If Dre even had half of a beat or had the drums, I'd write some shit to the drums and come up with a melody. "I was whoopin' n***as! They would be going home to go get chicken, I'd be in that motherfucker all night. "When I listen back to The Chronic album, I'm like, how the fuck was I on damn near every song?" Snoop told Crook’s Corner. Dre at the 1993 Billboard Music Awards- Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images And as it turns out, the man that would become The Doggfather went out of his way to ensure that he was a pervading presence on the record."
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Within five months of "Deep Cover’s" release, Dre would release his first full body of work under his own moniker with The Chronic and once again, Snoop served as one of the production mastermind’s preferred MCs to delegate to. Since then, Snoop has revealed that Dre actually hated “Deep Cover” to "the point that he almost didn’t want to put it out." Unshackled from Jerry Heller’s Ruthless Records and armed with the buying power of Suge Knight’s Death Row behind him, Dre wasted little time in bringing Snoop– who has actually just purchased their former label– aboard.Ĭonsidering that his solo career came into focus while in the young Snoop Doggy Dogg’s presence, it's no surprise that when Dre’s first solo single, "Deep Cover," arrived in 1992, it featured Snoop at its core. Then, the thought of my solo album started becoming a reality in my mind," Dre stated. He's just freestyling and it was super sick. Once the pair linked up, Dre realized that he had an untapped well of promise before him that would forever alter both of their lives."Snoop comes in the studio and I put this track on. " called back and was like: ‘N***a, be at the studio, Monday.’" Dre,’" Snoop said about their first encounter. "I hung up, like: ‘n***a, this ain’t no motherfuckin’ Dr.
Pointed in Dre’s direction by his fellow 213 member, the then-21-year old Calvin Broadus was so shocked when the architect of NWA called him that he thought he was being pranked. I'm like that's Snoop? I'm like man, this is a f*****g diamond in the rough and we need to polish it up."
He was selling drugs and my stepbrother Warren G pops this tape in.
"The first time I heard Snoop, it was when a friend of mine had a bachelor party," Dre revealed in HBO’s documentary series, The Defiant Ones. Dre, circa 1990 - Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images