Dre, Kanye was brought in to produce a song for the Game, and “Dreams” eventually appeared on Game’s debut studio album. He’s the definition of a true talent: Dre feels like God placed him here to make music, and no matter what forces are aligned against him, he always ends up on the mountaintop.” 2005: The Game drops 'The Documentary' featuring production from both Kanye and Dr. “At first I was starstruck, but within thirty minutes I was begging him to mix my next album. “I just met Dre for the first time in December-he asked me to produce a track (‘Dreams’) for the Game’s record,” Kanye recalled. “Listen to ‘This Can't Be Life’ a track I did for JAY-Z’s Dynasty album, and then listen to ‘Xxplosive.’ It's a direct bite.”Ģ003: Kanye and Dre meet for the first time in DecemberĪlthough the pair were likely aware of each other before, Kanye and Dre didn’t officially meet until 2003. “But it’s “Xxplosive,” off 2001, that I got my entire sound from-if you listen to the track, it’s got a soul beat, but it's done with those heavy Dre drums,” he wrote. Dre’s beat off of his single, “Xxplosive,” in order to make a song for Jay’s album. In his essay for Rolling Stone, he admitted to biting Dr. That same year, he produced a record for Jay-Z’s album, Dynasty: Roc La Familia. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious.” 2000: Kanye admits to ‘biting’ drums from Dre’s “Xxplosive” to make the beat for “This Can't Be Life”Īfter producing records for Ma$e, Eminem, and Nas, Kanye got his big break in 2000 when he began making hits for Roc-A-Fella Records. The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life. I had no idea how to get to that point, how to layer all those instruments. “Dre productions like Tupac's ‘California Love’ were just so far beyond what I was doing that I couldn’t even comprehend what was going on. “When I was learning to produce, working in a home studio in my mother's crib, I tried to make beats that sounded exactly like Timbaland's, DJ Premier's, Pete Rock's and, especially, Dr. Dre, among other notable producers, to be his biggest influence. When he was first getting started as a producer in the 1990s, Kanye named Dr. Dre's music as he developed as a producer

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