Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Nate Dogg

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, known professionally as Nate Dogg, was an American singer and rapper. He gained recognition for providing guest vocals for a multitude of hit rap songs between 1992 and 2007, earning the nickname "King of Hooks".

American - Musician | August 19, 1969 - March 15, 2011

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You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

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Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.

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Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.

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I met Snoop through church when we was, like, 13 or 14. You know, they had them little church picnics and basketball games, and that's where I got to know him.

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The South Side loves me - I've got a song with Jermaine Dupri - and I've got songs on the East Coast and songs on the West Coast. Now, if I could just find me a rapper from up North.

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Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

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When I do get married, I'm gonna sing to my wife. If a woman makes me fall in love, I've got to sing to her.

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I love old R&B records.

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Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

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My family don't listen to R&B - never have, never will. They only listen to gospel. That's where I get my voice from. I got a gospel voice.

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A lot of black men get in desperate situations because they don't see any other avenues to make it. You make a couple of mistakes today, that's all she wrote. You're not going to get a good job; nobody's gonna hire a felon. You can't even vote. They just want to silence you.

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There are certain rules: If you know somebody did something, you don't just say, 'Ay, po-leece, I know who did it!' it's more like, 'Okay, I'll take care of it.'

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A lot of people just send me beats, and I pick the ones I like. See, once I said I was doing my album - because I know everybody and they mama - everybody just got in touch with me.

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I was a Dr. Dre fan.

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It looks different seeing yourself on the big screen.

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It makes it a lot easier when you can make your own decisions.

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People don't know how deep, loving, and caring 'Pac was. He was more than a rapper or an actor: he was a real friend.

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That's all I know how to do, just make music.

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If I'm not around, not only do I fail my sons, I fail myself. Becoming a father changed my outlook and gave me a whole other reason to be around.

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I literally grew up in the church.

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The first song I wrote was called 'Baby Darling Darling Girl,' and you know what's funny? It went, 'Baby darling darling girl, I really love your Jheri Curl.' I thought it was tight as hell.

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Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

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Long Beach is fast. Every day, you hear something bad; somebody gets hurt.

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I really didn't even pick producers. I just picked beats, except for Dre - he's the only producer I knew I wanted to work with.

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I don't know how to do nothing else. I started out doing what I do, and I try to stick to what I'm doing.

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I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.

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I'm trying to make a big statement - that I'm not just a hook singer.

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Hey-hey-hey-hey! Smoke weed every day!

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Because, if you ever been in the state pennitentary, you understand if you're not in something, then you stay out of it, you know and that's how I do.That's a easy way to stay out of it!

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Hey, ay, ay, ay...smoke weed everyday.

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I smoke so much weed that you wouldn't believe and I get more ass then a toilet seat.

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When I met you last night baby Before you opened up your gap I had respect for ya lady But now I take it all back

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