Anyone remember Snoop posting a Twinz snippet a few years ago in his Instagram?  It was only 30 seconds or so but sounded incredible

without the D.O.C there would be no Chronic, Doggystyle etc...they definitely would not have been what they were without his involvement...but as far as the rapping goes Dre is right he does not sound good...I bought Heltah Skeltah when it came out and it was dope but his voice sounded terrible

it is first time i see DOC aiming shots at Dre directly in public by not hesitating at all.

lately he finished a documentary but somehow for more than a year he can't take it to any theaters or digital platforms.

also he keeps mentioning he is working on some solo rap project for long time.

seems like he wants some support from dre to make them happen but dre is not supporting or helping and he got stucked and feels pissed off.

By the way, does anyone one have a clue what song was removed from 'The Chronic' for failing sample clearance? Is it something we have never come across or heard -

QD3 (Quincy Jones III), the son of Quincy Jones, stated that there was a track on The Chronic that he considered his favorite, which was ultimately removed from the album due to a sample clearance issue.

This comment came from a red carpet interview around 2009. QD3 did not elaborate further on the specific track or sample

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Chronic left-over tracks break-down -

Some Dre production notes -

SNOOP DOGG: [Dre] listened to it off the board (The Chronic) in the studio. He'd cut it together, cut the reels, splice it in. He actually had to put it together piece by piece, by hand. Every song connected to the next song, to the next song, to the next song.

ALLEN GORDON (former editor, Rap Pages magazine): Dre had the talent to hear music and [say], “This needs a flute, harp strings, heavier drum track.” That's an incredible talent, even if he can't read music himself.

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Collabs :

''Let me tell you something man, the collaborative effort for me is everything, I’ve never done one thing in my career by myself. It’s all been a collaboration. I love collaborating, I love being in the studio with likeminded people who understand where we’re trying to go with this music shit and that’s the magic for me at least.'' — Dr Dre on LL Cool J- 7:35

Since the outset of his career, Dre has worked in tandem with others and for him, it’s where the joy resides. Back in the World Class Wreckin Cru, he combined his efforts with Alonzo Hawkins and Marquette Hawkins. After that, NWA gave him the chance to revolutionize gangsta rap alongside Ice Cube, Eazy E, MC Ren and Yella.

Once he broke out of the Ruthless Records roster and onto Death Row, he expanded his rolodex of collaborators again and has continued to replenish them across the different eras of his Aftermath label.

To Dre, the act of collaboration is essential to making something special. But on the flipside, his insistence on realizing each solitary note’s full potential means that even when he’s working with others, he leaves nothing to chance.

By doing so, he’s allowed to coax greatness out of his co-conspirators and proteges in a way that any producer worth their salt should seek to emulate.

“Sometimes he has something he hears me on immediately that he’ll know my flow or my cadence will compliment the track, or sometimes he’ll just let me go in the studio, he got about 400 beats, just pick through and see what I catch the vibe on. He all about the feeling, he ain’t never wanna rush or sit on it too tong about creating unless it’s one of them ones that;s for sure for sure. He gives me creative space where I can do what I do and then he just comes in and tweaks it, taking me to the next level. It’s crazy.”- — Kendrick Lamar on Hardknock TV- 4:50

Compton (A Soundtrack By Dr. Dre): Instrumentals (Full Album)

Damn, already gone. Did someone download this one?

Agree!  I think DOC's voice was unique and crazy during that time, definitely could've had some dope albums produced around that unique sound.  Heltah Skeltah was a great album.

Dre simply didnt want DOC to be around but Why?

Why buy him out from Ruthless in de first place?

Here's another one and the story behind it, and no it's not who you think it is in the pic -

How I ended up in a limo with Ice Cube and MC Ren from N.W.A. in 1989




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How I ended up in a limo with Ice Cube and MC Ren from N.W.A. in 1989

A couple years back, rapper MC Ren shared a photo on social media of him, his fellow N.W.A. member Ice Cube and some unidentified guy in the back of a limo, sharing a laugh. That guy was me.

[Bobby Tanzilo]

A couple years back, rapper MC Ren shared a photo on social media of him, his fellow N.W.A. member Ice Cube and some unidentified guy in the back of a limo, sharing a laugh.

I’m that unidentified guy, and because I've been asked numerous times, here’s how that photo came to be. (Sorry to everyone who had guessed it was Michael Rapaport in the picture.)

In early 1989, I was a part-time sports reporter at the Milwaukee Sentinel, writing about whatever needed writing about – I believe I hold the record as longest tenured Bowler of the Week columnist at the Sentinel! – plus working in the newsroom editing copy, writing headlines, formatting stats, reading page proofs and that sort of thing.

But what I really wanted to do was write about music and so almost as soon as I started the job in November 1988, I harassed Jim Higgins into letting me freelance record reviews, concert reviews, book reviews and music features for the paper’s Let’s Go section. Once in a very rare while film critic Duane Dudek would even send me to do a movie review.

In addition to reggae, jazz and what we’d later call “alternative rock,” I also wrote about hip-hop, which was especially fertile at the time, though mostly on the East Coast. But L.A. was beginning to make itself heard.

Even if I never managed to make my dream dual interview with Milwaukee’s Iceberg Slim and Cali rapper Ice-T – who had taken his stage name as a tribute to Slim – happen (despite getting very close), I did connect with Pat Charbonnet at Priority Records, who was currently working the label’s latest release, N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” pretty hard.

That album was released 35 years ago today, on Aug. 8, 1988.

I reviewed the record for the newspaper and soon after found myself on the phone in my mom’s kitchen in Milwaukee interviewing Ice Cube, who was on the phone in his mom’s kitchen in L.A. (Yes, we both still lived at home!)

That article ran in the Sentinel as a preview for the group’s June 16, 1989 performance at the Arena (now the UWM Panther Arena) with Kid ‘n Play, Too Short, Kwame and a solo set by N.W.A.’s Eazy-E.

Then, Pat asked if I wanted to meet up with Ren and Cube three nights before the Brew City gig for a little promotional tour around Milwaukee. Of course, I said yes.

The night before that tour was to take place, I went to Mitchell Airport to meet them at their gate as they arrived along with promoter Tony Selig and a few others. This was pre-Sept. 11, when non-passengers could just stroll down to the end of any concourse at an airport.

We met, welcomed them, chatted briefly, and they went to their hotel.

The next morning, we met up outside the Eagles Club (now The Rave, but back then home to Omnibus, a club run by Selig) and we hopped into a couple 40-foot white limousines with its plush red interior, and off we went.

Our first stop was the Mainstream Megastore South on 27th Street and Loomis Road, which was said to have been selling “Straight Outta Compton” at “breakneck pace.”

But as I wrote later in the Sentinel, “the only autograph hunters were store employees who asked most everyone in the entourage for signatures whether they were in the group or not.”

By contrast, when the limo arrived at Mr. Music, a record store just north of Center Street on the east side of King Drive, a few hundred kids were waiting.

“The crowd gathered at Mr. Music grew larger and larger each minute,” I wrote, “with traffic slowing to a near halt while motorists tried to get hold of the postcard-sized concert advertisements that fans were having signed.

“The hour-long visit was still (ahem) too short for all to get authentic signatures and some resorted to having members of the entourage sign (things like) ‘To Terrance from Eazy-E’.”

Multiple kids assured me that I was N.W.A. member DJ Yella and insisted – despite my fervent denials – that I sign their cards with this name.

Next, we headed out, “making a quick getaway in an unmarked car in true Beatlemaniac style ... whisked off to WNOV-AM for some promo spots and an interview.”

A “few dozen well-informed youths” had already gotten there before us.

The next part was perhaps the most unusual.

“A small group turned into a motorcade of cars that followed the limousines back to promoter Tony Selig’s Shorewood street,” I wrote, noting that the scene of Selig and his 2-year-old daughter exiting a 40-foot limo, which was then beset by a group of eager rap fans, still had Selig’s neighbors talking afterward.

I remember MC Ren and Ice Cube chatting with fans and signing autographs and we talked about music in the car between stops, but it was clear they were pretty tired.

As I noted in my wrap-up later, they “spent their previous day off at a press conference in Cleveland and this one being whisked around Milwaukee with no food in their stomachs and no clean clothes in their suitcases.”

But, they did perk up “when listening to (and critiquing) the new LL Cool J CD ("Walking With A Panther," released that week), watching the final game of the NBA Championship series (the Pistons swept series against the Lakers that night) and grooving to the Too Short and Special Ed (who attended my high school a couple years after me) tapes they bought.”

I’d be surprised if they remembered anything about the experience in Milwaukee, moving, as they were, from city to city as part of a concert and promotional tour, and surely they’d have no memory of me, one of countless faces they’d encounter on that jaunt almost 35 years ago.

But it’s a memory I’ll always have and thanks to an unknown photographer (I'd guess it was the late Tony Selig), I at least have a photo from that crazy day.

I thought it was Rapaport too