New York, NY – Snoop Dogg not too long ago sat down for an episode Questlove’s podcast, Questlove Supreme. Through the dialog, the 2 Hip Hop vets mentioned the 1992 Dr. Dre traditional “Nuthin However A G Thang” that includes the inimitable Doggfather.
Unbeknownst to Snoop, Dre used a pattern from Congress Alley’s 1973 track “Are You Trying.” The group simply occurred to characteristic Arthur Lee Andrew Thompson and Jacqui Andrews — Quest’s mom and father.
“You understand you sampled my dad and mom, proper?” The Roots drummer says. “My mother and my dad.”
“What!?” a shocked Snoop replies.
“That’s my mother and my dad,” Quest reiterates. “Simply chill ’til the subsequent episode laughs].”
As Quest performs “Are You Trying” within the background, Snoop begins rapping, “Falling again on that ass with a hellafied gangsta lean,” half his lyrics from “Nuthin However A G Thang.”
Quest admits it was an thrilling second to listen to The Continual hit on The Field music video present again within the day.
“So when the shit would come on The Field in Philly and I heard that — Yo, me and Tariq misplaced it. Like, ‘Yo, that’s your mother and pa!’” he says. “It was like we received the lottery ticket!”
Snoop then explains that’s truly not the observe he used to jot down the lyrics for “Nuthin However A G Thang.”
“I wrote it f begins buzzing The South Aspect Motion’s ‘I Been Watching You’],” Snoop says.” That’s the beat he Dre] gave me. I took it over to over to my cousin’s home and I wrote the entire ‘G Thang’ track to that.”
The total Questlove Supreme episode with Snoop airs Wednesday (December 19) on Pandora. Till then, take heed to the snippet up high.