| -----Original Message----- | From: robin pinning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 20 December 2002 13:40 | | > Brandy's producer is Rodney Jerkins. But the Neptunes, | > Timbaland, Dr. Dre, and Scott Storch should also be | > getting props... | | does anyone know if the timbaland/dre thing is ever gonna happen?
To be honest I don't have a hell of a lot of respect for Dr Dre. He employs quite a few producers, and pretty much takes material from them for his own releases. The image of him sitting up in the studio til 4am perfecting a snare noise is a little bit misleading! I'd say that what he actually does is more A&R than anything else; various producers play him various tracks and he decides whether he wants them as Dre releases, whether they can be used on some other artist's release, or whether they should just be scrapped. And besides, the rhythm from "The Next Episode" was copied almost directly from some obscure 2/3 year old hip hop track... at least with the Neptunes, Darkchild and Timbaland you know that material is fresh! Brendan
