{"id":87223,"date":"2025-10-10T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=87223"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:18:07","slug":"warren-g-howlin-rays-hot-chicken-pop-up-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/warren-g-howlin-rays-hot-chicken-pop-up-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"Warren G and Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s team up for hot chicken pop-up in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long Beach rapper Warren G is collaborating with Postmates and the famed LA-based Nashville hot chicken restaurant Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s to create a pop-up kitchen in Long Beach. The exclusive menu will be available for delivery only from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Oct. 11 and 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listed under \u201cHowlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s Long Beach\u201d on Postmates, customers will be able to choose from three combo meal options: the quarter set for $27 which includes six chicken wings, a choice of side, three sauces, and a drink; the full plate for $47 which includes six chicken wings, a side of collard greens, honey butter glazed hush puppies, banana pudding, three sauces, and an exclusive sticker set; or the LBC VIP for $75 which includes everything in the full plate meal plus an exclusive T-shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An exclusive T-shirt and sticker set comes with the LBC VIP meal. Photo by Ashley Bolter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Banana pudding and extra sauces can be ordered separately for $7 and $3, respectively. All chicken wings are fried in refined peanut oil, and meals come with a mixture of drums and flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an email to the Long Beach Post, Warren G said he was introduced to Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s through his friend, rapper Bad Lucc<\/a>, who previously collaborated with Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s and floated the idea of Warren G and his barbecue sauce brand doing something similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI knew I was down once I tried their sandwiches and knew it paired well with my Sniffin Griffin BBQ sauce,\u201d Warren G said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Warren G makes an appearance during Mayor Rex Richardson’s state of the city speech in January 2025. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And for Postmates, this collaboration was a dream come true, said Brand Marketing Manager Jasmin Booker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been fans of Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s since they first opened and bumping Warren G forever, so bringing them together just made sense. It\u2019s Long Beach through and through: good food, good music, good energy,\u201d Booker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Warren G is best known for his music career and popularizing the G-funk genre of hip-hop, in 2019, he took inspiration from his father\u2019s cooking and started Sniffin Griffin\u2019s BBQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up, Warren G enjoyed watching his father cook, and was especially excited when his father brought out the grill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The full plate combo meal comes with six chicken wings, Griffin’s collard greens, honey butter glazed hush puppies, banana pudding, the 213 trio of dips and drizzles, and a choice of drink. Photo by Ashley Bolter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe flavor of the smoke on the meat and just the good feeling of having family around caught me up and rang a bell in my head,\u201d Warren G wrote on the Sniffin Griffin\u2019s BBQ website<\/a>. \u201cAs I got older, all I wanted to do was be like my dad on the smoker and grill because it reminded me of his morals and good family fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People in Long Beach have been asking for Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s since 2018, according to Tess Meza, the restaurant\u2019s executive coordinator. The restaurant made a name for itself serving fiery chicken in Chinatown for the last decade, but it’s quite a trek for Long Beach residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe’re excited to finally give them a unique experience that\u2019s exclusive to the city that they call home,\u201d Meza said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the future, Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s is hoping to do more pop-ups in other cities as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For two days, Howlin\u2019 Ray\u2019s will have a delivery-only pop-up in Long Beach \u2014 featuring Warren G and his barbecue sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":87225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[32346],"class_list":["post-87223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87231,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87223\/revisions\/87231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87223"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=87223"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=87223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}