He wanted to come back and make a splash in the music industry again. ‘Coming Home’ is an example is being kind of lost in your life, coming to realizations, and reinventing yourself, and that’s kind of what Diddy wanted to do. and Christina Aguilera, it’s about fame and fortune and how everybody thinks it’s so glamorous, but the reality is, it can be really a lonely lifestyle. “So, ‘Castle Walls,’ for example, the song I did for T.I. I wanted to see some of these tough guys become a little bit vulnerable, and so every time I send somebody a chorus, it’s usually based on something that I see about them in their life, that they could actually have a lot to say about but haven’t had the chance to yet,” she says. I more come from this musical place where music is about expressing your emotions and vulnerabilities. I feel like, especially in rap music, people have gotten so tough about it. I go online and I do research on that person –Wikipedia, YouTube interviews, anywhere I can find a piece of information that kind of tugs at your heart a little bit. Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. Showing up with that chorus sounds like a ballsy move. Dre to come back and do this album that he’s been working on for so long, but for some reason wasn’t finishing.” It was just in general thinking about how people want Dr. I didn’t know how far they would take it on the personal level. Dre has been kind of dormant in the music industry as an artist for 10 years, and people were really wanting him to come back. I guess I’m really empathetic because he played it twice, and I bawled the second time, too. Dre, and they were both standing there in the room, and I could see years and years of stuff - of sh– and great stuff, of their lives - just come pouring out into the song. There’s so much passion and honesty and vulnerability in his verses talking to Dr. He played us the verses, and I literally started bawling. Two hours later, he said, ‘Okay, I’m ready.’ He brought us into the studio, and he had already laid down everything. Alex and I were just sitting out in the studio waiting for him to come out with his verses. Eminem took the song back into the back of the studio and locked himself up for awhile. “That was an amazing moment in my life,” she says. Dre and Eminem, who didn’t know what they were about to hear. partner Eazy-E, who died in 1995.Something she definitely understood was the meaning of the chorus she wrote for “I Need a Doctor.” She and Alex da Kid showed up in Detroit to present the track and chorus to Dr. Still, his memories of the last 25 years stay with him, and in the video's final frames, he pays his respects at the grave of his former N.W.A. While he recovers from an invisible bed and what appears to be a Dre-sized test tube, Eminem unleashes his usual gale-force rhyming, essentially telling his rap sensei how much he believes in him.īy the third verse, Dre is back (and out of the test tube), rapping and doing a weight workout that would make Batman look like a Powerpuff Girl. health care system offers some extremely zazzed-out perks to rap legends, as an ailing Dre is surrounded by a team of doctors (one of them played by Skylar Grey, the 25-year-old newcomer who sings "Doctor's" haunting hook), Eminem and some sort of lip-syncing ghost-vixen played by model/actress Estella Warren.
That's when the music kicks in, and we flash to a shadowy lab. While cruising a mountain highway, Dre loses control of his car, his black Ferarri doing a somersault into complete destruction. to studio time with protege Eminem to home movies of his wife and family.īut flipping through memories like a remote-control jockey proves dangerous.
And while taking in the savage landscape, he flashes back on everything from his days with N.W.A. The first two minutes of the Allan Hughes-directed video are all about the set-up: Dre, looking out over an ocean cliff, reflects on his life. We're talking epic as in guest appearances from Eminem, a Bruckheimer-worthy car wreck in the video's opening moments, and an extended seven-and-a-half minute run time that makes this clip feel more like a mini movie. Dre's third solo album Detox has yet to materialize, but that didn't stop the hip-hop mogul from making as epic a return as possible with the just-dropped video for "I Need a Doctor."