A reunion of epic proportions occurred on Tuesday (March 19), when Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent descended on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Hip-Hop legends had been on deck for Dr. Dre’s long-awaited Hollywood Stroll of Fame star ceremony, which was hosted by radio persona Large Boy and attended by the likes of Jimmy Iovine, Xzibit, Paul Rosenberg, Fred Wreck, DJ Quik, Kurupt, Royce Da 5’9, High Dawg, DJ Battlecat and Los Angeles Metropolis Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez.
“I’m extremely grateful to your assist all through the years,” Dr. Dre advised the gang. “Most of us have grown up collectively. And at practically 60 years previous, you’re nonetheless rocking with me, and I actually admire that. Thanks a lot. Which is absolutely good, as a result of I’m nowhere close to finished. You higher imagine there’s much more coming.”
He added elsewhere, “Pouring my complete soul and self into my ardour for Hip-Hop led me on a pathway to an unimaginable profession, and I’ve been lucky sufficient to make a residing doing precisely what I like to do,”
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Snoop Dogg additionally took the rostrum to welcome his “brother from one other mom” to the famed sidewalk.
“I wish to thank me,” he stated, referencing his personal track. “I wish to thank me for taking the decision from Warren and Dr. Dre in 1991. I wish to thank me for listening to Dre through the years and letting him be my trainer, mentor, brother, guardian, protector and most significantly buddy.”
Along with Dr. Dre’s star, Soto-Martinez formally declared March 19 as Dre Day within the metropolis and introduced Dr. Dre with a framed plaque to commemorate the event. Dr. Dre is predicted to make an look on Jimmy Kimmel Reside! alongside Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent following the ceremony.
Dr. Dre, a 9x-time Grammy Award winner, started his profession as a member of the World Class Wreckin’ Cru earlier than co-founding the revolutionary group N.W.A. In 2016, N.W.A grew to become the fifth rap group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. They had been honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award earlier this yr. Dr. Dre’s solo profession started with the 1992 launch The Persistent, which has been licensed 3x-platinum by the RIAA, reached the High 10 on the Billboard 200 and gained a Grammy for Finest Rap Solo Efficiency of “Let Me Experience.”
His profession has been removed from good, nevertheless. In 1991, he brutally assaulted Pump It Up! host Dee Barnes over an interview he was upset about. Within the 2017 HBO documentary The Defiant Ones, he referred to as the incident a “blemish” on who he’s as a person. Dre’s spouse of 24 years, Nicole Younger, filed for divorce in 2020 citing abuse. Their divorce was finalized in 2021 with Dr. Dre agreeing to pay Younger $100 million.