Nothing will ever top the since-removed Wikipedia break-down of it:

On a cool, clear night (typical to Southern California) Warren G travels through his neighborhood, searching for women with whom he might initiate sexual intercourse. He has chosen to engage in this pursuit alone.

*Nate Dogg, having just arrived in Long Beach, seeks Warren. Ironically, Nate passes a car full of women who are excited to see him. He insists to the women that there is no cause for excitement. *

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Why the hell was this removed from, Wikipedia? This is possibly the most amazing synopsis of any piece of music, ever.

Most likely because the wikipedia editors were unable to reference the translation as an analysis from a reputed source.

AKA: The translation wasn't found on a blog or blog news site so it didn't meet wikipedia standards even though it was far superior to all other information found on said wiki page.

We have it here and now. Let's do it.

This is truly the Lord’s work.

Wow history in the making. What a time to be alive!

We did it Reddit! ^^I ^^^think ^^^^?

Except the translations has glaring flaws.

For instance, the girls were not in the vehicle until after the ā€˜regulation’ had been done. Only after he saved his homie were they able to return and help the girls with their ā€˜car trouble’.

And most importantly, now im part of it

Can we get this on a reputed source so it's usable?

Wikipedia could have simply tagged the article as being a ā€œparodyā€ or something like that, I would think.

Could be used as a point of reference under that category as an example (of), and hyperlinked under the "regulate" page as an event with no. Reference of time, except for the time posted here and to the aforementioned example on the parody/satire page. Unless a source or author is known.

I feel like weird al needs to parody this now in this style and it will complete some sort of circle of life.

More like superior to all other information found on Wikipedia

Cant it be added as satire, a meme, famous event?

Have you ever seen the description of ā€˜One More Chance’? šŸ˜†

http://adanai.com/biggies-one-more-chance/

This is my favorite verse:

ā€œ I prefer to open the conversation with light banter about my wardrobe and jewelry, then I like to discuss my collection of expensive cars. This is more than enough to convince you to have sexual intercourse with me. I am able to insert my penis further into you when I enter you from behind. Furthermore, you will be able to reach orgasm. I understand this to be a problem with your current sexual partner. He needn’t be concerned about your whereabouts. Please phone him and inform him that you won’t be home for a while.

By the way, please sing the chorus of the song for me also.ā€

Weird? The translation is literally his lyrics

Try again, but scroll a little further down.

Because Wikipedia is moderated with an iron fist, unfortunately.

Personally, I think it's a good thing. I love Wikipedia as a basic source of information. It has to maintain some semblance of credibility

I have heard a bit about power hungry (or just really protective) users that will just totally take over a page and revert any change made to it.

Wikipedia is the very definition of not credible, though. Basically any modern controversial topic can be filled with inaccuracies placed by corporate, government, or ideological groups that use their own sources as reference material. Wikipedia is, at best, a good aggregator of basic source material links on a topic, provided you're willing to check that those sources aren't biased through some means of independent verification.

And basic uncontroversial facts are okay unless some 13 year old fucked around with it.

That's why I said basic and semblance. It's great for a brief rundown on a topic, but don't expect all the information to be 100% factual or unbiased, which I think few people do anyway

Uh, I'm pretty sure changes must be approved unless you're already an approved editor. Also any modern controversial topic will have lots of activity, so the chance that someone can walk in and change things without anyone noticing is pretty low.

But I do know that it's the conservative mantra that Wikipedia is not credible, because facts don't work with their agenda. In fact I challenge you to find one misleading fact on Wikipedia before the president of the united states tells another lie. Better hurry, statistics show you've only got a few hours.

I'd like to fist some of Wikipedia's moderators.

If you allow one article to not be sourced, then you’re opening up the entire site to the same thing and then you’re no longer considered credible.

I mean, this shit isn’t hard to understand.

Why is that unfortunate?

I meant unfortunate that this masterpiece got removed.

I’m not sure exactly how, but Wikipedia has rules against doing a synopsis in this style.

Although it’s removed from the front page, the people who removed it realized it’s quality and left a parmalink to it in the talk page for the song.

Here the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regulate_(song)&oldid=376746146

Wikipedia's rules take all the fun out of encyclopedias.

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Well they got the, "genius" part right!

If this was removed from wiki i assume you cut and pasted it some time ago, looking forward to the ideal opportunity to share. That's some planning ahead, and much appreciated!

'Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole' has never been so classily described.

*magazine

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He’s just correcting the magazine/clip confusion. Yeah the lyric is clip, but in reality he’s talking about a magazine. Common mix up.

Why don't you say that to Nate's face?

Sure, dig him up for me and I’ll let him know.

Correct. Now errybody go back and upvotes.

I always thought he said "sixteen on my lip and one in my hole".

So did the NRA ~~sensor~~ censor Nate, or did pedantic redditors?

*censor

It's been a long month, I've lost my cents.

I can't believe they're taking /u/worldDev 's wealth

Artistic license. Magazine doesn't quite fit.

That's why you carry a spare.

I used to teach English here in Italy and this gave me the inspiration to give one of my classes paraphrases of other classic rap tunes for homework - they really came up with great stuff and it was great fun for everyone involved.

Do you need help evaluating those?

Ah screw it, post them online! :D

Fuck yes I was reading this with the song playing in my head

I was interchanging between this and YouTube.

This is best of material I think. Nice.

I read this as the song it was great.. peeking at the metaphor of bass is the treble..

Thank you for posting this. I'm sharing with as many people who cares as possible.

You're doing God's work here.

Thank you for this.

Now do Gucci Gang!

Seriously, though, I miss when rap used to tell stories.

Ladidadi, we like to party

There's still plenty that does.

Edit: this is really like those 13 year olds on YouTube who comment on Queen videos and lament the loss of 'real rock' and try to cite some top 40 pop song as proof.

Some real r/lewronggeneration stuff.

Meanwhile there's great rap and rock out there that's just as good if not better than what we had 30 years ago.

Ikr? Also 'Woomp there it is' is from the same year vs Kendrick Lamars 'Duckworth' or 'Fear'.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the deep symbolism and intellectual dialogue contained in 'Woomp there it is'...

E 40 all day.

Immortal Technique-Dance With The Devil if you want a story to blow your mind.

Never change r/music lol

It’s adorable

ImmTech has a lot of other cool story stuff as well. You never know.

But this takes the cake for the creepiest rap song I know.

Summertime Reddit is a thing

Check out Saba.

Rap nowadays tells stories too. Just stories no one understand. Supposedly it so deep, it’s lost forever.

More like you just don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Can’t be surprised tho. Anytime Reddit has an opinion on hip hop it’s ignorant

Yea one song means rap doesnt tell stories, meanwhile kendrick just won a Pulitzer fucking prize, among countless other artists who tell stories. But yea, let's judge the whole genre on one song

Was that edit by a lawyer by any chance?

Sounds like a police report

Wtf who deleted this? This is just the most accurate description ever.

I would pay money to get this printed on silk and hung in my house prominently.

I’m imagining that narrator from the ā€˜keeping it real’ skits on the Chapelle Show reading this

Thank you for sharing that with us here, I'd never seen it before. That is brilliant! I have to show it to friends I listened to this song countless times with back in the day.

I read that entire thing with the song playing in my head.

If you haven't heard it, the podcast Mogul: The Life and Death of Chris Lighty goes into the backstory for this song a little more. I think Warren G is episode 3 and has a cameo episode, but the whole series (it's not long) is, worth listening to..

I feel like that's verbatim from an old cracked article

This was a truly spectacular read.

This made me realize that I’d love to see some more hip hop songs turned into somewhat short stories. It’s be an interesting concept

This is amazing. I’ve listened to this song so many times but never actually evaluated the lyrics.

Hahahha this is brilliant

RemindMe! 3 months

Where has this been all my life, its pure gold.

the wiki for Boyz N the Hood used to have the same kind of analysis, i don’t know if it still does though

This is one of my favorite songs of all time, and the first time I've seen this synopsis. Thanks for posting it. I love it.

This is like a rap song done by David Attenborough

I came here to post this.

Came here to say this

This is excellent, thanks for sharing this find. I gave you upvote number 1000

You are doing the Lord’s work

You know, a few years ago I started transcribing Biggies "Gimme The Loot" into aristocratic English. I think I finished it, but ill have to look it up.

well I found it, I only made it through Verse 1. I have to finish that up sometime. I'll post it if anyone really wants to read it.

Isn't it beuatful that a song so awfull can inspire someone to write something that great?