Dr. Dre also details meeting Corey Hawkins, who played him in “Straight Outta Compton.”
Dr Dre finally released his 3rd studio album Compton and is currently celebrating the release of the N.W.A film Straight Outta Compton which was released on the 15 of August.Dr Dre described meeting Corey Hawkins, who plays Dre in the movie and he told us how the way he speaks freaked him out.
“I gotta be honest, it freaked me out when I met him,” Dr. Dre says. “We had a conversation. We went out to dinner at this restaurant over in Hollywood. We sat across the table and he started talking to me and I heard him like, ‘What the is that?’ I’m saying this shit internally. It kinda freaked me out. At the same time, it’s one of the things that let me know he was the perfect guy for the job.”
Elsewhere in the program, Dr. Dre discusses his musical career and how he defines himself as an artist.
“I’ve never considered myself a rapper,” he says. “I know how to do it. I know how to make my voice project and I know how to stay on beat and what have you, but I’ve never considered myself a rapper. I’m a producer at heart. I like being in the control room and directing people. That’s what I do. But I’ve gotten on the mic a few times in my career, people seem to like it, so I’ll do it again here and there. But that’s really not my thing. So I’ll do a first verse on the record, then I’ll put the really talented rapper on the second verse.”
