Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')

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“Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')”
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Single by Dr. Dre featuring Jewell, Snoop Doggy Dogg & RBX
from the album The Chronic
B-side "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" & "187"
Released May 20, 1993
Format 12" single
Recorded 1992
Genre West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, g-funk
Length 4:52
Label Death Row, Interscope
Writer(s) André Young, Calvin Broadus, Colin Wolfe, David Spradley, Garry Shider, George Clinton
Producer Dr. Dre
Certification Gold (August, 1993)
Dr. Dre chronology
"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang
(1993)		 "Fuck wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')"
(1993)		 "Let Me Ride"
(1993)
Snoop Dogg chronology
"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang
(1993)		 "Fuck wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')"
(1993)		 "Let Me Ride"
(1993)


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Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin') (released as Dre Day) is a hip-hop single by Dr. Dre, with a guest appearance by Snoop Dogg, from the 1992 album The Chronic on Death Row Records. The song was released as a single in 1993.

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The single failed to match the popularity of Dre's earlier hit, "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang", although it did reach number twelve on the U.S. chart in June 1993 and number fifty-eight (counting the twelve weeks spent) on the rap/hip-hop chart on that year's overall ranking. It also reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. The song features an interpolation of Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep" as its baseline and features Jewell on vocals and RBX on chorus.

The song was a diss towards rappers Eazy-E, Dre's former accomplice, Tim Dog, an East Coast rapper who slighted the whole West Coast rap scene, and Luther (Luke) Campbell. Although later Snoop Dogg made peace between him and Luke in the song Hoez from Smokefest Underground. Fuck with Dre Day has an accompanying music video directed by Dr. Dre.

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The premise of the video concerns a parody character of Eazy-E called "Sleazy-E", complete with a Jheri Curl hairstyle and wearing dark sunglasses (played by A.J. Johnson), getting a new contract from a man depicted as a fat, Jewish, money-grubbing record producer (played by a real life executive producer from Interscope Records, Steve Berman, who may had been based on Eazy-E's business partner Jerry Heller). The story features Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg walking around and gaining a following from others around them. There is an interlude in the middle of the video, where Sleazy-E introduces his two new grotesque protégés (played by Bushwick Bill and Warren G) to his new manager. Sleazy appears in a number of situations, including being shot, becoming homeless, being chased by armed men, and finally, on the Compton freeway with a sign: "Will Rap for Food".

In April 2005 the video was twelfth on MTV2 and XXL magazine's survey of the "25 Greatest West Coast Videos". [1]

[edit] Response

Eazy-E retaliated on his next album It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa which contained the song "Real Muthaphuckkin G's", on which he makes fun of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg (calling them "studio gangstas"), and Death Row Records. It proved to be more successful than "Dre Day", and some say that Eazy-E won the feud with this song.

Tim Dog responded with "Dog Baby" and "Bitch with a Perm" — two tracks directed at Snoop Dogg. Tim Dog was angry at Snoop for his line "Tim Dog can eat a big fat dick" at the end of the song, as well as the representation of the lines "Fuck me in the ass!" and "Step to me and let me suck your dick!" as "things that Tim Dog would say" in the skit track, "The $20 Sack Pyramid".

Luther Campbell responded with the song "Cowards in Compton" and its accompanying video that parodied Dre's original premise as a member of the mid-1980s rap group World Class Wreckin' Cru.

"Fuck wit Dre Day" was included as a single for the highly successful and controversial video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos.

Snoop Dogg used the word "bootylicious" in this song almost a decade before the 2001 single of that name by Destiny's Child. However, in this song it means "bad" or "weak"; that is far different from the meaning Beyoncé Knowles gave it in her group's hit, which the Oxford English Dictionary Online used when it added "bootylicious" in 2004.

[edit] Track listing

  • Side A
    1. "Dre Day"
    2. "Dre Day" (radio version)
    3. "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" (Lady of Rage, Dat Nigga Daz, and Kurupt)
  • Side B
    1. "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" (instrumental version)
    2. "Dre Day" (extended mix)
    3. "187" (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg)

The cassette and vinyl version combines the vocal and instrumental versions of "Puffin' on Blunts..." into one twelve-minute track at the end of side two.

[edit] Charts

Chart Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 8
Hot Rap Singles 13
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks 6
Rhythmic Top 40 6
Hot Dance Music/Club Play 29
Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 1

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[edit] References

  1. ^ XXL, April 2005 Official Site.
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