Erick Sermon has actually attributed Dr. Dre with transforming his strategy to making songs, claiming the fabulous manufacturer made him never wish to write raps again.
Talking specifically to HipHopDX, the EPMD participant reviewed his time collaborating with Dre in the workshop and exactly how it made him assess his very own innovative procedure.
“We go to Malibu. As soon as I press play, we do one record. I press play again, we do two records. I press play again, we do three records — in one night. The guys said, ‘Erick, we’ve been here for eight years, we ain’t never seen that before. Nobody has done what you did today.’
“I put another beat on and he calls Snoop over. Snoop been working on the records that I did. Then I come back and Dre is working on the record that he rapped on. So I said, ‘Yo, let me rap on that. Let me do your style how you rhyme and how you put your records together.’”
Sermon after that remembered taking out his pad and pen and starting to write rhymes, till among Dr. Dre’s songwriters Smitty informed him: “We don’t do that here.”
“Dre would say the cadence and then we would all say a rhyme, and then if the rhyme sounds good, then we put that down. So there’s no writing; it’s just 16 bars of whatever your freestyle may be,” E. Dub kept in mind Smitty informing him.
“The process was something I had never seen before in my life and had never experienced in my life getting produced by somebody. It makes you not want to [write rhymes] no more.
“That method is undeniable. You can’t go wrong because you got a room of people that is agreeing with the line and if the line is not right then it doesn’t go. So everything is right… and my verse was spectacular.”
Erick Sermon formerly exposed information of his deal with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.
In a meeting with Bootleg Kev previously this month, he stated: “Me and Dre made five records. And he made three in one night — off of my production, though.
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“And then we did another one with Snoop that’s supposed to be on the new Snoop record, and I also did one with him that me and him rhymed on which was crazy.”
Back in 2022, the previous Def Jam signee shared pictures from the recording sessions and attributed collaborating with Dr. Dre with enhancing his psychological health and wellness.
“We worked on my new project #DYNAMICDUOS … the next day he called @snoopdogg we made something epic for him,” Sermon composed on X at the time. “My mental health has been a factor for awhile .. thank u @drdre for changing that. # beautiful blessings.”
