Dr. Dre's mom releasing a book "Long Road Outta Compton"

[pootypooty]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/03/10/2008-03-10_its_happy_mothers_dre.html

It's happy mother's Dre

Monday, March 10th 2008, 4:00 AM


Rapper/producer Dr. Dre with his mother, Verna Griffin.

Dr. Dre's mother went from digging for coins in the sofa to living in a million-dollar house, thanks to his success as a rapper and producer who launched Eminem, 50 Cent, Eve, Busta Rhymes and The Game.

But without Verna Griffin, Dre's group NWA might never have been born. The streetwise Griffin, who delivered Andre Young at the age of 15, didn't like it when he hooked up with Eric Wright, who had a lot of material things but no apparent job. "I was worried ... that Andre would be drawn to the glitter of what drug money could buy," she writes in her upcoming memoir, "Long Road Outta Compton." "Fast money is not good money."

Instead, Dre convinced his pal to form the seminal gangsta rap group with him, and Eric became Easy E.

Griffin was shocked by their lyrics, which were criticized for promoting violence and disrespecting women. But "when I looked on the past," she writes, "I could remember my boys standing outside having a friendly conversation when, all of a sudden, I'd ... see the police with all of them spread-eagle up against the police car. This harassment was for no obvious reason except they saw black boys grouped together, and presumed to be up to no good. It was then I realized that the lyrics were just stories about things that were actually happening."

Griffin always worked full time, and sewed the children's clothes to make ends meet. But thanks to Dre's generosity, her life became easier. Dre got her a house, gave her an allowance and, she writes, "would say, ‘Why are you working?' I told him that I would quit as soon as I got enough money to buy new tires. The next thing I knew he [got] me a Jaguar.

"I am rich," she concludes, "but with a wonderful family."

Meanwhile, Dre pal Bruce Williams is about to drop "Rollin' With Dre: An Insider's Tale of the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop." Long known as "the man next to Da Man" at Dre's Aftermath label, Williams reveals:

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      When Dre played the beats for "California Love" for Tupac Shakur, he asked if the late rapper wanted to take a copy so he could write lyrics to it. "I'm ready to go right now," said Tupac, who proceeded to go to the mic and rap completely spontaneous lyrics in "the exact ... cadence and inflection" after hearing it once.

 

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      Jimmy Iovine, Interscope Records chief, "wanted dollars. Wasn't a whole bunch of art for art's sake about to be goin' on. Not with rap."

 

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      Suge Knight once gave Snoop Dogg a BMW 850 two-seater for his birthday in blue — Crip colors. Snoop enjoyed it until cops surrounded it one day — it had been stolen.

[Dre-Day]

another dre related book that seems worth reading 

[1234]

another dre related book that seems worth reading 

[es-jay]

i might have to get this one aswell then.

[messi19]

Anyone that can tell me a lil about the other ones he got? Like the interestin stuff he said, just with a few words? And also
tell me which book is dope.

[Dodgers#1]

another dre related book that seems worth reading 

[Tha G In Deee]

another dre related book that seems worth reading 

[Dre-Day]

i do hope Dre is going to write a book in the future.

it's interesting to read about certain topics from different kind of people( in this case, Jerry Heller, Dre's mother, a friend of Dre etc.)

[CoreG37]

I met her once and got to sit and talk with her for awhile, if she hadn't been introduced to me as dre's mother I would've never known she was his mother.  Shes really down to earth

[The Ultimate Pianist]

another dre related book that seems worth reading 

[woof]

Suge Knight once gave Snoop Dogg a BMW 850 two-seater for his birthday in blue — Crip colors. Snoop enjoyed it until cops surrounded it one day — it had been stolen.

Suga Bear is a boss LOL 

[funkkid]

i will be getting this

[Dre-Day]

has anyone else ordered it yet?

i just got it through the mail.