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Title: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: MrJas on November 24, 2011, 12:25:04 AM
We all know Dre can't write his own shit, and his production has been below par for a while. Most of his crazy beats were created with Storch/Elizondo/Batson. We all know what happened to Storch but what happened to the rest? Any confirmations that he will be working with them on Detox?

Dre still knows how to mix a record perfectly, can't deny that though.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Matty on November 24, 2011, 12:30:58 AM
he was working with Storch for like a year + on stuff/Detox recently, so there should be loads of recent Dre/Storch material in the vaults, probably never to leave :-\

i guess Under Pressure is an example, but the Die Hard leak is another. Storch has reworked his sound to be more electronic and changed up his main keyboard too. I'd be surprised if no tracks from these sessions aren't on the final album, IF it comes out in the next year.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Dre-Day on November 24, 2011, 01:14:21 AM
scott storch co-produced under pressure :-X

anyway, mike worked on relapse. hes doing his own thing now, check this interview:
http://www.thegrixer.com/mikeelizondo.html
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: wcsoldier on November 24, 2011, 02:13:00 AM
Storch never bounced back after his personal problems imo ... Mike is still dope , not surprising the Dre beats on Relapse were better than what we are used to hear from Dre these latest years ... he's not posting here anymore though  :laugh:
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Sccit on November 24, 2011, 03:14:49 AM
^did mike elizando use 2 post here?
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: wcsoldier on November 24, 2011, 04:32:36 AM
^did mike elizando use 2 post here?

maybe .. I always thought "Mellowman" was him ...
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: MrJas on November 24, 2011, 04:34:20 AM
Storch never bounced back after his personal problems imo ... Mike is still dope , not surprising the Dre beats on Relapse were better than what we are used to hear from Dre these latest years ... he's not posting here anymore though  :laugh:

Word? On that note what happened to Octo?
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Okka on November 24, 2011, 06:08:15 AM
If "Detox" is still gonna happen, i hope Scott Storch and Mike Elizondo will be workin' on it. What happened to Camara Kambon?
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: TDOT on November 24, 2011, 06:26:29 AM
^did mike elizando use 2 post here?

maybe .. I always thought "Mellowman" was him ...

Could have sworn that guy was exposed and ended up living in Iowa or somethin. I went back and read his posts and I can't fucking believe people thought that shit was real back 10 years ago. He was clearly just a writer/journalist of some sort hence his long ass well-written "articles" on here talking about absolutely nothing and just rambling about shit we already knew, or few people knew. At most I would say he worked in the promotional department at Interscope or something along those lines, but that too is a LONG SHOT. There was also a bunch of other shit he was clearly wrong about, but whatever, that guy would get eaten alive on the forum in 2011.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: snoop on November 24, 2011, 06:42:38 AM
yeah he didn't really post any concrete information. just kept saying that detox would be the best album ever cause dre is the greatest ever.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: wcsoldier on November 24, 2011, 06:51:14 AM
I thought Dubcnn staff confirmed he was legit at the time he posted  ? ... I agree his posts weren't about "exclusive news"
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: wballz187 on November 24, 2011, 08:56:26 AM
i always wondered what happened to the soul kitchen from the aftermath compilation album.  i love that album til this day.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Black Excellence on November 24, 2011, 09:42:02 AM
i always wondered what happened to the soul kitchen from the aftermath compilation album.  i love that album til this day.
dre probably kicked them to the curb. he shoulda kept those guys. we'd probably got great shit till this day. the best aftermath production was then.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Dre-Day on November 24, 2011, 09:50:40 AM
^did mike elizando use 2 post here?

maybe .. I always thought "Mellowman" was him ...

Could have sworn that guy was exposed and ended up living in Iowa or somethin. I went back and read his posts and I can't fucking believe people thought that shit was real back 10 years ago. He was clearly just a writer/journalist of some sort hence his long ass well-written "articles" on here talking about absolutely nothing and just rambling about shit we already knew, or few people knew. At most I would say he worked in the promotional department at Interscope or something along those lines, but that too is a LONG SHOT. There was also a bunch of other shit he was clearly wrong about, but whatever, that guy would get eaten alive on the forum in 2011.
yeah his account was located, lol.
before that, i thought it was mike haha.

I thought Dubcnn staff confirmed he was legit at the time he posted  ? ... I agree his posts weren't about "exclusive news"
yeah i remember reading that too
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Sccit on November 24, 2011, 12:40:34 PM
nothing was confirmed, some of the dubcc staff just went along with it.....
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Stan on November 24, 2011, 01:51:50 PM
What's goin on with Dawaun Parker these days?  I remember I used to read about him all the time on this forum.  Dre's new protege.  Did that EP he was planning ever drop?
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Tha Crip on November 24, 2011, 02:42:27 PM
Parker still puts stuff out, we got that 3rd track not that long ago from the EP, and as for Dre's team, they probably just wanted to do their own thing (eg: Focus said alot of his stuff wasn't making Aftermath albums despite contributing to probably all of em). His usual team coulda felt the same as way as Focus and bounced.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: HighEyeCue on November 24, 2011, 03:01:49 PM
IMO he works best when with Elizondo
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Stan on November 24, 2011, 03:27:06 PM
IMO he works best when with Elizondo
+1
I think "Put it On Me" has one of the best bass lines ever re: a Dre beat
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: The Predator on November 24, 2011, 03:56:21 PM
Dre song's co-produced with Elizondo always sounded polished with groovy bass-lines.

Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Detox Is A Myth!!! on November 24, 2011, 04:30:35 PM
Most of his crazy beats were created with Storch/Elizondo/Batson.

Most of his crazy beats were created with The Glove and Colin Wolfe.

As for Mellowman, he was exposed on numerous occasions.  If I weren't lazy, I would go into vault and pull up the threads with me in them help out with the exposing, no homo.  First he said Truth Hurts' album was going to revolutionize R&B in the same way The Chronic revolutionized hip hop.  But more crushing to his credibility was when he said Dre had a diss track to Osama Bin Laden recorded and finished but that Dre had decided not to release it; and shortly after saying that, Dre had an interview where he said the Bin Laden diss track wasn't at all a finished track and that they were just messing around in the studio one day.

That was proof Mellowman was a fraud, because it shows how dude was just taking publicly-released press info and making logical extensions to seem as if he was on the inside.  In this example, he assumed too much and it bit him in the butt.  He started posted much less often after that, until one day he didn't post anymore.  He was just some dude with too much time on his hands.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: DaKilla Bitch!!!! on November 24, 2011, 04:57:01 PM
they found out that dre never going to drop his last album called "Detox" , so this is clear.
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: TDOT on November 24, 2011, 06:49:18 PM
[That was proof Mellowman was a fraud, because it shows how dude was just taking publicly-released press info and making logical extensions to seem as if he was on the inside.  In this example, he assumed too much and it bit him in the butt.  He started posted much less often after that, until one day he didn't post anymore.  He was just some dude with too much time on his hands.

Exactly, that sums it up perfectly. I don't understand how the fuck anyone could have believed that shit.

I remember reading one of his long ass posts, probably over 2000 words, about how close him and Dre are and how he would do anything for Dre and the Aftermath team, especially if Suge were to harm them. And then another one about him being in the studio waiting for Dre to show up, because Dre takes his time in the morning. What a fuckin joke that guy was. The only redeeming value to that guys posts was to get some sort of perspective of what was going on at the time through an obsessed fan's point of view.

Octo on the other hand has proven many times he at least has SOME sort of connections with Aftermath.

And I think this is the thread you're talking about:

http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=12543.msg155697#msg155697
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Dre-Day on November 25, 2011, 05:29:11 AM
^did mike elizando use 2 post here?

maybe .. I always thought "Mellowman" was him ...

Could have sworn that guy was exposed and ended up living in Iowa or somethin.
yes, it was posted in this topic:
http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=185602.msg2187168#msg2187168

Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Young Old Head on November 25, 2011, 05:33:39 AM
Storch never bounced back after his personal problems imo ... Mike is still dope , not surprising the Dre beats on Relapse were better than what we are used to hear from Dre these latest years ... he's not posting here anymore though  :laugh:

Word? On that note what happened to Octo?

was wonderin about that too the other day...
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Cross Em Out on November 25, 2011, 08:26:19 AM
Scott Storch - Sniffed away all his talent. If "under pressure" was any indication of their new "sound" then Dre and Scott  need to lose each others contact numbers

Mike Elizondo - He produces rock music now and is an executive at some other record label

Mark Batson - Still with Dre, he never went anywhere (Co produced Relapse and the 3 songs on BISD with Dre and D. Park)
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: rhythmalism on November 25, 2011, 05:16:31 PM
Where the fuck is Mel-Man?
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: 7even on November 25, 2011, 07:33:13 PM
nothing was confirmed, some of the dubcc staff just went along with it.....

Here Overseer gets pretty close to indirect confirmation: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=82342.0

Maybe just a way to make the forum seem more interesting, or shall I say "connected".
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: OG Jaydc on November 25, 2011, 07:36:57 PM
Aids
Title: Re: What happened to Dre's old team?
Post by: Matty on November 26, 2011, 12:02:11 AM
Storch will make some type of partial comeback at least, even if it means just dropping some actual music, perhaps only with b-grade artists. He has some new stuff coming up that I'll post when it drops properly, at least one banger anyway.