

comin' over to you,

talkin' 'bout,

"I got $500 for doing this."

And you're like,

"For real? Dang!

How can I get me some?"

It all started to turn

into a cocktail.

You know, more murders went up,

it separated

territorial groupings

and made them hardcore

gun gangs and drug gangs.

[police officer, on radio]

9-3 and 3-0-8.

13-03's behind the unit.

[police officer 2] 13-43. Stopping

the vehicle, Central and 40th Place.

[police sirens blaring]

[helicopter]

[Snoop Dogg] We got involved

with all of the wrong sh*t.

Gang-bangin', sellin' drugs,

shootin', gettin' shot at,

watchin'

the homies go to jail.

I mean, all of the above.

I was like, "Look, man,

we can't keep doin' this.

You know, you goin' to jail,

me goin' to jail.

We got to let

all this stuff go, man,

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