What intrigues me about Dre and his career more than anything is the missed opportunities with each label for classic music we never heard and probably won't hear until he passes. Ruthless: Ice Cube's original solo album produced by Dre More NWA material Death Row: 90221 album (mentioned in Snoop and Dre interview in early 93 but never materialized) Helter Skelter album with Ice Cube (D.O.C. ran off with it and made his 2nd album) The Chronic 2: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (original sequel to the chronic few tracks leaked like My Life rest used for Aftermath album with verses from Pac and Rage cut out) Stowaways and Throwaways (B Side collection with original California Love solo record) NWA Reunion album before Eazy passed away Doggystyle 2 (imagine he never had a sophomore slump with Doggfather) Aftermath: Ghetto Metal (black rock n roll album mentioned in this interview could you imagine??) King T's solo record (leaked out and was so incredibly West Coast) Break up To Make Up (Snoop & Dre reunion album) Hittman Murder Weapon (stole the show on Chronic 2001 but left Aftermath in 01-02 later released bootleg of his album which was bangin') Rakim Oh My God (creative differences halted the album) Bishop Lamont record (after all the mixtapes and singles nothing dropped and he was on fire) Detox (Denzel Washington Hitman for Hire concept) Detox (12 step program concept called the most advanced album of all time by Scott Storch using classical music theories and pushing sound to the limit!!!) The Planets (an instrumental album involving the sounds of all planets as synthesizers using no sounds from earth) And now with his past coming to light, I keep hearing about how legendary his vault is. I know he has done some truly awful things towards Michel'le, Tairrie B and Dee Barnes but I can feel the energy that the Media is trying to tear him down completely. His catalogue has to be worth millions. (We're talking 30 plus years of unreleased music dating from World Class Wreckin Cru to Eazy E to Snoop to Eminem to Kendrick to Anderson Paak) Have you ever heard of another artist that built 3 labels and headphones? And it feels like the albums he didn't put out that I listed could've been legendary enough to change the game even further??
Pac and him really weren't that close. Dre and Pac did know each other back when he was in his NWA days but when Pac signed, Dre was pissed because he didn't have the creative control of the label to manage all the talent and product put in. California Love was a track he gave to Pac under duress from Suge. They still worked a few times here and there and they were cool until Dre claimed to do the track Got My Mind Made Up that Daz did. That's when their friendship went haywire and Dre left in March 96 right after Pac's GOAT double album was unleashed on the charts.
When he talked about being tired of the same video concept that was a shot at Suge and Death Row obviously. The Roots "What They Do" video perfectly details it.
