Rollin With Dre
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Bruce Williams was the long-time best friend and right-hand man to Dr. Dre, and a prime mover at Aftermath, one of the most successful start-up labels in music history. In Rollin’ with Dre: The Unauthorized Account, Williams, owner of a sports bar in downtown Los Angeles, gives us an unprecedented inside look at–and the up-and-down story of–two decades of hip-hop culture and “The Life.”
As Dre’s confidant and the problem-solver to a stable of artists and others who came to know him as “Uncle Bruce,” Williams was either there when the action went down or close enough to feel the hollowpoints whiz by: Dre perfecting the gangsta era’s signature sound displayed on his highly influential album The Chronic and its Snoop Dogg-helmed follow-up, Doggystyle; getting out from under Death Row Records, the label Dre co-founded with impresario Suge Knight; launching the careers of Eminem, 50 Cent, and The Game.
Williams lays it out in black and white, from dish on Tupac Shakur’s chaotic rise and fall to the deadly feud between Tha Row (formerly Death Row Records) and East Coast MCs and bigshots, from Suge’s legal battles to Dre’s reconciliation with Eazy-E before E’s untimely demise from AIDS, from the hard-won “overnight” successes of Snoop and Eminem to what it was like rollin’ with giants and legends-in-the-making–and living the life (and bearing the burdens) as a bona-fide master of the game.
Williams takes us on a wild ride, showing us the never-before-seen side of the infamous West Coast scene. With one foot firmly planted in the Hollywood establishment and the other in the sex-and-violence-drenched netherworld of the hip-hop music industry, Rollin’ with Dre: The Unauthorized Account, is the impossible-to-put-down story of music icons and the culture that created the soundtrack of a restless generation.
Bruce Williams
Bruce was born and raised in eastern Kentucky. The Williams family was Roman Catholic. Bruce grew up as an altar boy and felt the calling to become a priest at an early age. Turning away from the Church and God as a young adult, he sought to become someone in the world. Politics, business, and education became more important than God.While in college a philosophy professor posed the philosopher Pascal’s Wager. “Is it better to believe in God and there not be one or to not believe and there be one?” A few years later Bruce answered that question and found God.Bruce has been a businessman, and a Minister of the Christian Gospel serving as Pastor, Evangelist, and student of the Bible. He has traveled overseas many times to Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, and India to spread the Gospel.Bruce and his wife Nina Swartzwelder, a Christian writer, have raised ten children who are all grown today. Both Nina and Bruce have published Christian books and articles for many years.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting book, but goddamn it badly needs a proof read! So many typos!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Badly written with lots of spelling errors. Too bad Dre
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was good. But it was a lot of typos.
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