Kendrick Lamar recalls meeting Dr. Dre and says that he had to “snap out of fan mode” during an interview with BBC’s Annie Mac .
“Right after I said, ‘Dr. Dre, you’re the greatest,’ he’s like, ‘Yeah, man, you’re good, too,” the Top Dawg rapper says. “‘You could be something. Alright, now write to this beat.’ That beat ended up being the first song I did with him and it actually ended up on my album called ‘Compton.’ The way you hear it is the way I recorded it there. Those are the lyrics I wrote.”
When asked what his favorite Dr. Dre track is, he struggles to pick one. Mac further prompts him by asking to choose one that is sentimental and he settles on “Lil’ Ghetto Boy” and points out the line, “I think that’s what I get / For trying to jack the lil homie for his grip” as especially meaningful to him.
“I was blown away because it’s really the reality that we’re in,” he says. “I understood it and it was just the storytelling of it was wild.”
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You won’t go wrong with Dre man
eh…. I don’t know. You can probably list several artist who signed with Dre then never had an album come out (Rakim, Stat Quo, RBX, Last Emperor, Eve). Or their album took waaaaay to long to drop (Busta / Raekwon). Or the album’s production concept was out of place to begin with (The Firm).
Dre is responsible for some of the best beats / production in the history of hip hop music, but he’s far from perfect.
Sounds more like a just blaze beat
That’s because it is a Just Blaze beat.
Kendrick Lamar recalls writing “Compton” for him and Dr. Dre.
Okay, I fixed it for you, lol.