Nate Dogg, Hip-Hop Collaborator, Dies at 41 - New York Times

Nate Dogg, a singer with a silky, burly voice who helped shape the sound of West Coast hip-hop, died on Tuesday in Long Beach, Calif., the city where he was born and that he helped memorialize in song. He was 41.

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Nate Dogg was the first male singer whose fame was predicated almost completely on his appearances on the songs of rappers. At the beginning of his career such collaborations were rare, and often ham-handed. But he incorporated hip-hop posturing into his vocals, and his blend of cocksureness and haunted melancholy became a genre staple.

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Born Nathaniel Dwayne Hale on Aug. 19, 1969, Nate Dogg spent much of his childhood in Clarksdale, Miss., where he sang in the choir of the church where his father was the pastor, before moving back to Long Beach. There, following a stint in the Marines , he formed the group 213, after the local area code, with his high school friends the rappers Snoop Doggy Dogg and Warren G.

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Nate Dogg, Hip-Hop Collaborator, Dies at 41 - New York Times