Is it true that Dre didnt really produce Chronic??

[ImmortalOne]

Someone help me out here. Ive had a bunch of people tell me that Dre didnt really produce The Chronic or Doggystyle.............is this REALLY true, someone drop the knowledge [probably BigJake knows].......

[teecee]

I am pretty sure this rumour has been disproved every week for the last month...of course Dre produced

[teecee]

I am pretty sure this rumour has been disproved every week for the last month...of course Dre produced the albums, with a little help from Daz, Warren G, and others like Colin Wolfe, etc.  
People are always sayin shit like Dre didn't produce this shit...i don't got time to explain everything to you cuz i gots to bounce, but hopefully someone else does.....peace

[ImmortalOne]

Damn, cuz this shit has me wondering big time. Both albums are classic regardless of who produced them, but this shit really has me curios......Someone even told me that Dre didnt even produce "Lil Ghetto Boy, lol...........Im not saying I believe that, but if someone could give the whole 9 yards on this shit, it would be appreciated.

[Big BpG]

Dre produced the album... they have video tape of everyone in the studio and Dre is producing... why would you doubt?

-Big BpG

[Don Jacob]

the chroic is 95% dr. dre, the other 5% is colin wolfe and the glove, who practically just suggested a couple of things to add, collin wolfe being the live bass player had probably the majority of that 5%

95% is actually pretty impressive becuase most producers use an array of help and far more studio musicians and what have you...that's why the chronic is praised so highly for it's production beucase it's like almost all dre. so if anything , everything bad tha suge and daz have said about dre is the opposite...this shit is even in the classes that i'm taking on musical production....plus warren g was asked about this as well, and  if you can trust anyone it's warren g


daz and warren did nothing really, they were just learning how to produce, especially daz, warren was already around for niggaz4life, so he was more knowledgable, and actually from what i've heard gave daz the tabs for rat tat tat, but that's all they really did on the final cut of the chronic....they might have done other trax that didn't make it but everything on the chronic is 95% dre, 3% collin wolfe and like 2% the glove


when they say "the chronic was a group effort" they're talkin about the rapping, daz did more work on the rapping and warren did some trax too vocally , but i guess they just didn't make the cut



doggystyle......that was going to be 100% or like 98% dre at least, but the time press from Deathrow's distributor Time Warner was creeping up so fast that dre had to give daz and warren some blue prints to a couple of songs and had them do them (about 5 or 6 songs) then dre came in and remixed them (basically erased every thing he didn't like about them and redid  the song til it was perfect), and out of those 5 or 6, only 2 or 3 (i forgot the exact tracks, i know ain't no fun is one of them) made the final cut , so Doggystyle is 85% Dr. Dre and like 10% daz and warren and 5% whoever was the hired musicians


which is still VERY applaudable , becuase when you look at quincy jone's work (hailed the greatest producer ever) on thriller you'll see a sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeww of other people, and if you heard the re-released version of off the wall by michael jackson it shows that some of the trax were already half produced already before quincy came in....that's not a bad thing AT ALL that's basically what every producer does, he tightens all the loose ends  with a the record company's band(s)....so dre was putting in more than enough work to get his well deserved props, like his 2 idols George Clinton and Issac Hayes who both take the same approach when producing a song



did't mean to go on and on but that's how it all went down to my knowledge, plus if you have a trained ear you can just tell, dre was working with a whoooooooooooooooole other batch of people on ruthless records, yet niggaz4life sounds the same as the chronic....that's proof enough really

[ImmortalOne]

Thanx for droppin the knowledge Jake. I had a feeling Dre did most if not all the work on both albums, and me and this other dude were having a debate about it....so, I came to the only place I could go, West Coast Affiliates, hahahaha.

[Don Jacob]

heres the production credits to proove my point right


the chronic intro

dr. dre , Collin Wolfe

Dre Day

dr. dre , Collin Wolfe

Let Me Ride
Dr. Dre

Day the niggaz took over

dr. dre

nuthin but a g thang

dr. dre

deeeez nutts

dr. dre , collin wolfe

lil ghetto boy
dr. dre , katisse buckingham

a nigga witta gun

dr. dre

20 sack pyramid

dr. dre ,snoop, d.o.c, warren griffen (even though i don't think there was a beat)

lyrical gangbang

dr. dre

high powered
dr. dre ,collin wolfe

the doctor's office
dr. dre

stranded on deathrow

dr. dre, the glove

the roach

dr. dre


remember collin wolfe is just the hired bass player and basically HAS to play the tabs dre tells him to and gets credit for his contribution, plus he can add little variations plus i think he played the keyboard as well so he got more credit than all the other hired musicians becuase he added variations that dre approved of.

[Don Jacob]

lol oh yeah like big bpg said theres even video footage (MTV showed it alot back in the day and last year when they did a biography on dre) of him producing, everyone was partying and dre was turning knobs, hitting keys, instructing the musicians and telling what the vocalists what to do, and basically putting in major work... oh yeah, and eating doritos lol

[Big BpG]

lol oh yeah like big bpg said theres even video footage (MTV showed it alot back in the day and last year when they did a biography on dre) of him producing, everyone was partying and dre was turning knobs, hitting keys, instructing the musicians and telling what the vocalists what to do, and basically putting in major work... oh yeah, and eating doritos lol

Hahahhahahah... yep, I remember the doritos... they recorded The Chronic at Solar Records in Hollywood


I thought I told you, bitch I'm a soulja,
East side, long beach, gang-bang roller,
From the solar, cuz this, is it,

-Snoop Dogg (I Can't Swim off Tha Last Meal)

on the Welcome 2 Deathrow Video, its so funny seeing Warren G... he is wearing these glasses that make him look like he is 15... hilarious, then you see Snoop rolling up a blunt and Dre is playing the piano. Some Very Funny shit, but at the same time, very important for westcoast rap music.

-Big BpG

[Suga Foot]

20 sack pyramid

dr. dre ,snoop, d.o.c, warren griffen (even though i don't think there was a beat)

Dre just sampled the drum beat from Joe Tex's "Papa Was Too" on that one.

[Suga Foot]

I think Greg "Gregski" Royal may have helped on some tracks too.  When RBX left Death Row, Gregski produced his whole album.

[Trauma-san]

Dre produced the album... they have video tape of everyone in the studio and Dre is producing... why would you doubt?

-Big BpG

I was gonna say the same thing, they even have videotape of him producing it, LOL...

[Don Seer]

warren g is listed on the $20 sack coz its him and the DOC.

[West Coast Veteran]

warren g is listed on the $20 sack coz its him and the DOC.

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