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Been hip bro. G funk prob sitting on a gold mine of nates hooks
**Official Dr. Dre Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre Thread **Album Out Now**
Been hip bro. G funk prob sitting on a gold mine of nates hooks
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Had previewed that Warren G EP on amazon then listened to the full thing yesterday. Real cool stuff, especially "Keep On Hustlin". Man I miss Nate Dogg's voice
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Yep and with his production he can probably put out a full album and itll be
.That song goes hard. Nate was one of a kind voice.
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Loved party we can throw now with game...classic west ish
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I don't know what some of yall talking about, this album is straight flames! It is by no means Chronic or 2001, but it is VERY good nonetheless. I was zooted listening to it, I had to run it back twice because I was like "Is this it?" every time. Besides some weird spots (the shooting and the drowning parts), I thoroughly enjoyed it and place it second behind TPAB for the year. If Game delivers with Doc 3 like I'm expecting, the West Coast will have a three peat on their hands.
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People are never satisfied
If Dre made a 1992 album some people would complain.
Dre makes a 2015 album, and some people complain
And ya'll wonder why you haven't seen Detox.
Expectations for him are crazy.
Album was very good to me and gets better on each listen. The only song I didn't like was the Em one.
If Dre made a 1992 album some people would complain.
Dre makes a 2015 album, and some people complain
And ya'll wonder why you haven't seen Detox.
Expectations for him are crazy.Album was very good to me and gets better on each listen. The only song I didn't like was the Em one.
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Same here. Everyone's hyping his verse up tho [emoji]128530[/emoji]
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any one check out the Warren G album?
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Warren shoulda oooped Dre that Keep On Hustlin record with Nate and have Dre re do the beat and have it sounding top notch and have The DOC right a verse and Snoop get a verse would be :x
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That whole EP sounds straight out of 2001 (in a good way). Real refreshing since most west coast music I've listened to for a long time now is The Jacka and some of his affiliates.
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That would be epic. Warren and Daz should've helped Dre on his album with production.
I agree. Its the music that we grew up to with a new twist. If Dre want the city of Compton to get more money for facilities, he should release Detox. Forget about critics.
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Just in time for preseason football, school starting, and the unofficial end of SummerAugust 21st
Billboard Cover: Kendrick Lamar Interviews N.W.A About Coming 'Straight Outta Compton' and Changing the World
When Kendrick Lamar arrives this Friday evening at a cavernous photo studio in the flatlands of industrial Hollywood, he’s 30 minutes early. And the occasion has been nearly 25 years in the making: Lamar, 28, is here to interview the four living members of N.W.A for their first magazine cover together since Ice Cube went solo in 1991 and the group collapsed into a famously bitter feud. Eazy-E died in 1995, at 31. But today, Lamar meets with four men who defined his hometown of Compton, Calif., as a cradle of politically engaged, uncompromisingly hardcore hip-hop. With a modest demeanor that suggests nothing of his status as rap’s leading visionary and an entourage numbering just two associates and a publicist, he seems genuinely humbled to be here. When the group arrives, he is quick to pay his respects: first to Dr. Dre, then Ice Cube, then DJ Yella and MC Ren. They all share warm smiles and hugs.
“Ain’t nobody we’d rather have do this interview,” says Cube, 46.
“Have you seen the movie?” asks Dre, 50.
Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A: The Billboard Cover Shoot
“Not yet,” answers Lamar. “Didn’t want to go to a preview and see it in a privileged setting. Would rather wait for it to come to the neighborhood and see it with everyone else. That way it’ll mean the most to me.”
The movie is Straight Outta Compton, which on Aug. 14 emerges from 13 years in development purgatory. Universal ultimately green-lit the project with a budget of $29 million; a screenwriter, Jonathan Herman; and a director, F. Gary Gray, all orchestrated with close oversight by Cube and Dre. (Cube is played by his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., 24.) The result is a hard-hitting narrative replete with the conviction and turmoil that typified N.W.A in its heyday.
That heyday kicked off in 1988 -- the same year Lamar turned 1 -- with the release of the movie’s namesake album. No one had yet seen how Los Angeles could contribute to the simmering rap culture. And Compton, a gang stronghold just south of Watts, held no place in the American imagination.
N.W.A -- N—az With Attitude -- formed two years earlier, when rapper O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson and DJ-producer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young began working with Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, who had used his drug-dealing profits to launch a label. DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby) and MC Ren (Lorenzo Jerald Patterson) cemented the final lineup. Their debut release is certified double-platinum by the RIAA; “F— Tha Police” has sold nearly 350,000 downloads since Nielsen Music began digital tracking in 2003. N.W.A communicated the desperation of the black underclass and ignited controversy virtually unrivaled in the history of pop, drawing in the FBI and Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center.
“N.W.A did a lot more than entertain. They told the truth,” says Lamar. And as Dre explains, “If N.W.A had done it softer, it wouldn’t have gotten the attention. It wouldn’t have worked.” Cube tells Billboard that he believes police brutality remains “the same” today as it did in the late ’80s and early ’90s. (The Los Angeles riots are an important motif in the movie’s second half.) “They talk about bullying in society, but police are the worst bullies that we have to deal with,” he says. Asked about Sam DuBose, who was fatally shot July 19 by a University of Cincinnati officer now charged with murder, Cube says, “This kind of stuff seems like it don’t happen to white guys.”
Ice Cube Calls N.W.A. Biopic 'Straight Outta Compton' a 'Real Superhero' Movie
By the end of 1989, Cube had split from N.W.A over Eazy-E and manager Jerry Heller’s hoarding of the group’s earnings, setting off a conflict that climaxed with his famously obscene 1991 diss track “No Vaseline.” That year he also launched his acting career with Boyz N the Hood; today he’s a leading Hollywood star (22 Jump Street) and producer (Friday, Ride Along, in which he also starred). N.W.A fully dissolved when Dre left to start Death Row Records with Suge Knight, and sold, according to Nielsen Music, 5.7 million copies of his 1992 G-funk classic The Chronic. Now, of course, he’s one of music’s richest moguls, after selling Beats, the headphone and streaming company he co-founded, to Apple in 2014. (On Aug. 7, he released Compton -- an album inspired by the new movie, featuring guests including Cube, Lamar and many others.) Yella, 47, is making beats again after 12 years as a porn producer, and Ren, 46, has continued as a solo act (Cube joined him on a track in 2014). The five former members were on the verge of reconciliation when Eazy-E died of AIDS.
Ice Cube Remembers Eazy-E on 20th Anniversary of N.W.A Partner's Death
In 2011, Dre designated Lamar “the new king of the West Coast.” The rapper infuses the politics of N.W.A with an analysis of his own emotional conflicts as a black artist seeking to maintain sanity in 21st century America. It’s appropriate that the main figure pushing hip-hop forward today would be present to see the members of N.W.A reunited and talking, as Dre says, “like we just saw each other yesterday.” Tucked into the conference room with Dre, Cube, Ren and Yella, Lamar speaks so softly that the men must lean in to hear him. The conversation ranges from early days in the studio with Eazy-E, the eternal “********” of the music business and how N.W.A made South Park (and much more) possible.
I’m tripping right now. Man, I’m bugging. So bear with me ... When did you first know you were more than local stars?
Dr. Dre: When I saw Axl Rose wearing an N.W.A cap in one of his videos!
How did N.W.A change the history of music?
Ice Cube: We not only changed music, we changed pop culture all over the world. We did that by making it all right for artists to be themselves. You no longer had to be squeaky clean. We opened the floodgates for artists who wanted to work on this side, artists who wanted to be raw.
Dr. Dre: And not worry about being on the radio.
Ice Cube: Right. There were no other examples of artists not doing it the square way. We became examples for not only musicians, but for shows like South Park, even the reality shows where they’re bleeping out words. We started that on the radio -- bleeping out words -- but the rawness wasn’t in the world until N.W.A said it was OK for you to be yourself. There’s the world before N.W.A, and the world after.
How do you think your music changed the way the world viewed our culture and our community?
Ice Cube: Unless you come from Compton, it’s not a world you’re privy to. Our music let you visit Compton from a safe distance.
Dr. Dre: We gave the suburban kids an opportunity to get up close.
Ice Cube: Now you care. You heard what’s going on in the hood, and you’re interested. Now Compton means something to you. Now you pay attention. We were able to shed light on some of the ******** that was going down. We presented it in a way that you could digest, comprehend and sympathize with what we were going through.
Dr. Dre: If we had done it softer, it wouldn’t have gotten the attention. It wouldn’t have worked.
DJ Yella: The truth is that there wasn’t much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We came in so different, so real, that we were immediately heard.
Back then, what was your relationship with A&R guys?
Ice Cube: We didn’t have no A&R guys.
MC Ren: It was like, “How many times can we say ‘n—a’?”
Dr. Dre: We’d say, “We need more ‘f—s’ on this record.”
Did you have any doubts that you would be accepted?
MC Ren: I don’t think we really cared.
Dr. Dre: We had no idea we’d blow up this major. You see, every time we went into the studio we were only trying to make tracks that would rock our neighborhood. Our goal was to be local stars.
Ice Cube: We didn’t think the world cared about gang-banging and dope-dealing in L.A., Compton, South Central, Long Beach and Watts. The hub of hip-hop was the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem. We were on the fringes. And that was OK with us.
Dr. Dre: Imagine this: We made Straight Outta Compton in six weeks, and that’s without working weekends. Twenty-five years later, and here’s a big-*** Hollywood movie carrying the same name. It’s unbelievable.
What was the hardest part when you were young and first coming to grips with the game?
DJ Yella: Publishing! We didn’t know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn’t make a nickel.
Dr. Dre: We were just a bunch of creative guys who got together and did something amazing but were clueless about business.
Ice Cube: Business is the most f—ed-up part. It’s always awkward. It’s fun to make records, fun to be in the studio with your homies, fun to get up onstage. But the business part sucks. It’s always some **** you ready to get rid of so you can go back to being creative.
Dr. Dre: It’s all about getting back in that studio.
The studio is like a drug. It’s hard for some people around me to understand that the music is all I think about. It’s like I’m possessed.
Dr. Dre: You can’t explain that feeling. It’s an obsession. But it’s what makes you real.
As one of your offspring, anything I do comes from what y’all have done before me. I’m curious to know how you feel about my generation of artists.
MC Ren: I like a few. I like you.
Dr. Dre: You’re No. 1 on my list because of the care and attention you bring to your tracks and the precision you bring to your sound. There are a few people out there I listen to and respect.
MC Ren: Pusha T.
Dr. Dre: Definitely Pusha T.
MC Ren: I’m not saying this because you’re here, Kendrick, but I like your song “Cut You Off.” I’ve been listening to you for a minute.
Thank you. Now I’m wondering, is there anything my generation should build on and bring back to the game?
Ice Cube: That’s tricky, man. An artist has to do it like he feels it -- not because he should, or someone else says he should. Hip-hop got too focused on results and record sales. Sales have nothing to do with the art you create in the studio.
Dr. Dre: When we started out, it wasn’t for money. It was for the love of music. You treat her right, and she’ll treat you right. If your only aim is money, your time will be limited.
DJ Yella: We just went in there and did what we wanted.
Y’all have gone through so many eras and stages of success. How have you managed to keep your sanity?
Dr. Dre: The love of the music. It’s all about my passion for this hip-hop thing. Can’t let anything get in the way of that. It’s my first love.
Ice Cube: When I was young, I made a vow to myself that I wouldn’t let the game change me. From the clubhouse to the courtroom, I was going to be myself no matter what. Let the chips fall where they may.
Dr. Dre: It was an unspoken thing for all of us. We were going to stay centered in ourselves.
MC Ren: I’ve tried to put God first. Don’t take everything so seriously. Let everything fall wherever it’s going to fall.
DJ Yella: I just stayed the same. Me and Dre go back so far -- a long 30 years -- even before N.W.A. The way we talk to each other now is the same way we talked when we first met. No big heads, no ego stuff.
How do you balance your professional lifestyle with your family?
MC Ren: I keep the two separate. There are too many fakes in the game, and I try to keep my family away from that. Coming up, we all went through it -- all the shady characters.
Ice Cube: Family time is family time, and work is work. As my kids got older, they wanted to be part of the business, and I helped create an avenue. My son, O’Shea Jr., is into acting. He plays me in the film. My other son is into producing. It all comes down to their talent and hunger.
Dr. Dre: I protect my family and keep them away from the ********, but at the same time they’re supportive of what I do. They understand how much I love this music, and they push and inspire me.
Eazy-E. What was that relationship like?
MC Ren: Cool. Just a cool brother.
DJ Yella: Ahead of his time.
Ice Cube: Straight visionary.
Dr. Dre: He took that street knowledge and brought it over to this thing. Super-smart cat.
MC Ren: In the early interviews, Eazy was calling us an all-star group, and this before anyone even knew us. But he knew before we knew.
Ice Cube: Eazy’s thing was, “I want the music hard, hard, hard.” He wanted the rough hardcore **** that couldn’t be compromised.
What was the energy like in the studio?
Dr. Dre: The energy was crazy. Free. Fun. Eazy’s paying for it, and we’re just sitting there creating.
Ice Cube: With every character in the neighborhood dropping by. That was the fun part.
You ever bump heads creatively?
Dr. Dre: All the time. Argued night and day. But always out of mutual respect. Always out of a desire to get the best. And always settled with a cool compromise.
Boiling it all down, what do you see as N.W.A’s legacy?
Ice Cube: World’s most dangerous group -- a group that made it all right for artists to be totally themselves.
Dr. Dre: A legacy of inspiration, because we came from nothing.
DJ Yella: Dirt nothing.
Ice Cube: A legacy that says that although we were living in a destructive neighborhood, we were able to do something constructive.
Seems as if today y’all have the same bond you had when you started out.
Ice Cube: We have a bond that you can’t buy or manufacture. We look at each other and know what we went through to get here. The obstacles. The censors. C. Delores Tucker. Tipper Gore. The FBI. Man, we were tangling with some of the biggest power entities out there. And still we didn’t crack.
MC Ren: We only got stronger. Now our hope is that this movie makes some young people go out and do what we did -- something new, something fresh.
Dr. Dre: The inspiration we excite in others isn’t just about music. It’s about all of life. Keep pushing. Keep cracking. Stay strong.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...ew-straight-outta-compton-movie-eazy-e-legacy
When Kendrick Lamar arrives this Friday evening at a cavernous photo studio in the flatlands of industrial Hollywood, he’s 30 minutes early. And the occasion has been nearly 25 years in the making: Lamar, 28, is here to interview the four living members of N.W.A for their first magazine cover together since Ice Cube went solo in 1991 and the group collapsed into a famously bitter feud. Eazy-E died in 1995, at 31. But today, Lamar meets with four men who defined his hometown of Compton, Calif., as a cradle of politically engaged, uncompromisingly hardcore hip-hop. With a modest demeanor that suggests nothing of his status as rap’s leading visionary and an entourage numbering just two associates and a publicist, he seems genuinely humbled to be here. When the group arrives, he is quick to pay his respects: first to Dr. Dre, then Ice Cube, then DJ Yella and MC Ren. They all share warm smiles and hugs.
“Ain’t nobody we’d rather have do this interview,” says Cube, 46.
“Have you seen the movie?” asks Dre, 50.
Kendrick Lamar and N.W.A: The Billboard Cover Shoot
“Not yet,” answers Lamar. “Didn’t want to go to a preview and see it in a privileged setting. Would rather wait for it to come to the neighborhood and see it with everyone else. That way it’ll mean the most to me.”
The movie is Straight Outta Compton, which on Aug. 14 emerges from 13 years in development purgatory. Universal ultimately green-lit the project with a budget of $29 million; a screenwriter, Jonathan Herman; and a director, F. Gary Gray, all orchestrated with close oversight by Cube and Dre. (Cube is played by his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., 24.) The result is a hard-hitting narrative replete with the conviction and turmoil that typified N.W.A in its heyday.
That heyday kicked off in 1988 -- the same year Lamar turned 1 -- with the release of the movie’s namesake album. No one had yet seen how Los Angeles could contribute to the simmering rap culture. And Compton, a gang stronghold just south of Watts, held no place in the American imagination.
N.W.A -- N—az With Attitude -- formed two years earlier, when rapper O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson and DJ-producer Andre “Dr. Dre” Young began working with Eric “Eazy-E” Wright, who had used his drug-dealing profits to launch a label. DJ Yella (Antoine Carraby) and MC Ren (Lorenzo Jerald Patterson) cemented the final lineup. Their debut release is certified double-platinum by the RIAA; “F— Tha Police” has sold nearly 350,000 downloads since Nielsen Music began digital tracking in 2003. N.W.A communicated the desperation of the black underclass and ignited controversy virtually unrivaled in the history of pop, drawing in the FBI and Tipper Gore’s Parents Music Resource Center.
“N.W.A did a lot more than entertain. They told the truth,” says Lamar. And as Dre explains, “If N.W.A had done it softer, it wouldn’t have gotten the attention. It wouldn’t have worked.” Cube tells Billboard that he believes police brutality remains “the same” today as it did in the late ’80s and early ’90s. (The Los Angeles riots are an important motif in the movie’s second half.) “They talk about bullying in society, but police are the worst bullies that we have to deal with,” he says. Asked about Sam DuBose, who was fatally shot July 19 by a University of Cincinnati officer now charged with murder, Cube says, “This kind of stuff seems like it don’t happen to white guys.”
Ice Cube Calls N.W.A. Biopic 'Straight Outta Compton' a 'Real Superhero' Movie
By the end of 1989, Cube had split from N.W.A over Eazy-E and manager Jerry Heller’s hoarding of the group’s earnings, setting off a conflict that climaxed with his famously obscene 1991 diss track “No Vaseline.” That year he also launched his acting career with Boyz N the Hood; today he’s a leading Hollywood star (22 Jump Street) and producer (Friday, Ride Along, in which he also starred). N.W.A fully dissolved when Dre left to start Death Row Records with Suge Knight, and sold, according to Nielsen Music, 5.7 million copies of his 1992 G-funk classic The Chronic. Now, of course, he’s one of music’s richest moguls, after selling Beats, the headphone and streaming company he co-founded, to Apple in 2014. (On Aug. 7, he released Compton -- an album inspired by the new movie, featuring guests including Cube, Lamar and many others.) Yella, 47, is making beats again after 12 years as a porn producer, and Ren, 46, has continued as a solo act (Cube joined him on a track in 2014). The five former members were on the verge of reconciliation when Eazy-E died of AIDS.
Ice Cube Remembers Eazy-E on 20th Anniversary of N.W.A Partner's Death
In 2011, Dre designated Lamar “the new king of the West Coast.” The rapper infuses the politics of N.W.A with an analysis of his own emotional conflicts as a black artist seeking to maintain sanity in 21st century America. It’s appropriate that the main figure pushing hip-hop forward today would be present to see the members of N.W.A reunited and talking, as Dre says, “like we just saw each other yesterday.” Tucked into the conference room with Dre, Cube, Ren and Yella, Lamar speaks so softly that the men must lean in to hear him. The conversation ranges from early days in the studio with Eazy-E, the eternal “********” of the music business and how N.W.A made South Park (and much more) possible.
I’m tripping right now. Man, I’m bugging. So bear with me ... When did you first know you were more than local stars?
Dr. Dre: When I saw Axl Rose wearing an N.W.A cap in one of his videos!
How did N.W.A change the history of music?
Ice Cube: We not only changed music, we changed pop culture all over the world. We did that by making it all right for artists to be themselves. You no longer had to be squeaky clean. We opened the floodgates for artists who wanted to work on this side, artists who wanted to be raw.
Dr. Dre: And not worry about being on the radio.
Ice Cube: Right. There were no other examples of artists not doing it the square way. We became examples for not only musicians, but for shows like South Park, even the reality shows where they’re bleeping out words. We started that on the radio -- bleeping out words -- but the rawness wasn’t in the world until N.W.A said it was OK for you to be yourself. There’s the world before N.W.A, and the world after.
How do you think your music changed the way the world viewed our culture and our community?
Ice Cube: Unless you come from Compton, it’s not a world you’re privy to. Our music let you visit Compton from a safe distance.
Dr. Dre: We gave the suburban kids an opportunity to get up close.
Ice Cube: Now you care. You heard what’s going on in the hood, and you’re interested. Now Compton means something to you. Now you pay attention. We were able to shed light on some of the ******** that was going down. We presented it in a way that you could digest, comprehend and sympathize with what we were going through.
Dr. Dre: If we had done it softer, it wouldn’t have gotten the attention. It wouldn’t have worked.
DJ Yella: The truth is that there wasn’t much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We came in so different, so real, that we were immediately heard.
Back then, what was your relationship with A&R guys?
Ice Cube: We didn’t have no A&R guys.
MC Ren: It was like, “How many times can we say ‘n—a’?”
Dr. Dre: We’d say, “We need more ‘f—s’ on this record.”
Did you have any doubts that you would be accepted?
MC Ren: I don’t think we really cared.
Dr. Dre: We had no idea we’d blow up this major. You see, every time we went into the studio we were only trying to make tracks that would rock our neighborhood. Our goal was to be local stars.
Ice Cube: We didn’t think the world cared about gang-banging and dope-dealing in L.A., Compton, South Central, Long Beach and Watts. The hub of hip-hop was the Bronx, Brooklyn and Harlem. We were on the fringes. And that was OK with us.
Dr. Dre: Imagine this: We made Straight Outta Compton in six weeks, and that’s without working weekends. Twenty-five years later, and here’s a big-*** Hollywood movie carrying the same name. It’s unbelievable.
What was the hardest part when you were young and first coming to grips with the game?
DJ Yella: Publishing! We didn’t know anything about publishing. The first go-around we didn’t make a nickel.
Dr. Dre: We were just a bunch of creative guys who got together and did something amazing but were clueless about business.
Ice Cube: Business is the most f—ed-up part. It’s always awkward. It’s fun to make records, fun to be in the studio with your homies, fun to get up onstage. But the business part sucks. It’s always some **** you ready to get rid of so you can go back to being creative.
Dr. Dre: It’s all about getting back in that studio.
The studio is like a drug. It’s hard for some people around me to understand that the music is all I think about. It’s like I’m possessed.
Dr. Dre: You can’t explain that feeling. It’s an obsession. But it’s what makes you real.
As one of your offspring, anything I do comes from what y’all have done before me. I’m curious to know how you feel about my generation of artists.
MC Ren: I like a few. I like you.
Dr. Dre: You’re No. 1 on my list because of the care and attention you bring to your tracks and the precision you bring to your sound. There are a few people out there I listen to and respect.
MC Ren: Pusha T.
Dr. Dre: Definitely Pusha T.
MC Ren: I’m not saying this because you’re here, Kendrick, but I like your song “Cut You Off.” I’ve been listening to you for a minute.
Thank you. Now I’m wondering, is there anything my generation should build on and bring back to the game?
Ice Cube: That’s tricky, man. An artist has to do it like he feels it -- not because he should, or someone else says he should. Hip-hop got too focused on results and record sales. Sales have nothing to do with the art you create in the studio.
Dr. Dre: When we started out, it wasn’t for money. It was for the love of music. You treat her right, and she’ll treat you right. If your only aim is money, your time will be limited.
DJ Yella: We just went in there and did what we wanted.
Y’all have gone through so many eras and stages of success. How have you managed to keep your sanity?
Dr. Dre: The love of the music. It’s all about my passion for this hip-hop thing. Can’t let anything get in the way of that. It’s my first love.
Ice Cube: When I was young, I made a vow to myself that I wouldn’t let the game change me. From the clubhouse to the courtroom, I was going to be myself no matter what. Let the chips fall where they may.
Dr. Dre: It was an unspoken thing for all of us. We were going to stay centered in ourselves.
MC Ren: I’ve tried to put God first. Don’t take everything so seriously. Let everything fall wherever it’s going to fall.
DJ Yella: I just stayed the same. Me and Dre go back so far -- a long 30 years -- even before N.W.A. The way we talk to each other now is the same way we talked when we first met. No big heads, no ego stuff.
How do you balance your professional lifestyle with your family?
MC Ren: I keep the two separate. There are too many fakes in the game, and I try to keep my family away from that. Coming up, we all went through it -- all the shady characters.
Ice Cube: Family time is family time, and work is work. As my kids got older, they wanted to be part of the business, and I helped create an avenue. My son, O’Shea Jr., is into acting. He plays me in the film. My other son is into producing. It all comes down to their talent and hunger.
Dr. Dre: I protect my family and keep them away from the ********, but at the same time they’re supportive of what I do. They understand how much I love this music, and they push and inspire me.
Eazy-E. What was that relationship like?
MC Ren: Cool. Just a cool brother.
DJ Yella: Ahead of his time.
Ice Cube: Straight visionary.
Dr. Dre: He took that street knowledge and brought it over to this thing. Super-smart cat.
MC Ren: In the early interviews, Eazy was calling us an all-star group, and this before anyone even knew us. But he knew before we knew.
Ice Cube: Eazy’s thing was, “I want the music hard, hard, hard.” He wanted the rough hardcore **** that couldn’t be compromised.
What was the energy like in the studio?
Dr. Dre: The energy was crazy. Free. Fun. Eazy’s paying for it, and we’re just sitting there creating.
Ice Cube: With every character in the neighborhood dropping by. That was the fun part.
You ever bump heads creatively?
Dr. Dre: All the time. Argued night and day. But always out of mutual respect. Always out of a desire to get the best. And always settled with a cool compromise.
Boiling it all down, what do you see as N.W.A’s legacy?
Ice Cube: World’s most dangerous group -- a group that made it all right for artists to be totally themselves.
Dr. Dre: A legacy of inspiration, because we came from nothing.
DJ Yella: Dirt nothing.
Ice Cube: A legacy that says that although we were living in a destructive neighborhood, we were able to do something constructive.
Seems as if today y’all have the same bond you had when you started out.
Ice Cube: We have a bond that you can’t buy or manufacture. We look at each other and know what we went through to get here. The obstacles. The censors. C. Delores Tucker. Tipper Gore. The FBI. Man, we were tangling with some of the biggest power entities out there. And still we didn’t crack.
MC Ren: We only got stronger. Now our hope is that this movie makes some young people go out and do what we did -- something new, something fresh.
Dr. Dre: The inspiration we excite in others isn’t just about music. It’s about all of life. Keep pushing. Keep cracking. Stay strong.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...ew-straight-outta-compton-movie-eazy-e-legacy
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Dre been A1 since day 1 but this **** booboo.
Haha jp
But ugh i reslistened abd ws like --
Haha jp
But ugh i reslistened abd ws like --
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People are never satisfied
If Dre made a 1992 album some people would complain.
Dre makes a 2015 album, and some people complain
And ya'll wonder why you haven't seen Detox.
Album was very good to me and gets better on each listen. The only song I didn't like was the Em one.
You have to remember, they've been talking about Detox for over 10 years. Within those 10 years there's been songs released, beats leaked, and even this commercial:
Listen to Eminem's Relapse as they're filled with Dre's (signature style) beats. Compton contains none of that signature Dre sound we knew and grew up on. I guarantee he's got enough material from Detox to put out a 5 disc album.
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This Anderson .Paak dude is unbearable to me. Ruins every song he's in. :x
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Exactly. And i wanna like him cause hes a Stones Throw guy but man smh
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i agree 100%
fun fact about that commercial is he gave that redid the beat a little and gave it to 50 Cent for his 1st album Get Rich Or Die Tryin
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I view this as the "Straight outta Compton" soundtrack. And not a Dr. Dre album.
Still waiting for a real Dre album
Still waiting for a real Dre album
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Cats still stuck in 1999 smh. Dudes expecting ol school g funk and lowrider music lol.
I went into the album with an open mind with no expectations and I like it. I'm not listening to a dre album for insane metaphors and lyricism. Prod is top knotch
Cats can't grasp the fact that nothing stays the same. None of ur fave artists make the same music they made 15 years ago.
This sounds like a dre album that would be expected in 2015, we all evolve and dre minds tate ain't the same as it was in 93 or 99...
Take the music for what it is, not what u expected. Better to not have high expectations and be pleasantly surprised than have high hopes and be dissapointed
I went into the album with an open mind with no expectations and I like it. I'm not listening to a dre album for insane metaphors and lyricism. Prod is top knotch
Cats can't grasp the fact that nothing stays the same. None of ur fave artists make the same music they made 15 years ago.
This sounds like a dre album that would be expected in 2015, we all evolve and dre minds tate ain't the same as it was in 93 or 99...
Take the music for what it is, not what u expected. Better to not have high expectations and be pleasantly surprised than have high hopes and be dissapointed
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People are never satisfied
If Dre made a 1992 album some people would complain.
Dre makes a 2015 album, and some people complain
And ya'll wonder why you haven't seen Detox.
Album was very good to me and gets better on each listen. The only song I didn't like was the Em one.
You have to remember, they've been talking about Detox for over 10 years. Within those 10 years there's been songs released, beats leaked, and even this commercial:
Listen to Eminem's Relapse as they're filled with Dre's (signature style) beats. Compton contains none of that signature Dre sound we knew and grew up on. I guarantee he's got enough material from Detox to put out a 5 disc album.
1) Relapse featured some of Dre's worst beats, ranging from mediocre and forgettable to downright bad.
2) This makes me want to buy Compton even more based on the a lot of Dre beats from '04-'10
I agree with a lot of this, except for the fact that recently, veteran artists very well have made stuff exactly how they used to (whether beat wise or lyrically), so I can't let them use that "****** want my old ****, buy my old albums" mess.
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wrong on so many levels
no one is stuck in 1999
Eminem just dropped Relapse with Dre producing 90% of the album and it sounds like Dre signature sound but not 1992 Dre or 1999 Dre
The Chronic 2001 was made alomst 10 years after The Chronic does STILL Dre sound like Nuthin But A G Thang? NO! You can here similarities but over all you hear growth of the west coast sound which Dre basically made and thats all we was expecting for this album... Not The Chronic or 2001 but the next installment
This sounds more like a soundtrack to the movie NOT the last part of The Chronic trilogy
i love the tracks as a soundtrack to the album
just dont try to pass this on me as some Dre solo album
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Wrong on every level
Eminem didn't just drop relapse it came out 6 years ago...and who knows how long before that it was recorded
And who said thia is a chronic trilogy? Where did u get that idea? There's a reason this isn't detox either.
And chronic was in 93, 2001 was 99, that's 6 years not 10.
And if u not stuck in 99 why u feel like I was talking to u
And in case u can't read, the album is called compton: a soundtrack...
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