Origin of the name "Dr. Dre"

[kevlar]

A coworker of mine who happens to be the biggest Prince fan told me this story about Dr. Dre.

Apparently when Dre was in the World Class Wrecking Crew he was a really big Prince fan (which makes sense if you look at their album covers lol).  The keyboard player for Prince was Dr. Fink.  He wore white gloves on stage.   Supposedly Dre got his whole steez from this Dr. Fink cat including his name.

[MontrealCity's Most]

interesting

[Nasty Nem]

A coworker of mine who happens to be the biggest Prince fan told me this story about Dr. Dre.

Apparently when Dre was in the World Class Wrecking Crew he was a really big Prince fan (which makes sense if you look at their album covers lol).  The keyboard player for Prince was Dr. Fink.  He wore white gloves on stage.   Supposedly Dre got his whole steez from this Dr. Fink cat including his name.

apparently

[Sickaluffa]

i thought he was a real Doctor

[jeromechickenbone]

What I wanna know is who came first?  Dr. Dre the legendary producer or Dr. Dre from Ed Lover and Dr. Dre?

[Samoan Enforcer]

Dr J?

[swangin and bangin]

i thought he was a real Doctor

[Primo]

Yea it is wack that there is two Dr. Dre's in hip hop. Be original people!.

[kevlar]

I remember hearing about Dr. Dre from NWA back in 86.  He used to sell mix tapes, and I bought a couple from back then.  One of the tapes I bought had an MC Ren freestyle on it over a Run DMC instrumental.  Ren was nice back then, too.  i still have those tapes.

i didn't hear about Original Concept til 88 or 89 when they put out that "pump that bass" single on def jam.

[kevlar]

I remember hearing about Dr.Dre from NWA back in 86.  He used to sell mix tapes & I bought a couple from back then. One of the tapes I bought had an MC Ren freestyle on it over a Run DMC instrumental.  Ren was nice back then,too. I still have those tapes.

Shit,hook up that MC Ren freestyle. I don't care if it is a bad rip,that shit is vintage.

gotta dig it up from my closet.  its in one of 3 boxes.  each box got like a hunid tapes in it.  when i do ill post it up here.

it was the instrumental for "beats to the rhymes", so maybe my time frame is off.  that was more 87, 88 i think

Come to think of it when Original Concept came out World Class Wrecking Cru and the name Dr.  Dre was already well established.  They already put out two full length albums when "pump that bass" and "knowledge me" came out.

[I.B. BLVD]

i thought he was a real Doctor

yea, he said it a song??? He was probably just bullshittin'

[herpes]

What I wanna know is who came first?  Dr. Dre the legendary producer or Dr. Dre from Ed Lover and Dr. Dre?

word, that shit to confuse me as a lil kid.  I would see dr.dre in videos and then I would see tv commercials for the movie who's the man and be like, wtf how did he gain so much weight so fast lol.

[Sickaluffa]

lol i was just messen around when i said that

[kevlar]

cool,I got a lot old school shit on tape too. I used to record radio shows and yo mtv raps,I got loads of shit. I already posted some of it,but it seems dudes don't really care for that old shit. About Orginal Concept,they been around since at least 86-87. But you know that WCWC was already around before that,I used to break dance to that shit back then.

post that shit up, homie.  Especially if you got the Yo MTV Raps finale.  the one with the freestyle cypher where rakim kills the insturmental for pete rock's remix of das efx's "real hip hop". 

[Tanjential]

I checked my Ego Trip's Book Of Rap Lists (great book for researh about Hip Hop) Orginal Concept had a 12inch out in 86 called knowledge me b/w can u feel it (def jam). I can't remember that Rakim part with Pete Rock,was that at the Ed Lover & Dr.Dre show or Fab 5? I was browsing trough my tapes a week ago,looking for some other shit. Do you remember when Dr.Dre & Ed Lover clowned Dr.Dre & Snoop? They was all over Tim Dog's ass around that time.

what did they say about dre and snoop?

-T