I just got some Yamaha HS5's cause I needed some studio monitors that fit on my desk at home. Testing them out with the instrumentals of this album... just beautifully mixed it really sounds incredible. Thank You, Another part of Me, Gorgeous and Fire. I'm starting to appreciate the production on this album more and more.

That was also my verdict and still is. The album sounds good from a distance on a high-quality, professional system. On my Adam Audio's in my studio, with a subwoofer and an acoustically treated room, it sounded good too. My problem was this: in the car, on my headphones, and on regular speakers it was a disappointment. The "high frequencies" are simply too loud and the mixes are very bright. Maybe this album really was intended to be produced for studios, Dolby Atmos systems, and big stages.
It just is what it is: The old Dr. Dre sound aesthetic still sounds fantastic on EVERY speaker and EVERY headphones.

I just got some Yamaha HS5's cause I needed some studio monitors that fit on my desk at home. Testing them out with the instrumentals of this album... just beautifully mixed it really sounds incredible. Thank You, Another part of Me, Gorgeous and Fire. I'm starting to appreciate the production on this album more and more.

one battle after another - interesting leonardo dicaprio & sean penn movie about activists doin the most

Been meaning to see that one but I keep putting it off cause it's 3 hours long

wasn't in the interview

no shit.. that's why I asked.. "where did you hear that?"

no coincidence either that the NBA has had a huge surge in the ratings since NBC got back in the game as well

Maybe I should give it a chance...

(re-watches Game 2 Bulls/Suns 93)

You can't beat the 80's.  I want you to compare the look of the 80's Skelator/He-Man and the look of the 80's Hulk (body builder Lou Forigno) to these ridiculous CGI Green Screen Graphics and characters they make today in 2026.

Even though these movies were fantasy the 80's at least attempted to make them feel and look real.  That's the whole point of a movie, you are supposed to suspend your reality for a couple hours and sort of trick yourself into believing you are in another world, and when it's done right you get swept away in it.  When it is done wrong you get stuck trying to convince yourself to stay interested.

..also on another note, I was a big fan of the o.g Masters of the Universe and I'd love if they picked up where the original left off with Skelator's "I'll Be Back" in the ooze... but I know they won't

There's now so many interviews on Bomb1st, Vlad, and Art that sometimes I get mixed up.  But I vaguely recall something about Foxy being with Von Zipp.  Zipp is the guy Puffy paid and then he paid half the money he was supposed to pay to Keefe D and them for the murder?

Zipp was in Vegas?

Wasn't in the car right?

Foxy was there in Vegas with him?

Not sure, like I said, it was vaguely mentioned.  But it's interesting how Foxy was sleeping with everybody in those days (can't blame um) with Death Row via Kurupt near that time puttin a ring on her finger, with Pac's killers, with Jay-Z, with DMX, with Nas in that era as well.

That bitch got around in 96' - 98'.  She probably has some crazy stories but they never ask her about that stuff in interviews.  And she's not the most articulate interview anyway, but I'm sure she has stories.

props

to be fair I think its that way with a lot of artists

us fans remember more stuff than they do

This is a great catch by KRULL, OKKA and HIGHEYECUE.  Ya'll really brought me back, because I remember this.  It was about summer or fall 98' when we first started hearing news about rumored tracks artists set to appear on Dre's follow up to the Chronic. 

And this was a great catch, this "Doggz 4 Life" track.  Because so many leaks and info over the years have appeared over the years, and yet we never have found out what became of this song.  It was mentioned in a few different places as you guys have shown here, so it's likely that there really was a song "Doggz 4 Life" at some point.  My guess is that DMX was never on it, but maybe somebody they had talked about maybe getting on the track.  Noteworthy, it was also around the time the Foxy/DMX affair might of happened.  Then the track was either changed or given away, new name, maybe even another album, and totally forgot about.

But still, great catch by you homies, brought back some good memories from the year long build up 98-99 to Dre's album, props!!