The last episode of The Defiant Ones has me so emotional right now, when Dr Dre got Eminem in the studio for the first time and they just come straight up with My Name Is, oh my god, I’m like almost in tears, So happy just watching how their work relationship and friendship began and grew into what it is now. INCREDIBLE.
I have always loved Eminem since I was like 9 or 10, I can remember I would go with my mom to pick my dad up from the pub on a Sunday and I would ALWAYS go straight up to the jukebox, scroll straight to The Marshall Mathers LP, and play Kim. Then that Christmas I got Stan on single, because my dad knew I loved him, but I don’t think my dad was ready for the lyrics on that track (or any Eminem track) at the time and he was so shocked at what I was rapping along to but I’d play it over and over, on repeat all the time! Even to this day I think he knows the majority of the lyrics still!
Eminem IS the greatest rapper of all time. From there on I got every single album he had ever put out and continued to do that even now all the way up to his latest album, Revival. I finally got to see Eminem live at Leeds festival in 2013 and it was mind blowing, i actually just left my friend and kept popping up on random peoples shoulders in the crowd, getting closer and closer to the stage. I honestly never believed I would get to see him, after his ten year break and not really touring anymore so I was absolutely on top of the world. It was incredible!!! One of the most amazing nights of my life. Then again a year later at Wembley stadium in London, again… in-cred-i-ble.
I also saw him again at Leeds Festival in 2017, he does not disappoint, ever.
So anyway, let me get out of Marshall’s ass for a second and talk to you about,
The Defiant Ones.
A four part HBO documentary series on the rise of Dr Dre and how he grew up in Compton, LA, and we journey through his life up to when he met Jimmy Iovine who was living in New York and from there, how they continued to grow within themselves, build upon their names and their business’.
From Dre’s early years, to releasing N.W.A’s first single Panic zone in 1987 to selling his headphone company Beats, to Apple in 2014 for $30 billion dollars. Making him the highest earning musician that year, and first billionaire in Hip Hop.
Incredible, I don’t even have the words. I’m totally blown away by this documentary-series. It was amazing to see all these incredible artists from Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Patti Smith, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg, Diddy to Will.i.am, U2, Kendrick Lamar and Tupac, Just to name a few. Even two of my absolute favourites were featured, Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga.
Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre make producing music look so easy, its like they see what no-one else does, right in front of them and create incredible albums and singles with so many artists. I respect Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre on a whole other level now, more than I already did before. They transformed their own lives and so many others lives around them.
The Defiant Ones, Available on Netflix now.
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