2015 has been the most active year for Dr. Dre musically in nearly a decade. He released Compton, the soundtrack to the hit biopic on N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton, which led the box office for a month over the summer and is hosting a new show on Beats 1, The Pharmacy, where he has unveiled new music from himself and others. On his latest show, Dre talked about some of his classic records and shared a desire to do a proper European tour with his full production alongside some of his favorite collaborators, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Eminem.
The idea came after a discussion of his late friend Tupac Shakur and Dre's performance alongside the hologram version of Pac at Coachella.
That led to Dre talking about one of wishes of touring Europe with some of his best friends in the industry.
"One of my dreams right now is to be able to take my ideas and take a show over to Europe," he said. "I'm 30 years in the game right now and I've never been able to take my full production over to Europe. Me and Snoop-we've been over there. Me and Eminem have been over there, but it's just been like spot dates and like taking a microphone over there with a DJ. I never had the opportunity to take the full production over there, and take my full body of ideas over there and present it to all the people over there in Europe that's been representing and showing me love throughout my entire 30-year career."
He continued his thought with a little more detail.
"This is one of the things that I dreamed about doing. I want to call it Beats & Rhymes. I want it to be me and Snoop. I want it to be Eminem. I want it to be Kendrick Lamar. Do a tour over in Europe and call it Beats & Rhymes and take our full production over there and take our full stage over there and really go over there and show Europe the same amount of love that they been showing me throughout my entire career. So, that's my dream. Hopefully we can make that happen."
It Is remarkable for someone who has been this successful that he hasn't been able to do something even close to this grand a scale in his career. Here to wishing and hoping that a tour, which Snoop Dogg dubbed "Hoodstock" will occur at some point. Hopefully some European promoters are hearing this and are putting together plans to make this happen.
Listen to the full episode below.
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— Beats 1 (@Beats1) October 11, 2015
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