*Hip-hop icon Dr. Dre opened up about the creation of his critically acclaimed album “The Chronic” on Kevin Hart’s “Hart to Heart” talk show on Peacock.

He also touched on the “Straight Outta Compton” biopic and parting ways with N.W.A. As Billboard reports, Dre tells Hart: “I had to separate myself from [Eazy-E] because he decided to take a different route. [Ice] Cube had already left, so I’m out here on my own. I have absolutely no idea what the f–k I’m gonna do, I just know I have this talent.”

When it comes to his landmark solo debut, “The Chronic,” Dre claims fellow rapper D.O.C. convinced him to record the album.

“A close friend of mine, we’ll call him D.O.C., talked me into doing the Chronic album,” he shared. “It wasn’t my decision, I was talked into doing that. I just went in there and went for it because I felt, at that time, it was a life or death situation.”

According to Dre, the success of “The Chronic” would determine whether or not he would stay in the studio.

“It’s really tough to find that kind of ambition and energy today,” he told Hart Hart.”

Dr. Dre teamed with Ice Cube and director F. Gary Gray in 2015 to bring the N.W.A.’s story to the big screen. 

“I think that everybody that was involved in the movie in the beginning didn’t believe in the movie and didn’t trust it,” he shared in a second clip from his conversation with Hart, Billboard reports. 

“Myself, Cube and Gary Gray, we went for it. What you see on the screen is a result of what myself, Cube and Gary did,” Dre added. 

The film ultimately grossed $201.6 million worldwide and was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay.

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