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I Don't Think The Word "Humble" Means What Diddy Thinks It Means
Vibe: Dr. Dre said that the last beat that floored him was 'All About the Benjamins.' How does that make you feel?
P. Diddy: "It's humbling. I was in the studio with Dre the other day. He started working on a record for me. Watching him as a producer is watching greatness. We had a lot of similar traits. It was like looking in the mirror. He would ask questions like, 'How you feel about this?' People don't really understand true producers want to know how you feel about things. We are some of the most observant people on the planet."
-Sometimes humility doesn't last very long.
I hope Janelle's hair eats him.
"The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my son."
Watching my reflection in the monitor when I'm commenting always makes me understand my greatness.
Sounds humbling
Hold up. Wait a minute. I was under the impression at that time that other people (D. Dot?)were making the beats and Combs was adding his name to them after fiddling with a button or two – at least when it came to hip hop beats. I don't know about R&B tracks. I believe there was an article about it c. 1997 but I can't really recall.
Premier is a real producer. RZA is a real producer. Pete Rock, etc. etc.
Yes. Definitely. That's in the tags. (Derek Angeletti is D. Dot.)
Jack Abramoff was observant too and look where that got him.
"How you feel about this?"
Well, if you have to ask, Mr Observant…
Here's a question. Does anyone else think the All About the Benjamins beat is kind of weak? I guess the hi-hat thingies as they pass the baton are kind of neat, but really, I'll take Bad Boy for Life any day of the week. Bad Boy for Life also features one of the best ghost-writes of all time in, guess who, Puffy's verse.
Indeed, I thought it was weak then and I think it's weak now. I can't wait for it to switch to the breakbeat at the end, for Biggie's verse. I was surprised when Big Pun had this line in "The Dream Shatterer": "I'll even let you rhyme to the Benjamin beat, but it won't matter…"
I think, perhaps, and I'm sorry to say it, Dre doesn't really know much about beats? All the old stuff from NWA up was simple loops. Looping Leon Haywood. Wow, big deal. It was hot, but it was a loop. "In the Club" is hot, but there is something ever so slightly off beat about it… I'm not sure what else he's done. Keep their Heads Ringing? How wack.
No, "All About the Benjamins" is one of the greatest beats every made. Top ten of all time.
Dre is the best rap music producer of all time and, I would argue, the single most important musical figure in the past thirty years. And his greatest, most important work used no loops. He did this album called "The Chronic" in 1992…
Me three: It was weak. And how bizarre that Dre would say that. Piece to my dome-piece, I would actually choose literally any other Puff single of that era and/or the beat from that Dr. Pepper ad last year that became an Amerie song.
I hope you're kidding! Dre's career as a whole is on the borderline of wack, loops or no loops. The hits from The Chronic are easy loops. They sound great, but he can't rank among my top 20 producers.
I can't wait for Making the Band 78.
I'm still camping out for Danity Kane's next album release.
Yes, and Da Band!