Iverson_64
Superstar
You could argue Gibbs did too.
Dr. Dre Bemoans Multiple Producers Working On Same Album: 'I Don't Like It'
- Thread starter Street Knowledge
- Start date
nikkaS IN HERE
CONFUSING PRODUCERS WITH BEAT MAKERS
AND INSTRUMENT PLAYERS.
QUINCY JONES NEVER MADE
A BEAT NOR PLAYED AN INSTRUMENT
ON MICHAEL JACKSON shyt
YET HE WAS THE PRODUCER.
There's ppl that work with Dre who can easily out do him.
One dude on his team did the No Air track for Chris Brown and Rihanna and many other tracks and song credits. He himself is a true producer. He's not just a "glorified session player" . He can make any genre of track and write the lyrics and sing as well. You're talking about virtuosos on a level well beyond Andre.
Dre is also not living in reality. Ppl have different budgets. Everyone often can't have 1 person do the whole album. Furthermore, if someone has that fire, you take it if you can get it.
I love how Cardo, Alchemist, Pete rock, DJ Fresh etc are doing whole albums.......
is kind of funny coming from Dr.Dre tho
I see it differently.
If I don't know how to play a horn, I'm bringing in a great horn player instead of finding a sample.
I don't know how to play the keyboard/piano, I'm bringing in Scott Storch.
I need a dope, guitarist. I'm bringing in Rene Elizondo.
Many hip hop producers sample, Dre does it AND brings in cats who can make what he's looking for.
Goat poster
KANG LIFE
I know y'all keep bringing up Dre using other producers.
But that's not exactly what he's saying.
Every classic project he's done:
Straight Outta Compton, 100 miles in running, Ni@@as4Life, The Chronic, Doggy style, ect .
Was done with him as the main orchestrator ( even if he had some help)
When looked at it from that perspective I see why he feels the way he feels
But that's not exactly what he's saying.
Every classic project he's done:
Straight Outta Compton, 100 miles in running, Ni@@as4Life, The Chronic, Doggy style, ect .
Was done with him as the main orchestrator ( even if he had some help)
When looked at it from that perspective I see why he feels the way he feels
Dr. Dre has publicly criticized rap albums that feature production from a large number of producers.
Despite heavily relying on co-producers on his last album Compton, Dre used his interview with Stephen A. Smith to criticize Hip Hop’s move away from using only one or a small number of producers on a project.
“Find your collaborator. I don’t like the fact that there are, like, nine different producers on one album. I like the idea of one producer on one album. Continuity is everything,” he said.
Asked by Smith where the trend came from, Dre replied: “I don’t know, but I don’t like it.”
He added: “If you a producer, you should be able to produce the entire album. That’s what I thought it was supposed to be. That’s what I was doing at the beginning.”
Dr. Dre Bemoans Multiple Producers Working On Same Album: 'I Don't Like It'
Dr. Dre has criticized the idea of rappers working with a large number of producers on a project, saying he prefers a smaller team on an album.hiphopdx.com
I agree with him. It's why there is a "band" or "group" sound.
It's why Wu Tang under RZA worked for so long. Or Derringer, or Havoc, Premier, Necro, Mighty Mi, El P.
Continuity is important.
Tattered producers and writers ruin album.
I got that feeling listening to a Rihanna album on a plane.I think the one with her in black tape. The cover looked like that.
I don't know if A and Rs choose beats.
But I know those albums worked.
Same as Supreme Clientele. Which fits in the classic Wu albums with hardly any RZA production.
so they shouldn't get a producer credit for contributing to the production of a song?
Eh.
I get what he means even though he has always had dude under him.
These days a track changes hands 20 damn times between producers and the writing credits looks like the ingredients to some damn GMO package of food.
At least Dre would just deal with one beat maker (or session musician) at a time and then produce the track. He seems like he would lose his mind dealing with 50 cooks in the kitchen.
And he had his own damn studio away from Death Row just to be away from people.
I get what he means even though he has always had dude under him.
These days a track changes hands 20 damn times between producers and the writing credits looks like the ingredients to some damn GMO package of food.
At least Dre would just deal with one beat maker (or session musician) at a time and then produce the track. He seems like he would lose his mind dealing with 50 cooks in the kitchen.
And he had his own damn studio away from Death Row just to be away from people.
No; spitta did it way before Gibbs.....lowkey he was the one who put alchemist in position.
Some of you love to post before reading the OP 
The War Report
NewNewYork
Yea but Premo was the executive producer on that. He made sure there was cohesion.
Coli confusing beatmaker with producer again.
And….. while I see where Dre is coming from, the right artist with the right ear can get 7 producers to make a solid project.
Ross was very good at that consistently over several projects.
Meanwhile, can 2024 Dre lead the way totally on a project? Probably not and definitely not without his beatmakers cooking up.
Ross was very good at that consistently over several projects.
Meanwhile, can 2024 Dre lead the way totally on a project? Probably not and definitely not without his beatmakers cooking up.
So did Snoop, how he didn't let Warren produced anything on the 213 album is wild.