When the lights first went down for the headliners, after a short and violent movie, Dre and Snoop came strutting out the door of an onstage liquor store while the dramatic fanfare of “The Next Episode” boomed from arena speakers. At another, a giant skull descended from the rafters, shooting lasers from its eyes, laughing, telling the crowd to roll the weed up. A low-rider bounced across the stage at one point. Others were there to assist with Dre’s own set: Nate Dogg, Kurupt, old partner Snoop Dogg.īut it wasn’t just the cast that made the Up In Smoke tour special. Some of them were opening acts: Warren G, Eminem, Ice Cube. Dre brought along his most famous collaborators, old and new. In the late summer of 2000, Dre embarked on the Up In Smoke Tour, the most elaborate traveling rap show that had ever been mounted. But nine months later, the tour that Dre mounted wasn’t that different. He was thinking out loud, imagining how his own greatest hits could be adapted into a big-money stage play: “For instance, an undercover cop gets killed on stage, and then me and Snoop would come out and do ‘Deep Cover.’ It could work.” On the eve of the release of his sophomore album 2001, Dre was talking to the New York Times’ Jon Pareles. Dre was thinking about putting on a musical.
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