Scott Storch has handed out hits to numerous major artists throughout his nearly 30-year career, but there aren’t many of them he remembers as vividly as “Still D.R.E.”
The 46-year-old iconic keyboardist drew from his memory bank in a recent video interview with HipHopDX and clarified Snoop Dogg’s claims that JAY-Z wrote the song while also providing valuable commentary on the recording process.
“If my memory serves me, we sent the beat off to him. We sent the beat off to him and it came back immediately like fire if I remember right,” Storch began.
“He’s a prolific writer. To nail that for them, being an East Coast dude and like … You know what I mean? It was a lot of East Coast influence on there because I was a Miami/Philly guy and yeah, man, that’s his thing.”
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Storch went on to describe the excitement while “Still D.R.E” was being crafted and mentioned that Dr. Dre was in the process of making a sandwich when he first heard the signature piano line.
“Dre heard it immediately,” Storch recalled. He was on the other side of the door. And the way the studio was set up, there was a control room, and then it was like a kitchen right outside of it. He was in there, making a sandwich or something. And he had the drum pattern that he programmed which is left on play on the MPC. He just let it loop and he would let us all jam out and see if anything comes from it. And he opened the door, he’s like, ‘That’s it right there. That’s it.’ His ears are so dope. Dre was like, ‘This is it. This is a single.’ And he was so excited that he ran back in and we fucking recorded it, and we started layering it together, and just boom.”
To this date “Still D.R.E.” is 4x platinum and resonates with Hip Hop heads everywhere, including Jonah Hill, according to Storch.
“I have recently spoken with Jonah Hill and he said that ‘Still D.R.E.’ is probably the most iconic piano line in the history of music. That was an honor because he’s like a true Hip Hop historian too.”
Catch the full interview below.
still wearing those corny-ass sunglasses, eh?
Corny sunglasses that costs more than your mortgage lmfao foh hater hahaha
Even though this is somewhat of an old story just from a new point of view, it makes it laughable when people tried to act like Jay-Z was a biter(mainly because of Ether) for spitting some of B.I.G.s lines. When he said he was doing it to keep the memory of his friend alive. Common sense would tell most people that this dude wrote 99% of a song, why would he need to steal the last two bars to complete it? That single though really set that album off, definitely a classic.
He not a writer he a biter. The dude u speak of pays for Ghostwriters his whole career. Til this day.
U out cha mind if u think he was reciting Big’s lines to keep his name alive…LMAO…he let the world know how he felt about Big on “The city is mine”.
Which was reverential in nature, he honored big in “The city is mine” do you fools listen to music or just skim through it. Hov is one of the greatest songwriters in modern music history
Wasn’t just Biggie he stole from. He stole from:
Snoop
Rakim
2pac
Big Daddy Kane
Nas
Slick Rick
Paying homage to them too?
FOH……
That ain’t nothin! I did all of the NWA hits in 15 minutes!
Nigga I did all of Eazys albums in less then a week 1st day I done “Eazy duz it” 2nd day I did “5150 home for tha sick” 3rd day we did “It’s on (Dr Dre) 187 killa” an 4th and 5th days we just recorded songs for his double LP “Str8 off tha streets of Compton” sadly he passed before we could finish the double LP, so we just put all the last songs we did on one album which was “ Str8 off tha streets of Compton” So both LPs was platinum and 1 Ep was gold and the other Ep went platinum…. Shout out to DJ Speed, Dj Yella, Bobcat, Dj U-Neek, Dr Dre and any other producer that worked on these projects with me
The interviewer is flaming like a mofo. Probably wears pink thongs to work.
If anyone’s interested, the shovel track referenced I believe is Busta’s “Legend of the Fall Offs.”
So Dr Dre and Snoop are NOT rappers, They are just FAKES using ghostwritten rhymes,
Why your name hip hop whitey when you dont know shit about hip hop. Just drop the hip hop.
You a Dog. Bet you are a African American. “Black lives matter”. You all are the most racist kind ever. All lives matter. Our generation did not put your grand papi and grand mami in slavery. Let it go.
We all must pay for our ancestors mistakes..Israel..just finished paying for 400 years ..now it’s the gentiles turn they must pay for slavery
That piano “whatever you want to call it” was basically taken from the RZA’s production style.
I always thought part of that intro was a classical piece sampled from Beethoven, but not the whole piano run. Well it’s still dope. The intro is timeless and that whole piano run throughout Still Dre will forever be great.