Dr. Dre talks Biggest Musical Partnerships from Eminem to Snoop Dogg.
Dr. Dre recently sat down with Kevin Hart for a conversation on his show Hart To Heart on Peacock. In the interview, the legendary producer breaks down his success in the music industry, viewing his work with amazing like Eminem and Snoop Dogg as collaborations instead of just working attachments.
“I’ve collaborated with some of the smartest motherf–kers and the most talented motherf–kers that ever stepped in the studio,” he said. “The only person that I ever heard on a demo tape that I really liked and really f–ked with in the studio was Eminem.”
He continued: “Everything else is the word of mouth. It’s exactly what you said, ‘oh you gotta hear this guy. Hey, you got to hear this guy named Snoop. Brought him in the studio and he started rapping. He didn’t even understand a song structure on anything like that. I think DOC taught him to do that s–t. It just happened like that.”
In another part, Dre also talked about the current status of Hip-Hop music. “Hip Hop is what it is,” he said. “Anybody that’s talking about the state of Hip Hop right now, when talking about it from a negative place, sounds like somebody’s f–kin’ grandfather. This is just what it is. Hip Hop is evolving. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it, you know what I’m saying?”
He continued, “I’m keepin’ it all the way 100 with you. Some of this sh-t, most of this sh-t, I don’t like. I don’t listen to a lot of that sh-t. But I’m not hatin’ on it. I’m never gonna hate on it.”
“Coming up in the battle scene was the greatest thing to happen to me because I knew what lines were going to get a reaction from the crowd,” Eminem told NY Times in a new story. “That’s what I would focus on. So when I got signed with Dre, I was trying to translate that to record, to get that reaction. I would picture the listener sitting there and what lines they might react to. I just used that as a formula. Like, “How you gonna br–stfeed, Mom?/You ain’t got no ti-s.”
