i was listening to jay z volume 3 today..

[The Great Elephant]

dre says that he doesn't fuck with the west coast because they don't move units, but could you imagine snoop, kurupt or someone on top of that "watch me" beat?  same for a lot of his other shit...if he would have stuck with southern cali artists, the west would be on top of the rap game, no question about it.  same thing with heat and all his other beats.

it's so much wasted potential.  2001-2006 could have been snoop's prime for all we know, i would have loved to hear him over some 2001 type beats.  that's why i was so hyped for tbct, i wanted to hear him over a "you already know" type song....i can't be the only one.  by the time they made up, dre had already moved on to laid back piano tracks though, its too bad.

[Tanjential]

nah, dre's always doing all kinds of stuff. it's not about what kind of shit he's doin, it's how much he's doing.

i've learned that dre exec producing an album doesn't mean shit really but 3 tracks and about 6-9 tracks from dre trained/influenced prodyucers. that said, what does mean shit is when dre produces 5+ tracks all the way up to a whole album. a la documentary or doggystyle.

the way i think of it is dre is producing way more than what we're hearing, so what we're hearing at any given time if it's not a whole album by him, it's just a random ass sampling.

-T

[d-nice]

dre says that he doesn't fuck with the west coast because they don't move units, but could you imagine snoop, kurupt or someone on top of that "watch me" beat?  same for a lot of his other shit...if he would have stuck with southern cali artists, the west would be on top of the rap game, no question about it.  same thing with heat and all his other beats.

it's so much wasted potential.  2001-2006 could have been snoop's prime for all we know, i would have loved to hear him over some 2001 type beats.  that's why i was so hyped for tbct, i wanted to hear him over a "you already know" type song....i can't be the only one.  by the time they made up, dre had already moved on to laid back piano tracks though, its too bad.

I hear what you are saying but that Watch Me song Dre just did the chorus not the beat. I think Irv Gotti did that beat.

[MIAMI4LIFE]

dre says that he doesn't fuck with the west coast because they don't move units, but could you imagine snoop, kurupt or someone on top of that "watch me" beat?  same for a lot of his other shit...if he would have stuck with southern cali artists, the west would be on top of the rap game, no question about it.  same thing with heat and all his other beats.

it's so much wasted potential.  2001-2006 could have been snoop's prime for all we know, i would have loved to hear him over some 2001 type beats.  that's why i was so hyped for tbct, i wanted to hear him over a "you already know" type song....i can't be the only one.  by the time they made up, dre had already moved on to laid back piano tracks though, its too bad.

I hear what you are saying but that Watch Me song Dre just did the chorus not the beat. I think Irv Gotti did that beat.

Irv got credit but I think Dre ghost produced it for Jay writing Still Dre I remember reading that somewhere, I may be wrong though