Hip Hop’s first Billionaire, Dr. Dre, Stunts Extra Hard On Camera

If you haven’t heard the news already, Dre surpassed rap mogul Puff Daddy as the wealthiest hip hop artist on the Forbes list after landing a $3.2 BILLION deal with Apple for his ever so popular Beats by Dre headphones. Within minutes of the news breaking, the internet went crazy. In polar hip hop community fashion, you had one side praising one of NWA’s founding members for his milestone achievement, and on the other side, you had the “hating” front that labeled him as a sellout. As for me, three things immediately popped up in my head:

  1.  Pharrell, your Billionaire Boys club doesn’t look so Billionaire right now. Awkward.
  2.  Kanye HAS to feel some type of way at the moment. Do you guys remember his hissy fit on Power 105’s The Breakfast Club on how he’s “trying to be hip hop first billionaire,” on how we don’t get his struggle, on how Ralph Lauren and Nike are not giving him the respect he deserves, blah blah blah , and so forth. Well, Kanye looks like Dre beat you, no pun intended.
  3. This is strictly because I’m an Audio Engineer by profession and an overall self-proclaimed sound snob, BUT, why the F did Apple pay $3.2 BILLION for Beats by Dre. Like everyone and their favorite athlete/rapper/celebrity, I went out and purchased a $150 pair of the red shiny sleek headphones. The chain of events that followed went as so: walk to car, unpackaged the headphones, plugged it into my Iphone5, played a French Montana track that I don’t recall, said “wait what?”, played another track to make sure, put the headphones back in the casing, walked right back into the store, and finally said something along the lines of, “Sorry, I think I made a mistake. Could I get a full refund? Thanks.” Sonically speaking, the headphones SUCK for that prices range. I own a pair of $90 Sony MDR7506s that absolutely trump the Beats by ten folds. With many many years of conditioning my ears for proper mixes, I just couldn’t downgrade my sound palate just to look “cool.” I was surprised that Apple, a company that prides themselves for being very strict in associating themselves with only high quality products, went along with paying out billions just to ride the popularity wave. Then again, I’m sitting at my 9-5 writing this rant and am definitely not a Billionaire last time I check my bank balance.

Moving on, my absolute favorite part following the news breaking and the media circus the ensued is the “selfie” video that Tyrese put out while kicking it with Dre and his entourage during what seems to be a post-billion-dollar-deal celebration party. The highlights of the video were Tyrese’s comedic clowning skills (6/10) and Dre’s input where he was stunting SUPER HARD! Without further adieu, here is the video below with a written out transcript of Dre’s stunting in display between 0:47-1:22:

Tyrese: “Billionaire Boy Club for real homie, huh. Fix your face(x2)”

Dre: “You know that!”

Tyrese: “Ohh sh*t, the Forbes list just changed. Ay it came out like 2 weeks ago. They need to update the Forbes list. sh*t just changed!”

[Tyrese does a crack head neck scratch]

Dre: “In a big way”

Tyrese: “Oh my”

Dre: “The first billionaire in Hip Hop right here from the mother f*cking west coast. Believe it.”

Tyrese: “OH OH SH*T! N*GGA! F*CK F*CK”

[Tyrese Crip Walks]

Tyrese: “The F*ck ya’ll N*ggas talking about?! N*gga what!”

-End-

Haha Tyrese is a trip. Regardless, props to you Dre. I’m jealous.

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