Kort efter den legendariska halvtidsshowen i Super Bowl av Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige och 50 Cent har “2001”-singeln tillika klassikern “Still D.R.E.” katapulterat på nytt. Låten har nämligen nått en (1) miljard visningar på YouTube.
Dre och Snoop framförde såklart låten under sitt set, där en video också gick viral på när Jay-Z rappar med i låten från läktaren. Jay skrev som bekant låten åt västkustikonerna och har således lika stor del i framgångarna. I fjol gästade han LeBron James HBO-show “The Shop”, där han mindes tillbaka på skapandet av låten.
“On that reference track, I’m doing Dre and Snoop’s vocals. The reference track it sounds like them. The Foxy [Brown] reference I’m glad nobody can find that one. But you gotta have somewhat a reverence for them”, minns han tillbaka och fortsätter:
“In order for me to really nail the essence of Dre and Snoop had to be like a studied reverence of what they were doing. Even to put myself in their shoes. Cause think about that record. That record comes after Dre leaves Death Row, ‘How? My last album was The Chronic.”
“2001” är Dr. Dres bäst säljande album och har enligt RIAA sålt platina sex gånger om. Jay-Z’s mångåriga studiotekniker Young Guru har hyllat briljansen bakom produktionen av skivan i en intervju med “FAQ Podcast”.
“Dre took our bottom end — and all Hip Hop records had a lot of low end — but the clarity that he put into it and the depth. A lot of people can mix left to right and pan really well; 2001 was the first time where you had depth this way”, säger han i intervjun och tillägger:
“You gotta remember, he’s not only doing all keyboard beats, he’s combining samples and synths together, so it’s a combination of those two sounds. It’s a presentation of how he’s taking vocals and making them sit inside of there, but then the reverbs and the super depth.”
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Podcast-värdarna William “Fuzzy” West och Quincy Harris ringde sedan upp producenten själv, som förklarade mer ingående för Guru hur han producerade klassikern.
“That particular record, I was really going bass-heavy with it, but trying to keep the mids and the tops right. But still trying to make sure it sounded, like, some gritty shit. You know what it is trying to get that balance.”
“A lot of times, at least back then, I was mixing the vocals a little bit too loud because it’s a little trick you learn along the way, once you get into mastering, if you want to add bass to your shit the vocals come down.”
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