2001, released 20 years ago on November 16, had to be more than an album. the Aftermath, which announced his intention to step away from gangsta rap-and the rocky start of his new label that he felt compelled to bend the truth. It wasn’t, actually, but the stakes were so high for Dre to rebound from his real second album-1996’s soulless Dr. “Haters say Dre fell off / How? Nigga, my last album was The Chronic,” he scoffs on the same song.
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It’s not a lie, but it’s certainly not the truth Dre’s version of the period of time between leaving Death Row Records in 19’s triumph in 1999 excludes a series of excruciating personal and professional setbacks that tell a more complex story of who Andre Young really is. “Since the last time you heard from me I lost some friends / Well, hell, me and Snoop, we dippin’ again / Kept my ear to the streets, signed Eminem,” he raps. It’s cinematic and immersive, which is exactly what Dre intended: Coming off of three years in the wilderness, Dre needed more than a new sound. Twenty years later, even though the myth of 2001 has worn off, the song is still transportive. Dre’s 2001, is an antihero’s theme, the music Denzel Washington’s bad cop Alonzo Harris flips on before his panoramic tour of L.A.’s underbelly in Training Day. “Still D.R.E.,” the first single from Dr. You know the ones: that murderous mob-movie piano, clinking as it’s methodically built out by a lone cello and mournful violins, then by electric bass and drums so crisp they sound pulled from the soul of the Korg Triton machine they were produced on. Paak and more - will be saluted at the Producers & Engineers Wing on January 22, 2020, ahead of the actual Grammys on January 26.I still can’t shake the goosebumps I get when I hear those keys. The 54-year-old music legend - who has worked on records for the likes of Tupac, Eminem, Snoop, 50 Cent, The Game, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson. Meanwhile, the 'What's The Difference' rapper is set to be honoured by the Grammys for his influential production work. I just wanted to get out of my neighbourhood, man. "Everybody's in it to meet somebody that you connect with, right? You don't have to put it as bluntly as. "So I say, 'You know, I saw you guys on 'The Ed Sullivan Show', I saw the Stones, I bought a guitar, I started a band, and this is the best I can do.'ĭre agreed: "It's definitely a part of it." ' I'm thinking, 'I gotta answer right, it's John Lennon, right? " So John looks at me and he goes, 'James' - he used to call me James - 'why did you get into this?' "When you're in there six weeks in a row, every day, with somebody, you start to forget things to talk about. He recalled: "I was in the studio with John Lennon and we were doing 'Walls and Bridges'. Iovine was asked by the late Beatles legend John Lennon, whilst working on his solo LP 'Walls and Bridges' in 1974, what drew him to his role as an engineer-and-producer at Record Plant recording studios in Los Angeles, when he made the confession. Whilst promoting the docu-series, the pair both admitted they "partly" got into music to bed women. Last year, Dre and Iovine teamed up on the four-part Netflix series 'The Defiant Ones', which tells the story of their working relationship and the former's journey from early beginnings as a record producer and member of hip-hop group NWA, through to separately founding Interscope and Death Row Records before co-founding the Beats Electronics headphone company, which they sold to Apple for $3 billion in a cash and stock deal, the largest acquisition in Apple's history. talked me into getting on the mic and doing this thing." "I just wanted to produce, find artists and produce them. Speaking during a Q&A with his longtime associate Jimmy Iovine to mark the 20th anniversary of '2001' for Apple Music, Dre admitted: "I didn't wanna appear on the albums at all, to be honest. Despite their success, the hip-hop rapper-and-producer has insisted he only intended to produce the record, which featured the likes of Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Eminem, and Nate Dogg, and his first solo studio effort.