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I think that Dre needed that Nate Dogg vocal for the track and he did what he had to do to complete the song. I don't think Dre meant any disrespect by it, if anything it was in honor of Nate, basically saying that his vocals are missed and still very much needed. Now, if Nate Dogg would have made a full recovery and came back willing to do the track and Dre still decided to use a bootleg Nate Dogg then that would have been a disrespectful bitch move for sure. But people are going to have their own take on it and have their own opinions, I can see why it came off as disrespectful though.
First comes Nate Dogg then Akon, Trey Songz, T-Pain, and now Drake has the throne and before Nate it was Marvin Gaye. One thing about rap is it's funny how people think they can't be replaced just go drive by the cemetary.
Quote from: B.A. on March 17, 2011, 12:19:15 PMI think that Dre needed that Nate Dogg vocal for the track and he did what he had to do to complete the song. I don't think Dre meant any disrespect by it, if anything it was in honor of Nate, basically saying that his vocals are missed and still very much needed. Now, if Nate Dogg would have made a full recovery and came back willing to do the track and Dre still decided to use a bootleg Nate Dogg then that would have been a disrespectful bitch move for sure. But people are going to have their own take on it and have their own opinions, I can see why it came off as disrespectful though.Dre might not have meant for it to be disrespectful, but, imo, that's what ended up happening, the whole thing being quite disrespectful.I don't buy that it was in Nate's honour. If that was the intention, they'd have made damn sure to clearly mention his name in the song, or at least made some obvious mention of him in the video.
I don't see why people are catching feelings over a portion of a hook that sounded similar to an artist that wasn't able to sing the hook anyways. Exactly how is that disrespectful? If anything, it should be flattering that they tried to imitate him. People do that all of the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure Dre didn't feel disrespected that nearly every producer on the west coast attempted to copy his g-funk sound in the 90's. Its amazing that everyone pretends to be Dr. Phil and guess at Dre's and Nate's relationship prior to Nate dying.
Quote from: thegooddoc on March 17, 2011, 02:32:54 PMI don't see why people are catching feelings over a portion of a hook that sounded similar to an artist that wasn't able to sing the hook anyways. Exactly how is that disrespectful? If anything, it should be flattering that they tried to imitate him. People do that all of the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure Dre didn't feel disrespected that nearly every producer on the west coast attempted to copy his g-funk sound in the 90's. Its amazing that everyone pretends to be Dr. Phil and guess at Dre's and Nate's relationship prior to Nate dying. I don't know anything about their relationship, so I won't comment on that, but until Dre comes out and directly states what his intentions (if any) were behind the Nate sound-alike then it's all a matter of opinion. Just like you have your opinion, I have mine and none of us can say who is right or wrong in this case. To each his own.
Quote from: J-Dub562 on March 17, 2011, 02:50:53 PMQuote from: thegooddoc on March 17, 2011, 02:32:54 PMI don't see why people are catching feelings over a portion of a hook that sounded similar to an artist that wasn't able to sing the hook anyways. Exactly how is that disrespectful? If anything, it should be flattering that they tried to imitate him. People do that all of the time. In fact, I'm pretty sure Dre didn't feel disrespected that nearly every producer on the west coast attempted to copy his g-funk sound in the 90's. Its amazing that everyone pretends to be Dr. Phil and guess at Dre's and Nate's relationship prior to Nate dying. I don't know anything about their relationship, so I won't comment on that, but until Dre comes out and directly states what his intentions (if any) were behind the Nate sound-alike then it's all a matter of opinion. Just like you have your opinion, I have mine and none of us can say who is right or wrong in this case. To each his own.You think Dre is gonna come out and say "Hello Fans...Just a heads up here...Nate was unable to perform for this record, however, have no fear, I purposely got this guy you've never heard of do an awesome Nate impression, and I was able to do some studio tricks and you can't barely tell the difference!! Detox is comin!!"If you honestly can't see how obvious it is that Dre purposely got a Nate imposter for his lead single for Detox, you are in denial.
No offense to anyone in here, but you're an idiot if you don't see it as disrespect. And some of yall making excuses "it was a tribute" make you look like a Dre groupie. There was no tribute whatsoever. Dre knew Nate was not available, so he purposely got someone (who the fuck was it anyway?) and tried to duplicate Nate's voice. If you don't see that, you need to pull your head out of your ass.And really, Snoop is just as big a bitch if not more for going along with it too. That's supposed to be his childhood friend. I promise if Dre and Nate would have done a lead single with Top Dogg for Detox, people would be like "wtf" and wouldn't be looking at it as a tribute lmao.Some of yall are in serious denial trying to defend this.