Rick Ross is one of many rappers who have witnessed Dr. Dre‘s perfectionism first-hand in the studio, and he’s shared an anecdote that highlights just how dedicated the legendary producer is when it comes to achieving his vision.
Rozay recently took to his Instagram Stories to tell a story about the last time he was at his “3 Kings” collaborator’s house to work on music.
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The MMG mogul was in the middle of sharing some words of motivation for producers when he revealed that Dr. Dre once spent an entire month tinkering with just words on a song.
“This what I’m tryna tell you, I’m telling him as a producer, how much time is he willing to put into the same beat?” Rick Ross said. “Last time I was at Dr. Dre crib, there was another homie from Miami that was in there and we just sitting there [kicking it].
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“He was like, ‘Yeah, them two words that you hear keep going back-and-forth, Dr. Dre had that on for a month.’ And I was like, ‘Those two words?!'”
Culture Millennials reposted the video, with Rick Ross writing in the comments section: “Perfection.”
Xzibit also recently recalled Dr. Dre making him redo a single line around 500 times while recording his 2002 single “Multiply” with Nate Dogg.
“That took me about two-three hours to get that line,” he said about his intro bars on Big Boy’s Neighborhood. “Because he wanted me to sound like a down-south preacher… ‘I been this way and I can’t stop.’ No. I couldn’t understand why or where he was trying to take me but I wasn’t fighting. He sat there patiently with me like, ‘Nope, try it again.’
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“Eventually, it was like, ‘Oh.’ I had to break out of what I thought I needed to sound like and got into where he was trying to direct me and that’s why the first intro lines sound like that. He didn’t get there doing nothing. I thought I nailed it — dropped the headphones, done.”
He continued: “No. I trust him and I respect him immensely. Being able to be in that position as he feels your art is good enough to be in his universe is dope.
“I was expecting to keep it going and when he said, ‘Play that back.’ Hold on, I think we got something. I think maybe four or 500 times. I love the song. I will never forget that part. Even if I have Alzheimer’s I’m still gonna remember, ‘I been this way and I can’t stop.’”
In April, Jim Jones also said Dr. Dre made him rerecord a verse over a dozen times during a Dipset studio session. Capo grew so frustrated he said he felt like Dre was “punking” him.
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“It was the first time I ever had somebody really make me do my verse over like 20 times,” he said on The Amazing AllHipHop podcast. “The first time I got a piece of that, it had made me think about 2Pac and Snoop [Dogg] and all the others that had to get the beats from Dre.”
He added: “Dre was punking n-ggas like, ‘Man, go back in there and spit that shit over, bro. You bugging the fuck out.’ Every time he told me, ‘Nah nah, do that over, man.’
“Like, ‘Bro, you’re cursing at me. You don’t even know you’re cursing at me. You’re punking the shit outta me right now ’cause n-ggas is looking at me like, ‘You’re telling Capo to do his shit over? This is crazy.’ N-gga, you fucking it up for me.”
