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| Dr. Dre | ... | Himself 4 episodes, 2017 | |
| Jimmy Iovine | ... | Himself 4 episodes, 2017 | |
| Trent Reznor | ... | Himself 4 episodes, 2017 | |
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Verna Griffin | ... | Herself 2 episodes, 2017 |
| Gregory Schwabe | ... | FBI Agent 2 episodes, 2017 | |
| Alonzo Williams | ... | Self 2 episodes, 2017 | |
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"The Defiant Ones" examines the partnership between Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre - one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - and their leading roles in a chain of transformative events in contemporary culture.
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This dual narrative about a Brooklyn pit-bull of a record mogul (Iovine) and one of the most successful rapers-cum-producers-cum-engineers-cum-executives/directors in the game, is the most stylish (and best) episode of Behind the Music ever made, and then some. It's excitingly produced, kinetic, edited so that it's taking the usual taking heads with editing that will often play one head against another (this is extremely helpful due to the business dealings with Iovine and Interscope that could become dense too), and how music flows through this with a rhythm and juxtapositions that cant be touched.
I was also very impressed not just by finding out things I didn't know (frankly outside of Iovine with Springsteen on Born to Run I didn't know much about his career at Interscope), but the scope: this isn't only about Dr. Dre but the entire WORLD around him that he got into and loved at times and hated at others (he left Death Row before that imploded, so to speak). It reminds me of digging in to a really strong biography more than a typical doc. Oh, and it's funny at times too (Snoop catches you off guard sometimes).
I'm waiting for Primus's doc though..
PS: did Dre become the Kubrick of rap?