It's September 26, 2026, 07:01:34 PM
that who's who shit is actually dopelistening right now
Amazing Find.....but I am very confused, because the "Forgot About Dre" beat doesn't fit in the 96 timeline for two reasons:1. Isn't there a couple interviews where Dre describes that that was one of the few instances where he actually made the beat after the lyrics were written? Like that he constructed the beat from scratch to fit the lyrics? I could have sworn I read that in more than one place.2. There's an earlier version of "Forgot About Dre" that leaked months in advance of the album. In fact, "Forgot About Dre" was one of the first leaks that we got from that album. It came out in that same batch with the Hittman version of "What's the Difference". And the beat for "Forgot About Dre" was actually more simplistic and sounded more like a demo/leaked version would be expected to sound. So if Dre already had that beat fully produced from 96' it would make sense that even the earliest version of "Forgot About Dre" would've had that more fully produced version of the beat
It is impossible dre made the beat after Eminem wrote lyrics. Because drum programming of the beat was made by Bud'da. (He is not credited unfortunately, just like Glove was not credited for xplosive and it was a beat for king t) So that means this beat was made in 96-97 probably when bud'da was still on aftermath. I never heard the leaked version of forget about dre by the way.
I know someone else here remembers, it was leaked mid summer 99 on DreDay forum "Forgot About Dre" and the beat was more bare bones demo version
looks legit, considering it's the same person who leaked 50 Cent's OG version of "Back Down"https://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php/topic,350434.0.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uIqsF7UFKg?is=2t1EgGyCiS5E_5pEI think this the version. I have it in real audio file somewhere. It was on hiphopsite.com, da real and i think snoopsdogghouse which was also dope site at that time. They also had earlier versions of whats the difference (without xzibit) and still Dre.