Dr Dre is frustrated. “What are you gonna do?” the legendary rapper-producer asks the group of executives in front of him expectantly. “We got a thousand mothafuckas in here . . . It would be great if somebody could entertain my question.”
It’s a Sunday night in August, and Dre has taken a break from working in the studio to attend a meeting with business executives, an unappealing activity that he has avoided for a decade, until tonight. Now, he’s working on an album with Snoop Dogg, the pair’s first full-length record together in 30 years. The stakes are high.
Snoop, who is fresh from the cultural ubiquity he enjoyed as a special correspondent for NBC at the Paris Olympics, is still jet-lagged, having only landed home in Los Angeles 36 hours earlier.