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It glared at me today as I was bumpin "When It All Comes Down To It", and that song on "Kuruption". While we have always known Dr. Dre has had ghost writers, almost all his non album tracks he features on, you can not only tell who wrote it, but his flow sounds exactly like them too. Yes this is an age old topic and not "relevant", but what are your examples of Dr. Dre being HIMSELF on the microphone?
Yeah "When It All Comes Down to It" was painful. Knoc-Turn'als off-beat flow didn't work for Dre at all. Exactly why DOC and Hittman were the best writers for Dre, they adapted a format that suited him PERFECTLY. And exactly why the worst writers for him are Eminem and Bishop.
Quote from: suspect#1 on November 09, 2015, 02:40:01 PMIt glared at me today as I was bumpin "When It All Comes Down To It", and that song on "Kuruption". While we have always known Dr. Dre has had ghost writers, almost all his non album tracks he features on, you can not only tell who wrote it, but his flow sounds exactly like them too. Yes this is an age old topic and not "relevant", but what are your examples of Dr. Dre being HIMSELF on the microphone?maybe early NWA days...that song you referred to "Ask Yourself A Question?" was dope...nothing groundbreaking lyrically but delivered well as usual by Dre
maybe early NWA days...
Quote from: HighEyeCue on November 09, 2015, 03:58:55 PMmaybe early NWA days...I was kind of thinking the Efil4Zaggin album is probably the best representation of Dre as a rapper, in having his own flow. Sometimes he comes smooth like "Alwayz Into Something" and other times he comes hard as fucc like on "100 Miles".... But on all accounts it kind of sounds like his own, it could be likely he wasn't even using reference vocals back then....But by the the time that The Chronic came around, I think some of the harder tracks he sounds like RBX may of referenced for him, on the smoother joints he could've came up with that flow on his own.If you overlook the fact that he doesn't write his own lyrics, Dre is the #5 rapper of all-time my fifth favorite rapper, behind 2pac, Nas, Snoop, and Xzibit.
I would disagree with early 90's NWA-era Dre being the most reflective of his flow. I'd say when he started flowing a little more relaxed, it became his signature. And while Snoop influenced it, I don't view it as Snoop's flow. Dre has a unique flow of his own. It becomes less apparent in the post-2010 landscape where rappers are trying to play around with their vocals and have accents but for example, "Forgot About Dre" is Eminem writing the song so the flow is faster but it's not Dre doing 100 Miles & Running with his fast, yelling flow, he still sounds like he did on The Chronic, he's just flowing quicker to match Em.