Disney became interested in Dr. Dre, but profanity and marijuana on the 2001 album cover were at odds with the company
THE disney tried to hire Dr. Dre after disk success 2001launched in 1999, according to Peter Paterno, lawyer of rap icon. During the last edition of the podcast Connection Is Magic, Paternalwho also represented Pharrell Williams, Metallica and Armas e Rosas – recalled the period after the album The Chronic (1992).
“The first album I was really involved in was 2001,” the lawyer told the presenter, Samson Shulman. “So I worked with Dreand [The Chronic] came out and blew up… it was number one on the charts.”
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Paterno also served as president of Hollywood Recordsgives disneyat the time: “We had these musical meetings every week with Michael Eisner at disneyand Michael came and saw the record first and said, ‘I thought you had a relationship with this guy?'”
“I said, ‘I have.’ He replied, ‘Why don’t we have this record?’ I said, ‘Well, Michael, let me read some of the lyrics… ‘Son of a f***, son of a f***.’ And do you know what that is on the cover? That’s a marijuana leaf,'” he recalled Peter Paterno.
The deal would be worth $4 million. He said, ‘We can’t do this!’ I say, ‘That’s why he’s not on the label.’
2001 was released by the labels interscope and aftermaththe record label itself Dr. Dre. “To be fair, Jimmy [Iovine, co-fundador da Insterscope] I probably would have done it anyway because he was smarter than I was. But I didn’t even try. I mean, to be really honest, I’ve had enough problems with hip hop in disney,” concluded the lawyer.
Rapper and producer Dr. Dre thinks social media has spoiled artists’ ‘mystique’
It is not news that the Dr. Dre not as active on social media. In an interview for the QA British singer, the rapper spoke on the matter and explained that social media has “destroyed” the artist’s mystique by giving fans too much access to their lives, according to NME.
According to the artist, he “doesn’t need anyone to know where I am at every minute or what I’m doing. Or what I’m about to do… There’s a certain mystique that comes along with the music that’s fun to wait and see what what was about to happen.”
During the interview, the journalist iovine and Dre expanded on how social media would have impacted the great musicians of the past. The reporter asked “If Michael Jackson had Instagram, would he have a healthier ending?”, and Dre replied, “Who knows.”
Watch the full interview below:
Source: Rollingstone
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