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But is this biography written in crayon? How many variations on the phrase "fuck it" can one biographer drop in three paragraphs? Dre's had a hell of a career - it's deathly hard to stay on top in the game, either as a producer or a rapper, and the Doc's been doing it, as you said, for nearly three decades.
I hope the book's worth a damn more than these responses, cos I could get better insights into Dre by spinning "Let Me Ride". What respected rapper hasn't fought through major adversity? His legacy is going to be as the guy who released 50 Cent's records? Really? So it won't be his production work, the laid-back crispness that put So. Cal on the map? It won't be forcibly swapping hip-hop's harmless fun for hood-paranoia, so that 20 years after NWA, even the pop rappers are desperate to show some grit, some street cred? Isn't Dre's biggest legacy that Lil Wayne smiling is a huge deal? Get someone from Ego Trip on this shit, rest its soul.
