says he worked on over 400 musical ideas for Eminem’s Relapse album alone. That’s not surprising when you consider Lawrence Jr. Paak showed up to cut vocals that appeared on the menacingly singsong “Lock It Up” - “We wanted to do something that had a bounce beat, something on the less-complex side,” Parker recalls - but most of the music-making is a blur. “We’re making so many things, a lot of stuff is getting recorded at different and various times, and a lot of the experiences blend together,” Parker says. says, “and it’s the same thing with this unit” - Doman’s experience reflects a more modern mode of production: He makes batches of beats, often alone, night after night after night.īut in truth there might not be that much difference between these two styles. Dre’s crew-based approach brings to mind old-school record making - “Put John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock and Paul Chambers together, you’re gonna get magic,” Lawrence Jr. “He’s the artist, and I’m just here lugging around cans of really cool paint that I think he’ll like.” “I’m not sitting here with like, ‘You need an uptempo beat from a kid based in Miami right now,'” Heron says. Heron’s experience working with Eminem is similar. They deal with the vocals, whether it’s him by himself or him with Dre. He comes in sometimes - not to be like, ‘Do this, do that,’ just to vibe a little bit. says, “rarely gets in the studio with us.
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The ensemble created musical beds heavy on jagged drums and eerie synthesizer lines the vocals were mostly cut separately. “That’s what makes us unique when we’re coming up with a groove.” “We’re a jam band of producers,” adds Parker, who is credited as a co-producer on six Music to Be Murdered By tracks.
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“We know Dre’s instincts, and he’s the coach, the orchestrator.” “Dem Jointz is a producer, Eric Griggs plays keys, bass, and guitar, Dawaun Parker is a keyboard player and producer, myself, I’m a drummer,” Lawrence Jr. Dre’s team to create a suite of tracks that ended up on the back half of Music to Be Murdered By. Dre since the rapper-producer left Death Row Records in the Nineties starting in the summer, the drummer went into the studio with the rest of Dr. Doman, who has been in high demand since producing Tyga’s comeback hit, “Taste,” and Ricky Racks, the man partially responsible for Future’s “Crushed Up.” Dre and his associates, a group that includes Dawaun Parker, Lawrence Jr., Dem Jointz, and Erik Griggs - and newcomers on hot streaks: D.A. Production duties on the 20-track Music to Be Murdered By were split between Eminem’s longtime collaborators - Royce da 5’9″, as well as Dr.