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Hardcover: 192 pages
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Publisher: Ballantine (March 25,
2008)
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ISBN-10: 0345498224
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“I’m about to blow the top off of everything I saw,” writes Bruce
Williams, the long-time best friend and right-hand man to Dr. Dre, and a
prime mover at Aftermath, one of the most successful start-up labels in
music history. In Rollin’ with Dre: The Unauthorized Account, Williams,
owner of a sports bar in downtown Los Angeles, gives us an unprecedented
inside look at–and the up-and-down story of–two decades of hip-hop
culture and “The Life.”
As Dre’s confidant and the problem-solver to a stable of artists and
others who came to know him as “Uncle Bruce,” Williams was either there
when the action went down or close enough to feel the hollowpoints whiz
by: Dre perfecting the gangsta era’s signature sound displayed on his
highly influential album The Chronic and its Snoop Dogg-helmed
follow-up, Doggystyle; getting out from under Death Row Records, the
label Dre co-founded with impresario Suge Knight; launching the careers
of Eminem, 50 Cent, and The Game.
Williams lays it out in black and white, from dish on Tupac Shakur’s
chaotic rise and fall to the deadly feud between Tha Row (formerly Death
Row Records) and East Coast MCs and bigshots, from Suge’s legal battles
to Dre’s reconciliation with Eazy-E before E’s untimely demise from
AIDS, from the hard-won “overnight” successes of Snoop and Eminem to
what it was like rollin’ with giants and legends-in-the-making–and
living the life (and bearing the burdens) as a bona-fide master of the
game.
Williams takes us on a wild ride, showing us the never-before-seen side
of the infamous West Coast scene. With one foot firmly planted in the
Hollywood establishment and the other in the sex-and-violence-drenched
netherworld of the hip-hop music industry, Rollin’ with Dre: The
Unauthorized Account, is the impossible-to-put-down story of music icons
and the culture that created the soundtrack of a restless generation.
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