Since this is my first post on this sheeet I figured I could start with an opinion that is interesting and a bit controversial. Check it...
Nurse Dre.
Yea N.W.A was nice and original. But the best move Dr. Dre made for his entire career was to listen to that dude from Interscope and sign Eminem to Aftermath. He wouldn't be relevant otherwise.
It is no surprise to anyone that his rapping abilities are worse than Kanye's singing abilities which is pretty bad. It was OK in 86' with the gansta rap movement but he should have just stuck with "producing" after that. Especially since his verses were mostly written by other people.
As far as production goes, in a lot of ways, he is only as good as the people he is working with at the time. If it wasn't for Daz and "friends" The Chronic's sound would have never been molded the way it did. And although Dre got got mad props and I think even won a grammy for his production on 2001, Mel Man's dope beats go completely unnoticed. As far as I'm concerned Mel was the one who made them and Dre just tweaked them. Oh! And if I recall correctly, a little keyboardist by the name of Scott Storch was pretty much discovered after his shit on 2001. Dopest beat on the album? In my opinion it's "Still D.R.E.". How does Dre get any credit for that beat? Mothafuckin Storch on keys! And I know he has a sick bassist that he works constantly with too. As far as "ghost producing" goes he's one of the greatest of all time though.
Don't get me wrong, Dre has an amazing ear for what sounds good but he pretty much gathers a team with amazing individual talent and puts them to work. He does not deserve the amount of praise he gets. This leads me to the reason I'm even talking about him...Detox.
First of all, he hasn't been working on the album since 2003. There is no way you can work on an album for 8 years and put out "I Need a Doctor" as the first studio single. He wrote that 2 days ago. In 2003 hip-hop music was different. This is over-produced garbage. It sounds like it is straight out of a Rihanna or B.O.B album. Those two probably weren't even born in 2003. I'm 99% sure Eminem helped him write his verse on it and it still sucked. He didn't produce either "I Need..." or "Kush". What is he actually doing? I respect him as an entrepreneur and businessman because he will be banking off of Detox just because of the hype. Half of the people that listened to the song only like it because the name Dr. Dre was behind it. Let's be honest with ourselves, the headphones look cool as shit but nurse Dre is just OK.
Don't believe the hype...
Nowadays's everybody wanna talk like they got something to say!
ReplyDeleteyour mom likes dre
ReplyDelete"...Dre has an amazing ear for what sounds good but he pretty much gathers a team with amazing individual talent and puts them to work."
ReplyDeleteHence the title "Producer" ;)
I completely agree but Dre glorifies himself as a beatmaker and not as a "producer" like Rick Rubin.
ReplyDeleteOver the last decades, the lines of producers and beatmakers has been blurred. Anyone who doesn't do the whole beat constructing process on their own is considered to be less talented then someone who does. Some do the whole production by themselves (Pharrel, Timb, Kanye, Storch, RZA, etc etc...) Dre should not be placed in a group with these guys but he is. Every time he has his name behind a song people automatically go nuts.