![]() “It’s like the moment John Lennon picks up a guitar at age 10.” A harrowing interview with Dre collaborator the D.O.C. “It’s unbelievable,” says Iovine of that clip. The movie also includes the earliest footage of Dre DJing on stage in the Eighties. Hughes also unearthed footage even his subjects hadn’t seen: Iovine arguing with Stevie Nicks during the making of Nicks’ Bella Donna Dre teaching Eazy-E how to rap in the studio during the creation of Eazy-Duz-It. ‘The Idol’: How HBO’s Next ‘Euphoria’ Became Twisted ‘Torture Porn’ ![]() “‘How did a white guy and black guy from racially charged neighborhoods build this business and stay together?’ I said, ‘I don’t know how that happened!'” “Allen came to us and said, ‘Why don’t I do a documentary on your relationship?,'” says Iovine. What could have been a vanity project turns out to be a multilayered history of pop music, touching on the rise of Seventies arena rock, the turbulent world of gangsta rap (parts of the movie are akin to a documentary version of Straight Outta Compton), and the digital revolution (up to Iovine’s shock when Dre accidentally announces the Apple deal on Facebook).ĭirector Allen Hughes initially conceived the film as a doc on Dre but changed course when he learned Iovine was concurrently planning a film about Interscope. The Defiant Ones (which premieres July 9th) tells that story – from each man’s rise in the business (Iovine as a producer, Dre as a founder of N.W.A) to their co-launching of Beats Electronics in 2006 and subsequent sale of the company to Apple in 2014 for $3 billion. Iovine and his Interscope label wound up releasing Dre’s 1992 classic The Chronic, the start of a longtime partnership between the two men. ![]()
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