He and Snoop Dogg gave an interview to Complex.Photo: Getty Images
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg sat down with Complex to talk about their new joint, Missionary -- and Dre has a good reason for reuniting after three decades.
He says, "I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody right now, but I'm not really inspired by what's happening with hip-hop these days. It's not for me. I've always said I'm not going to disrespect it or anything like that, but I haven't heard anything that makes me go [damn], why didn't I do that? I haven't heard that in a long time, which makes my job easy to be honest."
Dre says the last stuff he did really like were Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly.
Some other highlights from the interview:
- Snoop: "When Dr. Dre makes music, his music don't sound like nobody else's music. And it's a uniqueness about his sound that me and him make together and I'm just honored to still be able to do it at a high level and for him to be able to produce me."
- Dre: "Everybody loves it when we're together. There's a certain synergy that comes together when we get on stage or when we get in the studio together. It's just some kind of magic that happens."
- Snoop: "Well, I've been a fan of Sting since I was a kid, so when we did the record, it was an interpolation of his song and we was thinking who could we get on it, and we said we might as well go after Sting. And when we sent it to him, that [guy] sent the record back how fast?"
- Dre: "Hopefully, in my opinion, we're not the last of the goats, and there's another [effing] Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and Eminem and Ice Cube in their [effing] bedroom or in their garage right now. It's like a 16-year-old kid that's going to come out and do some [stuff] that's even bigger and more spectacular than what we've ever done."
