DX: I understand there was some dispute too over production credits with Tha Row. Can you clarify just one last time if you actually produced any part of “Lil Ghetto Boy,” “Ain’t No Fun,” etc?
Warren G: I didn’t have no dispute with [Death Row Records] about no [production credits]. I haven’t had no dispute as far as working on The Chronic. The Chronic record was a family thang. We all was one and doing this together. Now, I went and got a lot of ideas. I brought a lot of the ideas… A lot of those records that’s on there is my idea, but I’m not trying to take the credit for it because Dre is a great producer. I’m glad I was involved in it and had a idea that’s history now. But it was a family thang. As family we all worked as one. I would do the record and I would take it to Dre and say, "Man, what’chu think about this?" And he would be like, "That’s tight." And then he would re-do it and make it sound incredible. I mean, he’s a great producer. He’s a great producer, and still is.

DX: Since we’re talking about the Death Row days, can we just address one piece of longstanding folklore from that era involving you…Is there any truth to the story that you said something to the effect of you “made” Death Row to a writer from The Source and not too long after that woke up in the middle of the night to Suge Knight’s goons standing over your bed with guns?
Warren G: You believe that? I said it. And I’ma say I said [that to The Source]. But it’s the other part as far as goons being…first of all, how you gon’ get past my dogs and my homeboys? It don’t even roll like that. You gotta be a hell of a muthafucka, maybe a Navy Seal – they gon’ even have problems trying to come get at me. [So] that’s all false. And as far as any allegations of me ever getting slapped, that can go right out the window [too]. ‘Cause I wasn’t allowing that and I won’t allow it. That ain’t me.

DX: That’s interesting you bring that up… I was going through your Twitter and you just posted a couple days ago, on August 9th, you wrote @Slick_Al “and by the way Suge Knight ain’t never put his hands on the g child and that’s a fact.”
Warren G: And it’s a fact. And I’m not saying that as far as trying to start some shit saying like I’m this hell of a muthafucka, but it just wasn’t going down like that. And real respect the real. And that’s what it was. I ain’t gon’ say, "Well nigga, you…," nah, I ain’t into all that. And I don’t have a problem with the dude. I ain’t got no problem with [Suge]. He ain’t never came and whatever…He never came trippin’ on me. I mean, you know…pshhh, man, look, Warren G ain’t never got slapped by Suge Knight. That ain’t gon’ happen. And I’m not trying to act like I’m this tough-ass muthafucka like the rest of these muthafuckas with the fighting and all that shit. I ain’t into that. I ain’t trying to just diss this nigga ‘cause he…Everybody get they day where they get into it and lose [a fight]. You gon’ lose one. So I ain’t one of them muthafuckas who speaking up on him ‘cause he lost one. Suckas gon’ do that. Everybody talking about…I ain’t got nothing against him, but I ain’t gon’ fuck with him. I fuck with Snoop. I fuck with Dre. Them my folks. And if it’s something happening with them, and I’m there, I’m with them. But all that stuff is old. We’re past that. He’s a grown man. Everybody was young back in the day. Dre’s a grown man. I’m a grown man. Snoop a grown man. Everybody else is grown. It’s time to look past this stuff. He got kids. Everybody got kids. It’s time to be fathers and be role models to these kids. And I’m not gon’ spend my whole lifetime hating this man. I don’t hate him. I’ma move on. I’ma keep pushing. I ain’t got time for that.

DX: Speaking of moving on, I don’t know how much you can, or will reveal, but you know I gotta ask you about Detox. Have you worked with Dre on anything for the album?
Warren G: I haven’t worked with him on it yet. Actually, you know what, I did work with him as far as we had a bunch of records and we were going through the records and marking off potential ideas. That’s about it. I haven’t been back in there since, but hopefully I’ll be able to get down with him. And it’d be an honor. I wanna be a part of this last record.