"Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" | ||||
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Single by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg | ||||
from the album The Chronic | ||||
B-side | Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" "187 |
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Released | May 20, 1993 | |||
Format | 12" vinyl, CD single | |||
Recorded | 1992 | |||
Genre | West Coast hip hop, G-funk, gangsta rap | |||
Length | 4:52 | |||
Label | Death Row, Interscope | |||
Songwriter(s) | Calvin Broadus, Colin Wolfe, David Spradley, Garry Shider, George Clinton | |||
Producer(s) | Dr. Dre | |||
Dr. Dre singles chronology | ||||
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Snoop Doggy Dogg singles chronology | ||||
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"Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", released in its censored form of "Dre Day" as a single, is a hip-hop and diss single by American rapper Dr. Dre, with a guest appearance from fellow rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. The track is taken from Dre's debut solo album, The Chronic, released via Death Row Records. The song was released as a single on May 20, 1993.
Though not quite matching the popularity of Dre's earlier hit, "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang", the single still did well commercially managing to reach number eight on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1993 and number six, counting the 12 weeks spent, on the rap and hip-hop chart of that year's overall ranking. The song features a slowed-down interpolation of Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep" as its bassline and features Jewell on vocals and RBX on chorus. An accompanying music video was directed by Dr. Dre.
The song was a towards rappers Eazy-E, Dre's former accomplice from the group N.W.A; Tim Dog, an East Coast rapper who slighted the whole West Coast rap scene and released an incendiary diss track towards N.W.A titled "Fuck Compton"; and Luther (Luke) Campbell from 2 Live Crew, whose track "Fakin' Like Gangstas" from his debut solo album I Got Shit On My Mind, featuring JT Money from the group Poison Clan, was taken personally for making references to some of the popular rappers in the "gangsta" category (specifically referring to N.W.A). There were also some lyrics alluding to former N.W.A rapper Ice Cube, who departed acrimoniously from the group in 1989 and ridiculed Dre on the track "No Vaseline", off his 1991 Death Certificate album. The lyrics: "Then we gon creep to South Central, On a Street Knowledge mission, as I steps in the temple, Spot him, got him, as I pulls out my strap, Got my chrome to the side of his White Sox hat, You tryin to check my homey, you better check yo self, Cause when you diss Dre you diss yourself" had references to Cube's production operation Street Knowledge Productions (now Lench Mob Records), the lyrics "steps in the temple" referring to Ice Cube's affiliation with the Nation of Islam and his hit single "Check Yo Self" from third album The Predator. However, by the album's release, Ice Cube was on friendlier terms with Dr. Dre, even having a cameo appearance in "Let Me Ride", so unlike Eazy-E and Luke, he wasn't parodied in the music video.