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Snoop Dogg revealed he helped pen Warren G's 1994 debut, Regulate...G-Funk Era,in an effort to keep him safe from Suge Knight.

Snoop Dogg accepted a new position at Def Jam Recordingsearlier this year as the iconic labels Executive Creative and Strategic Consultant, a role allowing him to strategically work across the labels executive team and artist roster. One of his first orders of business is to release The Algorithmon November 12, his inaugural album under the Def Jam venture. Ahead of its release, Snoop has been busy making the press rounds. On Wednesday (October 27), Snoop stopped by The Breakfast Club to chop it up with Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Angela Yee. At one point during the conversation, Snoop was looking back on his Death Row Records days and revealed he actually helped pen Warren Gs 1994 debut, RegulateG-Funk Era, in an effort to keep him safe from Suge Knight, who was Death Rows CEO at the time. Like I said, my pen had something to do with that, Snoop said. 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. A post shared by The Breakfast Club (@breakfastclubam) Like many of Snoop Doggspeers, hes always admired Def Jam Recordings. Founded by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, the label is responsible for some of Hip Hops greatest success stories. First of all, Im a fan of Def Jam Records. As a rapper, as a kid, as a man. I just miss the mystique of Def Jam Records and what it meant to Hip Hop and what it was all about They were like, the epitome of what Hip Hop was supposed to be. Snoop Dogg added he and his West Coast rap brethren actually encouraged Warren G to sign with Def Jam. We all wanted to be on Def Jam, he said. You gotta understand, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, LL Cool J, EPMD, you understand what Im saying? This a foundation to Hip Hop for us. Read more