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He knows how to enhance, he’s not afraid to try and get what he likes. “In the studio, Dre’s a big motivator,” says singer BJ The Chicago Kid, who features on ‘It’s All On Me’ but was present throughout the album’s creation. He’d often order take after take from his vocalists, striving for the level of perfection he’s demanded his entire career. Most beats that made the grade would be tweaked by the producer. Dre would frequently run back and forth between the multiple rooms in which his collaborators were holed up, chipping away at one track before moving on to another. Taking place in Dre’s LA studio over the last year, the ‘Compton’ sessions were run like a giant think-tank that encouraged his newly formed team to bring their own ideas to the table.
Dre looked at the room, asked everyone if it was cool, we all agreed, and that’s what it ended up being.” I think it was Allen Hughes who came in and said, ‘Why don’t you call it ‘Compton’. We were all sitting down at his beach house. I think the name came about not even too long ago. At the time we didn’t have a name but we were just working towards it. A few weeks later, Dre said, ‘OK yeah, we’re working on this new album’. “Once I started to notice that I was like, ‘Oh I see what we’re working on here’. “Eventually, I started to notice the shape of the records and the colour of them and the feel and what they were talking about,” Justus says. But after being introduced to Dr Dre last year by a long-time affiliate of the producer Big Pooh, the young MC suddenly found himself central to Dre’s new wave of creativity. Hailing from North Carolina, Mez was one of a galaxy of talented MCs trawling the rap blog circuit for an audience, his most notable release being last year’s mixtape ‘Long Live The King’. Engineers said, ‘We haven’t seen Dre like this in 10 years, we haven’t seen him this excited about being in the studio, this excited about recording music.’” “He has the work ethic, but I think when he saw our talent that he thought was exceptional on a certain level, it made him want to work a lot more. “When me and Justus came in I think we inspired him on a much higher level and made him stay in the studio a lot more often,” says King Mez. Surrounding himself with young bucks who were weaned on his own productions, the superproducer rekindled the creative spark he seemed to lose years ago. Producers like DJ Dahi, Dem Joints and DJ Khalil worked closely with Dre on the beats, while new-generation crooners BJ The Chicago Kid (pictured below) and Candice Pillay brought their own unique flavour. Many of the lyrics came from the pens of up and coming rappers King Mez, Justus (pictured below) and Anderson Paak. While there was input from long-standing cohorts like Ice Cube (‘Issues’), Snoop Dogg (‘Satisfaction’), Eminem (‘Medicine Man’) and Xzibit (‘Loose Cannons’), much of the heavy lifting was done by a new generation of hungry young artists who brought new styles, fresh ideas and whole lot of energy to the table. ‘Compton’ is not merely a nostalgia trip, however. With his motivation in place, the stage was finally set for the return of the hugely influential beatmaker. Inspired by his work as a producer on the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, Dre went to work with a solid deadline – he wanted this new project to coincide with the release of the movie, revisiting the streets and stories of his youth. And he fiddled about with ‘Detox’ until he just couldn’t do it anymore.īut from the ashes of the oft-delayed album rose ‘Compton’. He seemed to work less and less with other artists. As time went by, he sold a hell of a lot of headphones. With no one ordering the Aftermath Entertainment CEO, Beats founder and hip-hop billionaire to turn in a record, Dre kept the streets waiting for his near-mythic third album ‘Detox’ for a decade and a half. The same maxim seems to have applied to Dr Dre. Dean Van Nguyen talks to some of them about the making of a modern-day masterpiece.ĭuke Ellington once said, “I don’t need time, I need a deadline”. But he might still be lost in ‘Detox’ hell were it not for the input of a phalanx of hungry young rappers, singers and producers who helped realise Dre’s vision. Dr Dre’s long-awaited new album ‘Compton’ has been hailed in all quarters as a storming return to form for the veteran rap super-producer.
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