It's June 04, 2024, 10:31:42 PM
I don't know. From being someone who actually reads production credits, I recognize pretty much all these people from their years of working on Dr. Dre's team but in the end, if you're the man behind the man, how much credit do you expect? The role is always going to be what it is. It's a similar situation with someone like Neal Brennan who wrote "Chappelle's Show" with Dave or Roger Avary who was an early writing collaborator with Quentin Tarantino or any number of people who wrote "The Simpsons" for Matt Groening or "Family Guy" for Seth McFarlane or the uncredited writers who came up with the concepts that helped Vince McMahon build his WWF/WWE empire. In the end if you're involved in someone else's brand, you get whatever you're going to get but you're never going to get the level of credit that is going to equal out to the person who is the face of that brand. Fact is none of those people get publicly pissed on when Dre is slumping so they gotta take the good with the bad.
Has Hutch ever really claimed to be a co-producer on any of Dre's hits? I think his biggest contention was always that he was the true innovator of G-Funk. I mean, what is a specific Dr. Dre record that Hutch produced with Dre?
Hutch made this claim a few years agohttp://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.20178/title.big-hutch-releases-video-regarding-eve-dr-dre-love-is-blind-lawsuit