Also ... All this "nobody wants to hear 50 year olds rap talk"
See if that's the case among Suga Free fans, see if his fans don't highly anticipate his work and feel like he's at the absolute top of his game right now
This is a creative realm, you need to CREATE the right thing. This is not a physical realm. All of the work of the creative realm (mental plane) is then transfixed to the physical realm via replicable mediums (
These are not NFL running backs or professional prize fighters
A perfectly executed track by the artist in the studio does not necessarily or inherently mean that the song is right for the artist's brand
Dr. Dre's brand is typecast in the gangsta rap category
That is where his legacy resides
But guarantee that is not where his soul feels most comfortable he doesn't like that stuff he doesn't look highly upon it he wanted to get out of it in 1995 with "been there done that" ... But guess what, that was a failed product rollout
We saw that again when Jay Z dropped Kingdom Come and dubbed it as grown man ra
Same product premise, more successful rollout at the time
Dr. Dre naturally wants to make soul music. He literally probably has MJ like vibes toward fans of gangsta rap
He wants Marsha Ambrosia type music to be successful with his name attached
He doesn't want to have to keep going back to the gangsta rap well ... He's into music and musicianship
But the reason Suga Free is highly anticipated among his fanbase and Dr. Dre is alienating from his fan base is because pimping lends to the natural element of human seduction ... Gangsta rap lends to the energy of male adolescence, that's something you more quickly grow out of
But the industry never wanted to let pimp game be a focal point of their selling point, because it elevated the mind beyond that which feeds to the prison industrial complex
Dre needed to come back like a titan, similar to the vibes he had on the track from the Eminem Show album. That is right at the peak evolution for 2001 Dre and he was successfully moving from gangsta rap to rapping as though he is a literal giant megalith
Dre spinning donuts in a Chrysler 300C product placement is like the Steve Buscemi "how do you do fellow kids" meme
this is for the fans that are grown and already 40 plus enjoying life.
This might've seemed random at the time but given the context in this post it really lends to the fact that Ross was the vision that Dre was attempting back in 96. 
