People really don't understand that the combo of Dre and Big is what made them so great.

And from our view point in late 2012, it looks as though Big was the driving force behind a lot of what we loved.

Speakerboxxx, SLLF, and VLDR sound much more in line with the natural progression of Kast as we loved them.

Take those three albums and add Dre in the mix and I really don't think they would have fallen off at all and would be lookig at 7 great albums. Shit, 8 if you go the route of Bigs Idlewood songs.

Obviously Dre adds a lot as well, but so far his output has been The Love Below and the terrible half of Idlewild.

Big kept Dre grounded.