Aug 29, 2015

i think you're reading too much into it. neither dre nor eminem are really active musicians anymore. they're legacy acts who play live once in a blue moon and drop albums when they feel they have to for their brand. one lives in la, one in detroit. they're both monstrously rich and have nothing to prove to anyone but themselves. they have kids. it's just not a priority.

 

Aug 29, 2015

f--- hold on n----- you got me thinking in weird ways here

 

Aug 29, 2015

1) Dre hasn't really produced for anyone in the past few years (Save a throwaway and probably 5+ year old beat for 50 for AA)
- Last two Kendrick albums had no Dre beats
- When Rick Ross said he was in the studio with Dre, all we got out of that session was a Jake One beat, not a Dre beat.

2) Dre was in that long video promo for Southpaw. Clearly they are still cool, and the video is indication that they were working together again (See medicine man)

If Eminem does release his last album this year, then DRE will def be on it.

 

Aug 31, 2015

Compton not sounding like Chronic or 2001 doesn't make it a bad album. This is #ArchDoggLogic.

 

Aug 31, 2015

What in the f--- are you rambling about? You said one thing and contradicted it with another 2-3 times in this s-----y a--- post.

How the f--- Dre sell out when he put out an album that didn't have one song on it that would work as a single? Meanwhile Eminem's working with Rihanna, Bruno Mars and Pink.

 

Aug 29, 2015

Sometimes as humans, we outgrow people. Its like having a great friend in high school, then getting older and gradually distancing yourself from that person.. because they're simply not needed or worth it anymore. They stagnate or regress while you do the opposite.

Dre outgrew Eminem. Its no coincidence that Dre released a near classic album with minimal Em involvement. Dre still has a good ear and taste for music it seems, Marshall doesn't.

 

Aug 29, 2015

I think it's clear there is still something there. Em was with him when he signed his Apple deal, he was on Compton etc. Maybe they just simply moved directions in music without there ever really being a conversation. I doubt anything truly "happened".

 

Aug 29, 2015

Interesting points, and they make a lot of sense...

Maybe internally, thats how Dre feels.. But I feel like at the end of the day they were just 2 different people, with ultimately different artistic goals, that didn't match up as well as they had in the past (something they probably figured out after relapse flopped, cause they've both pretty much reinvented themselves as artists since then). Em used to be considerably darker with his stuff, but he started to move towards cartoony with some of the stuff on TES. By the time Encore came out, dude was using puppets in music videos where he rapped as peewee herman, lmao. I'd hope that they still have a great (or at the very least, still have a) friendship, beyond the music.

 

Aug 29, 2015

You guys overthink everything omg lol

 

Aug 29, 2015

I think if Eminem really wanted Dre to jump back on the helm and produce his albums I'm pretty sure Dre would be more than happy to do it. If Dre wanted to maintain his legacy without consequences he wouldn't of produced Encore and Relapse. He only really seems to be a perfectionist around his solo work.

I don't personally understand why Eminem doesn't work with Dre anymore, it seems like the more Eminem distants himself from who he used to work with (Bass Brothers, DJ Head, Dre, 50) the more he loses his identity

 

Aug 29, 2015

No sense.

If so Dre doesn't work with Kendrick bc he sucks

Or

Kendrick doesn't work with Dre bc he sucks

Cool story though