How Dr. Dre discovered Eminem

An intern slipped famed record producer Jimmy Iovine a mixtape of then-unknown Eminem. Dr. Dre got hold of it and the rest is history.

In an earlier documentary about their fateful meeting, Dr. Dre describes what happened:

"Well, I first heard Eminems music at Jimmy Iovines house. He just happened to have gotten Eminems tape maybe a couple of days before. He actually got it from an intern that used to work at Interscope. He popped it in and then I heard it. And I thought it was incredible. At this time, I had no idea he was a white guy. I didnt find that out until a few days later. And I was just like What the fuck is this? I really need to meet this guy. The first thing that we did was My Name Is. I had already prepared a sample that I thought he would sound great on. Immediately after I put it on he just went Hi, my name is... When I heard he was gonna start his own label, I thought it was an amazing idea. I was excited to see what they were going to be able to do with it.

This is a clip from HBO's The Defiant Ones, a new biographical series documenting the "unlikely and wildly successful partnership of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine."

Here's its trailer:https://youtu.be/qT5FeylUWO0

(reddit)