This isn't a lack of respect - for you or Dre.
Habib, I am not the kind of person who holds age in someone's face, but all you have shown is you walked in with a bias, and never bothered to look past the current popularity of Pharell. You simply have no idea how much he has accomplished, and that's ok. I suspect if I had never heard of him, and then everyone was playing him out at school or on the block to where I could not stomach a word he said, I would prefer the much more terse Dre myself. People might not like Dre, but with his lack of vocal talent, you never have to hear him say much. And he more than makes up with it just by saying "Hell,..yeahhh." and letting you know he ain't about mouthin off. I have been bumpin hip-hop since the barey eighties. My ex-step-dad worked on juke boxes when he wasn't laying brick, and we had some very live joints in the house before they were ever meant for caucasian consumption. I was remixing songs in 1986, and have been ever since. Computers make it SOOO much easier.
I would go so far as to ask if this was for all time, then why isn't Jam Master Jay on here or Track Masters? He was the first man to produce using synthesized beats. But if it is for all time, including present - I would concede it was Dre, he made the game everyone is trying to change. He made gansta rap marketable, and he established the G-Funk. He did this with a conviction, and he did it well, and created a genre of music that you can take any three dudes and two bandanas and make an album. Then, the work he did with eminem was amazing, and he made another empire out of that.
But CURRENTLY, Pharell is a hotter producer, and he is not as young and new as people think. He came out the door running while he was still in high-school and pulled off the number five joint of the year. He is far more demanded, and he is far more active. And depite what you may think Pharell's a Grammy winning producer and Artist, AND he is returning for a possible second win, for a SECOND Producer of the Year award, and has helped many of the people get there (and Dre has as well, but not as many now), including the belle of the ball, Gwen Stefani, who will be performing with Star Trak label artist Slim Thug. Watch the Grammy Awards and see.
As far as record of the Year, in addition to Gwen, Neptunes is also listed as a Producer on Mariah's album:
The Emancipation Of Mimi
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey, Bryan Michael Cox, Eric "Cire" Crawford, Jermaine Dupri, Young Genius, Scram Jones, The Legendary Traxster, LROC, The Neptunes, James Poyser, Manuel Seal, Kanye West & James "Big Jim" Wright, producers
So, I ain't trying to beef. i am just saying do the research before you think Pharell is not in the spotlight, RIGHT NOW, or if you think he has no right to be.
http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Ann ... inees.aspx
as an errata: I was wrong, Dr. Dre does recieves co-production credits on Gwen's album, and possibly elsewhere. I know he helped many of the people in the game, but it about it you are on the resume... that's what matters.
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