Dr. Dre - Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre (Discussion Thread) *Stream*

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I went to Moscow earlier this year to work with, like, the top producer in Moscow, which I don’t do — I don’t need to work with any producers. The pitch was for me to get with a Russian producer, to use Russian samples and music, and then to have MF Doom rap on it. I was like, “Hell yeah,” because me and MF Doom had just done a song for the PRhyme deluxe album that’s about to be released. To get the opportunity to work with him on another project, with the producer in Russia, who goes by the name of BMB Spacekid.:blessed:

When we were about to head out to Moscow, MF Doom fell ill and wasn’t able to come out, according to what they told us.:shaq: I’m like, “Well, who are you going to get to replace him?” He said, “We’re going to get a singer instead of a rapper, Anderson .Paak.” I was like, “Who is that?” They asked if I was down to do it with him, and I said, “I gotta make sure I like him first, I’ve never heard of him.”

DOOM on this Dre project would have been epic! Why would he pass on it?:martin:
 
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Somebody link me the original leaked "Under Pressure" ft. Jay Z - the version without the singer on the chorus
 
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shopthatwrecks said:
all premo did was scratch...the beat is dre...n the other nikka..pretty sure dre laid down quik's drums.....him n the other did layered it...
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Hammer said:
for those wondering who did the Animals beat.. sounds like its mainly Premo with a few tweaks from Dre




We worked on two beats in Moscow. We did one song called “Til It’s Done,” which is more of a bounce/trap sort of the beat. The other one was a more boom-bap style that I do. BMB said I could do whatever I want when something comes around to it. When the Freddie Gray murder and the riots happened in Baltimore, Anderson called me and said, “Yo man, that other beat that we didn’t use, I just wrote some shyt down about the bullshyt that’s going on in Baltimore. It’s called ‘F.S.U.,’ which stands for ‘fukk shyt Up.’” He sent it, I thought, “Wow, this is ill.”

Right around that time, he had a session with Dre and when Dre heard it, he said, “This is totally up my alley for the Compton soundtrack.” The ’92 riots happened with Rodney King and stuff, it coincided with what we wanted to do with the Compton album. He reached out and said, “I want to put a rap on it, a Dre verse,” and I said, “Hell yeah!” How am I gonna say no to that? “You should come out, and let’s work on it together because it’s your beat, and we can add on to it and mix it down together, sprinkle it with some stuff to make it a full song. Do you mind if I change the title to ‘Animals’ instead of ‘fukk shyt Up’?” and I said, “Yeah, that’s cool.’”
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@shopthatwrecks shut your ass up, you don't know shyt
 
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Dr. Dre’s Collaborators on the Making of ‘Compton: A Soundtrack’

here's just one example, different producers/mc's/singers describe their creative process with Dre:

"Loose Cannons" featuring Xzibit, Cold 187um and Sly Pyper

Cold 187um: Dr. Dre called me in to just check out the album on some solo tunes that he was working on and he played a bunch of songs and he had a few ideas that he wanted to get some features on. And maybe after three days of just sitting there and vibing with him, he asked if I wanted to get on it. The producers came in and were working on the track "Loose Cannons," so we went in maybe around 8 o'clock that night and didn't get out 'til maybe 7 o'clock the next morning. We had the track and the idea the first day, and the second day we started to put the vocals down and everything. Originally we didn't have a third person on it and we didn't know who was going to be on it because he had a list of cats who wanted to get on the record. But Xzibit heard me and Dre after we put our vocals [down] and he wanted to get on it, and that's how it came about.

Focus...: It's funny because sometimes I'll just play samples. Dre heard me toying around with it and he loved the intro, so we pieced that together. And I was playing different sections of the sample, just playing on the keyboard and treating them or whatever, and he was like, "Put that down." So all of this was orchestrated by him, but there were different parts that we just wanted to be different with, you know what I'm saying? And each one of the pieces, you can hear it, you get a more aggressive MC each time. So it really was one of those songs that Dre put together. At the end it's very dramatic; he wants the entire album to feel like a movie, so that's why everything is so detailed. Dre really pays attention to detail.

Cold 187um: The cool thing about "Loose Cannons" was that I was involved with the record from when they first started making the beat to the skit at the very end, so it was like back in the days. We were actually in the studio vibing to the moment.
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had to post this one too... the whole thing is definitely worth reading though:

"Just Another Day" featuring The Game and Asia Bryant

Asia Bryant: To be honest, it was kinda surreal. Like, it’s Dr. Dre, but he’s super humble. It’s not like he talks to you like he’s above you. You may meet some artist or producers who kind of have this stuck up attitude. He’s nothing like that. He’s completely humble and talks upon first meeting him and working with him. The very first day we actually did “Just Another Day” with Game. But we sat down, we watched him explain the Straight Outta Compton movie. He talked to us about the scenes and how they happened in real life and then [would] show us the scene. This would be the normal thing when we came to the studio... “Just Another Day” is actually in the movie. Just because I knew what he was feeling, the hook just came. Game did his verse on the side; I didn’t know what The Game was saying, he didn’t know what I was saying. But it matched. It was just crazy.

“Just Another Day” is really about... Like, I’m from the hood, I know a lot of people from the hood. There are things that happened in the hood on a day-to-day basis and it’s just like another regular day. Its something that we go through every day, it's not something that everybody gets a chance to hear or completely see about the real things that happen in Compton or in the hood unless they live there. A lot of people, it's going to touch close to home, because it's going to be something that you felt before. For other people it’s going to be an eye-opening. It’s in the movie and it's going to tie it all together when you see it.
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The way Dr. Dre works is that he's very instrumental in every part of the recording process. He's a part of the writing, he's a part of the vocal production, the actual production, so we went back and forth every day and every night and it was awesome to take it all in.
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Cold 187um: It was more like the old days, because Dre, to me, is very strong when it comes to creating, but he does value people with the same type of creative integrity, so that was really cool for me. We want people to understand us down to the intricate details, so we are always very careful because we want the same for each other. I think that's the best part of it, because I grew up being a musician so I understand being open to ideas and receiving constructive criticism and trying new things. And that's really what me and Dre do when we're in the studio: we stay open with each other.
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