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Married to the Internet, stuck in place, salivatin'
Ain't nobody graduatin' Dr. Dre (Ft. Anderson .Paak, Candice Pillay & Eminem) – Medicine Man
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While you could say Dr. Dre’s married to the game (hip-hop), the younger generation are nose deep in their phones, stuck on the internet thirsting for new content. Dre records his success in dollars, young people just wants “likes” and “retweets.”

Whilst the internet has revolutionalised hip-hop, it’s allowed a generation of artists to skip the grind Dre and his cohorts made from local rappers to global phenomena. This sentiment is somewhat ironic, considering Dre released his album exclusively online, and is a Vice-President at Apple.

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“aint no nobody graduating” is a reference to current hip hop culture. Nobody is succeeding their first album like Kanye West did with ‘Graduation’

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I lie on the side of a one-way street (Blow-blow-blow-blow!)
Nowhere to go, death all I can see (Blow-blow-blow-blow!) Dr. Dre (Ft. Candice Pillay, Kendrick Lamar & Marsha Ambrosius) – Genocide
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In some neighbourhoods, one way streets are used to prevent drive byes since they effectively control traffic flow. This crime prevention technique is use in Compton, Detroit, and Chicago.

The “one way street” is also a symbol for Kendrick and the five blind men’s prospects in Compton. They can only survive by committing crime – and crime either leads to incarceration or death.

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Satisfiction Dr. Dre (Ft. Marsha Ambrosius, Mez & Snoop Dogg) – Satisfiction
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This song explores the “other side” of fame. While celebrities claim to be living amazing, extravagant lifestyles, the reality is they’re not content with their life – it’s fiction.

One example is 50 Cent. Earlier in 2015, he told a Supreme Court that his “flashy lifestyle” was all fake. On record, he stated:

It’s like music videos, they say action and you see all these fancy cars but everything goes back to the dealership.

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Hear this out, though: 50 Cent’s “confession” was a legal strategy so that he didn’t have to pay the $5 millon a jury asked for the leakage of Leviston’s sex tape. A smart strategy from an expensive lawyer.

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All rappers do today if make themselves look like cartoons, Running around wearing props like a prop bullistic vest or a prop firearm like 23 savage does in his diss track This is 23.
And in real life they couldn’t pull the fiction life into realitiy.
Like Kodak only valid thing he stated in his song was he got shot.
Real reason why I listen to real hiphop artistes who know what it takes to bemqking hiphop music and tell real non-Fiction story’s like Dr.Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Long lost favorates Eazy E, Tupac, MC Breed, Chrisopher Wallice, Big L ect.

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And then that night came in when that nigga Knight came in
(Woo!) This one of those dreams you don't wake up from
Then again, you don't sleep if you come from where I come from Dr. Dre (Ft. BJ the Chicago Kid & Justus) – It's All on Me
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The introduction of Suge Knight was the beginning of a dark period in Dre’s life; he alludes to this with the play on “night” and “Knight.”

Suge is known for intimidating, threatening, and using violence in order to do business. The story of Suge breaking into (N.W.A manager) Jerry Heller’s office and threatening him and Eazy with a baseball bat – solely to get him to release Dre and The D.O.C. released from the label the two controlled, Ruthless Records is legendary (Heller and Eazy released them.)

Within a few years, Suge had become one of the primary catalysts in the East Coast-West Coast rap feud that led directly to the murders of 2Pac & The Notorious B.I.G. Prior to Tupac’s death, both Dre and Snoop realized they were in way too deep with Suge, and each subsequently departed from his label, Death Row Records.

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fuck suge and everyone that follow him

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Suge knight is also involved in several conspiracies with both Tupac’s and Biggie’s unsolved murders, a retired cop who worked on the case claims his theory is that Suge Knight killed Tupac over money arguments and then months later killed Biggie to get the attention off him and make it look like the rivalry went even more violent. He is also accused by easy-e’s son that he injected Easy with AIDs. This is because Suge and Easy were enemies because of Snoop Dogg and Dre’s rivalry (now ended) with Ruthless Records, as well as because of legal battles Easy and Suge over Dre’s and the Doc’s signature. Suge also ran over two people including Terry Carter, a former friend, and coworker. Terry Carter died and the other victim survived with several injuries. This happened after Suge Knight felt he was being “badly” displayed in the movie “Straight outta Compton”. He plead voluntary manslaughter and got 28 years. He also threatened to kill the director of straight outta Compton in 2017. According to some sources he tried to have Eminem killed at 2001 Source awards when he was separated from his bodyguards because of the celebrity seating arrangement that prevented bodyguards from having the same seat sections as them. He also threatened Vanilla Ice at his own hotel room while his bodyguards were away and Suge reportedly implied that he was gonna have Vanilla Ice thrown off of his own hotel balcony, Ice tells the story of how he threatened him but there was no one being actually “held over the balcony” like previously speculated. He later, however, denied Suge Knight threatened him at all in several interviews. In conclusion, Suge Knight is a monster.

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Suge Knight fucked up Hip-Hop in so many way, he is responsible for the loss of so many legends in this game😞

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Dr. Dre’s life has changed drastically from his childhood, so it seems as if he is dreaming. Then again, if you grew up in Compton, then you don’t get much sleep because of fear, gunshots, etc…

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suge ruined pac’s and biggie’s lives. this fucker has gotta burn in hell.

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It's been a 187 in this bitch! Dr. Dre (Ft. Candice Pillay, Kendrick Lamar & Marsha Ambrosius) – Genocide
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“187” is police code for a homicide. Dre and Snoop are known for making this phrase popular in the 90’s with the single that launched their solo careers titled “Deep Cover”.

Yeah, and you don’t stop
(Cause it’s 1-8-7 on a undercover cop)
Yeah, and you don’t stop
(Cause it’s 1-8-7 on a undercover cop)

This line preludes the rest of the verse. Dre draws parallels between the violence in Compton and his influence on the music industry. Both go hand in hand, one shaped the other.

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Or even back in the day when I was a fuckin' youngster, man
Shit, I was still sayin', "Fuck the police" (Man, fuck the police)
Born and raised in the belly of the beast (Motherfuckin' Hub City) Dr. Dre (Ft. Anderson .Paak & Marsha Ambrosius) – All in a Day’s Work
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Commonly known as “the belly of the beast,” Compton is the city that inspired N.W.A’s most famous song “Fuck Tha Police.”

The song also became an unoffical anthem for the 1992 L.A Riots.

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Or even back in the day when I was a fuckin' younster man
Shit I was still saying fuck the police
men FUCK THE POLICE!!
Born and raised in the belly of the beast

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Girls be thirteen actin' twenty-two
Niggas be forty-four actin' half they ages
Somebody tell me, what the fuck is goin' on? Dr. Dre (Ft. Anderson .Paak, Candice Pillay & Eminem) – Medicine Man
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Dre equates immature forty-four year old men to thirteen year old girls in way over their heads. How so? Half of forty-four is twenty-two, and if the girls are thirteen, “acting” twenty-two, then they’re the same age as the men!

While this is a clever line, the reality of the situation is very real. In low socio-economic neighbourhoods, issues like teen pregnancy are more prevalent, along with increased rates of incarceration.

This isn’t the first time Dre has spit a line like this. In the leaked Detox track “Syllables,” Dre rapped:

They said 30’s the new 20
Funny, must mean 40’s the new 30

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This is such a pervy line, “13 acting 22” ????

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Eminem was 44, when this song was released. IDK its a bit perf

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.22 & .44 are both very common bullet caliber bullets.

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Six pounds of chronic on my grandma coffee table
That's how you remember it? That's how I remember it
Yeah, dip into the liquor store, nine in my khakis
Crips tryna get at me, my red Impala bumping like acne The Game (Ft. Asiahn) – Just Another Day
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Before he was a famous MC, Game was known for living the gangsta lifestyle. Riding a red Chevrolet Impala past the Crips (who favor the color blue), while carrying a 9mm handgun means he’s got a serious reputation. “Bumping like acne” is a homage to Dre’s line, alluding to a low-rider Impala fitted with hydraulics.

His grandma probably didn’t allow him smoking weed in her house.

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“bumping like acne” is a line paying homage to the line originating from the song No Diggity by Blackstreet, in which Dr Dre says “The homies got at me, collab creations, bump like acne”.

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Listen, this is my evaluation
This shit oversaturated, y'all can get evacuated
Kids sippin' Actavis and they ain't even activated Dr. Dre (Ft. Anderson .Paak, Candice Pillay & Eminem) – Medicine Man
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Dre checks over the patients in his office like a doctor would. In this case his patient is hip-hop and the Dr. thinks this generation are on the wrong medication.

Actavis is a pharmaceutical company that once made cough syrup used in “lean.” Dre critiques the way “lean” is overused in hip hop to achieve chart success without actually “activating” – being creative. He feels like kids are abusing drugs like “lean” after they’ve been popularized by artists like Future and Migos.

Thanks to his longevity and legacy in the game, Dre’s evaluation is respected by peers and fans alike.

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top 100 biggest songs of all time according to Billboard. Genius – Seven Ghostwritten Songs Every Rap Fan Should Know
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The song came in at number 94 when the list was released in 2013:

After his friend Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G.) was killed, Sean “Puffy” Combs thought recording a tribute song would be cathartic, and it was. He sampled one of his favorite songs, “Every Breath You Take” by the Police. “It always made me cry,” he says.

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