Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')
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| Single by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg, Jewell and RBX | ||||||||||||||
| from the album The Chronic | ||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" and "187" | |||||||||||||
| Released | May 20, 1993 | |||||||||||||
| Format | 12" single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, g-funk | |||||||||||||
| Length | 4:52 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Death Row, Interscope | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | André Young, Calvin Broadus, Colin Wolfe, David Spradley, Garry Shider, George Clinton | |||||||||||||
| Producer | Dr. Dre | |||||||||||||
| Certification | Gold (August, 1993), became Platinum in 1996 | |||||||||||||
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| Song by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg, Jewell and RBX from the album The Chronic |
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"Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" (released as "Dre Day") is a hip-hop single by Dr. Dre, with a guest appearance by Snoop Doggy Dogg, from the 1992 album The Chronic on Death Row Records. The song was released as a single in 1993.
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[edit] Information
The single failed to match the popularity of Dre's earlier hit, "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang", although it did reach number eight on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1993 and number six (counting the twelve weeks spent) on the rap/hip-hop chart on that year's overall ranking. The song features a slowed-down interpolation of Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep" as its bassline and features Jewell on vocals and RBX on chorus.
The song was a diss towards rappers Eazy-E, Dre's former accomplice; Tim Dog, an East Coast rapper who slighted the whole West Coast rap scene; and Luther (Luke) Campbell, whose track "Fakin' Like Gangstas" from his debut solo album I Got Shit On My Mind (featuring JT Money from the group Poison Clan) was taken personally for making references to some of the popular rappers in the "gangsta" category. Snoop Dogg later made peace between him and Luke in the song Hoez from Smokefest Underground. "Fuck Wit' Dre Day" has an accompanying music video directed by Dr. Dre.
The line "we have your motherfucking record company surrounded, put down the candy and let the little boy go" is a possible reference to the rumour that Suge Knight's bodyguards forced Eazy E to give up Dr. Dre's and The D.O.C.'s contracts, threatening him with pipes and baseball bats.
[edit] Music video
The premise of the video concerns a parody character of Eazy-E called "Sleazy-E", complete with a Jheri Curl hairstyle and wearing dark sunglasses (played by A.J. Johnson), getting a new contract from a man depicted as a fat, Jewish, money-grubbing record producer (played by a real life executive producer from Interscope Records, played by Steve Berman[citation needed]). The story features Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg walking around and gaining a following from others around them. There is an interlude in the middle of the video, where Sleazy-E introduces his two new grotesque protégés (played by Bushwick Bill and Warren G) to his new manager. Sleazy appears in a number of situations, including being shot, becoming homeless, being chased by armed men, and finally, on the Pasadena freeway with a sign: "Will Rap for Food". The video also parodies Luke Campbell as a gap toothed rapper letting other men give him "anal" sex.
In April 2005 the video was twelfth on MTV2 and XXL magazine's survey of the "25 Greatest West Coast Videos". [1]
[edit] Responses
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Eazy-E retaliated on his next album It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa which contained the song "Real Muthaphuckkin G's", on which he makes fun of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg (calling them "studio gangstas"), and Death Row Records.
Tim Dog responded with "Dog Baby" and "Bitch with a Perm" — two tracks directed at Snoop Dogg. Tim Dog was angry at Snoop for his 2nd verse and line "Tim Dog can eat a big fat dick" at the end of the song, as well as the representation of the lines "Fuck me in the ass!" and "Step to me and let me suck your dick!" as "things that Tim Dog would say" in the skit track, "The $20 Sack Pyramid". Dre also dissed Tim Dog, Luke & Eazy-E on the track "Puffin' Blunts And Drankin' Tanqueray" which appeared on the Dre Day single.
Luther Campbell along with JT Money and then-upcoming artist Clayvoisie responded with the song "Cowards in Compton" (from Luke's second solo LP, In The Nude) and its accompanying video that parodied Dre's original premise as a member of the mid-1980s rap group World Class Wreckin' Cru. Snoop Dogg responded on "Tha Shiznit" and his introduction to the song "Lodi Dodi". Compton rappers Tweedy Bird Loc and King Tee have also responded to the song.
"Fuck Wit' Dre Day" was included as a single for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos.
Snoop Dogg used and originated the word "bootylicious" in this song almost a decade before the 2001 single of that name by Destiny's Child. However, in this song it means "bad" or "weak"; that is far different from the meaning Beyoncé Knowles gave it in her group's hit, which the Oxford English Dictionary Online used when it added "bootylicious" in 2004.
[edit] Track listing
- Side A
- "Dre Day"
- "Dre Day" (radio version)
- "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" (Lady of Rage, Dat Nigga Daz, and Kurupt)
- Side B
- "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" (instrumental version)
- "Dre Day" (extended mix)
- "187" (Deep Cover Remix) (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg)
The cassette and vinyl version combines the vocal and instrumental versions of "Puffin' on Blunts..." into one twelve-minute track at the end of side two.
[edit] Charts
| Chart | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 8 |
| Hot Rap Singles | 13 |
| R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 6 |
| Rhythmic Top 40 | 6 |
| Hot Dance Music/Club Play | 29 |
| Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 1 |
[edit] Samples
- All from Parliament:
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- Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca 1977): "Funkentelechy"
- Motor Booty Affair (Casablanca 1978): "Aquaboogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)"
- Gloryhallastoopid (Casablanca 1979): "The Big Bang Theory"
[edit] Later Samples
- "Friday" by Ice Cube
[edit] References
- ^ XXL, April 2005 Official Site.
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