Dr. Dre has lastly revealed why he turned down the possibility to work with late pop icons Prince and Michael Jackson.
Talking to Kevin Hart on the latter’s Hart to Coronary heart present, Dre shared that he was given the possibility to collaborate with each Prince and Michael Jackson, together with different greats like Stevie Marvel, however finally “bowed out” of these alternatives.
“They simply requested me to work with them and I simply was like, ‘What the fuck am I going to do with them?’” he defined. “These are my fucking heroes.”
Watch a clip of Dr. Dre’s chat with Kevin Hart beneath.
Following that alternate, per The Hollywood Reporter, Dr. Dre revealed that he had most just lately handed on the possibility to work with Stevie Marvel, saying that he didn’t need to have an effect on “the best way I really feel about Stevie, Prince, Michael, Bruce Springsteen, and all of those wonderful artists,” which “might change by working with them.”
“These are my fucking heroes,” Dr. Dre defined. “I like the thought of what I grew up listening to and I need to maintain it like that. And I don’t need to fuck up that concept and that look.”
Dr. Dre went on to check working with artists like Michael Jackson, Prince and Stevie Marvel – who have been already established musicians on the time – and dealing with artists like Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar firstly of their careers.
“My total life and profession has been coping with and dealing with new artists. That’s what I like. No person is available in with an agenda,” Dre stated. “It’s a ball of clay once they stroll within the room. You possibly can simply type it and do what you need. That’s what I need. All people else, particularly my heroes, they’re coming in and there’s a set plan as to how the shit ought to sound. I can’t discover.”
Elsewhere in his dialog with Kevin Hart, Dr. Dre revealed that he doesn’t like “most” of recent hip-hop, however he’s “by no means gonna hate” on present artists. “Hip-hop is evolving. In the event you don’t prefer it, don’t hearken to it, you understand what I’m saying? I’m keepin’ all of it the best way 100 with you. A few of this shit, most of this shit, I don’t like. I don’t hearken to plenty of that shit. However I’m not hatin’ on it. I’m by no means gonna hate on it.”
Final month, the rapper-producer was awarded the primary ever Hip-Hop Icon Award on the 2023 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards.
