It doesn't take an old OG to know the importance of what Dr. Dre stands for. Yesterday, today and always, Dr. Dre is in fashion. The founder of Beats, the discoverer of Eminem, the creator of the gangsta rap sound (NWA) and the now new Kanye West's partner for the sequel to Jesus is King, it's anniversary: his most mythical album, 2001, turns 20. It seems like the numerical combination of his luck: next year, 2020, Dr. Dre will receive an honorary Grammy for his lifetime. As he himself anticipated: Still Dre.
Taking advantage of the anniversary of this kind of meeting of All Stars of hip hop that was The Chronicle 2001 (or 2001 dry), Apple Music last week released a video that now remains mysteriously missing. In the recording, which seemed to belong to a much longer documentary, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine (the strange and eternal couple) longingly recalled the gestation of one of the records that contributed to the invasion of rap in the mainstream. of the music industry. Smoke weed everyday. Since the original video has been removed from Apple's YouTube, in Postposmo We rescue its juiciest revelations.
In relation to the two great albums of his career (Chronic, from 1992, and its version of 2001), the legendary producer Dr. Dre confessed that originally he had no interest in participating in them. At least, as a rapper, of course:
“If I'm honest, I didn't want to appear on the albums at all. I just wanted to produce, find artists and produce them. And Doc, The DOC convinced me to grab the mic."
2001: Atmosphere Dre.
Although it seems that the voice of Dr. Dre is a constant in 2001, only appears in five songs. He himself has explained that he sought this effect "with the way of sequencing and structuring" the songs.
Despite producing the entire album, Dr. Dre did not write a single line. If Eminem collaborates on a Dr. Dre song, there is no need to ask about the authorship of Dre's verses. The bars of him in precisely Forgot About Dre (third single from 2001) are easily the best things Dre hasn't written in his entire career. It is the elegant way in which Eminem from time to time thanks him for the gesture of having "saved his life", as he has said on more than one occasion.
Nobody should be surprised. Dr. Dre is a great figure in the world of hip hop who is completely absent from the lists of great MC'S. As a producer he has dedicated his entire life to the search for sounds, mixes and artists, he hasn't written any of his songs. They are always others, as happened with Jay Z y Still DRE. those who take care of the pen.
What does Still Dre mean?
Still Dre was a message written with fire and addressed to all those who claimed that the producer was finished. The message came out round because, without intending to, he released what, if anything, has been his most popular song ever. About Still DRE, in this video we have been able to know that the legendary Californian anthem almost did not even exist. As it happened with the The Real Slim Shady de Marshall Mathers L.P. by Eminem (made at the very last minute), it was Jimmy Iovine's stubbornness that led to the creation of the album's single: “We needed a single”. Jay-Z did the rest.
Despite the fact that Iovine reveals that Jay Z wrote Still Dre in record time (just one day), the mini-documentary ends with a reflection that collides head-on with this speed writing. Of course, it takes a lot of Lil Pumps, Six Nines, and Guccis to hit Hovito's soles.:
“Right now, you get the feeling that in hip hop, quantity counts more than quality. 'Yesterday I made a song, I need to release it tomorrow'. What are you going to dedicate yourself to? Art or money?” asks Dre,
Jimmy Iovine picks up the ball in the air and, sitting next to the teacher, finishes off the alley-opp: "Give yourself time, whether it's two months, three months or a year, to do something that will last forever."
After two years of work, 2001 was released on November 16, 1999. Produced by Dr. Dre, Mel-Man, and Lord Finesse, it has sold more than ten million records worldwide.
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