Fans who missed Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s set at weekend 1 of Coachella will be thrilled to know that the doctor is breaking the 2Pac hologram again this Sunday at Indio, California. He confirmed the same to TMZ, also revealing that he may take the technology on tour.
The good dcotor also says he’s hopeful the 2pac hologram will inspire other artists to resurrect other legendary musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye.
The creator of 2Pac’s Hologram, Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, which sort of resurrected the rapper live on stage at Coachella yesterday has spoken on the idea and cost behind the concept with MTV.
“We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre’s vision to bring this back to life,” said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. “It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life.”
Nick did not reveal the exact cost but said that a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off.
TMZ also spoke to rep of Pac’s mother Afeni Shakur who expressed her happiness with the show. The rep says Dr. Dre asked for prior approval from his mother and as a thank you, made a donation to the rapper’s charity, The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation.
Here is footage of Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg’s full set at Coachella 2012 in California. They performed their classic records and brought out 2Pac, Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar and Wiz Khalifa. click to watch Part 1 here! and Click to watch full set here.
Kendrick stopped by Big Boy Neighborhood on Power 106 LA a few minutes back to premiere the new K. Dot single ‘The Recipe‘. The good doctor also called in. They introduced the song, revealed the previous title of the song ‘Women, Weed & Weather’ and spoke on the partnership.
Here is Kendrick Lamar’s first single off his upcoming official debut album on Aftermath/Interscope releasing later this year. Produced by Scoop DeVille.
Three outstanding producers Dr. Dre, Pharrell & Eric Hudson, one legendary rapper Snoop Dogg and Chameleon Entertainment (under Def Jam) executive Breyon Prescott together in the studio working on who knows what.
Continuing his promo run for SMS Audio headphones at CES 2012, 50 spoke to USA Today about his venture, partnership with Feeding America and the upcoming album. 50 also gave credit to his mentor Dr. Dre for inspiration behind the headphone line. When asked about the long delayed LP, Fif revealed that he has songs done with Dr. Dre that are not yet finished.
“We should actually be done right now, I have some songs done with Dr. Dre that are not yet finished.”
Holywood TV catches some stars including Dr. Dre, Lupe Fiasco & Tyga attending the Watch The Throne tour stop at the Staples Center last night in Los Angeles.
After performing live on the stage in Singapore a week ago, Snoop, Dre and Tha Dogg Pound did a live concert at Luxy nightclub in Taipei couple of days back. Below, Snoop performs some of his solo hits and then brings out Dr. Dre at the 6:50 mark for a couple of classics. This Youtube user has more clips from the show.
The Fader interviews Dr. Dre at the opening event of the new Beats By Dre store in SoHo in NYC. The Doctor talks about the success of his headphone line, his edge over other producers and focusing on Slim The Mobster & Kendrick Lamar. He also hints at taking a break from hectic studio sessions for a bit. But where is Detox?
DJ Whoo Kid promised us he would premiere Slim’s new track with The Doctor on his radio show Radio Planet TV and well here it is, it’s only a radio rip for now but you will get the CDQ very soon, I’m talking November 8th soon. Slim is holding it down for Aftermath right now, his new mixtape/album “War Music” hits stores November 8th.
Over 20 minutes worth footage of some of the best West Coasters working on Dr. Dre’s mythical album Detox. Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, Battlecat, The D.O.C. & 1500 Or Nothin create beats, preview unheard tunes and discuss music in these 2 clips.
Here’s a clip shot by Lemar Guillary, a professional trombonist from Los Angeles, before Dre laid the horns on the beat. If you’re hearing right, this sounds like a classic Dre record with a silky hook. Detox, where are you?
Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine, Kanye West, Cassie & Diddy were some of the attendees at the the Culo by Mazzucco book and art exhibition launch at The Darby in New York City last night. Global Grind had a chance to interview Dr. Dre where they discussed his Beats Electronics aspirations, Culo by Mazzucco book and his current projects. The Doctor says his focus is now on Kendrick Lamar and Slim The Mobster.
What do you have going on outside of electronics? Musically, do you have anything going on?
Absolutely. I am never going to give music up. Music is like air to me, [music] is like oxygen, so I am always doing that. As soon as I get back to Los Angeles, I am back in the studio doing my thing. I have a couple of new artists that I am excited about, Kendrick Lamar and Slim The Mobster. These are the next two artists, and these are probably my final two artists that I am going to be working with at least for the next couple of years. I am going to devote all my attention to them and make sure their sh*t comes out the way it should be. I am just having fun with life right now!
In 2010, an incomplete version of the much-hyped Dre and Jay-Z duet “Under Pressure” leaked to the Internet. Now you can listen to a new version of “Under Pressure” featuring Sly. They recorded the song “Under Pressure” months ago.
What do you think of the new version of “Under Pressure”? Let us know in the comments!
Last night at the BMI Urban Awards, Snoop Dogg was presented with the BMI Icon Award by Dr. Dre before being joined on stage by Bootsy Collins, Game, Kurupt, Warren G, Daz Dillinger, The Lady of Rage, and Charlie Wilson to perform his classic “Who Am I (What’s My Name)”.
Below is more footage of Nas performing “The Next Episode”, Game performing “Murder Was The Case” and Wiz Khalifa performing “Nuthin But A G Thang” as they pay tribute to Snoop Dogg as well as Drake receiving the Songwriter Of The Year Award.
HTC The Mobile Phone Company invests $300 Million in Dr. Dre’s & Jimmy Iovine’s “Beats By Dre” headphone line, that’s a lot of money and I can tell you that Dr. Dre will top Forbes Hip Hop Cash Kings list next year easily, you can read all about it after the jump including the video promotion for HTC / Beats By Dre.
The injection of money will give HTC one of the largest stakes in Beats, but the company will remain autonomous from HTC. Beats also counts Monster Cable as an investor and will still work with other companies such as HP, providing speakers for laptops and tablets, and Chrysler, providing speakers for sedans, said Iovine, who is chairman of Beats and chief executive of Interscope records.
But HTC will have some smartphones with Beats audio included in stores by the end of the year, he said.
“Getting Beats audio into HTC phones is one of the first things we’re going to do,” Iovine said in an interview. “We are going to be in business with HTC and they’re going to help us and were going to help them in every way they can. And you’ll see Beats audio in just about every phone or tablet they want it to be in, but they know what we’ve built and respect the brand and will help us continue to innovate and push Beats further.”
The partnership won’t mean that Beats will only work with HTC going forward — its relationships with HP and Chrysler remain intact, and its products will still work with Apple gadgets, a main selling point when the company launched in 2008, he said.
“The idea behind Beats has always been and still is to fix the degradation of sound in digital music,” Iovine said. “TV got better with HD and movies got better with high definition and digital has destroyed audio through the speed and convenience of compressing … it. Sound is the [weakest] end of the computer and that’s what we’ve been working to change. HTC gives us a technology partner to work with to make this change happen.”
The deal between Taiwan-based HTC and Beats has been a long time coming. The two companies first talked about how to work together at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, said Jason MacKenzie, HTC’s president of global sales and marketing.
“We’re excited about this being a much deeper partnership than Beats has had with other companies in the past,” MacKenzie said. “The phone is the one product you’re carrying with you all the time and are relying on every day. There is really no product more personal than your phone right now and we want to make the best sound phones out there, when you’re watching a movie, listening to a song, making a call.”
MacKenzie and Iovine wouldn’t provide any specifics on what an HTC phone with Beats audio would look like or cost — Beats headphones range from about $120 for earbuds to as much as $600 for an over-the-ear set — but they did say tablets could make use of the company’s speakers in the future as well.
“It’s very important to us in the music industry that music makes the transition to the phone in a elegant way, in a quality way,” Iovine said. “Music on the cellphone should sound and feel great and we don’t want you to just download bad sounding mp3s and play them on bad sounding $3 earbuds. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a phone or a tablet and listen to music out of $3 earbuds? It just doesn’t add up.”
We’ve seen various versions of The R.E.D. Album track lists floating around since a month or so. But here’s the final & official one that you will get to hear on August 23rd. Or maybe earlier.
1. Dr. Dre Intro
2. The City (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)
3. Drug Test (Feat. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg & Sly)
4. Martians Vs Goblins (Feat. Tyler, The Creator & Lil Wayne)
5. Red Nation (Feat. Lil Wayne)
6. Dr. Dre 1
7. Good Girls Go Bad (Feat. Drake)
8. Ricky
9. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
10. Heavy Artillery (Feat. Rick Ross & Beanie Sigel)
11. Paramedics (Feat. Young Jeezy)
12. Speakers On Blast (Feat. E-40 & Big Boi)
13. Hello (Feat. Lloyd)
14. All The Way Gone (Feat. Mario & Wale)
15. Pot Of Gold (Feat. Chris Brown)
16. Dr. Dre 2
17. All I Know (Feat. Lu Breeze)
18. Born In The Trap
19. Mama Knows (Feat. Nelly Furtado)
20. California Dream
21. Dr. Dre Outro
