Dr. Dre Bemoans Multiple Producers Working On Same Album: 'I Don't Like It'

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so they shouldn't get a producer credit for contributing to the production of a song?

This is what Puffy did to get a producer credit on the Special Delivery Remix.

But these dudes aren't even getting producers to work on their albums, they're just rapping over beats they found on youtube cause they believe they can get the same results without paying producer/engineer money.
 

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Biggest cap producer ever, people pretending if he released anything the music would cast down archangels and a new sun birth
 

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Beat makers vs Producers been kickin the colis ass since its inception.

What "beats" did Quincy Jones make, name me a Smokey Robinson "beat"
 

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He's right.

And for those who've been around long enough, Dre has always said this. And I'm not mad at it. Back in the day, it was normal for there to be 1-2 producers on an album, max. Illmatic changed the game, but it also had a lot of MC's trying to copy that formula.

Then in the mid-90's, labels started using producers as a marketing tool for selling albums. So then you'd see mad producer names thrown on hype stickers for albums, as if they were the draw and not the actual artist. And that resulted in albums being all over the place, sonically. So Dre has a point. And if anyone would know what they're talking about, it's the GOAT.
 

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illmatic and blueprint came out just fine

You just need a good A&R
I get what ya saying because back in the day, a good a&r meant a lot. But imo A&r is a dead concept because they went for commercial viability over art especially today and killed albums. Half the ug dont use em. People who do just make commercialized trash. Them days over.

Recently I saw an anr say he was the best anr in the game, big rappers should come to him. He put together an album for my fav rapper and it was filled with all “2024 commercially viable” bs and noone liked the album. Straight trash. Theyve lost their touch imo. They work for labels. Good hiphop/art is no longer the point it seems.

Tho i will say, more rappers could prolly could use one and need better discernment.
 
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Nah Hitmen was Puff. Dre did have an artist named Hitman.

But even that is different. Having in house producers working as 1 team is different from picking beats from various people with different sounds that don't even know each other. Neptunes was two people, 1 team. Trackmasters (Tone and Poke), Heatmakerz, Bomb Squad, Beats by the Pound, etc.
Or even say, Supreme Clientele where there was a gang of producers but RZA was picking and rearranging every beat anyway.
 

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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.
In a way sampling is pretty much in the same spirit as "traditional" producing, only with the former the producer is usually much more involved in making the instrumental ie doing drums and arranging shyt. But instead of bringing in session musicians you dig through records.
 
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