The latest XXL features a Nate Dogg tribute written by Michael A. Gonzales:

Born on August 19, 1969, in Clarksdale, Mississippi—the storied delta town that birthed blues legends Son House and John Lee Hooker and soul stirrers Sam Cooke and Ike Turner before him—Nate Dogg came to singing as naturally as he did to breathing. Like so many of the greatest voices, his was honed in a gospel choir. “I literally grew up in the church,” Nate said in a Vibe magazine interview in 2001. His father was a strict preacher man who, years later, would throw his son’s solo record in the trash because he didn’t approve of the cursing.

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