I samband med skivans 20-års jubileum.

I lördags markerade 20 år på dagen sedan Dr. Dres klassiska album “2001” släpptes. Lagom till jubiléet bjuder nu Apple Music på mini-dokumentären “Dr. Dre’s 2001: The Making of a Classic”, där Beats-medgrundarna Dre och Jimmy Iovine sitter ner och pratar om skapandet av skivan.

Där debutalbumet “The Chronic” utvecklades som ett konceptalbum frågar Iovine hur Dre tänkte när han skapade “2001” och den senare svarar att tankesättet var likartat, där han inte ville framhäva sig själv för mycket.

“I’m trying to put myself in the studio with a bunch of great artists, as far as the microphone work goes. I’m trying to just get on a song or two, here and there. My first album, The Chronic, and the 2001 album, I believe I might be on (only) like four or five songs”, säger Dre i videon.

“I didn’t want to appear on the album at all. To be honest, I just wanted to find artists and produce them. The D.O.C. talked me into getting on the mic.”

Dr. Dre gör det också tydligt att Iovines roll i projektet var avgörande, i synnerhet med hans tankar kring att pusha “The Next Episode” som första singel.

“It was a great song. I just felt the album needed something coming out from a different way”, varpå Dre säger: “again, he was right about it.”

“Still D.R.E.” skulle som bekant bli den första singeln och Dre berättar även om vikten av Eminems medverkan på albumet.

“He was hungry. I was hungry. And it was just like that, you know, spontaneous combustion. We just clicked, and that just brought everybody and everything together that was happening at that time.”

“Then we found out what we were doing, it really works. And that’s all we really needed. It’s like, OK, the Slim Shady LP, they really like that. Now that we know that it works, wait ’til they hear this.”

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