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NEWS : STORIES
Ja Rule's "New York," Angie Martinez's "Take You Home," Fat Joe's "So Much More," the Game's "Hate It or Love It." With the recent success of those four records, producers Cool & Dre have established their talent and are among the most in-demand
"A funny situation is Diddy's album," Dre said Wednesday during a visit to MTV. "Diddy is working on a phenom, the greatest album ever. He's kinda throwing everybody under the bus. He threw Tim[baland] under the bus, he threw Scott [Storch] under the bus, he threw me and Cool under the bus. Everyone is coming with beats, and he's like, 'Nah, go back.' He's making everyone come on another level." The duo say that after a few failed attempts to get the thumbs up, Diddy tried to inspire them by letting the jeers fly like champagne bubbles in a rap video. "He started booing us on the joking tip," Dre continued. "We'd be in the club and walk pass him, and he's like, 'Booooo! Booooo!' Really booing. Next thing you know, we hear Tim got a record on [Diddy's album]. Tim is the type of producer that if he gives you a record, that's going to define the [album]. Me and Scott was in the studio complaining how we couldn't get a record on the album, then the next day Scott comes in and says, 'I got on the album.' " Seeing their good friends Timbo and "Scott Steezy" gain Diddy's approval pushed the Miami twosome to step their game up like never before. "So we're like, damn it," said Cool, picking up where his partner left off. "We were the odd men out. So we made the most left-field — but still hot — record with a crazy hook. People was like, 'What's this? Why are you giving this to Puff?' We called him, and he was like, 'That's what they said? Bring it to me now.' We got a thumbs up. As of right now, we're on the Diddy album, but anything could change." Diddy is just one participant in the parade of artists that Cool & Dre have been working with (see "Cool & Dre Look To Follow 'Lean Back' With A Hits Epidemic"). They say they have no less than seven singles coming out in the next few months, including another one from Fat Joe, a record by freestyle slayer Jae Mills, the reintroduction song by 3LW and a few from newcomers they are trying to break, like their own artists Dirtbag and Tony Sunshine. In the more established arena, they gave the Game two records for his new album ("He told us, 'I want my whole album to be all Dr. Dre and Cool & Dre," Dre said) and just finished up with Mary J. Blige and Busta Rhymes. "[Busta] has a million songs," Dre said. "He literally will play you a record every three minutes forever. He records every day. The problem is, you give Busta a record and there's no guarantee the song will make the album because he records a thousand songs a day. He's incredibly talented. He can do anything — rhyme fast, slow, stutter, sing. He's a problem. So we getting back in the studio with him. We have a song called 'Bubble Gum' with a chick blowing bubble gum through the whole beat and the bubble is popping. It's gonna be stupid. Busta's dope." Cool & Dre just completed a record with Usher's new artist Rico Love in New York; this week they're going back to Miami to work in separate sessions with Foxy Brown and LL Cool J. "We got one record ready that we're gonna let him hear," Cool said about the plan for Uncle L. "But we're just gonna go in and bang some heat rocks. In the studio we just vibe and come up with stuff. You got a legend in there, so it's gonna be serious." "It's the 20th anniversary of his first album, so he's trying to take it back," Dre added. "Not with the exact sound, but with the feeling of that. That was '85, so we gonna have to do something extra hot. We got a record in mind for him, though." This report is provided by MTV News
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