Dr. Dre Comes Clean About 'Perfectionist' Label: 'I Don't Even Want [Music] To Be Perfect'
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what is your age?She thang hasn’t had a classic beat in 15 years
add 32 years to that
and we still don’t have a classic to leave behind to this planet
Boonapalist
Superstar
Nah he was gonna have Makaveli Records as part of the Death Row umbrella. Similar to how Dogghouse Records was at first.
“Tha Outlawz, Ghetto Stars, Makaveli The Don, yes
Death Row, Haha
Death Row gave birth to a new seed, Makaveli Records”
That’s from one of the last songs he recorded
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
Pac was trying to leave Death Row altogether.
7 Day Theory was the project that he thought would be the exit. So when you hear Greg Nice, Buckshot, Treach, and even EDI from The Outlawz speak on it, they all say the same thing. Pac wasn't planning on doing any more work with Death Row after 7 Day Theory. But Suge told him he owed millions and couldn't leave because he didn't fulfill his obligations financially. So that's when he started pitching that Pac could pay that back by expanding Death Row with new labels that he could run.
That's why Buckshot said that Pac told him he was "stuck" on the label and can't go do the One Nation album and record label with him. Makaveli Records was an off-shoot production company that Suge owned, along with Quincy Jones. It was pitched to keep Pac on Death Row, but never materialized. Pac's plan according to EDI, was to start a company back East and call it One Nation, and work with all his favorite rappers on it. He was done with Death Row.
brehs.... I was reading this post
while this video was playing ... and I time stamped it
I'm hearing this and he was literally referring to what we are talking about while I was reading it
so synchronized with the universe right now 
This is nonsense. Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath exists. He did a bunch of shyt on The Firm album that was a dud. Everything he touches isn't gold and that's fine.
If he needs five fukking years to produce a quality project, he isn't in the same tier as Timbaland, Premier, Kanye, RZA, Alchemist, etc. It's also funny how his best work tends to align with a young producer.
I know Hit-Boy is fairly polarizing on here, but Dre could not do what he did with Nas the past four years.
Bugzbunny129
All Star
Dre only strikes when its guaranteed
Hes been coasting off rep for years.
Hes been coasting off rep for years.
Pure Water
Veteran
Detox otw.
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
This is nonsense. Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath exists. He did a bunch of shyt on The Firm album that was a dud. Everything he touches isn't gold and that's fine.
If he needs five fukking years to produce a quality project, he isn't in the same tier as Timbaland, Premier, Kanye, RZA, Alchemist, etc. It's also funny how his best work tends to align with a young producer.
I know Hit-Boy is fairly polarizing on here, but Dre could not do what he did with Nas the past four years.
That's exactly the point.
Dre tried to switch up and do something different, it bombed and he was never the same again with being free and lax in releasing music again. Ever since, every project with dude and his output is mad meticulous. That project was when the shift happened. 1996. People expect greatness from Dre. He's the most celebrated and impactful person in Hip Hop. Dude can't just throw whatever out there like other artists.
So even a compilation like Aftermath Presents where he didn't even do all the production on, but just had his name on the cover, was clowned because Dre was involved. He was just trying to showcase new talent and get new producers and artists some shine, and even that got highly criticized. That shows how high the expectations are for his music.
Dr. Dre is the type that likes to maintain his studio generalship by flexing how much he controls the time in there
you control the time, artistry can not flow
this is actually a common mental make-up
he literally thinks the lyrical artistry is so secondary that it is merely an auxiliary track
so example, imagine you are in a creative flow
you don’t have pen going to paper … you you got words being mentally affixed directly onto the melody in your head. It’s all flowing, all mental synapses are firing
Dr. Dre stops you … well we gotta get the low end frequency of this hi-hat to compliment the mid range of this snare
he is now hoarding the studio and 30 minutes to an hour have passed and still you have no idea whether or not he is halfway to where he wants to be or still in the same place where he started
that feeling you had creatively has died down, you are now thinking about other things …. Perhaps moving away from creative function and down to regular bodily function, maybe your getting closer to thinking about eating or sleeping but you are moving away from the creative headspace you were in when you were creating
^ this is a summary of why Tupac and Dr. Dre were the biggest creative mismatch possible
you control the time, artistry can not flow
this is actually a common mental make-up
he literally thinks the lyrical artistry is so secondary that it is merely an auxiliary track
so example, imagine you are in a creative flow
you don’t have pen going to paper … you you got words being mentally affixed directly onto the melody in your head. It’s all flowing, all mental synapses are firing
Dr. Dre stops you … well we gotta get the low end frequency of this hi-hat to compliment the mid range of this snare
he is now hoarding the studio and 30 minutes to an hour have passed and still you have no idea whether or not he is halfway to where he wants to be or still in the same place where he started
that feeling you had creatively has died down, you are now thinking about other things …. Perhaps moving away from creative function and down to regular bodily function, maybe your getting closer to thinking about eating or sleeping but you are moving away from the creative headspace you were in when you were creating
^ this is a summary of why Tupac and Dr. Dre were the biggest creative mismatch possible
That's what happens when you put your name in the title.
Anyone who puts out something wack gets criticized. You think he's above that?
He's barely done anything the last two decades.
This is him procrastinating more and running away from the weight of the expectation. It is literally the seme thought process as the Compton soundtrack
well maybe if it’s not a DR. DRE album then we can circumnavigate this pressure. ”How … my last album was The Chronic”. Right?
The Chronic and 2001 are what he asserts as his official catalog and has manipulated the releases to keep it this way by going as far as to release a full album as a “soundtrack”
Like I said, I have the seme birthday as Dr. Dre and my first rap show was The Up In Smoke Tour at 8 years old, same night the concert DVD was filmed in Worcester, Massachusetts
I don’t know him personally but I know Dr. Dre … I know enough information about Tupac to be a leading historian on the man, read every biography and publication on him up through 2006, after that another book was published and I had the ability to glance through it and I know the original source material for the content within - but I do not know the enigmatic figure that was Tupac - I can’t predict his next move, I can’t tell you his underlying motivations. This is not the case with Dr. Dre, I have entirely less information on him, far less has been published on him …. but I know Dr. Dre
furthermore he feels entirely trapped by his brand identity being the typecast into gansgta rap, if not for this he’d be making World Class Wreckin Cru music
He would never want to elevate DJ Quik, he doesn’t like the cut of his jib (so to speak), he respects him but wants to keep him no closer than arm’s length
he needs to get Dam-Funk in the studio
papertrail08
Pro
Did you just watch the All Eyez on Me movie?
. Death Row East was all Eric B. Pac was going to do Makaveli Records
Boonapalist
Superstar
Idk about that breh. From what I heard Pac wanted to leave Death Row when he first got there but then towards the end Suge offered him a subsidiary.
You can’t say he was done with Death Row when all his actions and words said otherwise
And I’ve never heard of him planning to start a company and name it One Nation. I heard Euphanasia was going to be a production company and Makaveli Records was going to be his label
Awesome Wells
The Ghost of Jack Tripper
That's what happens when you put your name in the title.
Anyone who puts out something wack gets criticized. You think he's above that?
He's barely done anything the last two decades.
It's not about him being above anything.
It IS about him having higher expectations than your average producer or artist. Definitely. Dude gets critiqued for music he didn't even produce, but just helped to release. Of course he's going to be mad weird about the process and overseeing every single detail moving forward after that.