Tag: Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre tells Busta Rhymes he made 247 songs during pandemic

Legendary rapper and producer Dr. Dre has spent the last 2 years working on at least a dozen albums’ worth of material.

In the clip, shared on social media couple of days ago, Dre can be seen sitting behind a mixing desk in a studio, while Busta Rhymes looks at him inquisitively.

After being asked a question about his output, the Compton  : “Ni**a, I got… Yeah, 247 songs during the pandemic, and then we paused and did a whole album with Marsha Ambrosius. That’s f**king nutso – and then we came back, and … I did the Grand Theft Auto s**t, and now we’re working on my ni**a Snoop Dogg. And you know, we are two days in right now and we’ve got, what, like six bangers?”

The “Grand Theft Auto shit” that Dre mentioned refers to the six songs he made for the Grand Theft Auto Online expansion The Contract, which was released last December and featured Dre as a character. Songs also featured guest appearances from Eminem, Anderson .Paak, Rick Ross, Nipsey Hussle, Snoop Dogg and Ty Dolla $ign.

Next month Dre also performed alongside Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak for this year’s Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show.

You can check the video of Dre speaking to Busta below:

50 Cent & Dr. Dre’s song from “Detox” album surfaces online

50 Cent’s “Psycho” song from Dr. Dre’s mythical “Detox” album has been fully surfaced online, featuring Ester Dean.

50 Cent has previously claimed that the single was Dr. Dre’s next single for “Detox” album and was threatening to leak it because he felt like the label was not doing enough for him. Dr. Dre and 50 eventually made up, and this single ended up being scrapped.

Dr. Dre ended up re-using the song’s beat for a Chrysler commercial back in 2011.

Now the song is fully available on YouTube, but there is no Dr. Dre verse in it. There were also reports back in 2014 that the song would be included in another mythical album, “Street King Immortal,” by 50 Cent.

You can listen to the song below:

Eminem drops “The King And I” featuring CeeLo Green off “Elvis” movie

“Elvis” is an upcoming biographical musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann, from a screenplay written by Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, and Jeremy Doner, with a story by Luhrmann and Doner.

The film chronicles the life and career of singer and actor Elvis Presley, from his early days as a child to becoming a pop star and movie star, as well as his complex relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker.

At the press conference of the movie, compared Elvis’ embrace of Black music to Eminem “Parker sees this kid who’s grown up in one of the white designated houses in the black community, and is really genuinely like Eminem. Eminem, of course, grew to prominence in the mid-to-late 1990s rapping on tracks alongside the likes of Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, going on to become one of the biggest rappers alive, echoing Elvis’ movements in rock ‘n’ roll.” said Luhrmann.

It’s not a surprise the main theme song for the movie features Eminem’s titled “The King And I,” featuring CeeLo Green and produced by Dr. Dre and Luis Resto.

Couple of weeks ago, in a new interview with KTLA, Green revealed that Eminem gave him one night to write the hook of the song: ““Me and Eminem have been friends for years, I have longed for an opportunity to work with him. He said ‘hey man can you do this for me? I need it really quickly, I need it tonight.’ So when Eminem says he needs something tonight, you deliver.”

The single is finally out on all platforms, you can bump it below!

The D.O.C. thanks Eminem, Dr. Dre & others for working on new documentary

A new documentary titled The DOC, which the legendary rapper The D.O.C. produced himself and first-time film director Dave Caplan helmed, is telling Tracy Lynn Curry’s full story, from his humble beginnings in Dallas to his recent religious reawakening.

The film’s talking heads are a who’s who of hip-hop, including interviews with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Tone Loc, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Too $hort, Xzibit, and on and on, as well as members of Curry’s family and his ex Erykah Badu.

The movie premiered few days ago in New York as part of the Tribeca Film Festival and it will be available for streaming soon.

The D.O.C. took a time to share a picture with Eminem and Dr. Dre on his Instagram to show the appreciation to every person who were involved in the project: “All of these amazing people did a fantastic job on what they’re calling the Hidden Gem at Tribeca!! Thank you all!”

You can check the post below:

50 Cent raps Eminem’s “Forget About Dre” hook before performing “Ayo Technology” in London

50 Cent has started the United Kingdom tour this week and the crowd’s admission has been impressive so far!

Fifty was performing at the OVO Arena in Wembley last Friday, 10 June, 2022 when he made the crowd slightly emotional after he said he was not sure if the United Kingdom would remember him.

Fiddy told to the thousands in the crowd: “You all did not forget. I thought you forgot about me.” He then made a reference to Dr. Dre who produced 50 Cent’s major-label debut album, an all-time classic, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, back in 2003.

“You know like they Forgot About Dre,” 50 added before spitting some Eminem bars from the song: “Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish and motherf***ers act like they forgot about Dre.”

“Forgot About Dre” is a song from 1999 by Dr. Dre and Eminem and the theme, as you might have guessed, was a message to the ‘haters’ who thought the producer had ‘fallen off’.

After spitting few lines of Eminem’s hook, 50 kicked off one of his hit songs “Ayo Technology,” which features Justin Timberlake.

You can watch the performance below:

The Game admits it hurt him when Dr. Dre invited Eminem & 50 Cent to Super Bowl but not him

The Game joins Brandon Marshall, Pacman Jones and Nick ” Swaggy P” Young in Episode 36 of I Am Athlete podcast.

The LA rapper explains his thoughts surrounding not being selected to perform in the Super Bowl LVI Halftime show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar featuring 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak.

“The reason I was not on Super Bowl is that I’m not ‘safe artist’. You don’t know what Game gonna do when you get up there. The Super Bowl was in LA. It’s Dr. Dre’s Super Bowl but it is Jay-Z! Jay-Z understands the dynamic of west coast hip-hop very well and I don’t think Jay-Z would have a problem if Dre would have said ‘we bring The Game to Super Bowl.'”

“Outside of myself, I think YG should have been on Super Bowl. If it was New York Super Bowl, you might have saw Jay-Z, you might have saw NAS, Mary J. Blige and Fivio Foreign and Alicia Keys. You might have saw anybody cause we on the west coast are only motherf**kers that have this crab in the barrel mentality where we wanna keep down or don’t do things based on what somebody else might think it looks like.”

“Snoop Dogg was there because Snoop Dogg is safe, and he’s a legend. My grandmother knows about Snoop and so do my children. Snoop is an icon. Dre is an icon. Eminem is an icon but Em is not from LA. 50 Cent is not from LA. I’m not taking away from the fact that they were on Super Bowl but LA would not be on Detroit Super Bowl, or New York Super Bowl. It’s was LA Super Bowl and I didn’t get the call. I was hurt by that.”

“I feel like Dre should have called and said why. I would understand that. Because I talk to Dre. I talk to Dre often. I just know that if I was Dre and he was Game, he would have been up there. That’s it. It’s LA and I’m LA. I AM LA. I am in the streets. So it hurt. Am I bothered by it? Ain’t nobody bothered by it today. I feel that it was amazing Super Bowl and it was a win for our culture as a whole.” – said Game.

You can watch the interview below:

New Eminem & CeeLo Green song is produced by Dr. Dre

Couple of hours ago, Eminem previewed a new song titled “The King And I,” featuring CeeLo Green, which is from the soundtracks album of new “Elvis” movie.

“Elvis” film will have its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 25, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in Australia on June 22, 2022, by Roadshow Films, and in the United States on June 24, by Warner.

Aftermath producer and a close friend of Dr. Dre, Fredwreck, has just revealed that the song “The King And I” is produced by none other than Dre himself. “Em n Elvis, produced by Dre” wrote “Framed” producer on his Instagram story.

The soundtracks album also features songs from Doja Cat, Denzel Curry, Jazmine Sullivan, Nardo Wick, Swae Lee, among others. Check the official poster with the names below:

Dr. Dre reveals his new favorite rapper by sharing his L.A. Leakers freestyle

Dr. Dre rarely posts on social media but when he does, it’s a special moment!

It’s the most special moment for west-coast rapper who goes by the name of Symba whose freestyle suddenly appeared on Dr. Dre’s Instagram page with the caption: “One of my new favorites.”

Symba responded back with the screenshot of Dr. Dre’s post, saying: “I’ve been learning from “The Goat” lately… Dr. Dre “One Of My New Favorites” WOW! “RESULTS TAKE TIME” coming soon. Love you Doc.”

Royce 5’9″ also showed support by commenting “electric plug” emoji and Aftermath producer Dem Jointz replied with fire emojis.

At 13 years old, Symba was known for being a talented local basketball player in the Bay Area, his hometown. However, he picked up another skill around the same time.

In 2017, he signed a deal with Columbia Records, but when things didn’t work out there because of a staff overhaul, he went independent in 2018. A year later, he landed another deal with a new label, signing with Atlantic Records in 2019. Capping off that year, he delivered the strong project Don’t Run From R.A.P.

Now the young rapper is dropping a new project, titled “RESULTS TAKE TIME.”

New book reveals how Tyrese Gibson made Dr. Dre lose $200 million in Apple & Beats deal

Back in 2014, Beats Electronics – the joint venture with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine – was purchased by Apple but when news of the partnership leaked, it cost 200 million dollars and Tyrese Gibson is reportedly to blame.

In an excerpt obtained by iMore from the NY Times reporter Tripp Mickle’s new book, titled “After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,” the legendary producer and Tyrese Gibson’s infamous video where Dre declares to be “the first billionaire in Hip-Hop” caused Apple to cut $200 million from the initial $3.2 billion agreement.

In the excerpt we read: “It was a sum that Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre could barely fathom. As the lawyers worked through final details, Iovine summoned the leadership team of Beats to his home near Beverly Hills. He told everyone that they were on the cusp of finalizing a massive deal. The only thing that could spoil it would be for word of the deal to leak.”

“Iovine warned his team, “Whatever you do, don’t talk about this,” and even told Dre, “Remember that scene in Goodfellas where Jimmy tells the guys, ‘Don’t buy any furs. Don’t buy any cars. Don’t get showy’? Don’t move.”

However, the next morning, Diddy apparently called Jimmy Iovine informing him that Tyrese publicly shared a video of Dre celebrating the deal and his newly-minted status.

“At 2:00 a.m., Iovine got a call from Puff Daddy, who was screaming that Dre and Tyrese, a rapper, were talking about the deal in a Facebook video. Iovine pulled up the video and cringed as he saw Tyrese bragging about being drunk on Heineken in a recording studio. When word of the video reached to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, he summoned Iovine and Dre to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. He invited them into a conference room for a private conversation. Iovine was anxious and afraid that Cook was going to kill the deal. He told the music executives that he was disappointed and wished that Dre’s social media outburst hadn’t happened but said that the video hadn’t shaken his conviction that buying Beats was right for Apple.”

You can watch the infamous video below:

Super Bowl LVI ball signed by Eminem & Kendrick Lamar hits auction for a shock price

Here’s one of the coolest pieces of Super Bowl LVI memorabilia you can own, a ball signed by Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and Anderson .Paak following their historic show at the event in Los Angeles.

According to experts, it could be a bargain for a potential buyer as it is expected to fetch just around $1,500! (Current bid is $5,250). The leather also features the Super Bowl LVI logo and other Wilson markings and comes with letters of authenticity.

According to TMZ, bidding is set to close on the auction in the mid of May, 2022.

For the auction page, visit Heritage Auctions here.

Kanye West thinks The Game shouldn’t have made Dr. Dre comment on “Drink Champs”

According to Drink Champs host N.O.R.E., Kanye West thinks The Game should not have made comments about how he did more for the Compton rapper in two weeks than Dr. Dre in his entire career.

Last month, The Game was featured on N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN’s “Drink Champs” podcast. In more than four-hour long episode, the West-Coast rapper claimed: “Ye did more for me in the last two weeks, than Dre did for me my whole career.”

The latest episode of “Drink Champs” featured Snoop Dogg, N.O.R.E. asked Snoop his opinion about comments made by The Game but before taking Snoop’s answer, the show’s co-host revealed that he showed Ye the specific clip and he responded by saying: “I do not think Game should have said that.”

Snoop himself replied: “That is his personal experience. Kanye could have shown him something, Dre not really good at showing you nothing. He is basically good at bringing your talents to light, to where it is about you not what he do for you. I could not answer that, but Game is my little homie so I respect everything he say and do.”

You can watch the episode below:

Snoop Dogg reveals Dr. Dre originally didn’t want to do Super Bowl show: “Next call is Hi, My Name Is.”

Back in February Dr. Dre performed at the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI halftime show where the legendary producer brought out Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent, and Anderson .Paak.

After the performance, Dr. Dre faced some criticism from disappointed fans that certain songs and rappers were not included in the show.

Yesterday, Snoop Dogg appeared on Drink Champs with NORE and DJ EFN where he briefly talked about the Super Bowl halftime show.

“What people do not understand is, he did not do nothing from the Ruthless catalog, the Death Row catalog, nothing from Snoop Dogg’s catalog… He only had 12 minutes. What could you do in twelve f**king minutes where you could satisfy everybody? … You gonna miss a beat, where was Ice Cube? That is the ace in the hole.” said Snoop.

Later in the interview, Snoop revealed that Dr. Dre did not originally wanted to perform at the Super Bowl: “Dre called to say, ‘They want me to do the Super Bowl, I do not know if I wanna do it. One thing you gotta know about Dr. Dre, is he is a guy that’s in the moment. So if he do not feel like he is got a record that is relevant at the moment, then he do not think he is the moment.”

“Convincing him was more or less about ‘ni**a I’m with you.’ When the Dogg stands with you your confidence level goes up to roof. And once you get the Dogg next call is ‘Hi, My Name Is.’ I ain’t suggest no motherf**king thing. Only thing I suggested I was like ‘can we do G Tang’ cause I felt like that song was pinnacle moment of who we are.” Snoop added.

You can listen to the interview below:

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