Dr. Dre: I Need a Doctor Meaning
I Need a Doctor Lyrics
I'm about to lose my mind,
You've been gone for so long,
I'm running out of time.
I need a doctor,
Call me a doctor,
I need a doctor, doctor
To bring me back to life
Eminem: (Verse 1)
I told the world, one day i...
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It's about Dr Dre and Em's long running history and what it means to them both. When Eminem started out, no-one believed a white guy could make it big in rap, so many of the people/friends of Dre's left him because Dre still wanted to work with Eminem. Eminem had problems in the past and Dre helped him through those times, so thats what the part about "they don't know what dope is." When he says that they were like a crew and he was his sidekick, it's hinting at there time working on "Without me" where Eminem is portrayed in a parody of Batman as someone akin to Robin and Dre as Batman, so it is almost like an obvious-to-the-public inside joke between the two, almost like they are reminscing old times while working on this song many years on from that.
Eminem is also talking about how Dr Dre lost a son and is doubting himself due to the "demon's" that came from this loss. The son he lost isn't really meant to mean Eazy-E (though that works as well) but about the actual son he lost in 2008 to a drug overdose. This had a strong impact on Dre, cauing him to go through his own dark time ("it's dark") and fill himself with self doubt and not have faith in the ideas he tells Eminem about or hold any stock in his own opinions. Eminem see's Dre as a shadow of his former self, weaker and looking for a leader in Eminem, even though he was the one who lead/mentored him and so many other rapper. This causes Eminem unrest and he demands that Dre become strong again and be restored to his former glory and finish what he started (might be a refrence to finishing the album, which is a popular interpretation of the song). Eminem wrote this song to help Dre and tell him he is there to help him, but is not sure whether or not Dre will take this well so it will result in either a fight or a "hug", but Eminem is not to worried about the outcome, as he feels there was no other option and this was the only thing he could do, so whatever the outcome, at least he did something.
Eminem then goes on to talk about how Dre stuck his neck out for him all those years ago and believed in him and he wants to repay him for that, even though he feels it is a lot to pay Dre back for doing, so he is more than willing to help Dre now in order to pay back even a little part of the emotional/personal debt.
It is now Dre's rap and Dre talks about how he and Eminem got started and how, even though everyone (fairweather friends, producers etc) left him and were back-stabbers, Slim stoof by him and was still with him, getting him to finish his last album. He is seemingly re-enthused by Eminem's help and encouragement in Em's rap and says (with conviction, like Eminem wanted) that he would finish his album then finish rapping and leave the producers and the others in pursuit of something else. He basically puts a middle finger up at the back-stabbing producers and says he will do what he wants, when he wants and they have no real power over him, cause he has relaised they aren't his real friends, unlike Eminem, so he is leaving them the second he finishes the album like Eminem wanted.
But that's just my interpretation, I might be miles off. :) -
Jackasses...dre is the fourth highest paid in the industry...bring him back...he never left
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Dre and Easy E were friends. They had falling out due to managerial issues with manager, Jerry Hueller who wanted to basically split NWA apart. Since Dre was unhappy with this it created the drift between the two. And Dre left. Then Easy E went to the doctor for what he thought to be asthma but ending up finding out he had aids in Feb. 1994 and ended up dying one month later. Due to his situation Easy E amended things with Dre shortly before his death. Although fixed the sudden death of Easy E has always made Dre feel bad for letting things get in the way of their friendship. Dre misses Easy E and thinks about him regularly. By the way Easy E is Eric Wright.
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i don't know the whole story about Eazy-E & Dre, but of what i have heard, is that they werent friends after Dre wanted to get out of NWA. Can somone tell me why he is saluting Eazy-E.
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Eminems part is about how Dre helped him become big and stayed with him, and that he will be by Dre's side in finishing the album by being in part of his songs. Dre talks about the record label that backstabbed him and how he misses the times with Easy and Slim and screw them for leaving him.
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Yo no one is mentioning the best part about this song... DRE IS MAKING ANOTHER ALBUM!!!!!!
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HE is talking about dre not doing any thing for a long time and dre helped him now its his turn. dre had been unactive in the music indistry for a long time em was getting clean and hey needed eachother
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Guess eminem was just trying to let dre know how he helped him in the past and also dre is no longer feeling the game of rap as he felt before when his crew EAZIE E N 2PAC was alive.
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Its about the illuminati now coming to get eminem, and as dr dre is his friend and also a big part in the illuminati he says he needs a doctor "i'm about to lose my mind
you've been gone for so long
i'm running out of time I need a doctor
call me a doctor I need a doctor, doctor
to bring me back to life" you've been gone for so long as in the illuminati havent got him yet. He then says "i told the world one day I would pay it back" "all I know is you came to me when I was at my lowest
you picked me up, breeding life in me I owe my life to you" came to him wen he was poor"i was like your sidekick
you gon either wanna fight me when I get off this fucking mic
or you gon hug me" this means he is soon going to be taken away from us and if dre doesnt help him then he will die. He says get up dre, as in wake up and get out of this illuminati stuff and then"im dying I need you" he isnt really dying but he knows he will die soon and he needs dr dre. -
I think its Em way of bringing Dre back into rap one more time..for that finale he deserves. All of Dre old crew abandon him and now it just those 2.
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I think it's about no one wanting to sign Em cuz he was white ("No one wanted to f*ck with the white boy") but how he's thankful that Dre came in and saved him and gave him a deal or whatever. Then it's called I Need A Doctor obviously because it's DOCTOR Dre! And then I think it's also about how Em is there for Dre when no one else is ("All I see is Slim. F*ck all you fairweather friends, all I need is him"). I just really think it's like Em saying thank you to Dre for helping him out ("It was you who believed me, when everyone was telling you don't sign me" "You risked your career for me" "You saved my life, now maybe it's my time to save yours, but I can never repay you, what you did for me is way more")
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it's em talkin bout how dre had faith and believed in him from the start. but now dre is the one who needs em. then dre is talkin bout how evrybody ditched him but all he needs is em. the cool thing is that they have each others backs :)
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20221309,00.html
It's not a shout out to Eazy-e when Em was saying he had a son that died; he was literally talking about his son.
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