ASCAP to honour Dr. Dre with Hip-Hop Icon Award.
Dr. Dre continued to be recognized for his contribution to Hip-Hop as the iconic producer will now receive the ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award.
“Time to crack a bottle for Dr. Dre! This Thursday, we will honor legendary multi-platinum-selling producer and artist Dr. Dre with the ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award at the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards Celebration of 50 Years of Hip-Hop in Los Angeles,” they wrote.
“Dr. Dre’s groundbreaking early work laid a foundation for Hip-Hop as we know it today. As a champion for some of today’s biggest artists and a successful entrepreneur, he changed the culture around Hip-Hop,” States ASCAP chairman of the board and president Paul Williams in a press release. “Dre continues to be a pivotal figure in the music industry and we are thrilled to recognize him with the inaugural ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award as we mark 50 years of Hip-Hop.”
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Earlier this year, the super producer also received the inaugural Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at 65th Annual Grammy Awards. “I’m extremely moved by this award,” Dre said at the time. “I want to say thank you to the Recording Academy and the Black Music Collective for this honor, and I know everybody in here probably knows this already, but this is the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop. Make some noise for Hip Hop!”
“Where would I be without it? Where would a lot of people be without Hip Hop, to be honest? Hip Hop became a lifeline for me as a teenager growing up in Compton, and it started with a song called ‘The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel.’”
“Dre, you my brother,” Snoop said while presenting the award to Dre. “It’s an honor to know you, to work with you, to hang out with you and to present you with this very first ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award.”
“I can’t imagine where my life would be without hip-hop,” Dr. Dre said in his speech. “I was thinking about what it means to be an icon. Someone or something worthy of great respect. You probably need to be around for a while to be worthy of this type of respect. So, I started doing the math, and I realized, that I’ve been involved, successful, relevant in hip-hop for 40 of its 50 years.”
Dr. Dre receives ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award presented by Snoop Dogg. 🏆
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Dr. Dre receives ASCAP Hip-Hop Icon Award presented by Snoop Dogg. 🏆 pic.twitter.com/x7ZTLvE0ny
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