1 album on the Billboard charts (1991’s Efil4zaggin). Not that rap wasn’t popular: A few years earlier, N.W.A.-of which Dre was a key part-had been the first hardcore rap group to have a No. Dre got his first Grammy in 1994 (Best Rap Solo Performance, “Let Me Ride”), the idea of mainstream audiences taking rap seriously was still pretty new. But, all in all, everybody came in, we were professional, everybody was on time.When Dr. “They had a problem with that, so we had to take that out,” he said.
City” (“If Pirus and Crips could all get along / They’d probably gun me down by the end of this song”) did not fly with the NFL, according to Dre. The opening lines for Kendrick Lamar’s “M.A.A.D. The new milestone comes after Dre revealed what words the NFL made him remove from the entire Super Bowl performance. As for the song itself, Dre and Snoop have been very open over the years about the fact that it was completely written by Jay-Z. In addition to Dre and Snoop themselves, the video, which was directed by Hype Williams, also features cameos from Eminem, Xzibit, Funkmaster Flex, and Warren G. While the video for the song, which appears on Dre’s second album, 1999’s 2001, was released on the week ending October 3, 1999, the video was uploaded to YouTube on October 2011. “Still D.R.E.” also became Dre and Snoop’s first video to reach a billion views on YouTube. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s “ Still D.R.E.” saw its streams go up 245 percent. Blige’s “No More Drama” saw an increase of 520 percent, and Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” went up 250 percent.
On Spotify, Dre’s numbers went up 185 percent, Mary J. Blige, all saw an increase in their streams after their performance. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, and Mary J. This month’s Super Bowl Halftime Show turned out to be very beneficial for the artists that took the stage.