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Topic subjectAgreed. And I think he did both, to be sure.
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3011317, Agreed. And I think he did both, to be sure.
Posted by Brew, Thu Nov-08-18 08:54 PM
I'm also a HUGE Dre fan. He, Snoop and Cube were my intro to hip-hop when I was in 2nd grade so I'm hella biased as well haha.

But I think Dre did both. He found samples himself/made beats himself, but also allowed other producers to bring him skeleton beats/samples and made them good as well.


>RE: I'm a big fan of Dre's so I'm biased
>But there's a reason why producers like Daz and others who
>claim Dr. Dre just bit their work haven't gone on to have the
>same level of success without him.
>
>Dre has a great ear and knew how to mine the beats or demos of
>other producers to create great music. There's something to be
>said for knowing what sounds great and turning that into a
>song, even if you didn't actually create the art yourself.