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| "Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" | ||||
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| Single byDr. Dre featuringSnoop Doggy Dogg | ||||
| from the albumThe Chronic | ||||
| B-side | "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" | |||
| Released | May 20, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
| Genre | G-funk[1][2] | |||
| Length | 4:52 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Dr. Dre | |||
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"Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", or censored as asingle titled "Dre Day", is a song by American rapper and record producerDr. Dre featuring fellow American rapperSnoop Doggy Dogg and uncredited vocals fromJewell released in May 1993 as the second single from Dre's debut solo album,The Chronic (1992). "Dre Day" was a diss track targeting mainly Dre's former groupmateEazy-E, who led their onetime rap groupN.W.A and who, along with N.W.A's managerJerry Heller, owned N.W.A's record label,Ruthless Records. In "Dre Day" and in its music video, which accuse Eazy of cheating N.W.A's artists, Dre and Snoop degrade and menace him. Also included are disses retorting earlier disses on songs by Miami rapperLuke Campbell, by New York rapperTim Dog, and by onetime N.W.A. memberIce Cube, although Dre, while still an N.W.A member, had helped diss Cube first. After "Dre Day," a number of further diss records were exchanged.
On the main popular songs chart, the USBillboard Hot 100, whereasThe Chronic's lead single, "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang", reached number two, "Dre Day" peaked at number eight in June 1993. The song's bassline is a slowedinterpolation fromFunkadelic's song "(Not Just) Knee Deep." The chorus includes vocals by two more Death Row Records artists, R&B singerJewell and rapperRBX. Also included is a sample and an interpolation fromGeorge Clinton’s song “Atomic Dog."
Adiss track, "Dre Day" mainly targeted Dre's former N.W.A groupmateEazy-E. Yet it also dissed New York rapperTim Dog for his song "Fuck Compton." It also retorted Miami rapperLuke Campbell, a member of group2 Live Crew, whose debut solo albumI Got Shit On My Mind included the track "Fakin' Like Gangstas." Some "Dre Day" lyrics allude to former N.W.A rapperIce Cube, whose 1989 departure from the group was acrimonious, incurring verbal menace at Cube by Dre with groupmateMC Ren rapping N.W.A's April 1991 single "Alwayz into Somethin'," retorted in Cube's October 1991 track "No Vaseline."
In "Dre Day," Dre vows "to creep to South Central," which is Ice Cube's hometown, "on aStreet Knowledge mission," while Cube's own record label was initially namedStreet Knowledge Productions. Dre lyrically "steps in the temple," evidently alluding to Cube's affiliation with theNation of Islam, and claims to "spot him" by a "White Sox hat," which Cube often donned. Earlier that year, Cube had the single "Check Yo Self." Dre adds, "You tryin to check my homey, you best check yo self." Not parodied in the "Dre Day" music video, however, Cube instead would cameo, signaling reconciliation with Dre, in the September 1993 music video of the next and lastChronic single, "Let Me Ride."
Dr. Dre directed the music video, which parodies Eazy-E as "Sleazy-E," played by actor A. J. Johnson with an exaggeratedJheri Curl hairstyle, a plaid shirt, and dark sunglasses. Prefacing the song performance is a skit, wherein Sleazy-E enters the office of "Useless Records" where a rotund Jewish man hires him to find some rappers. This mimic of Eazy-E's Ruthless Records co-owner Jerry Heller was played byInterscope Records executive Steve Berman. (Berman later played in threeEminem skits and oneD12 skit.)
An interlude shows Sleazy-E introducing two newly acquired protégés, played byBushwick Bill andWarren G, to his manager. In other scenes, Sleazy sustains gunfire, becomes homeless, is chased by armed men, and finally, along thePasadena Freeway, holds up a cardboard sign scribbledWILL RAP FOR FOOD. The "Dre Day" video also parodiesLuke Campbell of Miami rap group2 Live Crew, portraying him jumping around on a stage. In 2005, a survey byMTV2 andXXL ranked the "Dre Day" music video 12th among the "25 Greatest West Coast Videos".[4]
The "Dre Day" single'sB side "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray," featuringThe Lady of Rage andTha Dogg Pound, contains more Dr. Dre insults at Eazy-E, at Tim Dog, and at Luke, whileKurupt disses Ruthless Records rappersAbove the Law andKokane. OnKokane's second album, he and Above the Law memberCold 187um replied with "Don't Bite the Funk." Eazy-E's EP titledIt's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa includes the song "Exxtra Special Thankz", the song "It's On," the song "Still a Nigga," and the song "Real Muthaphuckkin G's," featuring new recording artists BG Knocc Out andDresta.
"Real Muthaphuckkin G's" would become Eazy-E's biggest hit as a solo artist. Its music video imports from the "Dre Day" music video the character Sleazy-E, who in Eazy-E's music video is still roadside holding up aWILL RAP FOR FOOD sign, but is later chased through town, dragged into a van, and eventually lies motionless at his earlier roadside spot, or, in the video's radio edit, falls flat when running near aLeaving Compton road sign. On the short filmMurder Was the Case's soundtrack, Snoop Dogg andTha Dogg Pound responded with "What Would You Do?" while its music video parodies Eazy-E's proteges BG Knocc Out andDresta themselves chased and beaten by Tha Dogg Pound.
Tim Dog responded to "Dre Day" with an EP titledBitch With a Perm, including the title track and "Dog Baby," which yielded a music video including a dancing Snoop Dogg mimic with straightened hair, a "perm" hairstyle.Luke replied on his second solo album's song "Cowards in Compton," whose music video parodies both Dre's inclusion in the 1980s electro-rap groupWorld Class Wreckin' Cru and casts Dre and Snoop lookalikes ridiculed in a mock of the "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" music video. Luke's album,In The Nude, also included a skit, "Dre's Momma Needs a Haircut," targeting "Tha Shiznit" skit on Snoop's debut solo or November 1993 album,Doggystyle. Compton rapperTweedy Bird Loc joined against Luke by issuing "Fucc Miami” on his 1994 albumNo Holds Barred.
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| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[16] | Gold | 800,000[15] |
