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<br><br>A blog by Uzee</p>Usmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762839228963229518noreply@blogger.comBlogger614125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-83265394201899349842013-10-22T16:09:00.002+01:002013-10-22T16:09:58.420+01:00Blog closed.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-61110870448774734252013-10-22T12:27:00.002+01:002022-11-10T21:50:00.620+00:00Closing down this blog, twitter and FB.Hey loyal fans<br />
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Got some sad news, i'm closing down the whole dr dre detox 'brand', which includes this blog, the FB group and the twitter account.<br /><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-90085273309468752372013-08-26T14:55:00.002+01:002013-08-27T14:48:51.009+01:00Dr Dre exec producer of "The Marshall Mathers LP 2" and release date <span id="intelliTXT"></span><br />
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UPDATE: Eminem drops a bomb on
fans, announcing "Marshall Mathers LP 2" in less than three months. Rick
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Seconds ago, during tonight's 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Beats By Dre released a commercial for Eminem's seventh studio album. Billed as <i>MMLP2</i> in the brief commercial, the acoronym is believed to suggest <i>Marshall Mathers LP 2</i>, a sequel to Em's heralded sophomore major label album from 2000. According to the commercial <i>MMLP2</i> will release on November 5, 2013.<br />
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Moreover, the commercial indicated that the effort would be executive
produced by longtime mentor and Aftermath Entertainment backer Dr. Dre,
as well as Def Jam Records co-founder and acclaimed producer Rick
Rubin. Dre has executive produced Em's solo albums in the past, most
recently 2010's <i>Recovery</i>.<br />
For Rubin, this is the latest in a series of high-profile Hip Hop
albums in 2013, beginning with a last minute involvement with Kanye
West's <i>Yeezus</i> in June, Rubin was also on hand to work with Jay-Z on <i>Magna Carta Holy Grail</i> less than one month later.<br />
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2013 has been a major return to Hip Hop for Rubin, who produced
seminal hits for the genre in the 1980s and early 1990s, ranging between
LL Cool J and Run-DMC to Geto Boys. This will be his first work with
Eminem.<br />
On 2000's diamond-certified <i>Marshall Mathers LP</i>, Dr. Dre produced six of 19 songs, largely co-productions with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Mel-Man.<br />
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Eminem's first album in over three years, follows 14 months of
promotion. This will be Em's seventh album with Dre's Aftermath label.<br />
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<a href="http://www.eminem.com/" target="_blank">Eminem.com</a> reports that "Berzerk," a single from <i>MMLP2</i>, will release on Tuesday (August 27). <a href="http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.14086/title.eminem-berzerk-snippet-" target="_blank">A snippet is available to listen to now</a>.<br />
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source - http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.25201/title.eminem-mmlp2-release-date-dr-dre-rick-rubin-to-executive-produce/ Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-89116164211004192152013-08-20T11:32:00.000+01:002013-08-20T11:56:37.756+01:00Beats by Dre looking to end HTC partnershipIt has been reported in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323423804579020692100040648-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwODExNDgyWj.html">Wall Street Journal </a>today that Beats Electronics LLC are hoping to buy back shares from HTC,
who currently own a 25% stake in the company. The company are known for
their popular ‘Beats by Dr Dre’ headphones, as well as the in-built
equalizer software featured on HTC’s smartphones in recent years. Beats
have seen ‘explosive’ growth in sales over the past year, with revenue
of $1 billion compared with $200 million in 2010.<br />
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Beats was co-founded by music industry veteran Jimmy Iovine (who is also CEO) and rapper/producer Andre Young
(better known as Dr Dre), who together own 75% of the Beats
Electronics. Just two years ago the pair sold a 50.1% stake in the
company to HTC, before buying back 25% a year later for half the price.<br />
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After HTC gained a share in beats they began to incorporate its audio
software into its smartphones, as well as bundling some models with
Beats earphones. HTC further embedded their relationship with Beats by
giving the company a $225 million loan last year.<br />
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Unfortunately for HTC, the intervening years have not proven fruitful
for the company, with their share price having dropped by 90% since
April 2011. HTC have failed to compete effectively with other smartphone
manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple, despite being in second place
in the market several years ago behind the iPhone manufacturers.<br />
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Earlier this year the company launched their new flagship phone, the
HTC One, to rave reviews in the technology community. However, despite
decent sales it has continued to under perform next to competitors such
as Samsung’s Galaxy S 4.<br />
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HTC had sought to use the Beats software, headphones and branding to
help them corner the youth market. However, differences in strategy have
reportedly soured their relationship. Beats are also rumoured to be on
the brink of expanding the company’s product line beyond headphones
including speakers, car audio systems and even a streaming music
service.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-43904028536238474882013-08-14T17:38:00.001+01:002013-08-15T10:08:33.364+01:00Jon Connor on Detox "It's not as mythical as people think."<h1 class="entry-title">
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FLINT, MI--Producer Dr. Dre has helped rap artists such as
Eminem, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg become superstars, and recently, he's been
hanging out with Flint's Jon Connor.<br />
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On July 18, days after he Connor performed with Lyric Da
Queen at Lansing's Common Ground Music Festival, Connor's business partner Mateen
Cleaves posted a photo of him, Connor and Dre on Twitter. In a phone call with
Flint Journal, Connor spoke candidly about the experience.<br />
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"He was excited about the respect he had for my artistry. Dre
is a very particular person. He knows what he wants to hear," Connor said. "...I made
it through Dr. Dre's chopping block of potential. Just to know he sees
something in me, or that he respects what I do, or has an appreciation for what
I bring to hip-hop, is something I put on my mantle."<br />
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Connor went on tour with Xzibit, another California rapper and
frequent Dr. Dre collaborator (and the host of MTV's "Pimp My Ride), last fall.
The two built rapport after the tour, Connor said, and Xzibit "connected the
dots" to Dr. Dre.<br />
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Dr. Dre is widely regarded as one the most important
producers in the history of rap music. Between the mid-1980s and now, he has
served as the key producer or mentor to several of the genre's most important acts:
N.W.A., Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Eminem, 50 Cent, and most recently, Kendrick
Lamar. As a solo artist, his albums "The Chronic" and "2001," which feature
songs such as "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" and "Forgot About Dre," have sold more
than 10 million copies.<br />
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These days, he is most popular for his wildly successful "Beats
By Dre" line of headphones.<br />
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With so many years of success and experience, Connor said,
Dre has plenty of advice to give--and Connor has been all-ears.<br />
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"Any time I'm around him is constant growth for me. ... He's
an inspirational person, he truly is. Anything and everything out his mouth is
something to learn from," Connor said. "...It's constant learning in so many
areas of life: how to be a better artist, to be a better producer, to be a
better man, to be a better human."<br />
Dr. Dre's alleged final album, "Detox," has developed a sort
of mythical status because of years of release delays and limited output. Since
Dre announced the title for the record in 2001, only two official singles have
released: "Kush" featuring Akon and Snoop Dogg, and "I Need A Doctor,"
featuring Eminem and Skylar Grey. Otherwise, the Internet has seen several
unfinished songs leak, with rappers such as T.I., Eminem and Ludacris
performing lyrics they presumably wrote for Dre to perform.<br />
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Connor remained tight-lipped when answering questions about
if he was contributing his talents "Detox."<br />
"'Detox' is going to come out whenever it's ready for him to
put it out," Connor said. "It's not as mythical as people think. I don't know
what people think, but 'Detox' is definitely real."<br />
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Source- http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/flint/index.ssf/2013/08/jon_connor_talks_time_with_six.html<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-76142010478573500912013-07-01T11:43:00.001+01:002013-07-01T11:44:28.530+01:00Dr Dre presents Kendrick Lamar with ASCAP Vanguard Award Kendrick Lamar was honored with the Vanguard Award at
the 26th Annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, which took place
last night (June 28) in Beverly Hills. The milestone moment was made
even bigger as his mentor and fellow Compton native Dr. Dre presented
the award to his protégé. “I’m proud to know him. I’m proud to work
with him and he is an important part of the new generation of hip-hop,
and it’s definitely continuing the legacy of Compton,” Dre said of the
young rapper.<br />
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More details are emerging surrounding the biopic
about legendary jazz singer Nina Simone. It now appears that the film's
executive producer Gene Kirkwood and its director Cynthia Mort are in
preliminary talks with Dr. Dre to score the film. </div>
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"If we can get Dr. Dre involved it could be very modern arrangements" that make up for the score in <i>Nina</i>, Kirkwood said in an interview with The Grio. "He's going to see a rough cut in about a week and a half. I would love for him to do what Quincy (Jones) did with <i>In The Heat of The Night</i> and (what) Quincy did with <i>In Cold Blood</i>. Quincy did a lot of scoring. I would love if Dre's next step would be to score it. That would be a great challenge."
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<i>Nina</i>, currently in post-production will be director Cynthia
Mort's first feature length film and will star actress Zoe Saldana as
Nina. Saldana fell under much scrutiny after she was announced as the
star of the film. During an interview with The NY Times,
Simone's daughter, Simone Kelly said she disagreed with Saldana's
casting and she would've rather seen Viola Davis cast in the role of her
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A Change.Org petition was placed online last fall asking for producers to replace Saldana, but they ignored it and chose to go with Saldana anyway.
Finally, singer India.Arie also criticized the
casting choice. The issue was that Zoe Saldana looks nothing like Nina
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<i>Nina</i> will be released later this year and will focus on Nina
Simone as a singer, as a woman, and on a "complex being" discovering
inner truths about conflict and love," The Grio
reports. The film will also focus on Nina's mental and emotional
struggles. "Nina was bipolar," Kirkwood explained. "She was kind of out
there. The film will explore a very special, unique relationship she had
with this man she picked up at Cedars. He had no idea what he was
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As our sister blog The Informer reported yesterday,
Interscope Records boss Jimmy Iovine and boss of all bosses Dr. Dre
pooled together $70 million they had lying around to establish the USC
Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the
Business of Innovation. It will offer students the most badass major
imaginable, starting with the incoming class of 2018. </div>
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Their press conference at Interscope Studios in Santa Monica
yesterday brought out Dre for a rare public appearance; he wore a black
suit (no tie) and black patent leather shoes, and was visibly nervous.
This despite having his wife Nicole Threatt by his side -- in platinum
blonde curls and a small black dress, she posed for pictures and briefly
turned the small press gathering into a red carpet affair. In any case,
the founding of this college feels monumental; not just for the kids,
who will probably invent some amazing gadget that lets you design your
garage while streaming music videos on your video games, but for hip-hop
itself. For a young genre that can sometimes feel faddy, this is some
permanent shit right here: The man who taught us to smoke trees will now
have his name on the side of the building. Dre and Iovine spoke with
West Coast Sound in an extremely rare interview.<br />
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Dr. Dre: [Sitting down with a flaky pastry with a circle of custard in the middle.] I'm way off my diet right now.<br />
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<b>So is USC your adopted school of choice?</b><br />
Dr. Dre: I'm an official Trojan now, man. That's it.<br />
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<b>Have you been rooting for them in football?</b><br />
Dr. Dre: Absolutely.<br />
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<b>Where did the idea for this program originate?</b><br />
Jimmy Iovine: Everything we do together comes out of my and Dre's many
conversations we have multiple times a week, probably every day, like,
"Jimmy don't you hate the way kids are listening to music on the radio?"
[In this case] we decided we wanted to give back and do something
because we've been very fortunate over the last 20 years and Dre has
always wanted to give back. So I said to Dre, "Ok why don't we do it
together?" And we go to Beats and see that all these kids are so...so
good at understanding technology and have a feel for the art, or the
other way around. Then we look at Beats and say "Geez we need kids like
that here!"<br />
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<b>Like a farm system? </b><br />
Jimmy Iovine: Well, we aren't doing this for us. [But there is] the
need. There's all these kids out there that can really speak both
languages and we need more people like that to work for us! Then you
look at a company like Apple which is built on technology married with
liberal arts, they got it really right, it's an incredible company.<br />
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This is not about music, but the record industry needs people that
understand more about platforms, and more about distribution, and more
about telephony. We need people to understand that we don't need guys
that just like music. It's just not enough. So we approached [Dean]
Erica [Muhl] and you know we said, "So we are thinking about doing
something." She just said "Yes! We haven't invented anything here and I
think this is a need that every school would like to fulfill." Erica
from USC is so great!<br />
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<b>Dre, how do you feel about ushering in a whole new phase of your career, and how does it compare to earlier phases?</b> <br />
Dr. Dre: This is absolutely the biggest thing I've been a part of in my
entire career. I am just excited to be a part of something that is going
to be there forever. How many people can say that? This is huge.<br />
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<b>Your name will be on a building, after all. </b><br />
Dr. Dre: Yes.<br />
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<b>Then again, you did help usher in gangster rap, and that was pretty big culturally too, as it affected the whole world.</b><br />
Dr. Dre: Yeah, that was great but I felt like this is, this is much more
important. It's because of the potential it has: A kid can come through
here, and go on to potentially change the world.<br />
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<b>So as to the $70 million dollars, was that split, like 50/50?</b><br />
Jimmy Iovine: Yeah, we went each went 50/50.<br />
Dr. Dre: Going in 50/50, going out 50/50. [Laughs]<br />
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<b>I hope you get a tax rebate! On another note, Dr. Dre, you
don't do a lot of press, other than for something big like this. What's
the reason for that? </b><br />
Dr. Dre: Basically yeah, I just like doing special things. I'm not a big
fan of public interviews, but for something like this it's important
for me to get out there and express my opinion.<br />
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<b>And, does this program mean that <i>Detox</i> will be further delayed?</b><br />
Dr. Dre: No, I'm more inspired to go back into the studio now. Beats is
rolling, this thing is happening, and it's incredible. Now I'm ready to
go back to my first love.<br />
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Jimmy Iovine: You know he was always making music. You know just look
at Kendrick Lamar. If not for Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar wouldn't be what
he is today. I think Kendrick Lamar is arguably the most important
rapper to come in a long time. In my opinion, as far as Dre's business
is concerned, I think he is doing a lot for hip-hop, with Kendrick
Lamar.<br />
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Dr. Dre: I'm going back to the studio. Not for any specific reason,
but just to record because I love to record music. I'm going back in and
hopefully the next Kendrick Lamar or the next Eminem walks in the door
and I can work with that artist. I'm going to record forever.<br />
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<b>I'm hoping you're not throwing all that stuff you're recording away.</b><br />
No, it's not thrown away. I just love to record and it is there for
whoever comes in, and if the music fits. I have tons of music stashed. <br />
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<b>I spoke with Ice Cube about the upcoming NWA movie. Could you tell us anything more about it?</b><br />
Dr. Dre: We just go the green light from Universal. I was just with Cube
and F. Gary Gray yesterday writing the script, so it looks like it's
really happening. Gary is directing the movie. It's going to be a true
story. It's going to be based on all the true events that happened.<br />
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<b>But it's not going to be a documentary?</b><br />
Dr. Dre: No. But yeah, I think it's going to be great. Now that Gary is
on board as director and it's at Universal, I think it's going to be
incredible.<br />
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Source - <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/05/dr_dre_usc_academy_iovine.php" target="_blank">http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/05/dr_dre_usc_academy_iovine.php </a><br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-43307684182055863992013-05-08T12:27:00.000+01:002013-05-08T12:29:17.637+01:00Scott Storch Talks working with Dr Dre on Detox and 50 Cent The platinum producer also dishes on his work on "Detox" and with Dr. Dre in the late 1990s.<br />
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Scott Storch says he and 50 Cent can't lose. The Miami, Florida-based producer of Curtis Jackson's "Candy Shop" and "Just A Lil Bit" says he hopes to work with the G-Unit general again because of their flawless track record.<br />
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"50 [Cent], he's ill," Storch said in the two-and-a-half minute clip. "For some reason, we can't make a bad record. Every time me and him make a record, it's some fucking dope, fly shit. The success rate is 100% with us doing stuff together."<br />
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Storch also discussed his work on Dr. Dre's Detox in the video. He says Dre probably has about "3 million" songs recorded for the album, but he does not discuss when or if the long-delayed project will ever come out.<br />
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Elsewhere, Storch reflects on his work with the Aftermath Entertainment mogul in the late 1990s and how they created what would become Storch's signature piano- and string-driven sound that was featured on Dre's 2001 LP and elsewhere.<br />
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Source - <a href="http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.23847/title.scott-storch-on-50-cent-we-can-t-make-a-bad-record-" target="_blank">http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.23847/title.scott-storch-on-50-cent-we-can-t-make-a-bad-record- </a><br />
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1999, just hours after he announced he was rolling with Death Row
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Between 1996 and 2000, there was a
longstanding feud between the label Dr. Dre co-founded in the early
1990s, and the label he left to launch five years later. Between artists
on Death Row Records including Tupac, J. Flexx and Tha Realest taking
verbal swipes at Dr. Dre, the Compton, California superstar's former
business partner, Marion "Suge" Knight went as far as publicly releasing
Dre's residential address on the <i>Too Gangsta For TV</i> documentary, and snatching his anticipated-album's title, <i>Chronic 2000</i>. Quite plausibly, bad blood existed for years between Death Row Records and Aftermath Entertainment.<br />
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In a new interview with VladTV, Crooked I
reveals that Dr. Dre also attempted to counter with his former label.
Recalling the 1999 contract Crooked I signed with Death Row, by way of
Daz Dillinger and Big C-Style's short-lived Dogg Pound Records
subsidiary, the Long Beach, California emcee revealed, "[Daz Dillinger
and Big C-Style] were like, 'Yo, you wanna go fuck with Suge [Knight]?"
Crooked I had recently left a deal with Virgin/Noo Trybe Records after
several years on the major imprint. "There was nobody there from the old
Death Row," Crooked added. "Suge was incarcerated and Daz was like the
last man standing over there...everybody was gone." Hours later, Crooked
says that he went to a Los Angeles radio station, and during an
appearance, announced that he would be joining the notorious label,
famed for its releases by Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac.<br />
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"As soon as I said that], I was signing with Death Row], somebody
from Aftermath [Entertainment] called my homie Big C-Style, and said,
'Come over here. Let's talk.' So we went over there and saw [Dr.] Dre.
It was my first time really, <i>really</i>, being around Dre—not just a
'Hey, what's up. How you doin'?,' but being inside the studio. We were
at Record One, where he records at. [The] D.O.C.'s walkin' around."
Crooked adds that Xzibit and King T were also prominent artists
affiliated with Aftermath at that time, when Dr. Dre was reportedly
wrapping <i>2001</i>.<br />
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"Dre was like, 'I wanna fuck with you, on some level,'" Crooked
recalls. "It was a time thing. He was finishing up some albums, and he
wanted me to kick back and just wait." The Slaughterhouse emcee adds, "I
was actually on the King T [<i>Thy Kingdom Come</i>] album. They put me on the King T album, which was never released."<br />
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After leaving his Aftermath meeting, Crooked I went to meet with
then-incarcerated Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight in northern
California. "I went to go see Suge, so I could weigh out my options. And
Suge just offered me a gigantic check."<br />
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In turn, Crooked I would sign with Death Row, where he would remain
as an artist nearly seven years. While appearing on remixes and
soundtracks, the label never released a Crooked I album while he was
signed to the label. In 2006, Crooked released a documentary, <i>Life After Death Row</i>. Under new ownership, the label would release recordings from his label tenure in 2010, as <i>Hood Star</i>.<br />
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Today, Crooked I's group Slaughterhouse, is signed to
Shady/Interscope Records, which shares a lot of business staff with Dr.
Dre's Aftermath Entertainment.<br />
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As he prepares to release his tenth solo full-length, <em>Everythang's Corrupt</em>, Ice Cube spoke about his music, film and endorsement career with <em>The L.A. Weekly</em>.<br />
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During the interview, Cube was pressed about his relationship with N.W.A.
band-mate, Dr. Dre. Throughout the last 27 years, the pair have
maintained a curious history. Once in "the world's most dangerous group"
together, they were quick to diss each other in 1990 and 1991, during
Cube's departure from the group and Ruthless Records. The <em>Boyz N' The Hood</em> star famously made a cameo in Dr. Dre's own solo breakout <em>The Chronic</em>,
in the "Let Me Ride" video. In the decade that followed, the pair would
collaborate on "Natural Born Killaz," an early glimpse at the
later-shelved <em>Helter Skelter</em> collaborative album. At the turn of the millennium, the two reunited once again, with MC Ren and Snoop Dogg (n/k/a Snoop Lion), in a two-song attempted re-vamp of N.W.A.<br />
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During the 2000s, again, Cube and Dre have had periods of promoting an association, before bouts apart.<br />
Pressed about his current correspondence with his Compton, California
friend Dr. Dre, Cube replied, "[We talk] every now and then. We're
trying to put this N.W.A. movie together. This is the real one."<br />
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As for which film Cube was dismissing, it remains to be specified. There are two documentaries in production
regarding the life of Eazy-E and his Ruthless Records label, where both
Dre and Cube were once artists. One film is allegedly going to produced
by Eazy's daughter. Cube did stress that his F. Gary Gray-directed biopic in pre-production is the only authentic account
of the group. "That other [N.W.A.-related film] that you heard about
was bullshit. This is the official one. We're taking it to the nooks and
crannies, I think deeper than any other article or documentary on the
group. These are the intimate conversations that helped forge N.W.A. To
me I think its interesting to anybody who loves that era and I don't
know any other movie where you can mix Gangster Rap, the FBI, L.A.
riots, HIV, and fucking feuding with each other. This movie has
everything from Darryl Gates and the battering ram."<br />
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The full, three-page interview with Ice Cube is available at<em> <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/04/ice_cube_favorite_projects.php?page=1" target="_blank">The L.A. Weekly</a></em>.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-30403971333808632762013-03-22T21:16:00.004+00:002013-03-24T09:29:12.683+00:00Dr Dre Says He's Inspired To Record Again, Confirms Eminem Album Wrapping<b>Dr. Dre checked into Big Boy's Neighborhood today to reveal that Beats By Dre has a new venture. He also said that he wants to make music as long as he can.</b>
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Today, Dr. Dre briefly called into Big Boy's Neighborhood show, the syndicated radio program produced by Los Angeles, California's Power 106. Dre's call was relevant to the show, as the Aftermath Entertainment founder has appointed Big Boy's co-host Fuzzy Fantabulous to work on a new Beats By Dre-related project.
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While Dre was slim on details, he did offer some, "The most I can say right now is that it's a music subscription service. That's the most I can say right now." It is unclear what Fuzzy's role will be within this new Beats By Dre division or product. The longtime Big Boy's Neighborhood personality detailed the company as merely, "A Beats Music service we're about to launch." Today marks Fuzzy's last day on the show's staff.
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For fans of his music, Dre did briefly update a few items. He confirmed that Aftermath star Eminem is wrapping his upcoming album. "[Eminem] is finishing up his project," said Dre. Without mentioning the Detox album, Dre did allude that he was approaching his work differently. "For me, I've just got inspired to go in the studio again," admitted the N.W.A. member-turned-mogul. Last year, Dre and his label released Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city, in addition to his production for Xzibit, Alicia Keys and 50 Cent. Pointing out that he's approaching the 30-year mark, Dre closed in saying, "Music is my first love, and I'm gonna continue to do that as long as I can."
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Dre's first group, World Class Wreckin' Cru released "Surgery" around 1984, marking the longtime deejay's first foray into recording.
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TDE affiliate Kendrick Lamar had one of the biggest years in music last year, earning himself not only commercial success from his studio debut album, but also critical acclaim. A combination that isn’t found too often these days in music, particularly within the hip hop genre. The Compton native recently sat down to discuss the pressure associated with what he does, explaining that he doesn’t “even know what pressure is now.”
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“I don’t even know what pressure is now. I’m just doing me man,” Kendrick revealed in an interview with DubCNN. “I don’t even look at it as pressure anymore, I never looked at it as pressure. I just felt I’d make the best music I could make. You either like it or you don’t, but it’s always gonna real to me.”
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Seeing that Dr. Dre supported and embraced Kendrick Lamar so heavily during his “come up,” and eventually signing a deal with Aftermath and TDE, fans were surprised to not see Dr. Dre on the ‘Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City’ album. Dr. Dre played an instrumental part of the success for both 50 Cent and The Game on their debuts, but K Dot reveals that Dre wanted him to do his “own thing.”
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“Basically Dre just told me to go out there and do my own thing. See the thing about it is, people get so caught up in the hype with just being with Dre, they just figured he had to stand over your back the whole time while you’re doing music. He looked at me as an artist, cause I already had like three street albums out: Kendrick Lamar EP, O.D. and Section.80,
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Kendrick continued, “He said I was already ready. All I needed to do is go out and continue to do what I’m doing. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was the main thing he was always saying. By the time I came and turned the album in to him in, that was when we were supposed to lock in the studio and do some records. But he decided and said ‘You’re done. You don’t need to go back in with me. Because you have all the records here.”<br />
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Dr. Dre’s ‘Detox’ album
is one of those things that has gone so far off our radar in the past
few years that it feels weird to even write about it these days. The
project has been rumored for quite some time to say the least, and it
appears that the chances of us ever getting it are slim to none.<br />
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What does Dr. Dre
really have to prove anyway? That’s the whole point behind Juelz’ recent
interview with DJ Vlad as he discusses Dr. Dre’s potential reasoning
for not dropping the now infamous ‘Detox’ album.<br />
“I’m sure he’s scared of dropping [Detox]” Juelz Santana
stated. He went to clarify his statement saying that Dr. Dre has “put a
hard weight on his own shoulder” as he is “competing with greatness.”<br />
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With Nate Dogg passing away back in 2011,
many fans believe that a ‘Detox’ album just wouldn’t be the same
without Nate. Santana agrees, and states that Dre may feel the same way.
“Dre gotta find an artist. He’s always had an artist that could come
and take over. Without Nate he may feel like it can’t even get done”.<br />
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We have all come to learn through artist’s stories just how much of a
perfectionist Dre can be, and Juelz confirms this as well. “When we
went in the studio, he’ll have you in the booth for four hours doing
your verse” he said.<br />
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For most fans out there, it really doesn’t matter if Dre drops
‘Detox’ or not at this point. Dr. Dre is solidified hip hop legend and
will be with or without another album. Juelz gives his thoughts on this
stating that Dr. Dre “will always be the man.”<br />
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“If you do not drop the Detox you are the man, you will always be the
man”, he continued, “You did it, you did things people will never do”.<br />
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In Tip's perspective, the reason we have yet to see an OutKast reunion or even <strong>Dr. Dre</strong>'s long-awaited <em>Detox</em> LP is <a href="http://www.sohh.com/jump/index.php?goto=http://theurbandaily.com/2053488/ti-identity-thief-shawty-lo-say-hello/2/" rel="external">due to the artists' own fear and concerns.</a><br />
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"From me speaking to Dre man I heard him being open to it, I really did.
I think his concern is do the kids right now who are young and buying
music care enough about an Outkast album for it to make a difference.
Which is the same concern that I hear from other people that we all love
and respect in this industry like Dr. Dre. I was working with Doc on
"Detox" and that was his same concern. Of course we're looking at them
like we have such huge admiration for them for what they've done in the
past, but they are looking at themselves kind of like 'What do I mean to
the young kid of today that is going out there to buy music?' That's
what the struggle is." (<em>The Urban Daily</em>)<br />
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track "Dead People," a song that featured an old Dr. Dre beat the two
had worked on back during studio sessions for Game's <i>The R.E.D. Album</i>.<br />
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The Compton rapper has been part of the Dr. Dre's Aftermath crew
since the beginning. When VIBE tried to squeeze out any new info about
Dre's long-awaited <i>Detox</i> album, the former Aftermath artist revealed a lot by not really revealing anything.<br />
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"<i>Detox</i>, it's like Jesus," says Game. "Will you ever get to see Jesus? It's like a hip-hop Jesus."<br />
In 2011, Dr. Dre released two cuts off the elusive album -- "Kush"
and "I Need a Doctor." Things were looking up for fans, who had been
paitently waiting for a follow-up to Dre's <i>2001</i>, which was released in 1999. But, then, it was crickets all over again.<br />
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"Dre's a hard guy to please," adds Game, noting Dr. Dre's attention
to detail and perfection. "If he doesn't become 100 percent happy, then
we'll probably never end up hearing <i>Detox</i>. I'll say never."
Game also notes that the success that came with Dr. Dre's headphone
company Beats by Dre, also interferes with new Dr. Dre album.<br />
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One shouldn't give up hope for a new Dr. Dre album, but perhaps just
leave it to surprise. Watch the full interview of Game talking about
working with Dr. Dre, who co-signed his latest album, below.<br />
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It’s impossible to describe the particular sound of Outkast (or Big Boi on his two solo albums) without somehow employing the word “funk.” Hip-hop’s use of bouncy beats is a given at this point, but it was Dr. Dre who first married gritty rhymes and such glossy production, with the G-funk of his 1992 classic The Chronic. Dre’s solo debut proved gangsta rap could be fun, that rappers could make party songs without losing street cred — and the genre never looked back.<br />
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That influence is certainly heard on Sir Lucious Left Foot’s latest effort Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors. So we asked Big Boi how The Chronic impacted him, ahead of that album’s 20th anniversary tomorrow (December 15). Watch it up top.<br />
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Dr. Dre's iconic album forever altered hip-hop production and turned him into a kingmaker.</h2>
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By: Oliver Wang</span><br />
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<span class="byline"> (The Root) -- When 1992 began, Dr. Dre's reputation was anything but secure. It may be hard to recall a point at which Dre wasn't seen as godly. But at that point, releasing his first solo album, The Chronic, seemed risky, especially with its roster of newcomer rappers, including Daz, The Lady of Rage and a lanky, drawling emcee from Long Beach, Calif., comically named Snoop Doggy Dogg.<br /><br />Pre-Chronic Dr. Dre was still inextricably tied to his former group N.W.A., but in jumping ship to the then-unknown Death Row Records, more than a few thought Dre might be committing career suicide. At the very least, the snarks among us kept joking about how Dre went from proclaiming, on N.W.A.'s 1988 "Express Yourself," "I don't smoke weed or cess," to naming his solo debut after the sticky icky.<br /><br />Moreover, when Dre dropped "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thing" in that '92 summer, the ashes of April's rebellion/riots in Los Angeles had barely cooled. That made Dre's former N.W.A. partner, Ice Cube, the man of the moment, having so prophetically given voice to the anger and frustrations that eventually roiled the Southland beginning April 29 of that year. Cube had metaphorically laid waste to Dre and his ex-bandmates just a year before with his legendary diss track, "No Vaseline"; surely '92 would be Cube's victory lap. Yet, in the aftermath of the rebellion came a new set of sensibilities, which allowed The Chronic, released 20 years ago on Dec. 15, 1992, to bloom in ways few may have predicted. <br /><br />The oft-forgotten detail that helped pave this path wasn't the riots but what preceded them by several weeks: the gang truce between the Crips and Bloods. For all the violence wrought during the uprising, what followed could be described as a kind of cathartic afterglow, sustained by the (temporary) cessation of hostilities between two of L.A.'s fiercest factions. Just as the early 1970s gang truce in the South Bronx, N.Y., helped create the conditions in which the proto-hip-hop party scene there could flourish, in Los Angeles, the post-riots, truce environment was also ripe for elation. Could there have been a more perfect summer soundtrack for that moment than "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thing"?<br /><br />Twenty years later and the song, like much of The Chronic, remains a pristine example of pop production. It opens with that distinctive rattle, the downstroke of the bass line, the anchoring keyboard riff borrowed from Leon Haywood and, perhaps most memorable, the sinuous synthesizers that slink in after two bars. With their piercing whine, the synths gave the song and album a particular sonic signature, one that evokes giants of the 1970s funk era such as the Ohio Players and Isley Brothers. Combined with Snoop's languid flow, both song and album are laid-back yet also subtly sinister, presenting Dre's take on the endless summer.<br /><br />On the surface, it's all good vibrations -- Dre and his crew surfing concrete boulevards in drop-top Impalas, coasting between swap meets and backyard BBQs in search of weed and women. However, as shiny and polished as the album's hit singles are -- " 'G' Thing," "Let Me Ride," "F--k Wit Dre Day" -- The Chronic never strays far from the edge of darkness. "The Day the Niggaz Took Over" offers a claustrophobic, paranoid take on the riots, "A Nigga Witta Gun" revels in firearm diplomacy, and "B---hes Ain't S--t" handily wears its misogyny on its sleeve. It's not hard to imagine why The Chronic appealed so intensely to suburban youth who bought up the album by the millions: It offers up a seductively lurid lifestyle portrait of sunshine and noir, South Central style. (As an aside, it's interesting to compare The Chronic with the other major L.A. album of that year, Bizarre Ride 2: The Pharcyde, which revels in the insecure, awkward underbelly to the unflappable bravado of albums like The Chronic.)<br /><br />The most immediate impact of The Chronic could be heard in hip-hop production in the years to follow, as seemingly and suddenly, everyone wanted to work snaking synthesizers into their songs, too. The ubiquity of the "G-funk sound" -- however shamelessly or ineptly copied -- was just one reason the album sparked a backlash among hip-hop fans aligned with a more "East Coast" aesthetic. The Chronic wasn't even that inflammatory toward the East, though Snoop does bark back on Bronx rapper Tim Dog for his "F--k Compton" single from the previous year. Mostly, its contribution to the overbaked coastal rivalry was in how it swayed labels and radio stations out West, thus symbolically challenging the East's presumed claim to define all things hip-hop (by decade's end, it was really the South that proved most insurgent in any case).<br /><br />A longer term impact was how The Chronic elevated Dr. Dre from producer to kingmaker, especially once he supervised even more successful Death Row albums for Snoop and Tupac. Dre's imprimatur is arguably unique in hip-hop; no one's co-sign is seen as more influential, and the names of Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game and, most recently, Kendrick Lamar, are always offered up as evidence. Of course, that conveniently overlooks the many failures connected to Dre's Aftermath imprint, including projects from King Tee, Busta Rhymes, Rakim and Eve that all fell apart, not to mention Dre's Detox album, for which "long-awaited" seems too tame a term.<br /><br />None of this particularly matters. The Chronic was an album first steeped in fantasy that ascended into mythology, empowering Dre to craft a self-image that's almost unassailable. It didn't matter that most of his verses on the album were clearly ghostwritten for him, nor that many uncredited co-producers and musicians went into crafting that signature sound. That's the power of an album like The Chronic: It provides a gravity so irresistible as to bend reality around it, and even 20 years later, its pull still remains potent.<br /><br />Oliver Wang is an associate professor of sociology at CSU-Long Beach. He contributes to NPR, the Los Angeles Times and KCET's ArtBound and writes the audioblog Soul-Sides.com.</span><br />
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<span class="byline">source - <a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/chronic-two-decades-later" target="_blank">http://www.theroot.com/views/chronic-two-decades-later </a></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-3897896106350577192012-12-09T00:27:00.003+00:002012-12-09T00:27:39.622+00:00Game gets Dr Dre’s stamp of approval for Jesus PieceDr. Dre and Game’s relationship hasn’t always been perfect. But the Doc is giving his protégé props for his new album <em>Jesus Piece</em>. The super-producer sent Game a text message congratulating him on the release and calling the album “dope.”<br />
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“The song with the D’Angelo sample ["All That (Lady)"] is fuckin Crazy. Great job,” he told him via iMessage.<br />
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“Couldn’t do it without you Doc,” responded Game, who shared their iPhone conversation on Twitter.<br />
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“When Dr. Dre STAMP the album…….. You know it’s a fuckin CLASSIC !!!!!” he wrote.<br />
Dre produced “Dead People,” which appears as an iTunes bonus track on <em>Jesus Piece</em>, available Tuesday.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-84049124525598549082012-11-20T11:59:00.003+00:002012-11-20T12:03:21.189+00:00Game - 'Dead People' snippet produced by Dr DreBelow is the snippet to Game's track titled 'Dead People' - produced by Dr Dre<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/liqHzCp0vVs" width="560"></iframe>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-82098588834671055462012-11-19T13:56:00.003+00:002012-11-19T13:56:45.763+00:00The Making of The ChronicDr. Dre's seminal 1992 album, <i>The Chronic</i>, turns 20 next
month. Though a sensation upon its release, the raw-but-melodic work's
legend has only grown in the ensuing decades, and today seemingly every
MC-producer duo fancies itself the next Dre and Snoop Dogg. It has
become the most influential rap work ever made, and perhaps even the
greatest -- a case made by Jeff Weiss in the post above this one.<br />
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But it almost never happened. Despite the success Dre had experienced
with N.W.A, he was entangled in contractual problems with his former
crewmate Eazy-E's label. For that reason, as well as Death Row's dodgy
reputation, <i>The Chronic</i> had a hard time finding release. It took
the shepherding of renegade upstart Interscope Records, the financing of
convicted drug kingpin Michael Harris and the steady hand of Suge
Knight, an intimidating former defensive end, to give it life.<br />
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A 2001 documentary from Santa Monica-based production company Xenon Pictures, <i>Welcome to Death Row: The Rise and Fall of Death Row Records</i>,
tells the story of Knight's infamous imprint, as well as the rise of
Snoop and Tupac Shakur. Its producers -- Jeff Scheftel, Leigh Savidge
and Steve Housden -- gained unprecedented access to Harris while he was
behind bars. They also spoke with some 100 other figures associated with
the label, from publicists and drug dealers to <i>Chronic</i> performers.<br />
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Xenon gathered far more material than it could use for the film, and plans to publish much of the rest in a 2013 book: <i>Welcome to Death Row: An Oral History of Death Row Records</i>. With the company's blessing, we've excerpted some of that material below, focusing on <i>The Chronic</i> and its immediate aftermath.<br />
<br />
Our story begins with the 1991 inception of Death Row Records. Dre
was then working closely with veteran record producer Dick Griffey, the
founder of Solar Records, a successful R&B and soul imprint.
(Griffey died in 2010.) Alonzo Williams, who kicks things off below,
helmed electro-rap group World Class Wreckin' Cru, which gave Dr. Dre
his start.<br />
<br />
<b>ALONZO WILLIAMS</b>: The name Death Row came from my partner,
Unknown [DJ]. Initially it was supposed to be Def Row, as in Def Jam.
D-E-F. And Dre bought the name Def Row and changed the name.<br />
<br />
<b>DICK GRIFFEY</b>: They were housed in my building, so they didn't
have a lot of expenses. The greatest expense in making a record is the
studio time. I had a six-story building. They were down on the third
floor. ... Since I didn't have a lot of experience in rap or hip-hop, I
kind of let them do their own thing.<br />
<br />
<b>JEFFREY JOLSON-COLBURN</b> (former <i>Hollywood Reporter</i> music
editor): There had been gangsta rap before [Death Row], and Priority
Records and some other labels were active in it, but there wasn't a
label that was totally dedicated to gangsta rap. There was hardly a name
for it then. It was just hard-core street rap, and N.W.A summed up the
scene the best. <br />
<br />
<b>DR DRE</b>*: Suge's role was handling the day-to-day business,
dealing with artists, dealing with distributors and record companies. My
job was to push these buttons and make the records happen.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: Back then, Suge was very behind-the-scenes and
helpful and quiet, humble, nonvisible. He didn't like cameras. He was
the invisible man.<br />
<br />
<b>VIRGIL ROBERTS</b> (attorney and former Solar president): The
initial understanding was that [rapper] D.O.C. and Dre and Dick and Suge
would be partners in this company.<br />
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<b>ALONZO WILLIAMS</b>: Everyone was following Dre, because people knew Dre was The Man. Everything he touched was gold or platinum, or better.<br />
<br />
<b>JOHN PAYNE</b>: (studio engineer): The [influx] of talent was the
result of people wanting to work for Dre and not a result of Suge going
out and finding them. Dre was the only asset the company had. He was
actually the most bankable person at that time -- pretty much in the
industry -- from the R&B and rap standpoint.<br />
<br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: Everybody was taking direction from Dre, as he
knows what he's doing. He just finished doing N.W.A albums ... so you
have confidence. You've watched this man make money.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: The first tape [of mine] that Warren G gave Dre
was the one that hooked me up. When he finally got a chance to hear me, I
was ready. I didn't want to rap for him until I was ready. ... Warren G
and Nate Dogg were my best friends, and we formed 213. We didn't have
drum machines back then, just records, turntables and a microphone.
Warren G called me and was, like, "Snoop, I got Dre on the phone, he
liked the tape, he wants to work with us." And I said, "Nigga, stop
lying." And someone said, "Hello?" And I said, "Who's this?" And he
said, "It's Dre. Man, that shit was dope. I want to get with you. Come
to the studio Monday."<br />
<br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: At that time, it was a dream to just be in the same
room with Dre. Dre wanted us to come to the studio? I'd have jogged up
there if I didn't have a car.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: It was me, D.O.C., Lady of Rage and Warren G. Then
I brought RBX and Kurupt and Daz. And Jewell was down there, too. She
was there from the beginning. It was a change from Dre's house to Solar
Records. We were in an environment where real records were being made.<br />
<br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: [W]hen Dre walked in, it was time to work. All work and no play.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: Dick Griffey back then was the "chicken man." When
we needed food, he'd break us off some [money] for some chicken. We
needed a few hundred dollars for the rent and he'd come through. He was
like Grampa. Dick Griffey was good to us back then. ... We used to stay
up all night, didn't leave till 5 or 6 in the morning. There was a
special vibe; you just wanted to be there. It was right in the middle of
Hollywood and we'd never really been out of the neighborhood and we was
getting a chance to see it all. This was the same studio that Shalamar,
Lakeside, The Whispers, Babyface recorded their albums in.<br />
<br />
<b>JOHN KING</b> (bodyguard): Death Row started out as a family. We
used to have meetings, sayin', "We're gonna come up!" When it got to be
more of a business, where contracts had to be signed and documents had
to be accounted for, that took the love out of it.<br />
<br />
<b>JOHN PAYNE</b>: The early days of Death Row were rather dismal, rather poverty-stricken. It was like that show with Jimmie Walker, <i>Good Times</i>.<br />
<br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: The best records came out when we were starving.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: My first apartment was fun for me; I had a pet
roach. We called him Gooch. He would always come out when we had
company. We started feeding and taking care of him because he was one of
the homeboys. Rent was $500 a month. Manager was named Wendy. (Still
owe you -- I'll holler back at you.) About seven people in one bedroom.
And we had a ball. Five hundred dollars and somehow we never had the
rent money on time.<br />
<br />
<b>JEWELL</b>: Snoop wasn't getting money back then, either. Suge told us after we put out <i>The Chronic</i> album, he was gonna give us all $100,000. I never saw it.<br />
<br />
<b>SUGE KNIGHT**</b>: The money I gave 'em came out of my pocket.<br />
<br />
<b>DICK GRIFFEY</b>: These guys were broke all the time. Nobody ever had any money. I was on the phone with Suge's wife, paying the house payments.<br />
The soundtrack for the film <i>Deep Cover</i> arrived in spring 1992 and introduced Snoop Dogg to the mainstream via the work's title track, which he performed with Dre. <br />
<br />
<b>JOHN PAYNE</b>: The [artists] got the right exposure on the <i>Deep Cover</i> soundtrack. Until then, Snoop was basically sitting around the studio, wanting to do something. Nobody had heard of him.<br />
<br />
<b>JOHN KING</b>: Snoop had this voice. It sounded like he was singin', but he was rappin'. It was something new, and it took the world over.<br />
<b>DOUG YOUNG</b> (record promoter): I remember tellin' Snoop, "Man,
you're about to be huge." And maybe an hour after I had told them about
that, Snoop walks to Jack in the Box on Sunset and Cahuenga, and saw the
guys from [A] Tribe Called Quest. And they said, "Man, let's take a
picture!" and asked him for his autograph, just like girls. Because of <i>Deep Cover</i>. <br />
<b>VIRGIL ROBERTS</b>: "187 on a motherfuckin' cop" became, like, a national anthem. <br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: When Snoop blew up on<i> Deep Cover</i>, it looked like we were all blowing up. It pumped me up; I can't wait till it's my turn.<br />
<br />
<b>LYDIA HARRIS</b> (wife of Michael Harris): I seen a change in Suge [after the success of <i>Deep Cover</i>]. He was handlin' things different. <br />
<br />
<b>DICK GRIFFEY</b>: Suge was somewhat playful and kind of a bully.
He'd threaten people from time to time and they'd take him seriously.
Have an argument with the engineer and tell him they were gonna shoot
him if he didn't get stuff right on the board. Lots of unnecessary
drama. <br />
<br />
<b>CPO</b> (rapper): Bloods was sittin' in the office at Death Row.
They're friends of someone, friends of friends of the artist. So you
know they're stealin'. Stealin' Post-its. That's how they are.<br />
<br />
<b>JOHN KING</b>: Even at Death Row, they had cliques. Suge had his
clique, Dre had his, Snoop had his. Everybody did their own thing.
Suge's people weren't his artists; they were the people he grew up with.
His homeboys.<br />
<br />
<b>LAMONT BLUMFIELD </b>(artist manager): Suge was rollin' up in a Benz all day. He had a Benz and a Lexus. Snoop was getting evicted when <i>Deep Cover</i> came out -- something ain't right. We helped him move his stuff from a little bitty one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood. <br />
<br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: I think [<i>The Chronic</i>] was a classic because everyone on it was hungry. Everybody put their all into <i>The Chronic</i> album. This was going to build a record company; this would build all our careers.<br />
<br />
<b>LAMONT BLUMFIELD</b>: You had so many hungry, starving individuals
that wanted to be superstars, who put their talent together, and it
came out a classic.<br />
<br />
<b>JEWELL</b>: It wasn't like we had money to hang with our friends,
so we just hung together. We'd be up there eatin' Popeye's chicken, five
days a week. And we created a masterpiece.<br />
<br />
<b>JOHN PAYNE</b>: They were poor as hell, but they were still a family, still havin' fun. <br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: We had weed, the best weed, you know what I'm sayin'? That's why we made <i>The Chronic</i>,
because we had the chronic. ... I was just happy to be workin' with
Dre. I had my own apartment. I was getting a thousand dollars a month,
had all the best weed I wanted. My girl was lovin' me, I was lovin' her.
It was all just crackin'. <br />
<br />
<b>JEWELL</b>: It all worked. My singin' over their hard rap lyrics;
rap had never accepted that before. I put my soft, sultry R&B
singing on their records. Now every rapper has to have a female on their
songs.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: [Dre] listened to it off the board in the studio.
He'd cut it together, cut the reels, splice it in. He actually had to
put it together piece by piece, by hand. Every song connected to the
next song, to the next song, to the next song.<br />
<br />
<b>ALLEN GORDON</b> (former editor, <i>Rap Pages</i> magazine): Dre
had the talent to hear music and [say], "This needs a flute, harp
strings, heavier drum track." That's an incredible talent, even if he
can't read music himself.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: I think <i>The Chronic</i> was perfect, but a lot
of songs could have been on it that would have destroyed the vibe. If
they didn't come out, Dre did it for a reason. A lot of that shit was
spontaneous. But I did [another] song 15 times before I got it right.
Had a toothache at the time and couldn't spit it out. He was, "Do it the
next time, I don't like how it sounds. Do it again, you had too much
energy." I'm like, this motherfucker is a precisionist.<br />
<br />
<b>JEFFREY JOLSON-COLBURN</b>: <i>The Chronic</i> was a hit out of the box. ... Snoop had these incredible street creds and such a buzz behind him from the projects. <br />
<br />
<b>CPO</b>: The money started comin' in right after <i>The Chronic</i>. That's when the money started getting made.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: The first family member I called when I heard my
shit being played was my Pops. Because he'd seen me go to jail for
selling dope. I don't think Pops believed in me. ... When <i>The Chronic</i>
came out, I was sought out for interviews. I was very shy, and I'd hold
my head down and didn't want to look at the camera. I didn't know what
to expect. I had to learn how to conduct myself and not explode on every
question I didn't like. Just take my time and listen. If I just be me,
it'll be all right. ... <br />
The first time I performed songs from <i>The Chronic</i> was with Dre
in a small concert in Compton. And man, these motherfuckers were
singing every word of the songs. And that made me feel -- damn, my life
is right here.<br />
<br />
<b>VIRGIL ROBERTS</b>: We had originally thought we'd be able to distribute the record with Sony. But Sony refused to distribute <i>The Chronic</i>. <br />
<br />
<b>SAM ANSON</b> (<i>L.A. Weekly</i> reporter): Because of the crazy
things going on around Death Row and their wariness of the contractual
status of Dr. Dre, [Sony] didn't want to get the deal done. <br />
<br />
<b>MICHAEL HARRIS</b>: Because of Eazy-E's insistence that he had been wronged, and robbed of his artists, Sony chose not to be part of the lawsuits.<br />
<br />
<b>VIRGIL ROBERTS</b>: And so we decided to distribute <i>The Chronic</i>
independently. But to put a record out independently, you need a video.
Griffey said to Suge, "I don't have the money, let's raise the money."
[Later] Dick and I met with [Interscope executives] Jimmy Iovine and
David Cohen. We played them <i>The Chronic</i>, and they said they were interested.<br />
<br />
<b>KEVIN POWELL</b> (writer): Jimmy Iovine had to pay off Ruthless Records, Eazy-E, Jerry Heller, and have <i>The Chronic</i> distributed through Priority Records.<br />
<br />
<b>DOUG YOUNG</b>: Eazy was getting like 25 or 50 cents a copy for Dre's <i>Chronic</i> album. <br />
<br />
<b>Nonetheless, with</b> <i>The Chronic</i>, Death Row was now a bona fide success. <br />
<br />
<b>HANK CALDWELL</b> (former Death Row Records president): Word of
mouth is everything, and Death Row became really hip on the street.
Every young, black entertainer wanted to be part of it, so there was no
problem finding talent. There was an understanding at Death Row that
[artists] weren't getting at the major companies. Kids would come in and
audition right off the street.<br />
<br />
<b>SUGE KNIGHT</b>: I ain't gonna throw you "Let's do lunch." I
ain't with all that. I'm still from the ghetto. I still got a house in
Compton. I may not be there every night, but I still got a house there. I
go there and hang out and feel it. That's where the talent's at. 'Cause
when people stay away too long, they get scared of it. There's no goin'
back. How I'm gonna run from something I'm part of?<br />
<br />
<b>DICK GRIFFEY</b>: I was talking to an ambassador from South Africa
and his daughter. Very eloquent, articulate people. Very educated. And
these people had bought into it. Suge was a cult hero around the world.<br />
<br />
<b>JON CLARK</b> (former Motown Records executive): Basically, it's
the same thing Motown did. They took the mindset, spirit, dreams, hopes,
wishes and thoughts of the people of a time period and set it to music.<br />
<br />
<b>DOUG YOUNG</b>: Death Row was bombin' out of control. All you had
to do was tell a girl you worked at Death Row Records -- anything you
want. Any shop you go into, "I work for Death Row" -- anything you want.
Any record store you go into, "I work for Death Row" -- you come back
with some promo goods. There was no club, no guest list you weren't on.
"We'll fly you here, we'll do this for you, that for you. We'll give you
clothes."<br />
<br />
<b>JEFFREY JOLSON-COLBURN</b>: Death Row at its peak was making about $150 million a year. For a tiny label, that was a shocking amount.<br />
<br />
<b>ALLEN GORDON</b>: There was no control [over spending] at Death Row. <i>Rap Pages</i>
printed a story about BL Diamonds, where Death Row got all their
jewelry. And we have the invoices of all the jewelry that was purchased
there on credit. And you go down the list, and it's "bracelet for wife
No. 1 ... cut gold, diamond cufflinks..." And after a while the artists
started going there and ordering their own jewelry without the consent
of [attorney David] Kenner, Knight or [Death Row publicist] George
Pryce, any figure of authority. Suge Knight probably doesn't even know
that all these artists went down there and started purchasing this
jewelry. <br />
<br />
<b>GEORGE PRYCE</b>: The day that I [went in to interview with
Knight] he said, 'Look I'm gonna interview you when I can, but it may
take a while. So I sat for seven days in the lobby, between all of these
huge hip-hop types. ... I sat for seven days -- a solid week. ... On
the last day I finally saw Suge. He came down the aisle and said,
"Hello, how are you? I'm gonna see you in a few minutes, but first I've
got to have a staff meeting. As a matter of fact, come on in to the
staff meeting." So when the meeting was called to order, the first words
out of his mouth were "Everybody, I'd like you to meet George Pryce --
he's the new publicist, the head of communications and media relations
for Death Row Records." No contract, no conversation about salary,
nothing. But I knew it was gonna be OK and that's just the way Suge is.<br />
<br />
<b>GREGORY ATRON</b> (talent manager): Death Row didn't put out a whole lotta records -- they just sold a lot of the ones that they put out.<br />
<br />
<b>ALLEN GORDON</b>: And Death Row's street teams were the best. There wasn't a major urban community where they didn't know <i>Doggystyle</i> or [have] <i>Dogg Food</i> stickers posted up or even <i>Chronic</i> stickers when this was goin' on. I remember being in Omaha, Neb., and seeing a <i>Chronic</i> sticker on the lamppost. 'Cause I didn't think anybody in Nebraska listened to hip-hop.<br />
<br />
<b>JEFFREY JOLSON-COLBURN</b>: Radio couldn't play gangsta rap; the
four-letter words kept it off conventional radio and conventional TV.
Plus, there was Death Row's name, a gruesome little logo of somebody
sitting on death row with a hood over his head. That helped. <br />
<br />
<b>Eventually, Dr. Dre</b> began having trouble focusing in the raucous Death Row environment. <br />
<br />
<b>UNKNOWN DJ</b>: Suge Knight felt the need to have a court around him, and I don't think Dre felt comfortable with that.<br />
<br />
<b>FRANK ALEXANDER</b> (Tupac bodyguard): Tupac and Dr. Dre was fine,
in the beginning. You didn't see any problems. [But] from the time I
worked there in '95 up to '96, Dr. Dre had only been in the studio
twice. 'Pac took offense to that.<br />
<br />
<b>TUPAC SHAKUR***</b>: He wasn't producing shit. All the niggas were
producing the beats on my album. All the niggas were doing the beats
and Dre was getting the credit.<br />
<br />
<b>SUGE KNIGHT</b>: Dre wasn't doing the tracks, and Dre didn't write the lyrics.<br />
<br />
<b>KEVIN POWEL</b>L: Tupac started becoming the mouthpiece for Suge and started dissing Dre.<br />
<br />
<b>TUPAC SHAKUR</b>: [Dre] is a dope producer, but he ain't worked in
years. I'm out here in the streets, whooping niggas' asses, starting
wars and shit, and this nigga's taking three years to do one song.<br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: It was not a work atmosphere anymore. Success had
kicked in. We were stars, and motherfuckers just loved being around us.
And bringing bullshit around us. Dre wasn't for that.<br />
<br />
<b>DR. DRE</b>: I just didn't like some of the things that were going on. There was nothing being done to stop it. <br />
<br />
<b>SNOOP DOGG</b>: Dre likes to work in an environment where you can
create. [Where] everybody's on the creative atmosphere and not about
what's goin' on in the 'hood, how many niggas you shot and how much shit
you did. He didn't want that.<br />
<br />
<b>JEWELL</b>: Suge took over the company. I don't think Dre wanted to be a yes-man for somebody. He wanted his own situation.<br />
<br />
<b>JEFFREY JOLSON-COLBURN</b>: Dre says, "I want out of this world. I want to form Aftermath, where I'm not part of Death Row. I want to live."<br />
<br />
<b>NATE DOGG</b>: When Dre left Death Row Records, that was the
biggest shock. Because I was real confused how you start a label and
then leave the label. I figured if you had a problem with
someone ... you'd make them leave, and you'd go on with what you're
doing. I guess he learned it wasn't his label.<br />
<br />
<b>SUGE KNIGHT</b>: Dre's departure wasn't a loss. If you've got a
multimillion dollar company -- maybe worth a billion dollars -- and you
own 100 percent and don't have a partner, then you don't have to give
him nothing but his walking papers. That's great.<br />
<br />
<b>ALLEN GORDON</b>: To give up 50 percent of your label and move
from a dangerous situation, which Death Row was becoming, was a smart
move for him.<br />
<br />
<b>Though few imprints have</b> been as successful, Death Row's
hit-making run was short. After the departure of Dre, Tupac Shakur
became its marquee artist, but his 1996 murder plunged the label into
chaos. <br />
Knight was sent to prison for a parole violation and was suspected of orchestrating the hit on Tupac's rival Notorious B.I.G.<br />
<br />
Snoop Dogg departed for Master P's No Limit label, while Dr. Dre's <i>Aftermath</i> has become one of hip-hop's most successful imprints, introducing artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar. <br />
The 6 million copies sold of Dre's 1999 album <i>2001</i> eclipsed even the triple-platinum <i>The Chronic</i>. It is the latter album, however, whose influence is still felt most strongly today.
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<i>*Dr. Dre quotes taken from a 1999 </i>Behind the Music<i> episode</i><br />
<i>**Suge Knight quotes taken from a 1996 BET interview</i><br />
<i>***Tupac Shakur quotes taken from a 1996 U.K. radio interview</i><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-28731226173238667052012-11-15T20:59:00.001+00:002012-11-15T20:59:41.664+00:00"Compton" was the 1st song Kendrick Lamar recorded with Dre<span id="intelliTXT">Kendrick Lamar recalls that the first song he made with Dr. Dre was "good kid, m.A.A.d city" track "Compton."</span><br />
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<span id="intelliTXT"> </span>Kendrick Lamar recently offered some details on his first meeting with Dr. Dre
and explained that the first song he recorded with The Good Doctor was
‘Compton.’ The track appears as the last song on Lamar’s recently
release album ‘good kid, m.A.A.d. city.’<br />
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Lamar
explained that he was well aware of the stakes when he was first
introduced to the iconic rapper. “I was very excited [when I first met
Dr. Dre], I wasn’t nervous at all. I was more excited because I knew
that this was my shot,” Lamar told i-D Magazine.<br />
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For Kendrick,
‘Compton’ isn’t just the first thing he worked on with Dre, but also
represents the work he put in before making it. “Everything that I
worked for, everything that I built up to came down to that moment…that
moment, I recorded my first song with Dre, which was ‘Compton,’ which is
the last song on my album,” said Lamar.<br />
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The track not only features Dr. Dre but also includes production from Just Blaze.<br />
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<a href="http://theversed.com/2012/11/15/kendrick-lamar-details-making-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city-track-compton-featuring-dr-dre/" target="_blank">http://theversed.com/2012/11/15/kendrick-lamar-details-making-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city-track-compton-featuring-dr-dre/ </a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-7576131903977253452012-10-24T23:32:00.001+01:002012-10-24T23:32:43.223+01:00Lil Wayne has 'Like 90' unreleased songs with Dre<h2 class="sub-title article">
'You just never know which one he gonna put out,' Weezy tells MTV News of his unheard collaborations with Dr. Dre.</h2>
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Lil Wayne and Dr. Dre
already have a hot collaboration cooking with Weezy's special fire-red
Beats By Dre headphones, but when will we actually hear some music from
the two? Tunechi's not exactly sure, but he knows that he and Dre have
recorded close to 100 tracks through the years.<br />
"I've always
worked with Dre," Wayne told MTV News on Thursday on his tour bus in Las
Vegas. "I'm not sure if you guys know how Dre works, Dre always send
you a song, so I done probably did like 90 songs for Dre. You just never
know which one he gonna put out."<br />
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There's always the long-awaited <i>Detox,</i> but when the Good Doctor will drop his third official LP, only he knows. Weezy is readying the release of his 10th solo album <i>I Am Not a Human Being II</i>
for December, but don't expect the D-R-E to make a contribution to that
project either. When MTV News asked the YMCMB boss who contributed to
the LP, he rattled off a list of names that included Cool & Dre,
Streetrunner and Juicy J, but no Dre.<br />
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Another mega-producer, Kanye West, will play a large role in <i>Human Being II</i>,
according to Wayne. "Yeah he got some music on there," he said. "It's
crazy, actually I don't want to give too much up but he's got a big hand
in the album, you'll see."<br />
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As far as <i>The Chronic</i> producer,
Tune is ready to jump into the studio with him at the drop of a dime.
"I'll always be up to work with Dre, it's always cool with him," he
said. "As far as the headphones, I'm super-excited about that
collaboration, I couldn't be more excited."<br />
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source - <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1696179/lil-wayne-dr-dre-90-songs.jhtml" target="_blank">http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1696179/lil-wayne-dr-dre-90-songs.jhtml </a><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-86693498836770057112012-10-23T15:13:00.001+01:002012-10-23T15:13:44.657+01:00Kendrick Lamar: Dre delayed Detox for good kid, m.A.A.d city50 Cent has already explained his views on Dr. Dre’s
long delayed ‘Detox’ saying that the Good Doctor may have lost
interesting in the project, but now Kendrick Lamar has taken the blame
for the album’s push back. According to Lamar, Dre has simply been focused on his recently released ‘good kid, m.A.A.d city.’
Lamar
explained that Dre immediately took an interest in his music before
adding that the ‘Detox’ includes some incredible tracks. “‘Detox’ got
pushed to the back just because my album, Dre really found interest in
my music. Wanted me to go forward and push that immediately. That’s a
great thing. I’ve heard the records on ‘Detox,’ they’re insane, and the
opportunity to be on that is a privilege and an honor,” Lamar told
Puna.nl.<br />
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50 Cent previously revealed that he didn’t think Dre was devoted to
finishing off ‘Detox’ and suggested that the album could be released as
an EP. “I don’t know if [Dr. Dre]‘s even excited to do [‘Detox<i>’</i>]
now. He’s successful with Jimmy [Iovine] with Beats [Headphones], so
I’m not sure if he’s pressed [to release it]. I know that when I did
[see him] last when I was in Los Angeles, he was actually in the studio
working on something else,” said Fif.<br />
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Lamar,
however, added that with the release of his album he’ll have a chance
to relax and told the Puna what he’s planning for his visit to Holland,
“I’m going to get in some sight-seeing, didn’t get to sight-see that
much last time,” said Lamar.<br />
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source - http://theversed.com/2012/10/22/kendrick-lamar-says-dr-dres-detox-album-delay-is-due-to-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city/ Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9093812662543716207.post-47699387327058634462012-10-20T10:17:00.002+01:002012-10-20T10:19:05.122+01:00Kendrick Lamar, Dr Dre & Andre 3000 Hit The StudioKendrick Lamar previews his song "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" for Dr. Dre and Andre 3000.
Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre and Andre 3000 recently hit the studio to preview a few cuts off of K. Dot's upcoming debut good kid, m.A.A.d city, releasing October 22nd.
In the footage, Kendrick leans against a studio mixing board next to Three Stacks and the Doc, rocking out to the album's second track "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe." At the end of the song, the Outkast member turns to Lamar and says, "Excellent."
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