gq magazine: How did you meet Dre?
jimmy iovine: Him and Suge [Knight, then CEO of Death Row Records] came in, and they brought The Chronic. I'd just come out of Rattle and Hum with U2. I knew hip-hop was going around, but I had no idea what it was. And then Dre walked in, and I said, "I don't know hip-hop, but I know my speakers. Who engineered it?" Dre said, "I did." When they told me the story of how they made the record, you might as well make a record falling out of a building. They were sneaking into studios; the government was after them; there were lawsuits, one RICO case, all on a bunch of guys who had no money and were making an album. I said, "Wow. If you can do it under those circumstances, let's go."
. he saw eazy saying “where the money at” , he saw guns, and thought that represented everybody in the group and film.. not knowing that every person in NWA wasnt a gangsta.
shyt, thats pretty well know universally, except by clueless cacs.
