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  • 7/10/2025
A four-part documentary series that tells the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre -- one the son of a Brooklyn longshore | dG1fWXdfMURXWTBCbFE
Transcript
00:00Check, check, check.
00:03We're talking about Jimmy and Dr. Dre.
00:05Jimmy Iovine is the levitator.
00:07Dre is the innovator.
00:09I need something a little bit more impressive.
00:11I had to work harder than the next guy just to do as well as the next guy.
00:15And to do better than the next guy, I had to kill.
00:18I knew that I had to be a success at something.
00:20A friend of mine put together two turntables.
00:23I started doing this thing.
00:25I wanted to be able to get in there and rock.
00:27This was that Do or Die album put my body into this record.
00:33I'm playing it for everybody.
00:35For some reason, everybody's turning me down.
00:38Nobody wanted to deal with this gangster rap thing.
00:41They were afraid to deal with the people.
00:44The East Coast ain't got no love for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
00:47All I remember is that Dre came in to play us the chronic.
00:50I said, who recorded this for you?
00:52He said, me.
00:53I said, wow, this guy will define Interscope.
00:56Jimmy was like, I want to get you guys on the cover of the Rolling Stones magazine.
01:00I ain't never had that many white people coming to me in my whole life.
01:05Okay, so fast forward to...
01:07He pops that tape and I'm blown away.
01:10I'm pissing myself now thinking about it.
01:13Everything that I've done in my career, I've always been underestimated.
01:16Fear's a powerful thing.
01:18It's got a lot of firepower.
01:20It was the beginning of making Fear a tailwind instead of a headwind.

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