NIMH Ep #732 What Dr. Dre Didn’t Know About Eminem Before Working With Him…

NIMH Ep #732
What Dr. Dre Didn’t Know About Eminem Before Working With Him…

apper Eminem and Dr. Dre have been music partners ever since the rapper and produce discovered Eminem in the late '90s. As reported by Far Out magazine, the Netflix documentary "The Defiant Ones" shared the fateful story of how Eminem and Dre first got connected. While Eminem had been rapping in Detroit and working hard to make a name for himself, he felt deeply disappointed when he came in second place at the 1997 Rap Olympics competition, per HipHopDX.

Although he didn't win this title, Eminem was noticed by an intern who worked at Interscope Records during his performance. The intern gave one of Eminem's CDs to producer Jimmy Iovine, who then passed it along to Dre. After listening to Eminem's recordings, Dre quickly made sure that he and the Detroit native would meet face to face. "In my entire career in the music industry, I have never found anything from a demo tape or a CD," Dre said in the documentary. "When Jimmy played this, I said, 'Find him. Now.'" From there, the rest was history, and their collaborations have resulted in numerous hits like, "My Name Is," "Forgot About Dre," and "The Real Slim Shady," as pointed out by HotNewHipHop.

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