Let’s start with the obvious — at this stage in his career, Dr. Dre has nothing left to prove. In terms of clout, he has about the most possible for any Hip Hop pioneer.
But despite his pedigree, several social media users are accusing the prolific producer of exploiting Nipsey Hussle’s death. Eight days after the tragic shooting, a video of The Game’s Instagram Story was posted to YouTube, showing him in the studio with Snoop Dogg and Dre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUxtlAsf3M0&feature=youtu.be
Instagram photos from the session also show Dre and Game posing next to a portrait of the slain rapper, which evidently sparked controversy online due to an old interview Nip did with Bootleg Kev in 2013.
During Nip’s conversation with Kev, Nip addressed a line on “Mr. Untouchable” referencing Dre and the notion Dre didn’t support him or other burgeoning West Coast gangsta rappers.
“What I said about the Dre situation was just me being a real nigga,” Nip said. “It wasn’t like a direct shot. It was just like me speaking what was true to me at the moment. We doing us, and we gonna push regardless of co-signs, help, people coming down dropping ropes. I felt like if I’m sitting back in the game, and I’m watching Nipsey Hussle, and I’m watching Dom Kennedy, and I’m watching YG at that moment developing a situation, I just felt like what I would do — I wouldn’t spend money.
“I wouldn’t necessarily offer financial support, but I would do what I do to these young dudes that I see. I would acknowledge they grind. Because when it’s impossible to miss, and you don’t acknowledge it, that’s becomes intentionally not acknowledging it.”
Nip also mentions Dre on the cut “Keys 2 The City,” suggesting the N.W.A legend had decided not to work with him.
“Hussle, hussle, Dre passed, Def Jam, Capital Alantic too/Thought that I’ll be dead or doing life, ’cause what I rap is true/Just another you know who,” he spit. That line in particular gave Nipsey fans more ammo to build their case.
As a result, Twitter lit up with reactions to Dre’s photo with the Nip portrait. Some found it disgusting while others deemed it sad Nip was never able to work with one of his West Coast predecessors.
Check out some of the reactions below.
Only one clout chasing is The GAME, T.I. and Dj Khaled
shit still weak and gets no play in my ride!
Omg bro shut yo punk ass
U some hoe ass pussy ass butch2 straight up did u sell ur ass on bronson today gotta make that money huh omg tired of yo ass triple feel these nuts
U a pussy boy that eats cock u punk ass sissy u some fuck boy that takes dick u the ass
U take dick up the ass on bronson
And what u talking about clout chasing you chase for cock on bronson everyday bitch
I told you im going in on ur ass like how when dick goes up ur ass on bronson when u ass slanging that ass pussy motherfucker
Go in all you want bitch. I’m still here!! Tell your mother to wash her ass. Tell you sister to stop having all those kids she cant afford. How is that premature baby you got on SSI you broke ass bitch?
Jesus Christ, are you going to write an article whenever these clueless fucks have a reason to be outraged? Funny that this article fails to mention that Dre wanted Nip to play Snoop in Straight Outta Compton – but because he didn’t give Nip a 5 album multi-million record deal on Aftermath the first time he met him now he doesn’t have the right to stand near a painting of him? Get the fuck outta here giving these clowns on Twitter attention, Dre is in his 50’s with all the money in the world and been out of the limelight for years now, why the fuck would he be clout chasing??
On Snoops GNN Snoop asked nip dead or alive who would you work with , he said “Dr Dre. Now Dre is larger than life and I am sure its hard to get your foot in the door with him. Game however is on the biggest clout chase I have ever seen, its more than mourning at this point. Game can rap his ass off don’t get me wrong, but let the man rest.
The article literally is about what “several social media users” had to say? I understand you want to get clicks off of Nipsey’s name but come on… stop tryna reach for clout and stir up controversy amongst black communities.
Sure a few outraged Twitter users is always considered news worthy here, i see nothing wrong with dre doing that at all
Sounds like idiots on twitter that shouldn’t get attention, how about just ignoring them? Who cares what random ass shay or winny think? And its not like dre dissed the guy, he was never worthy to get in the studio with dre, no disrespect to the dead but just because he died doesn’t make him any less mediocre, he was never that good to begin with, dre is top notch and nipsey didn’t reach that, dre doesn’t and shouldn’t work with every California rapper, doesn’t mean he can’t pay respect
Hahaha, so you’re saying Dre has only worked with worthy rappers?
I find it hard to believe that Dre and Nip never ran into each other or crossed paths on the phone, facetime, message or anything through a mutual acquaintance, or that Dre never complimented his music and the word was passed on…you know?. Don’t get me wrong, Dre is a reclusive guy, but he also doesn’t need to justify who he works with. There’s a sense of entitlement here…
“Out in Cali, rappers blazing stress, waiting on DETOX to save the west, haha, even if the shit is dope, it ain’t giving you rappers hope, unless your signatures on a check from Interscope…nope, MOVE ON” – King Crooked I – Move on (remix)
Been I Nip fan since 2013s ihussle and he said in several interviews and songs he’d like to work with Dre. From co-signs from Snoop,Kurrupt,Game and 50 the least Dre could have done was a beat. Those were t just co-signs but the actually worked with Nip all before 2014. Posting besides pictures is actually clout chasing. You could post you regret not working with him but this is really clout chasing like the we’re the best of friends. If you didn’t consider Nip good enough so be it. But don’t be posting. And I’m a really big Dre fan who will defend him my death bed.
Hell, he wasn’t doing beats for Eminem and shit, but you think he should have done one for Nipsey. Dre hasn’t produced since 2008 for real or some shit. I’m sure his ghost producers would have laced him up.
cant believe this site just wont release my comment just cuz I criticized them….wtf?
SOMETIMES ITS JUST BUSINESS AND WHAT ITS WORTH AT THAT MOMENT OF TIME. I FORGOT WHAT COMEDIAN SAID IT, BUT SERIOUSLY, WHY WE BRINGING UP OLD SHIT?
Yeah, because Dr. Dre should have set the picture on fire or spit on it because him and Nipsey didn’t see eye to eye when they died. That is exactly how it should work, right? Not honoring the man after a tragic death, despite differences. All the while, “fans” acting like they were always there for Nipsey, but he has earned more money from his brand in death than while living…kinda funny to see.
DRE is his Own Man! He Never Tried to CARRY all of L.A., nor should he, if that’s not his calling… You Can’t Count the Artists DRE focused on over last 40 years on your 2 hands, to ‘Make Them Popular’… Celebrate the GREATNESS he’s Done with PAC, DOC, SNOOP, EM, EAZY, GAME, KENDRICK, BEATS, APPLE, everybody wanted DRE to ‘Make Them Big!’, DRE’s got true love and respect for NIP, as he does for others, doesn’t mean he could produce every artist that wanted his ‘golden touch’. He’s done MUCH MORE to help artists than ALL these BS ‘clout chasing’ sites tryin’ to hate on him and others doing HISTORIC THINGS!
100% The Truth
Dre is one of the richest most famous people ever to come out of Hip hop but he needs to clout chase an indie rapper? Stop it. Most of these internet dik riders are phony. He died with 2 mil, which is not much and basically means none of these clowns supported him when he was alive either. Smh.
Just like the majority of rappers that mentioned Nipseys name. Who was actually mentioning Nips name before he passed. Forget about the rappers, all you goofballs on twitter wasn’t even talking about Nip before he passed. FOH you bunch of cornballs
A lot of truth to what you’re saying..
Well, nip was always a B or C league rapper. He wasn’t top 20 period. Sit down, punk. No one ever paid attention to him before a jackass from his own hood shot him. Even when he slapped a security guard while surrounded by a gang of his buddies. YG is a better rapper, and that is wack.
Dres doing a nice thing by taking a picture with the painting. Dre also produced that fire for jay-z and Raekwon on Cuban linx 2. He didn’t have to do that east coast shit but he did. Im sure dre would have worked with nipsey eventually. nipsey wasn’t this famous until his tragic passing. he had to get in line just like everybody else. dres Compton soundtrack was terrible and horribly mixed and if that’s how dre be coming nowadays he would have done nipsey a disservice. I would never wish a young mans life to end but nipsey wasn’t the best. Hes not in pacs league at all like many say he is.
Dre got 2 good albums in 30 years, c`mon this fool overrated, had a few good beats, but yet worked super hard promoting an internet joker like 50cent. and people say dre is a legend etc, he doesnt even support the real and thats why 2pac exposed his Bitc4 a55…
A true pioneer of hip hop should be real and support the real, not let devils in to the game and shut the real ones out! He doesnt love hip hopor even respect it!
Its people like dre why the hiphop scene is full of fake weak rappers!!!
Yeah. Supersonic by JJ fad dummy? Eazy Does It? All the N.W.A. Albums? Eminem? 50? Kendrick? You’re fucking retarded. Just listen to Drake and finger your butthole.
Deep!
I see you shooting but your angles is trash.
Fucking stupid fuck NIP!
Fuck you mother fucker Nipsey is now a legend
Still Dre!!
Nip was a no one, everyone needs to get of deez nuts
Hahahahaha. Dre needs to chase clout from someone? He’s worth roughly a billion. Even with all the death hype, Dre brought out Em and 50. He was in, and produced N.W.A., he produced Eazy-E. Shit, he made the beat for Supersonic by JJ Fad. Which artist in the last 20 years put out ANYTHING nearly as cool as The Chronic, or the Chronic 2001? Nipsey who? Ridiculous. 95% of these dick riders never played a single Nipsey track before his death. Facts. Nipsey was a MC. he could spit, but he will never be on a serious top 20 of all time list. He’s nowhere near Big L or Pun, let alone Pac or Big…
Bruh I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. It shows that Dre has respect for his homeboy and fellow musician. And they Dre is and has been putting in work.
A lot of people on twitter talking shit . They’re bad at Dre but even they weren’t on Nippsey’s train until he died . Like BIG said, you’re nobody till somebody kills you
Mad at Dre*
The irony of a bunch of people who likely didn’t listen to or support Nip music while he was alive giving Dre shit for the same is palpable.
Yeah but he straight up trying to give the appearance that he was in love with the man! In all honesty what do You think ? would be NIPSEY’S reaction if he could see the picture of Dre surrounded by his pictures?
Dre makes himself look ? like some kind of sap sucking up the blood of a dead ? man to NOURISH HIMSELF!!!
Yeesh, I’m so tired of seeing the word”clout”. Never has that word been used besides the gossip pages. Clout chasing mothafu….
All of a sudden I am seeing that word clout thrown around too so annoying
Dre doesn’t need to chase clout or use the name of a dead man to make a name for himself. Dr. Dre is pretty much THE LEGEND. Do you have any idea how many artists would sell their souls to work with Dre & never get that opportunity? It is unfortunate for whatever reason it never happened, but people need to get over it.
Pac brought the real light to Dre back then bruh…
Yo those twitter bitchiz betta leave the Good Doc alone. fuck’em all.
FUCK DRE!
Bitch drama
Like most, I agree that Dr. Dre doesn’t need clout (I hate that I even typed that word) but I do find it questionable that he’s posing with Nipsey Hussle’s portrait and he refused to work with him when he was alive. I know 50 cent doesn’t have anything to do with this but a question just popped into my head…how could Dr. Dre work with the likes of 50 cent and not Nipsey Hussle? The talent and heart was obviously there. There is nothing anyone can say or do to hurt Dr. Dre’s legacy at this point. I think he should not use Nipsey Hussle image like that though.
He already has a dark cloud over his head,a woman beater
To be honest Nip music is mediocre at best. He had a great mind for business but his music and rap style wasn’t that good. I respect his hussle and he did a hell of a job in his community. I respect him for that. So don’t hate Dre for not working with him he passed on other artist as well. Don’t make a big deal out of him Posting a portrait of Nip. He showing Respect for what he stood for! Most of these other dick riders never even knew who Nip was until his death. Just accept the respect Dre is showing.
Dre dont need to work with Nip to respect him or support his movement. Dre did the homie a favor, otherwise u wouldn’t have heard shit from him. Or Nip would’ve been bitter about not dropping. Also, u don’t know if they had a relationship behind the scenes.
Nip mentioned multiple times that Dre wasn’t fucking with him or ignored him. If they ad a relationship, he wouldn’t have put Dre on blast.
I remembered Dre not really liking 2Pac either. California Love was Dre’s song and Suge forced 2Pac to be on the record. Everyone also jumped on the Pac bandwagon too after he died and Dre even did a tribute to him at the Up In Smoke Tour and many years later with the hologram. No big deal, I was more of a Dre fan than 2Pac.
actually if Ice T died, and dre would upload a picture of himself and an Ice T portrait, people would react the same way? just cuz they never worked together, means he cant mourn a person regardless of their relationship? 2. this site wouldnt have posted an article if it had been Your Old Droog or Immortal Technique next to a Nip portait…so whos really clout chasin here? clickbait off of Nips death and Dres name/fame
btw..last time i tried to post exactly that….this siite wouldnt let me..they just didnt release that post, hope i got more luck this time:)
actually if Ice T died, and dre would upload a picture of himself and an Ice T portrait, people would react the same way? just cuz they never worked together, means he cant mourn a person regardless of their relationship? 2. this site wouldnt have posted an article if it had been Your Old Droog or Immortal Technique next to a Nip portait…so whos really clout chasin here? clickbait off of Nips death and Dres name/fame
btw..last time i tried to post exactly that….this siite wouldnt let me..they just didnt release that post, hope i got more luck this time:)
That’s not the point nip reached out to Dre but he passed
so what? Is Dre supposed to give everybody a chance even if he aint feelin his shit? Why would Dre need to do that for clout? Hes like a billionaire, do you really think he hopes he can get some extra bucks off of Nips death by posting next to a portrait of Nip? Maybe Game reached out to him, or Dre thought…with my face next to his I can get his family a few extra bucks and do somethin good for him…Nips music was medicore after all, no disrespect, but hes made more money after his death than before that…how ya explain that? Whos to blame for that? His socalled ‘fans’??
Mediocre?? Boy please
It’s fine if he didn’t feel him before, or wasn’t a fan, but don’t flip flop all of a sudden and only now in death give him any attention.
If Nip did reach out to Dre to work together and Dre passed, that’s up to Dre. He may not have wanted to work with Nip, or even rate Nip as an artist, that doesn’t stop him from mourning a pioneer and key figure in his local community. Dre and Nip could have been cool, just not working together. Dre keeps himself to himself pretty much all the time.
Most of the hoopla about Dre taking that pic is a reach. Maybe he didn’t see the potential in artists like Nip at that time, or, maybe he saw something others didn’t. That doesn’t mean he didn’t respect or acknowledge them.
Can somebody please explain to me what Clout Chasing Means now these days… because seem to me every time somebody do something they’re Clout Chasing….. DRE is damn near a Billionaire… the fuck he clout chasing for. Now these days you can’t even speak your mind without be called a clout chaser. One thing about him being a fake fan… I get that, but I doubt hes clout chasing. We all know when you die EVERYBODY LOVES YOU. I guess that just how it is in this world….. Wish the lord have a way to allow us to slap the shit of some people at the funeral .
Dre is damn near a Billionaire he don’t need to clout chase…. Crazy now these days everything you do on Social Media you’re clout chasing…. One thing of being a fake fan I get that, but let be real EVERYBODY LOVES YOU when you DIE. Guess that just how it is in this world we are living in….
Dre and Rakim tried to collaborate and it didn’t work out and Rakim top 5 DOA, I get that they from the same city and maybe Dre should have given him a look but clout chasing is a stretch what’s wrong with him posting a pic of him he might have respected Nip more as a person than as an artist maybe that’s the way he was feelin, it actually may have motivated Nip to be more hungry. A lot of people frontin on these blogs because most didn’t even know Nip’s music until Victory Lap or after he passed. Plenty of artists may not get a look from top producers in their city, but why should that be a reflection of whether they felt them as a human being.
Those most overused term in Hip Hop… And it’s usually by some corny a** clown or keyboard warrior. Dre barely worked with people signed to him so him not working with Nip when he was alive is not surprising coming from him at all. Sh*t has to naturally happen and not be forced. And if it don’t happen, it don’t happen. Didn’t stop Nip one bit. If he wasn’t crying about it why is there a bunch irrelevant of dudes on the internet crying about it? The internet really be having people feeling like what they think or say really matters. Smh! Lmao
Clout and money are two diferent things. Dre, I presume, wants a positive rep and that COULD BE the case here. How much money he has is irrelevant. As Hussle’s rep is becoming richer after his passing, some, who didn’t acknowledge him in the days when he was alive, might not be real enough to admit that. I don’t know enough about this to one hundred percent support these allegations, I’m simply saying that a rich man monetarily can still protect their clout and/or reach for more b/c that has to do with their reputation.
Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of people out here right now trying to attach themselves to Nipsey. Is Dre guilty? Probably, but so are a lot of others.
Does anybody who uses “clout chaser” even know wtf clout means. Clout is basically another word for influence or recognition. I really don’t think Dre is lacking in either.
DRE is a west coast pioneer &there would be no west coast without DRE! All the youngstas that know nothing about hip-hop trying to put Nip on the same level as DRE lost your mind& know nothing! Most people didnt even know Nip existed till he died! DRE might not of wanted to produce another gang banger from Cali after all the death row garbage. Let’s not forget Nip was not the Nip he is now dead that he was alive! Biggie said it best “you ain’t nobody till you die”.
It could be he liked Nip as an artist, but not necessarily what he as a producer could add to his craft. A producer can have a sense if his style & way of producing would benefit such & such artist and might feel he cannot add anything significant to it. Doesn’t mean he don’t like the artist.
Strong point. Dre maybe should have communicated that to Nip.
How do you know he didn’t…?
EVERYBODY ALL OF A SUDDEN UP ON NIPSEY HUSSLE — SO FUCK’N LAME — EVERYBODY!
Ppl are a trip… It would be different if they had some kind of beef going but all I’m hearing is ppl downing dre because he didn’t work or possibly didn’t want to work with him when he was alive… Really?? He is one man with a lot of fame,followers and responsibilities… Do you honestly believe it would be possible for him to work with EVERYONE that might want to work with him?? Has anybody stopped to ask Dre why he never worked with him?? The point I’m getting at is that its easy to sit back and say what someone else should have done but its a little harder to understand someone’s reasons for their actions or lack of actions especially when you never take the time to find out why… Second, just because an artist doesn’t work with another artist, doesn’t always mean he doesn’t have respect for them… Everybody is gonna see what they want from the picture but all I choose to see is a show of respect…
I fully see your pov. I also feel like Dre could have made the time to work with Nip if he really wanted to.
My homeboy n I were talkin bout dis shit jus the other day leave it n let nipssy rest in peace dre don’t need clout he got enough no one knows what happened behind the scenes snoop allready had nipsey work in with himself n im sure others ta come.
Dre and Nipsey actually worked together before before Nipsey died. There’s a picture of ’em in the studio with Jason Mitchell. Y’all need to do some searchin’ before you start cryin’ like abunch of h**s
….all people are doing is basing a few lyrics and an interview sound bite and developing their own view of someone else’s relationship…none of y’all were ever in the room with Dre OR Nip, you don’t know either of them and you don’t know what they have happening in their lives….but all have an opinion on what they should or should not be doing.
Go do your own work.