Mentions of Dre in the Los Angeles Times, his hometown paper, tend to include the phrase “surrendered to police,” and he is perhaps the first recording artist since Sly Stone whose name shows up almost as often on the police-report page as it does in the entertainment section. Do you know how hard that is? Famous movie directors can’t do that.”ĭre, who signs his checks Andre Young and who is the chief architect of what is known as West Coast gangsta rap, is an enigma: Though he created one of the most profitable genres in rock & roll, he is better known for his out-of-control episodes than for his absolute control in the studio, better known for his criminal record than for his many platinum records. “He can rap, he can produce … and he can direct a video with humor. “There aren’t three people like him in the music business,” Iovine says, stabbing the air with his forefinger. Dre is apparently in control, and Iovine is pleased. He peers in the direction of Interscope Records co-head Jimmy Iovine, who smiles and waves. Dre finishes the take, springs out of the car and wanders over to the truck for a video playback of the scene. However you look at it, Dre is carrying a lot of hyphens today.Ī full-on film crew, the kind you’d expect to see doing second-unit work on Terminator III or something, follows his every move with a giant camera crane and a phalanx of big lights. He also produced, performed and co-wrote the song “Let Me Ride,” on which this video is based. Dre - the ex-N.W.A member whose Chronic LP, eight months in the Billboard Top 10, is already the most popular hardcore rap album in history (two million and counting), with a huge crossover audience - is directing, producing and starring in his third video for The Chronic, which will see him through his extensive fall tour. “Nigga can’t get enough of that shit.”ĭr. Dre glances back at his entourage with the classic “Look, no hands” smirk of a guy who has always been Mom’s favorite, and the Impala rears like a spooked stallion.Ī tall man wearing a black Dodgers cap snorts and shakes his head. Just as abruptly, it rights itself, and the front end of the car begins to hop up and down, just as you’ve seen it do a thousand times on MTV. Suddenly, the parked car leans sharply to one side, the right body panel striking the asphalt with a violent thunk. Dre, wearing a black Ben Davis shirt, baggy pants and a marijuana-leaf baseball cap that advertises his best-selling album The Chronic, shrugs himself into the driver’s seat of a black ’64 Chevrolet Impala convertible and reaches under the dash. Here, in an Ozzie and Harriet-like Leimert Park neighborhood just a few blocks from the swank black-owned mansions of Windsor Hills, rap star Dr. Neatly suited Muslims stand on the street corners, offering newsletters and bean pies for sale. She also revealed that she’s smoked weed with Snoop before and Candiace said she felt an immediate contact high when she sat in front of Snoop at the Power premiere lol.Leimert Park is the intellectual center of African American life in Los Angeles - jazz clubs, coffeehouses, bookstores, art galleries, a theater in a fine old movie palace, the restaurants that draw people from all over town. Candiace and Lauren both chose Marlo Hampton over Ashley Darby and Alexia Nepola over Lisa Vanderpump.ĭuring the After Show, Lauren informed us that her favorite memory from starring in Snoop Dogg’s Drop It Like It’s Hot music video was casting half of her friends and family back when she was the assistant to the director. Lauren also stated that she has loved Charrisse’s return.ĭuring “Which Twinning is Winning?,” Candiace from The Real Housewives of Potomac and Lauren looked at the women of The Real Housewives in matching outfits and choose which one wore it best. Lauren said that she hopes the rumors Charrisse Jackson-Jordan has been spilling about Karen Huger on The Real Housewives of Potomac are just rumors, but she also doesn’t thinks Charrisse is just spilling tea out of nowhere. Lauren London and Potomac Housewife Candiace Dillard Bassett stopped by the clubhouse over at Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last night.
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