HipHopDX has recently caught up with Royce Da 5’9″ and his father for an interview, where the two hilariously recall the time Dr. Dre called in their house, only to be mistaken for a licensed medical professional.
“I remember when I told him, ‘You’ve got a phone call,'” I asked him what was wrong with him. He’s like, ‘What do you mean?’ I said, ‘You’ve got a phone call from your doctor.’ He said, ‘The doctor?’ I said, ‘Yeah, somebody named Dr. Dre.’”
“By the time he got out the shower, I heard all the slipping and sliding and falling into the toilet and on the floor trying to get to the phone. I didn’t know who Dr. Dre was and once I’d found out who Dr. Dre was I was like, okay well my son is onto something. Somebody recognizes him for what he is because, at that point, I wasn’t quite sure.” said Greg.
Then Royce continues: “I caught his voice immediately. He was like ‘I like your s**t man, Marshall played me your s**t, man. I wanted to see if you wanted to come out here and rock with us. We working on some stuff.’ I was just writing stuff. As much as I could. I was just excited to be in the environment. I thought he was a genius, that everything he did was classic. I walked in a Stan.”
The Bay Area icons, E40 and Too $hort has recently spoke about the supergroup they are forming with Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube and revealed that Dr. Dre will be making an appearance on the new album:
“Dre is on there, man. He’s on there. Snoop got him on there. Dre is on there. That’s Snoop’s guy. That’s Ice Cube’s guy. They shot a big movie together. He’s on there. Ain’t no doubt about it. You don’t even got to ask him.” said Too $hort
“Definitely on there. Shout out to Dr. Dre. He already did his part. It’s already certified. He’s on the project.” – added E-40.
“We told Ice Cube on one song, ‘Bro, you just went too hard, too hard,’ and he waited about a couple hours and then he hit back and said, ‘I’m not changing sh*t. We was like, ‘F*ck it.’ Me and $hort and Snoop, we just … even Snoop say, ‘You know me, dog. I’m the easiest. You know me. I’m the baby of the bunch. I’m out of it.’ We was like, ‘All right. That is Ice Cube. F*ck it. Let him do what he do.’ We ain’t trying to water down sh*t. He going hard, too. Everybody going hard. We going hard on that b*tch, just jam.” collectively told by $hort and E-40.
KXNG Crooked has recently sat down with Math Hoffa’s latest episode of ‘My Expert Opinion’ series where the Death Row legend remembered the times when he was asked to diss Eminem and Dr. Dre:
“We just talked about me being on Death Row Records and to slide over there and to be able to… Being myself. I always tell artists to do this. It’s a life jewel, really, but for artists, in particular, be yourself. I was on the radio, live with Ja Rule, Irv Gotti, and Ja played that joint “Loose Change” that he had dissing Eminem where he said uh some real crazy stuff about Em’s daughter and all that. He premiered it on the radio, and you know, it was lit, he was at it. And the host was like, ‘Yeah, so Crooked, you’re up next. You’re about to send some shots to Dre and Em, you got something for them?’ And I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not my beef. I just got over here, you know. I’m trying to make great music. I’m trying to bring that back to the W. That’s my focus, Yo, Dre is the greatest producer ever. Sounds like Em got bars and all that’. The gist of what I was saying was I don’t believe that Suge brought me to Death Row to be a wind-up doll, go after people, and to be a paper soldier. I believe that it was something deeper than that, and I don’t have any problem with these guys. I don’t even know what this whole shit is about, I just got here. What I’m gonna do, just jump in?”
“And little did I know… I was at record store Fat Beats. I was about to do this mixtape called Young Boss vol. 1, and half of the beats was going to be Chronic 2001 beats, and the other half was going to be DJ Premier beats. So I went to Fat Beats, got The Chronic 2001 instrumental vinyl, and my phone rang. That was Dre. I was off Death Row at the time, and he was like, ‘Yo, I heard you that night when you was on the radio. Me and Em was listening’, or some to that effect. And he was like, ‘Yo, you never took a shot. Every time they try to get you to shoot at me, you never did’. And he said, ‘I respect the f**k out of that. So, you know, you want to get down, holla at me’.”
“I truly believe that that night is one of the reasons why I was able to have a Death Row past and still be able to go over there to Shady and have a future, and it’s all good. It would have been easy for me to say, ‘Hell yeah, f**k them ni**as, let’s go’. That was easy. But I was like, ‘Nah, I’m not gonna do that’. And that’s just what was on my heart.”
Rick Ross has recently visited DJ Khaled for an exclusive interview where the Clarksdale, Mississippi born rapper revealed Dr. Dre is working on his solo project and they have done couple of songs together.
“To be honest, me and Dr. Dre, we both working. And record are being done. He’s working on his project, which is incredible. I had him critique my new project. I’ve never heard a ni**a so meticulous with those ad-libs and that’s what you gotta love about Dre.”
Also, DJ Slik has recently played new Dr. Dre and Knxg Crooked song on his Instagram. In the song, Dr. Dre raps about divorce and aneurysm and reportedly it also features Eminem. You can watch the interview and listen to the snippet of the new song below:
Exactly 22 years ago today, January 26, 1999, Eminem released “My Name Is” single, produced by Dr. Dre, off The Slim Shady LP.
The song earned Eminem his first ever Grammy award and made him international artists as it reached Top 10 charts in numerous countries, including United Kingdom, New Zealand and Norway. Since then, “My Name Is” went double platinum in the United States and platinum in UK.
The music video of the song also earned Eminem MTV Video Music Awards and booked his spot in several magazines’ greatest songs lists, including Q Magazine, VH1 and Rolling Stone.
“My Name Is” samples the 1975 song “I Got The…” by British musician – openly gay man – Labi Siffre. He was reluctant to have his song be sampled in a song as homophobic as “My Name Is.” He let Dr. Dre and Eminem sample the song on the condition that they get rid of lines about raping lesbians and Eminem’s gay junior high teacher. When Labi Siffre’s album “Remember My Song” was re-released Labi Siffre wrote notes about Eminem:
“Attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to be radical, if you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims.”
In the song “The Way I Am” Eminem raps: “Let’s stop with the fables I’m not gonna be able to top a “My Name Is”” but he eventually made “The Real Slim Shady” and somehow topped “My Name Is.”
“New Day,” by 50 Cent, featuring Alicia Keys and Dr. Dre was originally supposed to be on Dr. Dre’s scrapped album DETOX but it ended up as the single off 50 Cent’s vaulted album, titled Street King Immortal. The song was released in 2012, was produced by Dr. Dre and Swizz Beatz and Eminem mixed the verses. Dre’s verse was also written by Royce Da 5’9″.
In an interview with Complex magazine, 50 Cent said: “Dr. Dre originally produced “New Day” for Detox and sent it with a chorus that was written by Ester Dean. It had the chorus that she wrote and he sent it to Alicia Keys, and Alicia re-wrote it and sent it back with the “New Day” vocals. And because she sat on the production for so long, they revisited it. Swizz Beatz re-produced the record, did everything over originally and they ended up putting the song out. So you heard “New Day” released as a full Alicia Keys song before you heard the version of it that was a 50 Cent record featuring Dr. Dre.”
In the song, 50 Cent gives shout out to Eminem and Dre: “I got to win, Em watch and Dre watch and my son watching, F**k that, losing ain’t an option.” Fiddy explained those lines in Genius video annotation which you can check out here.
Back in 2016, Dr. Dre brought the West Coast to the world with support from co-host Xzibit, Eddie Francis, DJ Pooh, Wyann Vaughn, and music from legendary DJs Battlecat and J.Rocc on Apple Music’s Beats 1, via the show called “The Pharmacy”
Since then, lots of freestyles and unreleased songs were premiered through The Pharmacy show. We have compiled some of the best freestyles, featuring Eminem on Intro, Snoop Dogg, Royce 5’9″, Tech N9ne, Xzibit, Jon Connor, Styles P, Kxng Crooked, LL Cool J, Anderson. Paak, Busta Rhymes, Pharoache Monch, Wiz Khalifa and many more!
Until we collect all the unreleased songs, you can enjoy the freestyles below!
Legendary rapper and producer Dr. Dre was back at home Saturday after being treated at a Los Angeles hospital for a reported brain aneurysm. He reportedly was released Friday from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Dre hit the studio with Interscope producers right after a day he left hospital. Dem Jointz, who was heavily involved in Dre’s Compton album, hit Instagram with new picture and caption: “And we back! Detox 2021!”
ZumoKollie, who is also one of the producers and music engineer at Interscope, shared the same picture with caption: “Boss Back! Calling The Shots! It is going to be a long year for you all, man!”
“My big bro is super good. We working!” said 5 times Grammy winner producer Focus3Dots.
You can check out the full thing in the video below:
Back in April, 2020, DJ Whoo Kid went live on Instagram with Akon and played one of Dr. Dre’s remixed songs from vaulted Detox album.
The track is titled “Back Again” and features Akon. The original version of the song was recorded and unofficially released in 2005 and it features rapper Kai. This would have marked second collaboration between Dre and Akon since dropping “Kush,” back in 2010, which also features Snoop Dogg.
“That song was when we were all waiting for that Detox album” says Akon at the end of the video.
The beat of the song is definitely produced by Dr. Dre himself. You can bump it below!
Legendary music producer and rapper Dr. Dre said he is doing well after being hospitalized following brain aneurysm. Dre addressed his family, friends and fans on Instagram:
“Thanks to my family, friends and fans for their interest and well wishes. I’m doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team. I will be out of the hospital and back home soon,” he wrote. “Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!” – says Dre.
Many celebrities showed love to Dre. Check out some of them below!
Beloved @drdre…Love you man…Like my own son!!! After going through 2 aneurysms myself, I’m believing & trusting that you will come out stronger than ever before! Here for you—whatever you need. ❤️
Reportedly music mogul Dr. Dre suffered an brain aneurysm yesterday and is currently receiving treatment at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. As you might know, Dre is having hard times with the divorce.
Fortunately, Dre updated his fans and family and he will soon leave hospital soon: “Thanks to my family, friends and fans for their interest and well wishes. I am doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team. I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!”
The legendary rapper and producer, was reportedly rushed by ambulance to the medical center’s intensive care unit on Monday. The prolific producer is currently in “stable and lucid condition,” said by TMZ.
In a recent interview on Shade 45, Eminem revealed that “Guns Blazing” song, which also features Sly Pyper, was originally intended for Dr. Dre’s project but Eminem liked it so much that he offered his mentor other song to put “Guns Blazing” on the Side B of Music To Be Murdered By (Deluxe Edition).
“That was actually a record that I stole from Dre cause he was sending me music and he kept sending me s**t and every time he sends I’m like ‘yo this one’s crazier than the last one’ and I don’t even know which one is the craziest one. He send me “Guns Blazing” with his verse and hook and I was like ‘yo, I gotta jump on this s**t.’ We actually traded couple of times cause I did couple of other songs and I’m like ‘yo you can that one that I just sent you if I can have that one’ and we kinda swapped a little bit. That’s a very personal song.”
