{"id":106815,"date":"2016-06-08T22:12:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=106815"},"modified":"2016-06-08T22:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:12:23","slug":"dig-of-the-day-dr-dre-the-watcher-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-dr-dre-the-watcher-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Of The Day: Dr. Dre &#8211; The Watcher (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/04seFO6BEmw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I bet ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t heard this in ages&#8230; A great track to begin  the best rap album of &#8217;99 and beyond, which was intended to be released as a mixtape, with tracks linked through interludes and turntable effects, but was changed to be set up like a film.<\/p>\n<p>Today we have laid back and super accurate <strong>Dre<\/strong>&#8216;s rap over a great, subtle yet memorable instrumental. <em>The Watcher<\/em> is off <strong>Dre<\/strong>&#8216;s truly brilliant 2nd solo release, with a perfect ammount of talented guests, we all heard many times and still do with joy &#8211; <em>(Chronic) 2001<\/em> &#8211; his last release that had super unique quality to it&#8230; Not this new sh*t word to the mutha.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <strong>Dr. Dre<\/strong> and <strong>Mel-Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned and enjoy this rare photo of <strong>Dr. Dre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"106816\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/dig-of-the-day-dr-dre-the-watcher-1999\/dre-rare\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?fit=1024%2C581&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,581\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dre rare\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?fit=540%2C306&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?fit=640%2C363&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?fit=640%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"dre rare\" width=\"640\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?resize=540%2C306&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?resize=768%2C436&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/dre-rare.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t heard this in ages&#8230; A great track to begin the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dig-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-rMP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}