Eminem’s ‘That’s All She Wrote’ collaborator T.I. featured in Dr. Dre’s ‘Back to Business’
Dr. Dre launched a new track titled “Back to Business” in his radio show “The Pharmacy” on Beats 1 on Jan. 9, Saturday. The song features Justus, Sly Piper, Victoria Monet and Eminem’s “That’s All She Wrote” collaborator, T.I.
Along with Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” collaborator Kendrick Lamar, Justus was featured in Dr. Dre’s “Deep Water” while Piper was featured in Dr. Dre’s “Naked” with Marsha Ambrosius. On the other hand, Monet is T.I.’s protégé.
“Back to Business” was produced by Swiff D. It is yet to be confirmed whether or not it will be included in T.I.’s upcoming 10th studio album titled “The Dime Trap,” which is set to be released almost two years after his ninth studio album “Paperwork” was released.
In September 2015, T.I. revealed that he was recording tracks with Dr. Dre. “Dre's the homie, to be honest with you. I've never seen somebody so meticulous about music before. The only thing that I can say was a similar experience was when me and Eminem did those songs together,” he told Rolling Stone.
T.I. also pointed out that when it comes to verses, Eminem’s meticulousness is tantamount to Dr. Dre’s precision when it comes to production. The Atlanta rapper revealed that the process in which Dr. Dre deals with production is meticulous, nerve-wracking and very tedious, but it leads to an immeasurable outcome.
An in-house mixing engineer for Top Dawg Entertainment who worked with Lamar in the “To Pimp a Butterfly” album also has nothing but good words about Dr. Dre. Professionally known as MixedByAli, California native Derek Ali recently shared some lessons he learned from Dr. Dre.
“The first thing he told me, it was a quote that I still live with to this day, he said, ‘It's not what you're working on. It's who's pressing the button,’” Hip Hop DX quoted MixedByAli as saying. “That stuck with me over these years.”
