- Dr. Dre said that he turned down the chance to work with both Prince and Michael Jackson.
- He also said he's rejected the chance to work with Stevie Wonder.
Dr. Dre has said that he turned down the chance to work with both Prince and Michael Jackson.
During a recent appearance on Kevin Hart's "Hart to Heart" talk show, the legendary music producer said he rejected the chance to work with the late icons because he didn't know what he would do with them.
"They just asked me to work with them and I just was like, 'What the fuck am I going to do with them?'" he explained. "Those are my fucking heroes."
After Hart reminded him that, "You're Dr. Dre," the multi-time Grammy award winner admitted that he most recently passed up the chance to work with Stevie Wonder.
Dre said that Wonder called him up asking to work on a song together, but he declined because he didn't want the way he views the singer to "change."
"These are my fucking heroes," he said. "I like the idea of what I grew up listening to and I want to keep it like that. And I don't want to fuck up that idea and that look."
Dre, who helped launch the career of Eminem and 50 Cent, among others, added that he also prefers working with new and upcoming artists as opposed to already-established stars.
"My entire life and career has been dealing with and working with new artists. That's what I like," he said. "Nobody comes in with an agenda. It's a ball of clay when they walk in the room. You can just form it and do what you want. That's what I want."
"Everybody else, especially my heroes, they're coming in and there's a set plan as to how the shit should sound, ya know. I can't, I can't explore," he added.