#Def Jam Icon

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Greatest Def Jam game ever?

Greatest Def Jam game ever?

[finitofreeway]

[takunwilliams]

Jay Z for black history month  2023

by 

technodrome1 

[readyforevolution]

Bernie Mac, born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, was a true gem in the world of comedy. Born and raised in Chicago, he had a tough upbringing, but he used those experiences to fuel his humor. His comedy was raw, real, and relatable. He had a unique style of comedy that was both edgy and warm-hearted, a combo that's pretty hard to pull off!

He started his career doing stand-up in Chicago's clubs before making it big in HBO's "Def Comedy Jam." His iconic "I ain't scared of you..." line is still quoted today. Bernie's humor was fearless, he wasn't afraid to push boundaries and speak his mind, which is part of what made him so special.

His success in stand-up led him to Hollywood. He was part of the "Original Kings of Comedy," a stand-up tour and film that also featured Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, and Cedric the Entertainer. Bernie also had a successful career in film and television. His role in "The Bernie Mac Show" was beloved by many, and he showed his range with roles in films like "Ocean's Eleven."

But what I think made Bernie Mac truly special was his heart. He was known to be incredibly kind and generous off the stage. He used his success to give back to his community and help others. His legacy in comedy is undeniable, but his impact extends beyond just making people laugh.

Bernie Mac left us too soon, but his humor and spirit live on. His ability to make people laugh, his fearlessness on stage, and his big heart are all part of what made him a legend.

[zombii-ships]

SDJ BOYS AS : BARTENDERS

Jack:

Probably a restaurant bar kind of guy. Loves to make a show out of pours, lots of tricks and pretty drinks and unexpected ingredients. You know that one video of the guy pouring out shots that make a rainbow? Yeah that’s him. He’s a total ham and he loves chatting up patrons, gives very polite advice. Jack’s a real sweetheart, he checks in on frequenters and he’s quick to cut people off if he needs to. Def gives out too many freebies but he’s just kind. He’s got a fun pun name for every custom mix he does. A hopeless romantic that loves giving cute drinks to people on dates.

Shaun:

Def at like a rave club or a goth club. Besties with the dj, so quite a few of the songs in the playlist are per his recommendation. Lots of jokes and super snarky with patrons. He’s the type to people watch and flag down regulars to catch up. He gives really unbiased opinions, like talking to a friend. You cannot out flirt him dude, but he will think it’s cute if you try. Def the type of guy to name his custom mixes after horror icons. He’s always jamming behind the bar, he’s got an ear to the ground and he’s plugged in to all the cool places in town if you ask. Get him talking about films and you’ll be there all night, but it’s a great talk.

Nick:

Gives me Jazz Club/ Night Club vibes

Quiet, but smirks a lot at patrons conversations. He’s in his element, dude’s like hypnotic. He kinda grooves while he mixes, like he’s on beat with it. Starts patrons off with a couple questions, then makes them something that he thinks would suit them. He’s mostly going on feel, but his instincts are almost always right. He’s really quippy if he knows you, but you’ve got to get to that point. He’s got all the regulars favorites memorized.

Ian:

Theater Bar. Every show he’s got memorized, you can absolutely hear him singing along when a musical is showing. He’s shy, and a little clumsy, but he’s charming with patrons. A great shoulder to lean on, loves listening and secretly relishes in the drama he hears at the bar. Doesn’t do a lot of original drinks, more-so just tests things out while he’s at home and writes them down. Will hand out his headshots if the occasion calls for it. They’re just. on a shelf under the bar. Most likely to take lil shots every now and then. You can hear him occasionally rehearsing for his own acting career under his breath as he works.

Bonus Jacktor:

Biker Bar all the way. Definitely picks up shifts whenever he drifts into another town. He seems really really reserved but in the occasional quiet moment you can hear him snickering at a joke. Breaks up fights SO fast. All it takes is for him to talk to folks for like a minute and it’s all good. Never stays in the same place for long, he likes the changing energy and hearing people’s stories. Puts the crowd pleasers that everyone knows on the jukebox just to see everyone have fun. Master of keeping the vibes cool. Does that thing where you slide the glass down the counter to somebody. Huge flirt, but just as easily flustered. He looks like he’s exhausted being there, but really he’s just focused. Seems really intense, but hes just quiet. Huge sweetie.

[cerastes]

*My main interest here is to show people the utter insanity of OG2, but for that game to make sense, you have to see OG1, which is the opposite of a problem, because it fits right home in my list of vaunted "Very Interesting Games" alongside the likes of Def Jam: Fight For NY, Soulcalibur III or Trails from Zero+Trails to Azure.

Just like Def Jam FFNY is incredibly interesting in that it's a fighting game designed with a single player focus first and foremost, Soulcalibur III, despite being a competitive focus arcade fighter, went out of its way to have incredibly robust single player features and replayability, and how ZeroAzure utilize the limited size of the PSP, their original console, intelligently in making a game with iconic, revisitable environments and an incredibly good, small cast of characters to keep the game fresh even though you are never really going out on an adventure and yet it feels like you went on three of them by the end, OG1 is a well designed, perhaps too ambitious (affectionate) SRPG that really drives home the importance of managing limited resources in both a micro (stage by stage) and macro (the entirety of the game) stage, as there is a finite amount of every resource, experience included. Additionally, it's a game that spins off from a franchise mainly known to do crossover titles, but now it's fully original, in-house characters, letting them tell stories with a lot more freedom and being able to go balls to the walls with it. Had it been only of these factors, it'd already be an interesting game, but it's both simultaneously, which is why I call this a Really Good SRPG and not a Really Good Mecha SRPG; I recommend this game not because it's got cool mechs (and it does) but because it's a phenomenal SRPG first and foremost, that just so happens to have mechs.

All that is to say: Having to show OG1 before OG2 is the opposite of a problem, but ultimately one cannot ignore the concrete fact that I want to show OG2 more because that one has Lamia Loveless and Axel Almer who completely rewired my brain chemistry back then and are characters I consider Formative to who I am Today.

[kitkat13001]

⋆✴︎˚𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝! 🎃 👻 ☠️👽

aka what costumes i’m dressing up as for halloween w my favs this year!! this is silly and self indulgent but i figured it would be fun. feel free to reblog/comment w your own costume ideas for you and your favs!! <33 - 𝚔𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚢 !

tooru oikawa: steve harrington and robin buckley from stranger things. oikawa wanted to be the dashing hero and i just want to wear the scoops ahoy outfit :)

shinkami: ghostbusters!! we’re nerds what do you expect 😔 

OR alternately 

ferris bueller, cameron frye, and sloane!!! denki is ferris bueller, obvi, and shinsou as cam and me as sloane

shoyo hinata: statue of liberty and nyc tourist 😫😻 🗽📸 bc hinata adores me and wants to take pics of me all night long

satoru gojo: western barbie and ken!! 🎀🛍️ bc yk gojo wants that cowboy fit

kento nanami: hugh hefner & playboy bunny 🐰 💕 sexy costume is a must and how can we not??

yuuji itadori: race car drivers!!! 🚗 💨 iconic red suits n helmets. we borrow gojo’s fancy ass car 🤭

maki zenin: angel (me) & devil (maki) 😇😈

OR OR OR maki as the joker w her green hair and me as harley quinn 😳😳

zoe hange: hange is a sexy vampire and i’m their bloody maiden 😩💕

mastuhana: devil, angel, and lady justice 😈👼⚖️

ymir: yumi as marceline and me as bubblegum 🖤🩷

dabi: pirates 🏴‍☠️ 🗡️ 

kiribaku: ok ok hear me out: powerpuff girls. me as buttercup, kiri as blossom, and kacchan as bubbles!! it would def be against bakugou’s will, but kiri supports it bc they’re ‘manly’. 

chuuya nakahara: mafia executives LMAOO chuuya was too lazy to do a costume 

connie springer: bugs bunny and lola from space jam!! bc connie would look so good in a basketball jersey 🏀 🐰 

rody soul: judy hopps and nick wilde 🪪

sasha braus: cupid and aphrodite 💘 

tomura shigaraki: ghostface and casey becker 🙀🔪

[lacasadelasmunecaspreciosas]

Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (Saint Michael, Barbados; 20 de febrero de 1988), conocida simplemente como Rihanna, es una cantante, actriz, diseñadora y empresaria barbadense. Es conocida por fusionar algunos géneros caribeños con música pop y por reinventar su imagen a través de los años. Su impacto en la cultura popular la ha llevado a convertirse en un icono de la música y de la moda, por lo que se refieren a ella como la «Princesa del R&B» y «Reina de la Moda».3​4​

Nacida en Saint Michael y criada en Bridgetown, Barbados, Rihanna hizo una audición para el productor de discos estadounidense Evan Rogers en 2003, quien la invitó a los Estados Unidos para grabar cintas de demostración. Después de firmar con Def Jam en 2005, pronto obtuvo reconocimiento con el lanzamiento de sus dos primeros álbumes de estudio, Music of the Sun (2005) y A Girl Like Me (2006), ambos influenciados por la música caribeña y alcanzaron su punto máximo dentro de los diez primeros puestos de la lista Billboard 200 de Estados Unidos.

El tercer álbum de Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), incorporó elementos de dance pop y estableció su estatus como símbolo sexual en la industria de la música. El sencillo «Umbrella», que encabezó las listas de éxitos, le valió a Rihanna su primer premio Grammy y la catapultó al estrellato mundial. Continuó mezclando géneros pop, dance y R&B en sus siguientes álbumes de estudio, Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011) y Unapologetic (2012), el último de los cuales se convirtió en su primer número uno en Billboard 200. Los álbumes generaron una serie de sencillos que encabezaron las listas de éxitos, incluidos «Rude Boy», «Only Girl (In the World)», «What's My Name?», «S&M», «We Found Love», «Where Have You Been» y «Diamonds». Su octavo álbum, Anti (2016), mostró un nuevo control creativo tras su salida de Def Jam. Se convirtió en su segundo álbum número uno en los Estados Unidos y contó con el sencillo «Work» que encabezó las listas de éxitos. Durante su carrera musical, Rihanna ha colaborado con muchos artistas, como Drake, Britney Spears, Eminem, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Adam Levine, Paul McCartney, Ne-Yo y Shakira.

Con ventas de más de 250 millones de discos en todo el mundo, Rihanna es la segunda artista musical femenina con mayores ventas de todos los tiempos. Ha obtenido 14 números uno y 31 sencillos entre los diez primeros en los Estados Unidos y 30 entradas entre los diez primeros en el Reino Unido. Sus elogios incluyen nueve premios Grammy, 13 American Music Awards (incluido el Icon Award, por su trayectoria y contribución al mundo de la música), 12 Billboard Music Awards, siete MTV Video Music Awards (incluido el Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, un reconocimiento entregado a músicos que han tenido un profundo impacto en la denominada «cultura MTV», a través de su discografía y videografía5​) seis Guinness World Records y el premio del presidente de la NAACP. Spotify le otorgó el título de la artista femenina más escuchada de todos los tiempos.6​7​8​ La revista Billboard la nombró «artista digital» de la década de 2000, «artista Hot 100» de la década de 2010 y «artista mainstream» más importante de los últimos 20 años.9​10​11​12​ En 2023, fue incluida en el puesto número 68 de la lista «Los 200 mejores cantantes de todos los tiempos» de la revista Rolling Stone.13​ Es considerada por dos medios de comunicación estadounidense como la artista musical más influyente y exitosa del siglo xxi.14​15​ Time la nombró una de las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo en 2012 y 2018. Forbes la ubicó entre las diez celebridades mejor pagadas en 2012 y 2014.16​17​18​19​ A partir de 2022, es la música femenina más rica, con un patrimonio neto estimado de $1.4 mil millones.20​21​

Aparte de la música, Rihanna es conocida por su participación en causas humanitarias, proyectos empresariales y la industria de la moda. Es la fundadora de la organización sin fines de lucro Clara Lionel Foundation, la marca de cosméticos Fenty Beauty y la casa de moda Fenty bajo LVMH; ella es la primera mujer negra en encabezar una marca de lujo para LVMH.22​ Rihanna también se ha aventurado en la actuación, apareciendo en papeles importantes en Battleship (2012), Home (2015), Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) y Ocean's 8 (2018). Fue nombrada embajadora de educación, turismo e inversión por el Gobierno de Barbados en 2018, y fue declarada Héroe Nacional de Barbados el primer día de la república parlamentaria del país en 2021, lo que le da derecho al estilo de «The Right Excelente» de por vida.23​ Rihanna encabezó el espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Bowl LVII el 12 de febrero de 2023.

[badschmitt24071994]

Def Jam: Fight for NY 2004 Ps2

Def Jam Fight For NY is the sequel to Def Jam Vendetta, a hip hop-influenced 3D-action game released for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox and is followed by Def Jam: Icon. The game features several rappers, including Lil' Kim, Snoop Dogg, Method Man, Redman, Fat Joe, Joe Budden, Ice-T, Xzibit, N.O.R.E., Ludacris, and Busta Rhymes, Flava Flav, Sean Paul as well as the voices and likeness of other celebrities, such as Henry Rollins, Christopher Judge and Kimora Lee Simmons. DMX, Keith Murray, Christina Milian and Funkmaster Flex were the only artists from the original game that did not appear in the sequel. The game was spun off into a 2006 PlayStation Portable game called Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover.

[bigbumder96]

account introduction thing!!!??

ngl i feel a bit goofy doing this🙁forgive me if this is weird, im used to getting attacked on tiktok for literally nothing (i rarely use tumblr)

general:

name: darcie

age: im a minor😭

gender: girl (she/her :3 )

sexuality: lesbian

from/live in: england unfortunately😣 east london specifically, or essex depending on if u focus on the postcode or the london borough😭 officially its east london tho

interests:

tv shows:

- the inbetweeners

- white gold

- station 19 (still have to catch up on the latest episode lmao

- 9-1-1 (also still have to catch up one episode😭)

- fresh meat

- ted lasso

- heartbreak high (both the old version and the reboot !!! i dont prefer one over the other, although i do tend to post about the 90s one more lmaooo)

- friday night dinner

- this country

- call the midwife

- ackley bridge

- baby reindeer (i wouldnt exactly call it an interest, this show fucking traumatised me, but i watched it like last week😭)

- phoenix rise

- moment of eighteen (a k-drama btw!!)

- move to heaven (also a k-drama!!)

- there she goes

- benidorm

- skins (only gen 2 tho im afraid😞)

- the inBESTigators (dont judge lmfao😭😭😭)

- little lunch (i cant theyre js both such good shows)

- dodo (a cartoon)

- taskmaster (only season eight tho for the icon joe thomas‼️)

- mr bigstuff

- supacell

im currently watching derry girls and jamie johnson atm !!

films:

- the shawshank redemption

- the green mile

- goodbye charlie bright (my absolute fav omg)

- the business

- the football factory (theyre making the sequel to this at my school im so happy i love nick love films😍i didnt see nick love himself tho💔)

- good will hunting

- bohemian rhapsody

- dead mans shoes

- ferris buellers day off

- harry brown

- little miss sunshine

- the inbetweeners movie

- the inbetweeners 2

- white chicks

- the basketball diaries

- mid90s

- spiderman: into the spider-verse

- spiderman: across the spider-verse

music:

- alex g (fav song: too many to put here, but if i had to pick then prolly the whole race, trick, and rules album😭)

- tv girl (fav song: better in the dark, louise, and daughter of a cop)

- the fratellis (fav song: i honestly dk, i havent gotten that much into them yet😣i js listened to one of their albums and played fifa)

- the killers (fav song: read my mind and andy youre a star)

- the smiths (fav song: girl afraid, bigmouth strikes again, and this night has opened my eyes. guys i swr i liked them songs before they got popular im acc rly annoyed at the tiktofication of bigmouth strikes again and this night has opened my eyes😣)

- queen (fav song: spread your wings and long away)

- the stone roses (fav song: i wanna be adored and made of stone. basic i know😣😣)

- the jam (fav song: down in the tube station at midnight, david watts, and man in the corner shop)

- oasis (live forever. icba to type ‘fav song’ anymore😭)

- mac the knife (here to stay)

- mitski (why didnt you stop me, goodbye my danish sweetheart, me and my husband, your best american girl, once more to see you, etcetera…)

extras:

- im into football and i am a big arsenal fan !!!! my fav player is def martin ødegaard, and i may or may not be one of those deluded emile smith-rowe fans who think that hes gonna have a huge comeback and be like he was two seasons ago🤫🤫🤫

(edit: im gonna kms he left arsenal🙁)

i also support england as a country (obviously) plus a tad bit of dagenham amd redbridge, because they are my local ! (before you call me a glory hunter, ive supported arsenal since i was 3 because thats what my mum and grandparents support!!! also its a bit hard to support your local when not all the games are televised and you cant afford a season ticket, not to mention i had no clue who dagenham and redbridge were when i was choosing a football team, because i had no clue how leagues worked and i didnt gaf about football tbh💀)

- i like webtoons! my fav is jacksons diary, our walk home, and crystal city killers😱 (please does anyone have any cute wlw webtoon recs im so desperate)

- in year seven my drama teacher made us watch a play (on the screen, not irl) called slowtime but we didnt get to finish it💔my teacher spoiled the ending but i didnt care and tracked down the rest of that video bcs slowtime is such a good play i love everything abt it😍

- last year i was obsessed with this book series called football academy (written by tom palmer) and it was genuinely so good but there was nobody myp age cuz it was for kids💔i dont rly read them anymore, but the interest is still there if someone by chance has read them please contact me and have a conversation with me about it🙏🙏🙏

- i also have a very obscure interest about london boroughs??? like i dont even know a lot about them, i just love talking about/watching videos about london boroughs... i blame the lb guy on tiktok

i apologise as this was very long, and i probably wont even post that much😭 sorry for the yapping tho🙏🙏🙏

[halleywars]

Something interesting I just learned, Def jam icon has a character creator, but you can only use it to make different kinds of black guys. Even the lightest skin color is for making albino black guys.

[finitofreeway]

[genderhexed]

happy to see you around here more these days 🫶what hobbies are keeping you sane these days?

hiii it's nice to see you around too! fun fact i had no idea who you were until the other day when i saw you reblog something from green-and-grey which was a url I DID recognize and then i realized it was you lol. the perils of all our changing icons/urls....

During the light half of the year, I do a lot of rollerblading with a local skate group, and that def really keeps me sane:

I also do a lot of random arts and crafts! I'm currently learning to crochet, I love doing paint by numbers, I love painting rocks, I'm getting back into embroidery and starting to embroider my clothes, one of me has gotten back into writing a lot of poetry, plus as always I also love taking pics of things and people. I've found a joy in just creating for the sake of it without purpose and have been making more art out of random things, like i made a little shadowbox scene by gluing in stones from the beach I collected over a painted backdrop. I also love puzzles and should do them more tbh. I don't do as much music anymore, but I do like to jam with a friend sometimes.

Here's a paint by numbers i did that took a while lol:

Here's the most recent volume of V's journal where we made the front and inside cover into a collage:

and here's some suncatchers I made the other day from beads we got from necklaces at the antique fair!

[goopyratdaughter]

tfw this might just be one of the best soundtrack volumes we’ve ever gotten no I’m not taking questions at this time

Inside? banger OP, def one of my fave OPs in the last few volumes

Checkmate? a B O P, A JAM, SHOWSTOPPING

Chatterbox? those guitars are chugging and very hot thanks

Worthy? ICONIC BALLAD

Trapdoor? heartwrenching and hard both on the ears and the soul in the best way

Quiet? incredible floaty and suspended energy

Guide My Way? I am crying crying crying.

The Edge? I am STILL crying

literally one of the best music volumes we’ve gotten, it’s astonishing how good every single track on this is

I am crying for a year

[velvetineblue]

CHARACTER INFO SHEET ;

NAME : taiyang theodoré tseng .

NAME MEANING : sun / god-given gift / high, elevated, steep

ALIAS : mostly just 'tai' .

ETHNICITY : taiwanese .

ONE PICTURE / ICON YOU LIKE BEST OF YOUR CHARACTER : hmmmmmm... many options asjjaj but this one is one of my fav graphics i've made !!

THREE HCS YOU NEVER TOLD ANYONE :

a weird, (?) comfort food that he will make is a pb&j sandwich but with strawberry jam or orange marmalade (or both!) and peanutbutter... and he'll add marshmallow fluff if there is some in the pantry, if he wants a sweet treat. : 3

in his vampire verse, he has shadow/darkness manipulation magic, && can shift into a black wolf : 33 he has the capability of shifting into pretty much any nocturnal predatory creature ( yes, including bats asjajj ) but it's a difficult and learned skill, and a wolf is the only one he is practiced at && is good at so far......... he's practicing how to git gud at birds and other creatures of flight because that would be hella useful but. he's not very good at it at the time and can only do it for a short burst jasjajj. these shifting abilities ONLY work at night, though!! only when the moon is out; never in the daytime .

the man who took care of little-tai while his father was in jail ( who is his dad's best friend ) was very frugal, modest in accommodation's, and believed that anything extraneous to be bought for the household, tai had to earn. mostly by doing chores or something else productive with his time. because of this, he grew up without a lot of 'luxuries' that others were accustomed to: for example, there was no internet access in his home; he had to go to the library or his school to use the internet! and he didn't have a cell phone until he was 17, and that's because he saved up money from a summer job to buy his own... and on a similar vein ( perhaps because of this ), he's not as addicted to tech as a lot of other people his age?? he uses social media but in like... low-moderate amounts. he's def not addicted to it and he doesn't use it all that often, comparative to most people in his age/generation group.

THREE THINGS YOUR CHARACTER LIKES TO DO IN THEIR FREE TIME :

jogging / hiking, etc; finding a place in nature that is pretty/cool and hanging out there, enjoying the ambience . . .

he's not extremely mechanically knowledge, but if there is any work he can do himself on his car(s), he rly enjoys when he can do it! the hands-on challenge is fun & it's satisfying to know he did it HIMSELF. he likes cars in general; likes going on drives while listening to music, likes checking out interesting/sEXy/rare models of cars ... even in verses where racing is not a thing he does/did, he enjoys car shows, clubs, shops, etc; he might go them if he's bored and they're around. he luvs his car; it his babie &lt;; 3

pretty much anything to do with animals; he will meet up with someone there so fast!! the zoo, aquarium, dog parks, etc... if there's a chance he can see ( or better yet, inTERACT WITH ) animals, he's on his way— hE'S ZOOMIN!!!!

TWO THINGS YOUR CHARACTER REGRETS :

in his supernatural/SoL verses: he had a very close childhood-friend named Nihat that moved to LA to be in the band: tai half-convinced him to move to LA, but honestly, not really; nihat really wanted to come anyway, he was just waiting for the formal invitation. sadly, nihat ended up becoming deeply entrenched in the vices of the LA music scene and that trouble... ultimately led him to the end of his life ... tai deeply regrets ever inviting nihat to La. the guilt has haunted him ever since. there's a lot more i want to write on that topic but i would accidentally write a novel so i gotta stop there ajsajjj

he regrets not doing more for his mom when she was alive. he was only eight when she passed away, and realistically, ooc, we all know there really wasn't anything he could do for her that could have helped her with her mental health struggles; and even if there was, that wasn't his responsibility to take on; he was a child and should not have had to care for her or worry about her health-- it is the other way around ... but he's never been able to accept that. he has always carried the guilt and regret that he couldn't do more, and couldn't save her... couldn't give her a reason to live, or be enough for her to want to.

ONE PHOBIA YOUR CHARACTER HAS : most of his fears are psychological but... one physical thing that is nightmare fuel for him would be if he was locked in a claustrophobic small space alone, all on his own, for a long time, with no way to exit, and it didn't seem like someone was coming to get him...... . o _ o that would be very near the top in his list of "worst ways to die" asjjajj

[randomvarious]

Warren G feat. Nate Dogg - "Regulate" 1994 Hip Hop / G-Funk / Gangsta Rap / R&B

This was such a momentous debut single from Warren G that served as America's top rap tune during the summer of 1994, and the video was put into heavy rotation on MTV too. The song was originally released as part of the soundtrack to the film Above the Rim, which co-starred 2Pac, and that's why you see him also briefly appear in the video a few times as well.

As a smooth west coast hood tale that was based on real-life events, "Regulate" debuted at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, has now gone double-platinum in the US, and for a label that had been, up until that point, known mostly as a New York entity, became Def Jam's biggest ever single too. The song also helped Warren's debut album, Regulate... G Funk Era, go triple-platinum in the States, and it also reached #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart as well.

Warren, who not only raps on "Regulate," but produced it too, liberally samples Michael McDonald's 1982 blue-eyed yacht-soul classic, "I Keep Forgettin'," and there's a fantastic version of "Regulate" called the "Jammin' Mix" that manages to seamlessly incorporate some of McDonald's and his sister Maureen's vocals from "I Keep Forgettin'" as the chorus. I actually slightly prefer that version to the original, but you also do happen to get a little bit less of Nate Dogg's vocals with it too 😕.

And the iconic whistling portions are lifted from Bob James' 1981 song, "Sign of the Times." Warren slows that whistle down, and along with the introductory dialogue from the 1988 film Young Guns, manages to evoke a Wild West vibe, appearing to draw a parallel between his own modern day-in-the-life story about his friend Nate rescuing him from a robbery, and then them getting some girls for the night, to that of a cowboy's tale that could have taken place in the same region over a century ago.

Legendary west coast rap classic.

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