Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre have been hustling since they worked on Snoop’s 1994 album, Doggystyle, but they’ve teamed up for their latest album, Missionary. In an interview with Complex, they chalked the release up to timing and the desire to bring Dre’s unique sound back into music.
“We always fill the void when we make music. We’re putting back the sound we created under his direction—and that’s exactly what we did,” Snoop said. “That void is Dr. Dre’s sound. When Dr. Dre makes music, his music don’t sound like nobody else’s music. And it’s a uniqueness about his sound that me and him make together and I’m just honored to still be able to do it at a high level and for him to be able to produce me.”
Though both named after positions of intimacy, Snoop and Dre note the process behind the albums was different. Doggystyle saw a raw version of a Snoop team-up with Dre, who was not only figuring Snoop out but also figuring out other producer-related things.
Missionary, on the contrary, was a collaboration between two people who were at the top of their game. Snoop says Dre made the beats and produced entire songs, challenging him along the way. “I f****** love it because it challenged me and it put me in a position of where I’ve never been,” Snoop says. “People work with me and be like, ‘Oh, that s*** was dope.’ This n**** be like, ‘Nope, do it again. Do it again until it’s perfection.’”
Snoop and Dre know their fans love them together but say they felt no pressure to meet expectations.
“We don’t ever go into a record thinking about that,” shares Snoop. “We think about perfection amongst ourselves. We are competing against us.”
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