2 Chainz details studio session with Dr. Dre on “Drink Champs”.
2 Chainz was the latest guest on DJ EFN and N.O.R.E’s podcast “Drink Champs”, where the rapper talked about his musical journey. He went through topics like his latest album “Dope Don’t Sell Itself“, creating new music with Lil Wayne & Statik Selektah, why he left Ludacris’s label DTP (Disturbing Tha Peace) and more.
In one of the parts, the 44-year-old shares his experience of a studio session with Dr. Dre, where he had to tell him that he’s not Eminem. “I went to Dre’s crib,” he said. “He sat right here, and I was rapping right here and it was little funny cause I was getting little frustrated because, I don’t know, I’m country, or whatever…I’m from Atlanta. At this time I told him, ‘Look, I’m not like a white boy from Detroit. I ain’t f**king have like… Because he was stopping me like ‘Nah, change it.’ I’m trying to rap but he is a perfectionist. It’s the reason he is f**king who he is so I got that.”
He continues, “I’m somebody that can probably do… I can do two or three songs in one night. But with him [Dr. Dre] it would probably take months to do that because of the process of just getting one verse down and making sure you enunciate things and make sure it’s clear. I’ve been on there a few times, and I learned a lot from him. He’s just a perfectionist on how he does things. I think my accent and my enunciation was a problem. He was trying to tell me how to do it. And I told him ‘You know I’m from Atlanta right? I’m not gonna sound like the bro you have been working with’.”
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Dope Don’t Sell Itself, 2 Chainz’s seventh studio album, was released on Friday (Feb. 4). The 12-song collection follows his 2020 studio album, So Help Me God!
Lil Durk on “Lost Kings,” Roddy Ricch on “Outstanding,” Swae Lee on “Caymans,” and fellow Southern talents Lil Baby on “Kingpen Ghostwriter,” Moneybagg Yo on “Pop Music,” and YoungBoy Never Broke Again on “10 Bracelets,” among others, all provide rhymes to the feature-heavy album.
Watch the clip below.
https://youtu.be/3KmSHkc6M5U
