Dubcnn: Exclusive Interview with DJ Rip (Core DJ's)

[Chad]

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Dubcnn got an opportunity to sit down with DJ Rip of the Core DJ’s. In this interview we discuss his DJ roots, the Core DJ’s organization, Hip-Hop’s beginning and current status as well as his thoughts on the Major vs the Independent game. Within this he touches on Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, KRS-1, Too Short and many more as well as breaking down for everyone what he has coming up this year.

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[Rud]

This is a really good interview especially relating to djs and the independent game!

[Chad]

Thanks homie!

[Dre-Day]

yeah well done Noncentz 

Dubcnn: Speaking of that, a lot of cats on the Dubcnn boards wonder why Dr. Dre doesn’t go independent and release who he wants to release, instead of letting Jimmy Iovine have control of that.

Well, Aftermath is his own entity, distributed through Interscope. When you’re on a major label you have that machine behind you working your music. There’s a whole staff that Dre doesn’t have. All of the major artists that have come through Dre’s camp, has Dre “found” them, or were they given to Dre and he basically nurtured them as artists and put out great music? Snoop was found by Warren G, 50 Cent was found by Eminem, but who brought Eminem to Dre?

Well, you have to look at for what it is. Dre is an incredible producer, but is he an incredible record label executive? Is that any disrespect to Dr. Dre? Hell No! He’s an incredible producer and he’s a genius when it comes to production. I don’t know how to say with out sounding disrespectful because he’s very accomplished, obviously. But is he a great businessman as a label executive? Everybody has to play their part. Is Jimmy Iovine an incredible producer? He’s obviously a great record executive. Snoop could have done the same thing. Why did he sign to No Limit after he left Death Row? Why is he signed to Geffen now? It’s because that machine works in a way that the independents can’t.

true, running a label is not Dre's strongest point 

but distribution is clearly not a problem for Dre if he wanted to run an independant label.
but his wishes and options can cause problems however; i mean, he'll probably won't be able to build a powerhouse like Ruthless once was.

perhaps that's why he chose to do a joint feature with interscope?
otherwise i don't see why he wouldn't do the same thing Cube did; yes the roster would be very small, but would that really be a bad thing?
i don't think so.