Erick Sermon has credited Dr. Dre with altering his method to creating music, saying the legendary producer made him by no means need to write raps once more.
Talking solely to HipHopDX, the EPMD member mentioned his time working with Dre within the studio and the way it made him replicate on his personal artistic course of.
“We go to Malibu. As quickly as I press play, we do one file. I press play once more, we do two data. I press play once more, we do three data — in a single evening. The fellows stated, ‘Erick, we’ve been right here for eight years, we ain’t by no means seen that earlier than. No one has finished what you probably did at present.’
“I put one other beat on and he calls Snoop over. Snoop been engaged on the data that I did. Then I come again and Dre is engaged on the file that he rapped on. So I stated, ‘Yo, let me rap on that. Let me do your fashion the way you rhyme and the way you place your data collectively.’”
Sermon then recalled pulling out his pad and pen and starting to write down rhymes, till one among Dr. Dre’s songwriters Smitty advised him: “We don’t do this right here.”
“Dre would say the cadence after which we might all say a rhyme, after which if the rhyme sounds good, then we put that down. So there’s no writing; it’s simply 16 bars of no matter your freestyle could also be,” E. Dub remembered Smitty telling him.
“The method was one thing I had by no means seen earlier than in my life and had by no means skilled in my life getting produced by anyone. It makes you not need to [write rhymes] no extra.
“That technique is plain. You may’t go flawed since you obtained a room of individuals that’s agreeing with the road and if the road isn’t proper then it doesn’t go. So every thing is correct… and my verse was spectacular.”
Erick Sermon beforehand revealed particulars of his work with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
In an interview with Bootleg Kev earlier this month, he stated: “Me and Dre made 5 data. And he made three in a single evening — off of my manufacturing, although.
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“After which we did one other one with Snoop that’s presupposed to be on the brand new Snoop file, and I additionally did one with him that me and him rhymed on which was loopy.”
Again in 2022, the previous Def Jam signee shared photos from the recording periods and credited working with Dr. Dre with bettering his psychological well being.
“We labored on my new undertaking #DYNAMICDUOS … the subsequent day he known as @snoopdogg we made one thing epic for him,” Sermon wrote on X on the time. “My psychological well being has been an element for awhile .. thank u @drdre for altering that. # stunning blessings.”
