Dr. Dre Buries 20-Year-Old Son

Superproducer Dr. Dre buried his son on Friday (August 29), Andre Young, Jr.

According to TMZ.com, more than 200 mourners turned out for the funeral, which took place in Glendale, California at the Church of the Recessional.

The 20-year-old was found dead last Saturday (August 23) by his mother, who called 911 at around 10 a.m. Despite paramedics’ efforts, he pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy was done last week, but it did not reveal the cause of death. Further tests have been ordered to try to discover the cause.

“We don’t know yet why he died,” the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner told People. “There were no signs of trauma or foul play. We’ll be doing toxicology and other tests, which will take up to six weeks.”

The test is “mainly to determine whether alcohol or drugs played a part in a person’s death,” Capt. Winter said.

Young had been out with friends the night prior, and his mother told police that “she recalled hearing him snoring around 5:30 a.m.”

“Dr. Dre is mourning the loss of his son,” the rapper’s publicist Lori Earl said in a statement Tuesday. “Please respect his family’s grief and privacy at this time.”

Dr. Dre has four other children — sons Curtis, 26, Marcel, 17, and Truth, 11, and daughter Truly, 7.

T-Pain Talks ‘T-Wayne’ Album With Lil Wayne

With their two most recent collaborations gaining airplay and chart positions, T-Pain and Lil Wayne’s proposed collaborative effort also continues to build momentum.

The T-Wayne project has even gained the support and involvement of several high profile producers, T-Pain told AllHipHop.com during a recent interview promoting his third studio album, Thr33 Rings.

“That’s going down. Heavily,” T-Pain told AllHipHop.com, promising that this project won’t go the way of other rumored superstar collaborations.

“We’ve already got like 25 songs,” T-Pain revealed. “It’s going down after my album drops. Could be the beginning of next year, like January/February.”

Now, with Timbaland and Pharrell Williams having voiced an interest in joining the project, T-Pain says he hopes to bring in superstar rapper/producer Kanye West.

T-Pain and West’s last major collaboration, “Good Life,” won a Grammy Award in 2008 for Best Rap Song.

Throughout the summer, both T-Pain and Lil Wayne have confirmed their desire to create a joint project, capitalizing on the success they’ve had with hit singles like DJ Khaled’s “I’m So Hood” and more recently “Got Money” and “Can’t Believe It,” from Tha Carter III and Thr33 Ringz respectively.

However, T-Pain says the project may be delayed by label red tape, especially if all three multi-platinum producers get involved.

But ultimately, T-Pain says he is determined to deliver the project to the fans.

“If anything, we ain’t making no goals [for the date],” T-Pain told AllHipHop.com. “If we really gotta do it as an album and all those labels gotta work together, it’ll come out like, two years from now. [So] if it just falls into a bunch of leaks or if it falls into a mixtape, [that’s fine]. We might just take the songs we’ve got [and say]: ‘Here you go world. T-Wayne project. Right up. For free.”

Joe Budden Explains How Longtime Beef With Game Ended Onstage

Joe Budden and the Game finally made peace, and all it took was a phone call and a few text messages.

“I was asleep the other day, and I woke up to a text message saying, ‘Big Joe, what up? This is Game,’ ” Budden said Wednesday (August 27). “I was like, ‘Oh, somebody is playing on my phone again.’ I hit him back with a bunch of question marks, and he hit me back with ‘This is Game.’ Still, I wasn’t convinced yet. Then I started checking my messages, and apparently he was on [a New York radio] morning show and asking if anybody had my phone number and [said] he was trying to reach out to me. So I eventually called him. We had a great conversation, talked about a lot of things. He invited me to come to his show, come kick it. I took him up on it.”

Joey Jump-Off jumped onstage with Game on Tuesday night during the Compton slugger’s concert at New York’s Irving Plaza.

Budden and Game were embroiled in a back-and-forth on the mixtape circuit in the mid-2000s, but that was never quite settled — at least, not in the public’s eyes.

“Me and Game never really had an issue,” Budden said. “It was more so a Joe Budden vs. G-Unit thing — which, at the time, [Game] happened to be a part of. So, I mean, it wasn’t anything personal between myself and him. And it was so many years ago, and I think we both grown and gotten past all of that verbal bashing. I thought [Tuesday night’s show] was great for hip-hop.”

Budden and Game even appeared in a photo together during the height of the lyrical tension, but continued to dis each other.

“The picture was more so to say, ‘We’ll dead the beef, but we don’t necessarily need to care for one another.’ The situation last night was totally different. He showed me a whole lot of love. Him and his people. It was altogether a great experience. I was standing there [during the show] like a fan. Dude brought out Dana Dane, Kool Herc, Maino, who is like family to me. Rae and Ghost. I think all these people, who I am all cool with, were shocked to see me. But the energy in the building was great.”

Joe performed “Pump It Up” and part of a record that had the whole Internet talking: “Who.” In the song, he gives the fans evidence and suspects in search of the people responsible for the death of hip-hop. The record — close to 16 minutes in total — was broken down in three parts upon its initial release. Some have called it the hip-hop record of the year.

“I think so,” Budden said, unabashed. “I think it’s great.”

Despite the track’s length, the Jersey native said the song didn’t take particularly long to write.

“Not too long,” he divulged. “When you’re writing something you’re passionate about it, it doesn’t take long,” he said. “Three hours total. That was just the writing process. No, I’m lying. It might have been just four to five hours. The recording process was a whole separate issue.”

“Who” was inspired by people asking Joe his opinion on the state of hip-hop, and he takes us through several eras in rap, name-dropping events like Game and Young Buck getting kicked out of the G-Unit, Lupe Fiasco forgetting lyrics during his A Tribe Called Quest tribute at the 2007 Hip-Hop Honors, Jay-Z becoming Def Jam president and KRS-One and Nelly’s old beef.

“The funny thing is, my memory is normally horrible,” he laughed. “I have a hard time remembering anything. But I wanted to make a timeline where certain events in hip-hop would act as photographs. Even when I said, ‘Master P and them ugly-ass album covers,’ it wasn’t to say anything negative about that. But I think everybody in hip-hop remembers when, every other week, Master P was putting out an album with those funny-looking covers. I wanted to bring people back to a certain place and jog my memory as much as I could without going overboard. Remaining unbiased.”

Budden’s next album, Padded Room, comes out on Amalgam Digital on October 28. He’ll be releasing at least one mixtape prior and says that collaborating with Game on a song or freestyle is a strong possibility.

“It’s likely,” he said. “You can never say.”

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The Game At Irving Plaza

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Lil Wayne Almost Didn’t Get ‘Got Money’ — Pitbull Had It First

Lil Wayne’s current single is one of the biggest songs from Tha Carter III, but the Fireman almost didn’t get “Got Money” — the record was originally intended to be a Pitbull collaboration with T-Pain.

“Shout-out to Pitbull, he helped us put it together,” Skillz — of the production team behind the track, Play N Skillz — said of the cut. “It’s the biggest record out right now, and we’re making it rain.”

“I did the record back when I was on TVT [Records], and unfortunately TVT didn’t clear the song,” Pitbull explained recently in Houston.

“That’s a crazy story,” Play, the more vocal of the duo, said Monday. “We went to the West Coast and demoed the record with the skeleton hook on the track. … Going a little further back than that, when we first made the beat in New York, [the studio] lost the beat. Skillz is a big melody guy, so the next morning he came back and remade the melody. We remade the beat in five to 10 minutes.”

Play N Skillz sat on the hook of “Got Money” for three months, until they began working on Pitbull’s The Boatlift album in Miami. They played Pit the beat, and he went wild.

“He jumped on top of the couch and was going crazy,” Play added. “He was like, ‘Man, I’mma get T-Pain or Akon on the record.’ ” Obviously it didn’t work out for Pit, but “Got Money” went through a few more MCs on its way to Wayne.

“We played it for Slim Thug; Slim didn’t record it,” Play explained. “Plies passed up on it. Rick Ross passed on it. Tum Tum recorded on it, but it didn’t work out. Pain’s people reached out and said, ‘We’re taking the song back with our hook. We’re gonna give it to a really big artist.’ They ended up telling me it was Wayne. No problem. A week later, I get an MP3, and Wayne is spazzing out on the record.

“Pain changed the hook up some,” the producer continued. “It was the same topic — it was about the money, the original one. He just changed the hook up some.”

Play N Skillz — whose past smashes include Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty” and Kia Shine’s “Krispy” — are hoping the success of “Got Money” will continue their wave of hit records. They’re scheduled to work with Fabolous and have already laid new tracks for their own sophomore album, Out Tha Box, as well as LPs by Hurricane Chris, Paul Wall, Slim from 112 and 50 Cent’s upcoming Before I Self Destruct.

“Sha Money XL is very involved in the new project,” Skillz said. “Everything is third-person with 50. He’s not really a guy who goes in the studio with the producers. We send him the joints.”

“Our rhythm on the drum pattern, we had to switch it up a little bit,” Play said. “[50 Cent] said he wanted to go back to the boom-bap hard-core gangsta stuff. We tried to fit his style. I think 50 is gonna come back. He’s a hitmaker. He’s written a lot of hits for a lot of people. Sha told me [50’s] getting back in the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ mode. 50 is a person who doesn’t like to know how the producer is. He just likes to go in with the music. But Sha Money XL is going crazy for the tracks we sent.”

Dr. Dre’s Son Found Dead

The son of hip-hop icon Dr. Dre died at his home this weekend.

“Dr. Dre is mourning the loss of his son Andre Young Jr. Please respect his family’s grief and privacy at this time,” rep Lori Earl tells E! News.

The 20-year-old Andre was found unresponsive by his mother Saturday morning, after a night out with friends, authories say.

“Police arrived and declared him [deceased],” says Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office, adding there was “no visible trauma or the like.”
The precise cause of death won’t be known for up to eight weeks, when toxicology tests are completed.

An award-winning producer and musician, Dre has worked with many in the music industry, from his days with NWA to protégés Snoop Dogg and Eminem to Burt Bacharach.

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