![]() ![]() When we were about to head out to Moscow, MF Doom fell ill and wasn’t able to come out, according to what they told us. Dre Celebrates 50th Birthday, Covers AARP Magazine To get the opportunity to work with him on another project, with the producer in Russia, who goes by the name of BMB Spacekid.ĭr. I was like, “Hell yeah,” because me and MF Doom had just done a song for the PRhyme deluxe album that’s about to be released. The pitch was for me to get with a Russian producer, to use Russian samples and music, and then to have MF Doom rap on it. I went to Moscow earlier this year to work with, like, the top producer in Moscow, which I don’t do - I don’t need to work with any producers. One he liked right off the bat, and he said, “I’m going to work on this.” He told me, “I don’t have a set time for it, but I do want to do it.” ![]() I don’t know what I’m going to do with them yet, but I’d love for you to send a few tracks if you have time.” I said, “Yeah, I’ll put something together,” and I sent him like three or four. He told me, “I want to start recording, doing some new music, and I want you to get involved. He was working on a different project - not for the movie, he just started recording again for a different project - so I was already sending him tracks because we spoke to each other last year. How did “Animals,” your track on Compton, come together? Dre’s ‘Chronic’ Returns After Over 20 Years Let’s fix that line,” or “Can you do that again with more energy?” or “Can you say this better?” We’re about more than just putting the track down and calling it a day.īillboard 200 Chart Moves: Dr. We tell you, “Your voice squeaked right there. We don’t just lay the beats down - we’re coaches. We talked about the same thing you just asked - for one, what’s the difference between a producer and a beatmaker? I explained how I see it, and he felt the same way. I did his radio show that’s going to air in a couple weeks, and he dedicated the whole show to my career. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist. It’s whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we’re beyond just hip-hop. Was there ever any tension as far as West Coast vs. Dre to Debut ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’ Exclusively on Beats 1 Radio ![]() I’d recorded and produced records for Lady of Rage - Dre had already left Death Row at that time, so he wasn’t around.ĭr. I just had never really done any work with him on that process. I knew him and Suge around that time, so we were already cool. They came to support our album, so we he had met them - but as far as having conversations and being around the recording process, I was around right after The Chronic came out, and I was there for when Doggystyle was still being recorded. They were in town, people were still new to N.W.A, but they were starting to make a little noise to where they were getting accepted in New York. We met back in 1989, when my first Gang Starr album, No More Mr. ![]()
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