Dr Dre the message

[Florez]

I own 2001 ever since the day it dropped, and I've been bumpin it ever since. Somebody told me a while a go, that the message was a song about dre's brother.
I was just wonderin if any of you guys can tell me something about dre's brother and what went down?

Thanks I appreciate it

[Sir Petey]

If im not mistaken he was shot...I remember reading in a warren g interview a few years back....not sure if it was gangrelated or what....anyways alifes a life....rip

[_That_Cracka_J]

Anybody know when it happened?  I heard that it was a while before, like 10 years or somethin'.

[Machiavelli]

Yeah it was Dres brother. He was shot in the neck near a liquor store in Compton like before Chronic came out.(I don't know why he didn't make this song on the Chronic CD.

[_That_Cracka_J]

From the way Dre makes the song sound like, it was like a year or two before because he says, "I thought I learned from Eazy, but now I'm goin' through it with you."  He definitely makes it sound like he shoulda learned his lesson with Eazy-E, but Eazy-E died AFTER his brother got shot...

[GangstaBoogy]

From the way Dre makes the song sound like, it was like a year or two before because he says, "I thought I learned from Eazy, but now I'm goin' through it with you."  He definitely makes it sound like he shoulda learned his lesson with Eazy-E, but Eazy-E died AFTER his brother got shot...

Thats true, I didnt think about that

On the "VH1 Behind the Music" story about Dr. Dre, Dre said his brother went to the liquor store and some dudes was tryna start somethin with him, he tryed to play it off and walk away so they got out and jumped him. And he was a real skinny dude so they cracked some bones or somethin...

Most likely what happend is they asked him "where you from" and he probably said "man fuck yall" then it went on from there

[IKON]

naw he wasnt shot, some guys tried to start some shit with him ,and one of the guys was huge(big and fat), they started fightin and Dre's brother got caught under him and stopped breathing and died

[Acgrundy]

I don't remember but dre speaks on it on vh1's behind the music.  definately watch it if you can, RBX has one of the funniest parts ever on there, talkin bout dre gettin shot in the ass.  damn that shit was funny.

[Xan.G]

yeeah, i seen that vh1 show, warren g (his step bro) was saying when it happed dre hardly showed any emotion & shiit, he dealt with it real well, so i guess when he recorded that song the floodgates opened. some real heartfelt shiit he's rappin about.

did he actually write them lyrics dose anyone know??

[skjesp]

Hi

I did a search and found this:

"His brother got killed in a fight while Dre was on tour with N.W.A "My brother was my best friend. He was three years younger than me." Dre tells of being on the road when he received a phone call with the bad news. "You never forget that."
He started off as a D.J for parties as a teenager, and soon earned himself a spot in the "Eve After Dark" club, where he would play keyboards and sing."

[7even]

yeeah, i seen that vh1 show, warren g (his step bro) was saying when it happed dre hardly showed any emotion & shiit, he dealt with it real well, so i guess when he recorded that song the floodgates opened. some real heartfelt shiit he's rappin about.

did he actually write them lyrics dose anyone know??

no.

lol

that's right, dre didnt write the lyrics dedicated to his dead brother. lol.. royce did.

[Denial! Is Actively Joinin The Revolution]

yeah check the credits in the vault section writers are Royce Da 5'9 and thats it

[_That_Cracka_J]

Hi

I did a search and found this:

"His brother got killed in a fight while Dre was on tour with N.W.A "My brother was my best friend. He was three years younger than me." Dre tells of being on the road when he received a phone call with the bad news. "You never forget that."
He started off as a D.J for parties as a teenager, and soon earned himself a spot in the "Eve After Dark" club, where he would play keyboards and sing."

So that still doesn't make sense why Dre says "I thought I learned from Eazy, but now I'm goin' through it with you"...should be the other way around since his brother died BEFORE Eazy...

[Denial! Is Actively Joinin The Revolution]

well it woznt wrote by dre and mayb he didnt notice it???

i dunno tho hey i read in a magazine a couple of months ago bout rap battles that easy E died in 2001!!! i nearly fuckin wrote in the complain on how fuckin stupid they were

[eS El Duque]

well it woznt wrote by dre and mayb he didnt notice it???

just cause he didn't write it..doesn't mean he didn't put any info behind it...