The Defiant Ones

After leaving Eazy-E and Ruthless Records, Dr. Dre’s independence results in his debut solo album, The Chronic and the start of his noteworthy collaborations with Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. But Dre’s artistic success came with numerous challenges, including growing cultural and political concerns about the explicit content in his music. Jimmy Iovine’s transition from music producer to music executive gives him an opportunity to utilize his eye for talent and business savvy, culminating in his creation of Interscope Records and signing Dre. However, Jimmy’s partnership with Dre and Interscope’s provocative roster of musicians means absorbing their problems with the law.

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And motherfucker had... some sort of device, mechanism.

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and it was really successful, and I always admired David,

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and all of the secretaries are looking at this video,

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Gwen is now going to glue her costume.

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and we went in there, and we learned how to write music.

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wasn't gonna make anybody's lives easy.

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the record started to sell.

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He had a redhot focus. It was nuclear.

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So after all that, I still hadn't met Trent in person.

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in the spirit of Atlantic Records

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We trying to work on a fucking record."

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For some reason, everybody's turning me down.

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but just like Trent Reznor,

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"of when I first saw The Rolling Stones.

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Falling back on that ass, with a hellafied gangsta lean.

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- Did not! Second down. - No, no. No.

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But I don't think Jimmy realized

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In fact, what happened in the shooting in that video,

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I remember Suge calling and saying,

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that we were using mechanisms to shock people?

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Help me get away from myself

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And the fucked up part about that is,

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Okay.

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I'm not livin' in the past, you wanna last.

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can punish me more than I've been punished already.

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In every city, Manson's arrival

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The beautiful people

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And frolicked in the autumn mist.

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The corporate executives who hide behind the lofty language

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Maybe they thought I should be more respectful or something, you know?

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I get a phone call at midnight from Suge Knight.

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"Hi, baby, when are you getting here?"

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was such a transitional period for me.

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spoke a few words in his ear.

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Brooklyn on the side, Bronx behind us,

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come to Death Row.

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Death Row had things on 'em. Bad Boy had things on 'em.

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and that's when we all realized,

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But it's not a image, it's just a way of life.

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Now you got Tupac...

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Next year Death Row gonna start printing our own money.

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There's nothing I can do about it."

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I was on a new page I'd never seen in my life before every day.

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Ted's staying at the Four Seasons.

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and people won, which was the Interscope and MCA side.

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and he said, "Okay, you guys better put these... put these on now."

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To be the man in this wicked land?

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All you niggas die.

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I went up in there and just, you know...

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