Catching up with hip-hop supergroup Mount Westmore: 'It felt like being a kid again'
LOS ANGELES — Hip-hop pioneers Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, E-40 and Too Short have nothing left to prove.
In Los Angeles, Ice Cube sparked the rise of gangsta rap as part of N.W.A in the late '80s, before Snoop Dogg broke out of Long Beach to introduce G-Funk to the masses through his landmark 1993 album "Doggystyle."
With colorful lingo and slick-talking raps, E-40 and Too Short have steered the sound of the Bay Area since first emerging in the 1980s.
And in the past decades, these four have taken their sound around the globe through countless tours and millennium-defying hits. Their accomplishments spill outside of music, too, whether it's Ice Cube's Big3 basketball league prolonging the careers of NBA stars, Snoop Dogg's ubiquitous presence in Hollywood through movies and brand deals or E-40's budding spirits empire.
But when the world ground to a halt in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, they joined forces to create Mount Westmore, a bona fide supergroup connecting" they're quick to remind you of their founding father status, advising you to follow their footsteps on "Lace You Up" before flipping culture vultures the bird on "Have a Nice Day."
