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  • Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre tap Hardy for ‘Gin & Juice’ country twist

    Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre tap Hardy for ‘Gin & Juice’ country twist

    Snoop and Dre drop country-flavored ‘Gin & Juice’

    Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre recruite country star Hardy for the country version of their 1993 smash, “Gin & Juice,” which dropped on Friday (April 19).

    Speaking to Complex, Hardy explained how he landed his role on the record. “A while back, I got a phone call saying that Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg would like for me to record my own version of ‘Gin and Juice’ for the launch of their new drink, Gin & Juice,” he said. “I’m still in disbelief, but I am so stoked that I’m dropping my version of ‘Gin and Juice’ with the blessing of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg themselves. Thankful for the opportunity.”

  • Fredro Starr blames Snoop Dogg for losing $1m deal, says he should’ve sued him & Dr. Dre

    Fredro Starr blames Snoop Dogg for losing $1m deal, says he should’ve sued him & Dr. Dre

    Fredro says Snoop cost him sizable deal

    Fredro Starr recalls missing out on a $1m deal allegedly because of Snoop Dogg. Recently speaking on The Art of Dialogue, the Onyx rapper recalled turning down a role on the movie Dangerous Minds so that he’d be on Dr. Dre’s 1993 Chronic tour.

    However, the tour didn’t go as planned. A driver was kidnapped reportedly by members of Snoop’s camp, and consequently, the tour was canceled just after a few dates. That was bad news for Fredro who had signed a $1m merch deal to be sold during the trek.

    Worse for Fredro, his partners in the deal went on to sue him for the failed deal. “I stopped doing Dangerous Minds, all that shit. Dangerous Minds blew up. If the tour went well I wouldn’t be upset about that shit, but the tour didn’t go well,” he explained.

    “We had mad merch. We had just signed a merch deal for $1 million. We couldn’t sell the merch. So guess what? The merch n-ggas want their money. We got sued by the merch company.

    “See, what we should have did was sue Dr. Dre and Snoop and them n-ggas because they was liable for the tour to get canceled. Somebody had to pay and it was us.”

  • Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg share contrasting origins of ‘The Chronic’ idea

    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg share contrasting origins of ‘The Chronic’ idea

    The album helped cement both icons’ careers

    Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg reveal the root of which the idea of the latter’s classic album, The Chronic, was born. However, the two legends’ accounts differ.

    “My first time smoking weed,” Dre explained during their appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday (March 19). “I was in the car in my driveway and I think we were halfway though the album, and there was a female […] It’s my first time smoking weed, y’know, and I asked what it was and that’s what she told me and boom — here we are.”

    Snoop went on to share his own account of what inspired the 1992 album. “Well, let me tell you my story,” the Doggfather began. “Me and my homies was in Long Beach, right, and it was a white guy that used to come through the apartments and bring us bud, and he had ‘hydroponic.’

    “But we smoked it and started saying ‘hydrochronic’ and flipped it, and then that’s when we started saying, ‘Oh this weed is bomb — it’s the chronic,’ and Dre’s album was so bomb, it only was right for [us] to call it The Chronic.”


  • Dr. Dre reveals new Eminem album arriving this year

    Dr. Dre reveals new Eminem album arriving this year

    Dre says Em’s album is on the horizon

    Dr. Dre featured on the Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday (March 19) along with Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent where he announced that Eminem is releasing a new LP this year. He added that Slim Shady had given him the go-ahead to unveil the news.

    “Let me tell you something, let me explain something to you right now: Eminem is working on his own album which is coming out this year,” Dre announced.

    “And I actually talked to him and he told me it was okay for me to make that announcement right here on this show. So he has an album coming out, I’ve got songs on it and it’s fire. I’m actually gonna hear the entire album for the first time for tomorrow.

    “And he holds his music close to his chest so I haven’t heard everything. I haven’t even heard everything complete that I’ve done, but I’m gonna hear it, and he’s putting out an album this year.”


  • Dr. Dre talks lessons learnt from 2021 hospital admission

    Dr. Dre talks lessons learnt from 2021 hospital admission

    Dre speaks on suffering from aneurysm

    Dr. Dre recently appeared on SiriusXM’s The Life of Mine where he opened about spending weeks in hospital for aneurysm.

    “It definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that’s for sure,” he said. “It’s something you can’t control, it just happens. During those two weeks, I had three strokes.”

    He added, “I got up and went about my day, and I thought I could lay down and take a nap. My son and a female friend were like, ‘No, we need to take you to the hospital.’ Next thing you know, I’m blacking out, I’m in and out of consciousness and I end up in the ICU.

    “I was there for two weeks. I’m hearing doctors come in [and saying] ‘You don’t know how lucky you are.’ I asked questions about what I could’ve done to prevent this, no one could give me an answer.”

  • Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg join forces for Gin & Juice By Dre & Snoop canned cocktail

    Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg join forces for Gin & Juice By Dre & Snoop canned cocktail

    Dre & Snoop partner on new bussiness venture

    Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg enter a bussiness partnership for a new spirits company, and their first product is dubbed Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop, which is steeled by their 1994 smash record of the same name.

    “Together, we always try to create magic, we’re having fun being creative, and everything about this product is really us,” Dr. Dre stated about the partnership. “There’s passion behind it, and friendship and love and a culture. We’re shooting to make everything we do magnificent, and fortunately, most of the time we hit the target.”

    Snoop went on, “Look where we’re at in our careers. Look at our age and look at what we’ve done, and we still love each other, so why not do something together? A lot of times people have been in a relationship for thirty years and can’t talk to each other, can’t hang out, so it’s just fun to be in a partnership with people that you actually love.”

  • Usher’s Super Bowl show surpasses Dr. Dre & Rihanna’s viewership

    Usher’s Super Bowl show surpasses Dr. Dre & Rihanna’s viewership

    Usher’s performance was a success

    Usher’s performance on the Super Bowl LVIII Halftime show attracted more viewers than that of Rihanna in 2023 as well as Dr. Dre’s star studded performance with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent in 2022.

    Samba TV reported that the “Yeah!” singer’s show had five percent more viewers than that of Riri. It was also watched in a million more households than that of Dr. Dre. The show was viewed in over 30m households, which translates to around 100m viewers per US standards.

    Broadcasted on CBS, Nickelodeon and Paramount Plus, the Super Bowl game was watched by 123.4m people, the most in history. It also became the most viewed TV broadcast since the lunar landing in 1969.

  • Ice Cube pushes back ‘Secret Meeting that Changed Rap’ conspiracy theory N.W.A involvement rumors – ‘opinions are like assholes

    Ice Cube pushes back ‘Secret Meeting that Changed Rap’ conspiracy theory N.W.A involvement rumors – ‘opinions are like assholes

    Cube shuts down rumors about ‘secret meeting’

    Around a decade ago, a mysterious blog shared a conspiracy theory claiming that back in the 90’s, a group of Hip Hop figures conspired to encourage black men and women to glorify crime in their music so as to set up young black people into prisons.

    While the theory claims those involved were executives, it alleged that N.W A, a Rap group encompassing Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and others, had direct knowledge of the plot.

    This week, Cube ran into a tweet discussing the same and he responded writing: ” “Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink! What evidence do you have to make a statement like that?”

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