Dr Dre: Classic or Dud ?

Nicety, or whatever you wanna call it
Ask my opinion and I think that all it is
Is just an excuse to givin the boots
For dollar and cents, and remain innocent
Dre with the Ruthless attack, check it
Cause all that you talkin about ain't Jack!
Step off of that, try a new approach
You get smoked because I ain't no joke
Yeah, yeah...

lol

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.

"The Next Episode" came on the radio the other day and man that is some classic shit

xp could never make it through the entire Chronic

dope singles though

Next Episode is great, 2001 has aged well

Beat's obv great too, but quite uncharacteristic for Dre? Anyone have an idea how much Storch did on it?

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.

Yeah, there's def a Timbaland vibe.
Thanks!

loooool it's on StorchTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EsmhkAxh4c

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