from a rapping perspective that is
― San Te, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
it was more like everyone knew he couldn't rap for shit so no biggie
― better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ahh i know the album doesn't suffer at all for it (hell STranded on Death Row is a highlight) but with the way people whine against the strawman of "too many guests on albums" nowadays, I wonder whether people woulda whined more back then
― San Te, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
how is "too many guests on albums" a "strawman"
I can see "bullshit complaint"/"complaint with which I'm not sympathetic" but unless there are ppl sayin "there's too many guests on this album" when there are actually no guests at all...you know?
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
that's mostly the fault of me not finishing my thought completely, me bads.
i meant to say it's a strawman referring to examples of the people who say "the reason I dislike rap these days as opposed to the old days is cuz there's too many guests now", as if to imply that back in the day, having 2-5 guests per song wasn't as prevalent and that solo artists were more likely to dominate an album by themselves (that said, i haven't seen anybody on ilx posit this). frankly i think it's a ridiculous idea cuz I'd argue the opposite -- that 90s albums were more guest heavy. at least the ones i have.
― San Te, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
err and that isn't a strawman at all, either...i blame lack of coffee. substitute phrase "bs argument"
― San Te, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
who among us has celebrated dre day?http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/dr-dre-birthday-jordan-years-mic-terror-opus-comeups-trew-big-once-kool-hersh/Content?oid=3263964
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Friday, 18 February 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Beats By Dr. Dre now sells more than half of the country’s premium headphones (http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/09/05/cash-kings-2012-hip-hops-top-earners/00 and up). ... With http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/09/05/cash-kings-2012-hip-hops-top-earners/10 million in pretax earnings, Dr. Dre is this year’s Hip-Hop Cash King—despite the fact that his long-awaited album, Detox, remains on the shelf.
― dmr, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
ugh formatting
anyway
Dre earned $110 mil in one year selling headphones
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2012/09/05/cash-kings-2012-hip-hops-top-earners/
― dmr, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
jordan tweeted this the other day & it made me lol:
haters say dre fell off / how, my last single featured skylar grey
― The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
^ a lol
― itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OQXD4.jpg
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
was that supposed to be a link to the la weekly piece on the chronic or am I missing something
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
I have no idea who she is but dayo's looking at her neck
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
*googles "la weekly chronic"*
10 Jazz Albums to Listen to Before You Read Our Piece on "The Chronic"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 21 November 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
that is former CA GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
beats by meg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
worth reading anyway
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/11/making_of_the_chronic_dre_death_row.php
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 November 2012 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's a fun read, but pretty deceptive to call it "The Making of The Chronic" when it literally doesn't mention even the title of a single song on the album, much less any real details about the recording experience beyond "there was a guy who brought food to us in the studio, we called him the 'chicken man'"
― some dude, Thursday, 22 November 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
well in fairness I would suspect that recollections about the exact process of making a record called The Chronic are a little, wait for it, hazy
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 November 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
and that some of the most vivid memories are "and then the one guy who brought the food showed up, fucking A that was amazing food"
i wonder when dre is doing all these business deals and people meet him and say 'how do you do doctor dre' do they feel weird like hey wait a minute you're not a doctor why should i… but then it's too late
― j., Friday, 9 May 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxZ8XsN0xo
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
what is that the same joke or something, i have never clicked on any video you have ever posted
― j., Friday, 9 May 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure someone as smart as you can figure it out
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
be that as it may i'm still never clicking
― j., Friday, 9 May 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
a great loss
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
i think i just figured out who you are lol
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
people, if you don't want me to figure out who you are, don't attack me under your old name and then get a new one and do the same thing
it's not me btw marks if you think it's y'know that one guy with the initial j who used to get into it w/you
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
he's Mr. Que too?
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
or Enri-QUE?
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
lol aero.
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
i'm not gonna out him.
sorry bro, your investigation has not produced the clues you think it has, but stay on the case, the mayor really wants results on this one
― j., Friday, 9 May 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
i don't even know if i'm 100% right, but i'm not gonna do it.
j., i have barely interacted with you under this name. i have no idea what your deal is. but anyway
and my youtube was on topic this time
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
aw :( xxpost
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
well I guess a Dr. Dre thread of all places is acceptable to 'express yourself'
i'm glad i didn't say anything because, after a little more digging, my initial hunch has a much, much higher probability of being wrong and might even just be flat out wrong. too bad! alright, i'm peaceing from this thread now.
― markers, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gigwise.com/news/57749/Dr-Dre-To-Release-Instrumental-Hip-Hop-Album-About-The-Solar-System― ␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆␆ (LOLK), Wednesday, August 4, 2010(3 years ago) B
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
uh, notwithstanding this beef that I have no idea about, it would seem that this is the place to talk about very significant news, right?
seeing as I don't read the tech press like maybe I should…
1. would this be the most significant purchase Apple has made in order to consolidate its future? most significant in a long time? Like Jobs was always "we make our own shit that everybody wants, we don't appropriate some other company's innovations"…but they haven't put out anything in a while that knocked any socks off… now that paid DLs are declining, they are spooked by Spotify, obv…
2. always thought it striking that their headphones sucked so bad. not shocking, as they make their shit for the quotidians, who don't have an awareness of good audio quality, or don't care…point of reference: I recently bought my first ever downloads ever from the Apple Store, and now I know that Neil Young is not being some old contrary coot: that shit is indeed inferior.
― veronica moser, Friday, 9 May 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Neil Young is not being some old contrary coot: that shit is indeed inferior
not mutually exclusive tbf
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Definitely will make Dre the richest dude in hip-hop.
I like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thtPhtMcdlY
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
did we really wait this long for such an underwhelming album? i shudder to think how bad detox must have been but then remember i need a doctor and never mind i get it now.
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Friday, 7 August 2015 07:55 (eight years ago) link
"i need a doctor" may be some of the worst art ever created
― soyrev, Friday, 7 August 2015 08:01 (eight years ago) link
this isnt a real dre album though is it? its just a soundtrack. besides, i liked some of those guide tracks that leaked a few years back. shit popped off was good.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 7 August 2015 10:01 (eight years ago) link
wow, i've never seen anyone else even mention "shit popped off" before. i've always been into that one (it got an official release on a TI mixtape at some point). one of the versions of "topless" is really nice, too, great beat.
definitely all feels a cut beneath his previous album material, though, and i think he was wise to admit – especially after "kush" and "doctor" – that he'd lost perspective. still, i'd like to imagine there are a few worthwhile gems buried somewhere in the sessions, perhaps even a full album's worth of stuff if you combed through all the different eras and iterations it went through over a decade+ (especially since his goal had been to make something groundbreaking like the last two times, not simply to make something great – there could be all kinds of stuff that got cut for reasons that would hardly matter now). if he called burt bacharach in for a session and the only reason we know that is bacharach mentioned it when promoting an album of his, who knows what kind of weirdness is lurking on old externals and thumb drives.
― soyrev, Friday, 7 August 2015 10:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7FfCJb8JZQ
Busta Rhymes breaking a ram's neck at 3:44 is def classic
Beat's obv great too, but quite uncharacteristic for Dre? Anyone have an idea how much Storch did on it?
― niels, Sunday, 8 April 2018 10:22 (six years ago) link
Nicety, or whatever you wanna call itAsk my opinion and I think that all it isIs just an excuse to givin the bootsFor dollar and cents, and remain innocentDre with the Ruthless attack, check itCause all that you talkin about ain't Jack!Step off of that, try a new approachYou get smoked because I ain't no jokeYeah, yeah...
lol
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 8 April 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
tried listening to The Chronic again recently and wasn't really feeling it, which i don't chalk up to the album but more my own shifting tastes.
― omar little, Sunday, 8 April 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
"The Next Episode" came on the radio the other day and man that is some classic shit
― bunny slopes, Sunday, 8 April 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
xp could never make it through the entire Chronic
dope singles though
Next Episode is great, 2001 has aged well
― niels, Sunday, 8 April 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
Storch / Dre collabs were often Storch writing, recording and producing a song, then Dre consulting & polishing. Dre did have a mini-period of arch, spindly beats like that around that time, though. His arrangements have never been maximalist, but at the time I took that refinement to be a reaction to Timbaland's breakthrough.
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Sunday, 8 April 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
Yeah, there's def a Timbaland vibe.Thanks!
― niels, Sunday, 8 April 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
loooool it's on StorchTVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsmhkAxh4c
― niels, Sunday, 8 April 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
You're a multi platinum producer, you know everything about getting the sound just right, and yet... this is how you hold a microphone:
https://i.imgur.com/5SIa8J6.jpg
― niels, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 06:21 (five years ago) link