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Riff: Dr. Dre – “I Need A Doctor”

Jul 15, 2013

Went through friends, some of them I put on/But they just left, they said they was riding to the death/But where the fuck are they now, now that I need them/I don’t see none of them, all I see is Slim/Fuck all you fair weather friends all I need is him

from I Need A Doctor lyrics by Dr. Dre

With the help of Eminem, Dr. Dre takes a swing at all the fair weather friends who jumped ship when things got rocky. But maybe there’s more to it. Perhaps he’s misinterpreting the sage advice of critics who are telling him to hurry the hell up with Detox before he goes from living legend to relic.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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