The D.O.C. Talks Early Death Row Days, Writing Lyrics for the “Straight Outta Compton” Sessions, and How Snoop Dogg Helped Him Regain His Voice

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Talib Kweli is joined by legendary songwriter, producer, rapper, and one of the founders of Death Row Records, The D.O.C. In the episode, D.O.C. takes us behind the scenes of his solo albums, including “No One Can Do It Better,” and talks about the early days with the Fila Fresh Crew. He also shares some stories about the “Straight Outta Compton” sessions and how Snoop helped him recover his voice. If you have a deep love and respect for ‘90s G-Funk, and all things Dre, this is a must-listen.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.4	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. Now when Cube left to fold first and then Dr.
0:27.7	Dre was beefed with easy E and from what I heard you say, you never wanted to be involved in a
0:32.7	beefs with Dre and Easy. You felt the way about Easy's business practices at that time,
0:38.1	but you never wanted to be involved with the beefs and the records and the back of fold with Cube and
0:43.4	all that. I imagine that time was very difficult for you, but that's around the time that you were
0:50.1	instrumental in introducing the Dre to show at that time, right? Yeah, after the reg happened,
0:58.0	I really wanted to start to try to figure out how I could do something for myself because I started to
1:07.4	uncover the practices, the business practices, after the reg happened. You start looking at things
1:13.8	more closely than you find out. All the stuff on those two records, Easy's first record,
1:22.4	NWA's first record. It's a lot of really monumental work. Like I never even got credit for that.
1:30.0	It never gave me and see I didn't know until years, until much later down the line that
1:36.4	that it didn't belong to me. When I found that out, I was really discouraged and I went and told
1:45.9	Dre, my guy looked what they did to me. If they did this to me, they did. He got curious and started
1:54.8	looking into his own stuff. That's when the beat started. Because Ruflis didn't want to be
2:08.2	transparent with the guy and they did like the, how can you not understand when you listen to
2:16.8	these records, where this stuff is coming from? You're going to screw the golden goose.
2:22.9	Yeah, that's just going to make sense. Say fuck the goose. What you're going to do, right?
2:28.0	Make no sense to me in the bigger and that happened a couple of times. A couple of times.
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