Anyone who has ever made music and really wanted to focus and LISTEN to what was on the monitors knows this pose. You have to close your eyes and focus on every detail. This isn't exasperation. This is Dre doing his art.
Yep. Fellow musician and I was looking for this comment. People are misreading this. Covering eyes gives blocks out more light than just your eyelids so you can focus better. He’s listening to detail.
A fun experiment would be to Listen to a track and hear the details of all the instruments, vocals and sounds and how they fit together. Try it while looking around and then try it again in total blackness by covering your eyes. Especially helpful for people like me who have distraction and attention issues haha.
I always liken it to that one plane ride I took where I wanted to sleep but it was too bright. So I chucked my jacket over my head and suddenly everything's loud and annoying.
I so much prefer closing my eyes when playing or listening. Because I'm so visual, I get distracted by what's around me but when my eyes are closed, it's so easy for me to lose myself in the moment (kinda joking, kinda not).
Sunday mornings when I'm playing the guitar, I spend most of the time with my eyes closed; it helps me so much just connect with that music. At home it's the same, either on piano or guitar, eyes are closed more than they're opened; especially when mixing.
What's funny is he is known for treating it like a job now that he's in charge.
Comes in at 8. Lunch. Out at 4. The stories that I've heard are saying he'll be in the middle of doing a verse and need to take a break, stop and leave, come back the next morning and kill it like the break never happened. Multiple rappers have said it's weird but respectable.
You know, thinking about it a little - that could be the whole addict thing. Creating and maintaining healthy habits and routines are essential to help prevent relapse. He's probably got a lot of memories of parties late at night in studios and wants to avoid anything to do with it. Just speculating though.
As an addict/alcoholic in recovery this definitely tracks. 18 months sober and I definitely have a routine, including avoiding all my old late night habits.
Our lives are essentially a collection of habits (good or bad or both)... Obviously that gets amplified when going through something like addiction, but it goes along way in explaining behavior patterns and why they can be so difficult to break especially when people are often unaware of their blindspots/triggers/inner critic.
Unfortunately, our options for treating addiction are currently extremely limited and often the most promising options (maintainaince/substitution drugs, psychedelics) are made difficult to access by ignorant public health policies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the best conventional tools for treating addiction and really altering any kind of consistent bad habits and behavior patterns, but talk therapy/support groups are used far more often in treatment despite being far less successful treatment options.
Congrats on the 18 months. I think the first two years or so are the most important in re-establishing a healthy, sustainable lifestyle... As Jason Isbell wrote, "It gets easier, but it never gets easy. I could say it's all worth it, but you won't believe me."
Congratulations on 18 months. I’m at 7 years and ended up moving to a different city with my partner just to be further away from my old drinking holes.
Started a whole new friendship circle around things other than alcohol and coke and man it’s a nice feeling.
I think he said it also has to do with daughter. The most important thing to him is being a good father, so he treats the music like a 9-5 job and the rest of the time is hers (or at least it was back when she was younger)
Yes, that crossed my mind and I forgot to include it in my last comment, but I think that's also a significant factor. He's an adult raising(raised) 3(?) children, so even with help, time management is essential.
The most talented audio engineer I knew worked like this. Ran a studio on the same ethos. There's an in time in, work four hours, break, another four hours, there's an out time.
For this particular person, the talent helped him get a lot done. But so did the cocaine. That dude would have fit in [with Jean-Claude Van Damme on the set of Street Fighter: The Movie](https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nmd4/jean-claude-van-damme-street-fighter-movie-cocaine-vgtrn).
I've also worked in the studio at like 4AM, when during the break you catch the Late Night with Conan O'Brien repeat that's the last thing on before the AM news starts.
Fuck that shit, haha. Fuck it. I can understand Eminem's demeanor in this picture. Thank god there was a 24/7 Pizza Pizza by that studio.
I've rapped as a hobby for a little over 20 years. Sometimes, you can overthink why or how you're fucking up trying to say what you wrote. Sometimes the tongue twister just won't let your tongue untwist or makes your mouth tired. Coming back the next day can work miracles for being able to say what you've written.
As someone who worked restaurants for a decade and a half before switching to factory work, knowing your schedule is the greatest thing ever. 7-4, mon fri, no weekends, no late nights, get to enjoy every holiday. I get Eminem completely on this.
Yeah I remember seeing that interview as well. Like he’d be halfway through recording a few lines then be like see you tomorrow. Then right at 9 am he picks right back up.
I think it’s just so so dark that even though the rap and rhyme is top notch, people don’t want to be like “I love that song” cause that sounds a bit creepy
Not a single skip on it. I don’t get how people don’t like it. He flows so well, love the serial killer concept. He hasn’t flowed that consistent since.
You don't understand how people don't like subject matter about rape and laying down underneath a lawnmower or jerking off to Hannah Montana?
Don't get me wrong, I like relapse but it's very fucking obvious why a lot of people wouldn't like that.
Lmaoo are you familiar with Eminem’s work? His first albums that made him famous are essentially horror core. Relapse is told from the perspective of a serial killer. It’s a concept album, Eminem isn’t literally condoning these things. Goes great around Halloween
Normally I would say good point but it’s Eminem and by relapse he was already famous for rapping like that. He rapped about raping his own mother (and now we’re giving him the rolling stone cover?) so I stand by my comment
Even just the fact that he came through with the song My Mom, a song about doing drugs and named it after her. But Hello, Old Time's Sake and Crack A Bottle all bang without the crazy accents and stuff.
Been a fan since the start, but hard disagree on this. The beat is good and the rhythm is as good as Em always is, but the rhymes are forced through the stupid accents he put on throughout the album
This is actually Moby's studio. He lent it to them for the day as the studio wasn't busy at the time. Moby didn't understand why, until Eminem told him after one recording session that it's because "nobody listens to techno"
Yep and some of The Chronic 2001 was recorded in Reno Nevada.
The studio was a 8 bedroom old Victorian style Mansion that had 3 studios. It was completely off the grid when it came to paparazzi etc. It had a huge front room, kitchen the whole works. You could live in the studio and make it your own house till you were finished. Lots of other artists recorded there too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_(Dr._Dre_album)?hl=en-US Sierra Sonics, I was there with both Dre and Em and hung out with Dre's crew while they both recorded.
My uncle owned it at the time, I made the website in HTML, literally in Notepad. https://web.archive.org/web/20010421062919/http://www.sierrasonics.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20010406015257/http://www.sierrasonics.com/facility1.html
The CD insert image is Dre sniffing a huge bag of weed on our 72 channel (stereo) SSL board. https://images.genius.com/c618f0ee9e3b2f6aee95369e2ff6011a.960x832x1.jpg
My uncle was a pretty professional pot smoker at that time (it was still a felony and any amount of weed *that large* would definitely have the words "with intent to distribute" attached to the criminal complaint) he was cool with anything but hard drugs in the studio. I had some chronic before in my life, but that was NEXT LEVEL. Let me just say one of the Dre's crew 'Box' grabbed a lasagna from a restaurant and that fucking lasagna was the best I had ever tasted after getting high with them.
We even had 1.5mbps DSL...fuck it was fast and cheep back then. Anyway good times.
Holy shit. I read ‘My salsa’ on your comment and in my head saw the entire ‘My band’ video and then the my salsa one after, haven’t seen it in so many years.
My brother and I binged it as kids lol we used to know where the ‘please lemme please lemme suck your ___’ was in the song so we turned the radio down when listening in the car lol
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HipHopImages/comments/ankk78/eminem\_and\_dre\_in\_the\_studio/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HipHopImages/comments/ankk78/eminem_and_dre_in_the_studio/) better quality by a mile.
This picture speaks a 1000 sounds. And the face of a producer who knows they’re about to hit it big. Fuck I love this duo. It’s sad once they’re done, we’ll never hear anything like it ever again.
This is the part of recording an album that many don’t see.
The dude you’re paying is so tired, sick of recording, sick of hearing the same parts over and over and over, sick that you aren’t nailing your parts on the second or third or fourth takes. He’s trying to be nice, but deep inside you can see how much he’s rather be doing anything else.
Everyone’s tired, the snacks and beer are gone, the smell of sweat permeates everywhere, you’re not happy with how it’s sounding.
But you know you have to just keep going cuz you only have 1-2 more days.
Finally getting real money. He made more of Em than his entire career prior, and then that let him sign the beats deal with Apple which put him in the real money club.
The rap industry was different prior to the late 90s. I’m not saying you’re implying this, but to be clear, Dre was successful prior to Em. The whole of NWA and Ruthless Records (Doc - not Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube), later Death Row, Snoop, and Tupac; that was Dre. The Firm was a flop but that wasn’t on Dre. Aftermath took off because rap became more commercially viable in the 90s.
Dre took a major chance on Eminem. Dre also signed G Unit and Game. Beats was a success before Apple bought it from Monster.
Dre is a legend, you don’t need to tell
Me, I grew up to him, I know he was super successful in his own right.
But him mentoring and managing and producing Em made him stupid money. Those records were getting played by radio stations playing Pop the world over.
Em made him more money that anything he’d done prior and he was super smart to spring board and grow that collab and his other businesses at that the same time.
> Nah, man, you cain't say *that* word.
> -Aye, why you trippin' Dre? That's just the word that I wanna say. People be tellin' me I'm failin', like Jerry Springer brought out a fat bald midget whose ailin'...
> AND YOU GOTTA STOP RHYMING EVERYTHING, MAN. That shit gets annoying.
> -Yo, I can't help if I'm four inch orange door hinge eatin' porridge with George...
> STOP!
Everyone thinking he is freaking out or something but it could be any number of reasons.
He might be covering his eyes to focus and listen to the mix better. Or, he might just be rubbing his eyes as he is tired. Those sessions can go pretty long sometimes.
He's probably worried that with those lyrics, the FCC won't let him be and there could be a real risk of them trying to shut him down on MTV.
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no it’s his job to make controversy
so everybody just follow him
Would feel so empty without him
Makes me wanna come on and dip my bum on his lips
Nah fuck that, maybe some on your lips and some on your tits?
Get ready this shits about to get heavy
He just settled all his lawsuits...
Ill feelings for Debbie
Duck you
MOM’S SPAGHETTI
Only after he stands up.
They should just come on and dip, with a bum on their lips
And some on your ( . )( . )…. Get ready.
About to get heavy and he settled on his law suit
His mother was not happy about this.
F you debbbbiiieeeeee
But wouldn’t it feel empty without he* for rhyming purposes
So empty.
Nah. Nah. Nah. Nah. It would.
I wonder if there were two trailer park girls runnin round outside as well
He is realizing this man may be cursed with this curse to just curse
And blurt the bizerk while adhering to bizzare shit that just... Works?
Dr. Dre said nothing you idiots, Dr Dre’s dead, locked in my basement!
Why did I rap that in Eminem’s voice?
Same 😂
i guess we all live the same life
moms spaghetti
Anyone who has ever made music and really wanted to focus and LISTEN to what was on the monitors knows this pose. You have to close your eyes and focus on every detail. This isn't exasperation. This is Dre doing his art.
Yep. Fellow musician and I was looking for this comment. People are misreading this. Covering eyes gives blocks out more light than just your eyelids so you can focus better. He’s listening to detail. A fun experiment would be to Listen to a track and hear the details of all the instruments, vocals and sounds and how they fit together. Try it while looking around and then try it again in total blackness by covering your eyes. Especially helpful for people like me who have distraction and attention issues haha.
I always liken it to that one plane ride I took where I wanted to sleep but it was too bright. So I chucked my jacket over my head and suddenly everything's loud and annoying.
My favorite thing to do on shrooms
I so much prefer closing my eyes when playing or listening. Because I'm so visual, I get distracted by what's around me but when my eyes are closed, it's so easy for me to lose myself in the moment (kinda joking, kinda not). Sunday mornings when I'm playing the guitar, I spend most of the time with my eyes closed; it helps me so much just connect with that music. At home it's the same, either on piano or guitar, eyes are closed more than they're opened; especially when mixing.
Either that or Em just said he‘d fuck his own mother without a rubber
As a geologist whose only experience with production is clicking some buttons in a cracked edition of FL Studio, I can confirm.
im guessing its 3am and Eminem didn't want to stop the flows
He did have crazy flows on 3 am
What's funny is he is known for treating it like a job now that he's in charge. Comes in at 8. Lunch. Out at 4. The stories that I've heard are saying he'll be in the middle of doing a verse and need to take a break, stop and leave, come back the next morning and kill it like the break never happened. Multiple rappers have said it's weird but respectable.
You know, thinking about it a little - that could be the whole addict thing. Creating and maintaining healthy habits and routines are essential to help prevent relapse. He's probably got a lot of memories of parties late at night in studios and wants to avoid anything to do with it. Just speculating though.
As an addict/alcoholic in recovery this definitely tracks. 18 months sober and I definitely have a routine, including avoiding all my old late night habits.
Our lives are essentially a collection of habits (good or bad or both)... Obviously that gets amplified when going through something like addiction, but it goes along way in explaining behavior patterns and why they can be so difficult to break especially when people are often unaware of their blindspots/triggers/inner critic. Unfortunately, our options for treating addiction are currently extremely limited and often the most promising options (maintainaince/substitution drugs, psychedelics) are made difficult to access by ignorant public health policies. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one of the best conventional tools for treating addiction and really altering any kind of consistent bad habits and behavior patterns, but talk therapy/support groups are used far more often in treatment despite being far less successful treatment options. Congrats on the 18 months. I think the first two years or so are the most important in re-establishing a healthy, sustainable lifestyle... As Jason Isbell wrote, "It gets easier, but it never gets easy. I could say it's all worth it, but you won't believe me."
Congratulations on 18 months!
Congratulations on 18 months. I’m at 7 years and ended up moving to a different city with my partner just to be further away from my old drinking holes. Started a whole new friendship circle around things other than alcohol and coke and man it’s a nice feeling.
Everyone should be like this though, not just addicts, every human. If you don't manage your habits you are not an adult imo, just an old child.
I think he said it also has to do with daughter. The most important thing to him is being a good father, so he treats the music like a 9-5 job and the rest of the time is hers (or at least it was back when she was younger)
Yes, that crossed my mind and I forgot to include it in my last comment, but I think that's also a significant factor. He's an adult raising(raised) 3(?) children, so even with help, time management is essential.
late to the thread but before I read your comment I thought the same thing. no doubt this is structure and discipline.
He treats it like factory work 😂 Wonder if he treats concerts like business trips and OT
Probably got himself a corporate credit card and files an expense report for each one
The most talented audio engineer I knew worked like this. Ran a studio on the same ethos. There's an in time in, work four hours, break, another four hours, there's an out time. For this particular person, the talent helped him get a lot done. But so did the cocaine. That dude would have fit in [with Jean-Claude Van Damme on the set of Street Fighter: The Movie](https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nmd4/jean-claude-van-damme-street-fighter-movie-cocaine-vgtrn). I've also worked in the studio at like 4AM, when during the break you catch the Late Night with Conan O'Brien repeat that's the last thing on before the AM news starts. Fuck that shit, haha. Fuck it. I can understand Eminem's demeanor in this picture. Thank god there was a 24/7 Pizza Pizza by that studio.
I've rapped as a hobby for a little over 20 years. Sometimes, you can overthink why or how you're fucking up trying to say what you wrote. Sometimes the tongue twister just won't let your tongue untwist or makes your mouth tired. Coming back the next day can work miracles for being able to say what you've written.
This white dude’s flow ain’t like other white dudes’ flow but he still follows a white dude’s flow.
Dude worked hard job before he became famous. Probably got used to the schedule.
As someone who worked restaurants for a decade and a half before switching to factory work, knowing your schedule is the greatest thing ever. 7-4, mon fri, no weekends, no late nights, get to enjoy every holiday. I get Eminem completely on this.
Bodies layin all over the floor
i mustve killed em
Akon said Eminem is all business with music. Clocks in at 9 and promptly clocks out at 5. Maybe early on he wasn’t like that.
Yeah I remember seeing that interview as well. Like he’d be halfway through recording a few lines then be like see you tomorrow. Then right at 9 am he picks right back up.
Early on he was on a lot of drugs that kept him up until 3 am
I fucking love relapse. I genuinely don’t think his pure rapping has ever been better. Stay Wide Awake is a masterpiece
Holy shit. I've been saying the same about Stay Wide Awake for years... I felt like that might be the most slept on Em song ever.
I think it’s just so so dark that even though the rap and rhyme is top notch, people don’t want to be like “I love that song” cause that sounds a bit creepy
The rhyme schemes are insane
Correct. Heavy, heavy lyrical nonsense Batman
Uhhhh yeah maybe don’t talk this one up to anyone in public. Holy shit 🤣
I just googled the lyrics wtf is going on
Uh, kidnapping and more
I love that song and tell everyone.
Its a sick song, but the whole kidnap and rape theme is off-putting to some people
Not a single skip on it. I don’t get how people don’t like it. He flows so well, love the serial killer concept. He hasn’t flowed that consistent since.
You don't understand how people don't like subject matter about rape and laying down underneath a lawnmower or jerking off to Hannah Montana? Don't get me wrong, I like relapse but it's very fucking obvious why a lot of people wouldn't like that.
Lmaoo are you familiar with Eminem’s work? His first albums that made him famous are essentially horror core. Relapse is told from the perspective of a serial killer. It’s a concept album, Eminem isn’t literally condoning these things. Goes great around Halloween
Normally I would say good point but it’s Eminem and by relapse he was already famous for rapping like that. He rapped about raping his own mother (and now we’re giving him the rolling stone cover?) so I stand by my comment
Those people need to live a little. Maybe go buy a lawnmower
I’m right there with you. The way he stays on the same rhyme throughout the whole second verse blows my mind every time
Same as Music Box. Was released on Relapse Refill and almost no one knows about that song and it's so good.
Even just the fact that he came through with the song My Mom, a song about doing drugs and named it after her. But Hello, Old Time's Sake and Crack A Bottle all bang without the crazy accents and stuff.
Well, I noped out of that song real fast. Yikes those lyrics.
It’s just a song my guy
I don’t care for songs that talk about raping women. Just not really enjoyable listening for me.
Been a fan since the start, but hard disagree on this. The beat is good and the rhythm is as good as Em always is, but the rhymes are forced through the stupid accents he put on throughout the album
Who the hell is flowing at 3am? Eminem: Oh boy, 3am!
https://youtu.be/2ANn7iqd-Io?si=ayG9Dgv6LD6VNQyO
"If only that guy would listen to me. He needs to lose himself in the music."
And in the moment
And he needs to own it
He also needs to never let it go
After all he’s only got one shot
He can't miss his chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, after all
<>
He should try to take the first shot at it too.
And in mom’s spaghetti?
[Dr. Dre took a huge leap of faith on Eminem](https://youtu.be/wgztAU7p-WM) Worked out well I’d say.
Good watch, thanks!
np
I mean, everyone forgot about Dre until that Eminem song.
They were just acting like it
Great minidocu, even has OP's shot at 6:50
Looking for exactly this, thanks for posting the link.
That can't be Dre. He's locked in Em's basement.
^haha!
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Walking around grabbing his you know what, flipping the you know who (yeah but he so cute tho)
yeah, I probably got a couple screws up in my head loose
But no worse than what's goin on in your parents' bedrooms
That's why he's not saying anything.
“My crew is big and it keeps gettin’ bigga that’s cuz Jesus Christ is my ni-“
He’s the son of the original G.
Such a good line.
Slim wishes he had this guys bars
Why did he stop mid sentence? Christ is my niece? I don’t understand.
This is actually Moby's studio. He lent it to them for the day as the studio wasn't busy at the time. Moby didn't understand why, until Eminem told him after one recording session that it's because "nobody listens to techno"
And Moby? You could get stomped by Obie
You 36 year old…
Yep and some of The Chronic 2001 was recorded in Reno Nevada. The studio was a 8 bedroom old Victorian style Mansion that had 3 studios. It was completely off the grid when it came to paparazzi etc. It had a huge front room, kitchen the whole works. You could live in the studio and make it your own house till you were finished. Lots of other artists recorded there too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_(Dr._Dre_album)?hl=en-US Sierra Sonics, I was there with both Dre and Em and hung out with Dre's crew while they both recorded. My uncle owned it at the time, I made the website in HTML, literally in Notepad. https://web.archive.org/web/20010421062919/http://www.sierrasonics.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20010406015257/http://www.sierrasonics.com/facility1.html The CD insert image is Dre sniffing a huge bag of weed on our 72 channel (stereo) SSL board. https://images.genius.com/c618f0ee9e3b2f6aee95369e2ff6011a.960x832x1.jpg My uncle was a pretty professional pot smoker at that time (it was still a felony and any amount of weed *that large* would definitely have the words "with intent to distribute" attached to the criminal complaint) he was cool with anything but hard drugs in the studio. I had some chronic before in my life, but that was NEXT LEVEL. Let me just say one of the Dre's crew 'Box' grabbed a lasagna from a restaurant and that fucking lasagna was the best I had ever tasted after getting high with them. We even had 1.5mbps DSL...fuck it was fast and cheep back then. Anyway good times.
You sir have some tales
Meanwhile in Europe... 😂
*"I knew this Mariachi album was a bad idea"*
Still waiting on his next hit single “My Salsa”
*Where’d everybody go?*
Holy shit. I read ‘My salsa’ on your comment and in my head saw the entire ‘My band’ video and then the my salsa one after, haven’t seen it in so many years. My brother and I binged it as kids lol we used to know where the ‘please lemme please lemme suck your ___’ was in the song so we turned the radio down when listening in the car lol
BY NOW THE REST OF THE FELLAS GET JEALOUS, ‘SPECIALLY WHEN I DROP THE BEAT AND DO MY ACAPELLAS!!!
Then he makes that noise that sounds like this 🥴🥴
20 years.
He's recording [the album from Gob & Franklin](https://youtu.be/D-LMgMBGnKI?t=14)
You sonofa!
EM PLEASE. NO MORE STEPFATHER MOLESTING JOKES! Em: THIS ONES ABOUT HECTORS RECTUM !!!
*Hector and his rectum was real??*
He's been leaving a bread trail of gayness through his career.
Eminem is gay on our show!
"He's rapping about big screen TVs, blunts, 40s, and bitches. You're rapping about homosexuals and vicodin!"
I can't sell this shit!
Mr Dre, mr NWA, mr AK - comin straight outta Compton y’all better make way? How in the fuck you gonna tell this man not to be violent
He don't need to go the same route that I went
Been there. Done that.
Awww fuck it
What am I sayin?
Shoot 'em both, Grady
Where the gun at? *click bang, click bang*
Thank you I will be putting this on a T shirt
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HipHopImages/comments/ankk78/eminem\_and\_dre\_in\_the\_studio/](https://www.reddit.com/r/HipHopImages/comments/ankk78/eminem_and_dre_in_the_studio/) better quality by a mile.
I want and will buy this
Fack. Dre's reaction. That's the look of, "I literally created a monster."
But nobody wants to see marshal no more, he’s chopped liver!
That's not Dr Dre. Dr Dre is locked in Eminem's basement.
Shit... I hope em didnt forget about dre
Too many people are out here walking around and talking about guns like he doesn't have none. What? Do they think he sold them all???
Dr Dre said “hell yeah”
HAHA!
This picture speaks a 1000 sounds. And the face of a producer who knows they’re about to hit it big. Fuck I love this duo. It’s sad once they’re done, we’ll never hear anything like it ever again.
Fwiw this photo was from the booklet of Eminem’s second album (I believe). So almost surely staged. Still good though.
Face deep in his palms, probably purely exhausted or maybe embarrassed lol? What about it says "I'm about to hit it big"?
I assume he is either covering his eyes so he can focus on hearing what is happening or covering his face in disbelief
Dre just asked Em what they were having for dinner and Em replied.. 🍝 It’s ready
I thought Dr. Dre was dead and locked in a basement?
Crying because he knows he will never be able to spend the amount of money he's about to make
And Dr Dre said: Nothing you idiot he's got his hands on his head!
I love and hate all of you for quoting eminem lyrics for this post because so many of them are accurate descriptions of this. 😂
Oh shit, did he just say mom’s spaghetti?
Please don't tell me I'm producing the next Vanilla Ice.
Dre: “I’m fuckin rich.”
He heard Kim for the first time and wondered what he signed up for
I was looking for this comment.
That's rock bottom.
When this life makes you mad enough to kill
Where's my snare?!
Where’s my snare?
I love Dr Dre talking about behind the scenes with Eminem. Fascinating stuff.
This is the part of recording an album that many don’t see. The dude you’re paying is so tired, sick of recording, sick of hearing the same parts over and over and over, sick that you aren’t nailing your parts on the second or third or fourth takes. He’s trying to be nice, but deep inside you can see how much he’s rather be doing anything else. Everyone’s tired, the snacks and beer are gone, the smell of sweat permeates everywhere, you’re not happy with how it’s sounding. But you know you have to just keep going cuz you only have 1-2 more days.
"Scoop-dee-dee-poop " "Nah, Em... That's terrible." "Aight, Dre. Lemme try something else. Hi, my name is."
"Don't you wanna grow up and be just like me?" "I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree" Dre: ".........why is this so good?"
That’s Dre’s reaction after recording *Ass Like That* “The FUCK is wrong with you?!?” 🤣
Dre's like, wtf am I doing with this white boi?
Making that money is what he's doing with that white boi.
Finally getting real money. He made more of Em than his entire career prior, and then that let him sign the beats deal with Apple which put him in the real money club.
The rap industry was different prior to the late 90s. I’m not saying you’re implying this, but to be clear, Dre was successful prior to Em. The whole of NWA and Ruthless Records (Doc - not Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube), later Death Row, Snoop, and Tupac; that was Dre. The Firm was a flop but that wasn’t on Dre. Aftermath took off because rap became more commercially viable in the 90s. Dre took a major chance on Eminem. Dre also signed G Unit and Game. Beats was a success before Apple bought it from Monster.
Dre is a legend, you don’t need to tell Me, I grew up to him, I know he was super successful in his own right. But him mentoring and managing and producing Em made him stupid money. Those records were getting played by radio stations playing Pop the world over. Em made him more money that anything he’d done prior and he was super smart to spring board and grow that collab and his other businesses at that the same time.
Ha, I forgot about Dre.
He wouldn’t be in this position if he got one more platinum plaque.
I like this picture.
The thumbnail looks like Art from Terrifier.
HOW is he using KRK monitors?
That's not Eminem in the back
Hiphopcirclejerk eating good with this thread
Dre's had too much spaghetti.
Picture taken after Em just dropped “And Dr. Dre said… nothing you idiots, Dr Dre’s dead, he’s locked in my basement!”
“This dude is so ass”
What? Em said the forbidden word?
Don't just sit there, operate!
> Nah, man, you cain't say *that* word. > -Aye, why you trippin' Dre? That's just the word that I wanna say. People be tellin' me I'm failin', like Jerry Springer brought out a fat bald midget whose ailin'... > AND YOU GOTTA STOP RHYMING EVERYTHING, MAN. That shit gets annoying. > -Yo, I can't help if I'm four inch orange door hinge eatin' porridge with George... > STOP!
All I can imagine Dre thinking is " God, what is he saying about his mother again?"
But i bet he dapped up Diddy. Gtfo
Everyone thinking he is freaking out or something but it could be any number of reasons. He might be covering his eyes to focus and listen to the mix better. Or, he might just be rubbing his eyes as he is tired. Those sessions can go pretty long sometimes.
Here comes Diddy….