Dr. Dre’s near-death expertise had a silver lining — it ended Eminem‘s beef with Snoop Dogg.
The legendary hip-hop producer, entrepreneur and N.W.A founding member suffered a cerebral aneurysm in January 2021, a doubtlessly life-threatening situation that required quick hospitalization.
As Dre convalesced in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Em and Snoop patched up a rift that had rumbled on for 20 years.
In a brand new interview together with his longtime supervisor Paul Rosenberg, for the Paul Pod on SiriusXM, Marshall Mathers defined how sickness expedited a truce.
“Me and Snoop had our little issue and then Dre, when Dre had that brain aneurysm thing,” Em explains, “we were like, ‘oh this is stupid. This is stupid as hell to be feuding right now.’”
Calls have been made. “We talked it out.”
Dre has been instrumental in each rapper’s careers, serving to to launch Eminem into the A-league with 1999’s The Slim Shady LP, and getting Snoop away with the title observe from the 1992 movie Deep Cover, after which that includes him extensively on his influential solo album The Chronic. Dre additionally produced Snoop’s debut solo album, 1993’s Doggystyle, and the trio assembled for Dre’s 1999 album 2001.
The brouhaha reportedly kicked off following Snoop’s help on “Bitch Please II”, from Eminem’s Billboard 200 chart main album from 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP.
“I think that there was a miscommunication at the time, in regards to him being on my album,” Eminem says within the new interview. “I think he had wanted to do something with me,” he recounts — a return of favor which not solely didn’t pan out, Snoop’s camp took it as a diss.
That was by no means the case, Em and Rosenberg insist.
“‘Bro, Doggystyle’ changed my life,” Eminem admits.
Fast ahead to 2022, and the unhealthy blood is all washed away.
Social media lit up in August when Eminem posted a snap of himself, Snoop and Dre within the studio, with the caption, “Just a few bros.. hangin out.”
Earlier within the 12 months, Snoop, Dre and Em shared the stage with Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak for this 12 months’s Super Bowl halftime present, and in June, Snoop and Slim Shady hopped on the mic for a collaborative observe referred to as “From the D 2 the LBC” celebrating their respective hometowns. The pair would reunite on the 2022 MTV VMAs stage final month to carry out the brand new quantity.
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