00:00Ice Cube finally reveals what's really happening to Dr. Dre.
00:03Ice Cube has finally revealed what's really happening with Dr. Dre
00:06after rumors about his health and unreleased music spread online.
00:10Following their reunion, Cube addressed whether Dre is creating one final masterpiece
00:15or leaving the studio behind.
00:17Stay with this because the private conversation between them reveals
00:20what comes next for Dre's career.
00:22Let's start with what Ice Cube is saying right now, out loud, on the record.
00:26Not old war stories, his current take on where Dre actually is.
00:30When Cube sat down with HipHopDX to talk about rap beefs in general,
00:34the conversation swung toward Drake and Metro Boomin'
00:37and Cube couldn't help drawing a straight line back to his own history with Dre.
00:40He was asked about the moment on No Vaseline where he told Dre to stick to producing
00:45and Cube didn't downplay it.
00:47He said that was all he could do, was tell Dre to do what you do best.
00:50Then he made a point of saying he wouldn't use that line on Dre again,
00:53not because he regrets it, but because of who Dre has become.
00:57He told the outlet flat out,
00:58Dre is a formidable MC.
01:00Dre put out a record and everybody better run for cover
01:03because the lyrics gonna be on point, the delivery gonna be on point,
01:07the music gonna be on point.
01:08He capped it off by saying he's a formidable MC
01:11so he would never use that line again.
01:13That's Ice Cube, in his own words, telling you who Dre still is musically.
01:17Not a producer standing behind the boards,
01:19but somebody Cube considers a genuine threat on the mic.
01:22Even decades removed from their beef,
01:24but the what's really happening to Dre question isn't just about bars.
01:28It's about Dre's actual life, legally, financially, physically.
01:32And Cube has weighed in on all three fronts at different points,
01:35sometimes without even meaning to make headlines.
01:37Rewind to January of 2021.
01:40Dre was rushed to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles
01:42with what was being described as a brain aneurysm.
01:45The rap mogul was hospitalized with a suspected brain aneurysm,
01:48and he was admitted to the hospital where he is said to be in a stable and lucid condition.
01:53Doctors kept him in the intensive care unit while they ran a series of tests
01:57to determine what caused Dre to suffer the bleed on the brain.
02:00Cube didn't wait around.
02:02Alongside Missy Elliott and LL Cool J,
02:04he put a message out immediately.
02:06Missy wrote her prayers for healing and strength.
02:08Cube's message was shorter,
02:10and to the point he wrote,
02:20In real time, while the outcome was still uncertain,
02:23Dre pulled through.
02:24He came out of the hospital and posted his own update,
02:27telling fans I will be out of the hospital and back home soon,
02:30and he kept that promise.
02:32But the moment mattered,
02:33because it's the first time in years the public got to see,
02:37in real time,
02:38exactly how close Cube still was to Dre.
02:41Not through an interview,
02:42not through a nostalgia piece,
02:44but through an emergency.
02:46Now fast forward,
02:47because Dre's story since then hasn't exactly slowed down.
02:50He's been in and out of courtrooms.
02:52He's been through a legal fight involving his ex-wife's divorce therapist.
02:55He's been fighting off a $10 million lawsuit.
02:58And somewhere in the middle of all of that,
03:00he quietly became one of the wealthiest musicians alive.
03:03A billionaire,
03:05according to Forbes.
03:06So when people ask what's really happening to Dr. Dre,
03:09the honest answer covers a lot of ground.
03:12It's not one storyline,
03:13it's a guy in his 60s juggling a health scare in his recent past,
03:17a courtroom drama in his recent present,
03:20and a business empire that just crossed into 10-figure territory.
03:23An Ice Cube,
03:25friend,
03:26rival,
03:27bandmate,
03:27historian of their whole relationship,
03:29has had something to say about basically every chapter of it.
03:32To understand why Cube's take on Dre carries weight,
03:36you have to go back to where this all started.
03:38Because the story of what's happening to Dre only makes sense once you know what happened between these two men
03:43first.
03:44The group they built together,
03:45the money that tore it apart,
03:47and the diss track that turned two friends into headline enemies for the better part of a decade.
03:52That's where we're headed next.
03:53Before there was a billionaire producer
03:55and a rock and roll hall of fame rapper checking in on each other during hospital stays.
04:00There were just five kids from Compton trying to make something out of nothing.
04:04Dre and his friend DJ Yella left the world-class wrecking crew in 1985.
04:08I am glad
04:08I am.
04:08I am
04:085.
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