The D.O.C. Quotes

Dr. Dre is the most influential artist and producer in hip-hop history.

I wanted to be Ice Cube when I was younger.

'Trap House' is one of my favorite songs off '300 Days 300 Nights' mixtape, I sent it to Thug, he loved it and knocked it out on the spot in Atlanta.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

People forget how dominant Public Enemy became in the mid '80s. No one talks about how transformative they were. And then that led to the '90s and the sort of East Coast v. West Coast stuff, which is kinda when I came of age.

The whole '400 Degreez' album was inspired by what Outkast was doing, Organized Noize. That was what I was listening to around that time.

If I gotta do a Jay-Z beat I want to stop everything. Tell everybody hold my calls, everything.

I've produced all of Childish Gambino's music.

A lot people don't know that Mannie Fresh is one of my favorite producers because I used to just be fascinated with how he would be producing stuff. He'd be silly, too, when he raps.

Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

For someone like MC Ren, who is still alive and I can go talk to, that's more of a niche challenge because I do have to match his energy, and I do have to pay homage to who he is as a person, but that just comes with research. And the difference there is I can do the research there right on the spot. I can just go ask him.

Oh, my dad listens to a lot of 2Pac, Ice Cube and WC. That's what he was listening to a lot when we were growing up. He's always been a fan of hip-hop.

'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

Me and Future, we did 'Dirty Sprite,' 'Ain't No Way Around It,' 'Turn on the Lights.' Every time we record, we're setting bars.

I was Eazy's pen, because he couldn't write lyrics.

Dre is someone I've looked up to since 1985 when he came to my college and performed with The Wrecking Crew.

I was a Dr. Dre fan.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

To me, the NWA is a thing of the past.

Our favourite album that we always listen to in the car is '2001' by Dr. Dre, which is just the ultimate album of all time.

All the 'Scarface' beats that you hear Mobb Deep sample, that was my idea.

Thank you to Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Universal Studios, and the Grammys for telling the story of what Compton was and is becoming.