There is no doubt Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are hip-hop legends, so they definitely know a few things about the genre.
The West Coast rappers were guests on the Oct. 18 episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show and shared their thoughts on the current crop of rap singles hitting the airwaves.
For Snoop, his criticism is new rappers aren’t original enough.
“Right now there’s so much copycatting, mimicking, sounding alike, and imitation,” said the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper.
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“Find your production, your sound, find your ear for who you are, and be original even if it ain’t hitting. Stay you.” Snoop added. “Most of these hit records are based off a sample. You taking somebody’s music that was a hit and redoing it, and now they’re f–king it up.”
Dre, who’s considered one of greatest hip-hop producers of all time, chimed in by saying he has a problem with new artists using too many “producers for one album.”
“Find your collaborator. I don’t like the fact there’s nine different producers on one album. I like the idea of one producer on one album,” said the Death Row Records co-founder.
“If you’re a producer, you should be able to produce the entire album,” Dre continued. “That’s what I thought it was supposed to be. That’s what I was doing at the beginning.”
One of those albums Dre produced was Snoop’s 1993 debut release Doggystyle, and he predicts the next Snoop is out there.
“There’s somebody in somebody’s garage that’s gonna be the next Snoop or Dre or the next Prince or the next Michael Jackson that’s coming up with something that [will] change the game,” Dre said.
Snoop’s new album Missionary is set to be released in November, and is produced by Dre.
Watch the full interview here:
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