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The vocals are shared by Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, who has sole songwriting credit, who drop in trademark references to Long Beach and Compton in California. The song contains samples from Leon Haywood's "I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You", B-Side Wins Again by Public Enemy and "Uphill (Peace of Mind)" by Kid Dynamite. On the inside cover of The Chronic album under Credits, Leon Haywood's name is incorrectly cited as "L. Hayward". "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It's Dre's only song on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, ranked number 419, not counting two other songs that feature Dre as producer and on vocals, N.W.A.'s "Fuck tha Police" and 2Pac's "California Love". Q magazine listed it as the 24th greatest hip-hop song of all time. In September 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 3 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.
Snoop Dogg's first single from Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told was a sequel to the song entitled, "Still a G Thang". Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg retooled "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" into the titular theme of their 2001 comedy film The Wash.
The song has also been adopted as a soccer chant at LA Galaxy games by fan group "LA Riot Squad" and performed by several hundred fans simultaneously.
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