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Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

According to a very reputable source (i.e. Google) Dr. Dre is now only the 3rd most searched-for Dr. Even more shockingly, he is trailing two straight-up chumps who couldn't rhyme their way out of bed---Drs. Fauci and Oz.

Experts disagree upon why Dre has fallen off, but few would disagree that he has. And so I want to open this discussion to the austere musical minds of GBS. Why did Dre fall off?

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Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

bossy lady posted:

no Dr funkenstein. smh

it goes without saying

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

ManBoyChef posted:

Turns out motherfuckers weren't just acting when they forgot about dre

turns out that motherfuckers were on the right side of history after all.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Grumblepuff posted:

Someone forgot that this is the millennium of Aftermath :smug:

With a roster...5 people deep, that means everyone gets 200 years.

This is Year 22 of the Season of Silk Sonic.

:dealwithit:

this is crazy talk. you are crazy.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

detox is coming out next year op. people will remember dre then

He has been saying this for like 15 years, and I am shocked that people ITT are pushing this obviously false narrative.



Smugworth posted:

How, trigger, his last album was The Chronic

This is precisely the problem!

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

he's just been in the lab, with a pen and a pad, trying to get this drat label off

How long are we, the gangsta-rap craving public, going to accept this tired old excuse?

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

I also have it on good authority that his doctorate is in Japanese history, meaning that Dr. Dre is almost certainly a weeb. In my mind, this is the most daming piece of evidence of all.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Edmund Sparkler posted:

Lol that Dre pretended that Aftermath never happened.

Wouldn't you? I don't think we can judge Dre too harshly for this particular decision.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

bird with big dick posted:

Your ex isn’t evil op she just loves big cocks

This is a suspicious username/post combo...

However it is off-topic for this thread--unless op is Dr. Dre IRL and you are loving his wife, in which case that is just another piece of evidence that Dre has indeed fallen off.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Saalkin posted:

Dr. Dre got me hooked on pain killers


Doctor Butts posted:

A year after Straight Outta Compton came out, he produced the early era New Jack Swing hit "No More Lies" by Michel'le. I think it's his voice doing the talking in the song. In fact I think he worked on the whole album.


Will his treachery never end???

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

FreeRangeHexagon posted:

he never recovered from that weird GTA Online DLC he did

Neither have I, frankly.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

Also Bronx rapper Tim Dog claimed to have hosed Michel'le in "gently caress Compton" on his landmark album Penicillin on Wax.
"ya shoulda heard how the bitch was moanin
(sings in parody Michel'le voice for a bit)
shut the gently caress up bitch ya can't sing
ya sound like a kid playin' on a swing"
I think Timothy Dog should've focused his ire solely on NWA et al and left her out of it.

Does this help or hurt the "Dre Fell Off" case??

I dunno but more people should listen to Penicillin on Wax. The beats are great, Tim is a lovely lyricist but he is so loving angry the whole time. Dogs Gonna Get Ya is the funniest song ever for this.

While not directly applicable to the thesis of this thread, this is an interesting--if unpleasant--piece of Dre's legacy.

Also that video was straight gangsta. There was some big jacked shirtless dude swinging a lightbulb around over his head, which was very much what was going on in the streets at that period in time.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Peggy Edson posted:

Who's this Dr Dre. Can't recall ever hearing that name


Treecko posted:

Maybe he should have just stayed with Eminem?


I have heard these sentiments repeated numerous times, but I never get used to hearing them. Tragic.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

EEKA GEEK posted:

If he does release a new album, I hope there are lots of skits between tracks.

:hmmyes:

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Futanari Damacy posted:

Tim Dog is a loving terrible name for a rapper


Treecko posted:

Naw that was sad. D12 broke up for a reason. Don't listen to a King Gordy album.


I have it on good authority that King Gordy is not a real king, nor is Tim Dog a real dog. Starting to wonder if the rap game is full of charlatans, tbqh.

Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020


Obviously.

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Prof. Crocodile
Jun 27, 2020

Modulo16 posted:

That is only part and you missed the point.


He says this:

“This is the millennium of Aftermath
It ain't gon' be nothin' after that
So give me one more platinum plaque and gently caress rap, you can have it back”

And the 2001 Album went platinum. So he did what he said he’d do and gave rap back.

Close thread.

E: 6 times, it went platinum 6 times.

Ironically, 2001 was released in late 1999. And indeed the millennium era was great for hip-hop, with many of its top artists reaching #1 on the Billboard charts from 1999-2000--artists such Tupac, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay Z, DMX, LL Cool J, Foxy Brown, and Silkk the Shocker. Conspicuously absent from this list was Dr. Dre.

Although we were all too excited by the millennium to notice, it's clear in retrospect that Dre was falling off, even at the height of gangsta rap's popularity--despite what his apologists would have you believe.

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