Absolutely, here’s a revised version of the transcript:

Our first guest tonight is one of the most innovative, successful, and influential people in the history of popular music. He’s got so many Grammys, they named one after him. Today, he was immortalized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Please say hello to Dr. Dre.

[Applause]

Well, thank you for coming. Look at you, you really are 6122 of pure chocolate. You know what, I don’t want that right now, stop playing. By the way, just for my disclaimer, okay, that skit was Jimmy’s idea, just so everybody knows. Okay, congratulations, by the way. Did you ever imagine you’d have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

No, I didn’t. It was not in my mental roller-dex at all.

When you were a kid, did you ever come down here to Hollywood and look at those stars?

Let me tell you something, I didn’t see Hollywood until I was 16 years old. I think it’s so interesting, you never made it over here, huh?

No, nothing north of Wilshire. But when you were 16, you got here. What were you up to then?

I’d rather not say.

Oh, they had to shut, it was a lot of fun. Let me just put it that way. They had to shut the whole Boulevard down because there were so many people to see you today. Did you imagine that was going to happen?

No, I didn’t. But it was fantastic. LA showed up for me too. They really did show up.

Fantastic. That was fantastic. I didn’t expect it to be that many people out there to represent, but that was great. Is it weird for you when the cops are there and they’re like, “Dr. Dre”?

Yeah, it’s a little strange, right?

Do you often get surprised by people who are fans?

Yes, sometimes. Actually, there was one time I think I can’t remember where I was, but I was at a hotel in the lobby and a group of nuns came by. Yes, and they were like, “Dr. Dre!” I’m like, “Get out of here!” And I’m like, “How do you know my music?” And they were like, “Well, we deal with a lot of kids and they love your music.” And I took pictures with like, I think it was six nuns. Oh, that’s great. That actually happened. That’s pretty good.

You have worked with so many people. NWA, Eazy-E, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, Tupac, Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Mary J. Blige, Gwen Stefani, and Eve. T.I., Busta Rhymes, Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott, Xzibit, Warren G, G-Unit, Big Pun, Nate Dogg, Jay-Z, The Game, MC Scat Cat. Oh, wait a minute, that might be an error. But I mean, that’s a tremendous amount of work, man.

Thank you. Thank you.

I would imagine the answer to this is yes, but do artists from other genres often approach you and ask you to work with them?

Yes, all the time. But you know, my love is with hip-hop. It really depends on the relationship. If I meet somebody that we click, then I’ll go in a studio and get down. Even if it’s not your type of music, like, let’s say, Dolly Parton wanted to record.

I love Dolly Parton. Oh, that’s something you would consider?

Yes, absolutely. “Jolene” is one of my favorite songs. Oh, there you go. Like, you would produce anybody, right? It’s not about the music. It’s about making music. Absolutely. I could do that. But hip-hop is my love. It’s your love. And when you make a song with an artist, do they come in with the whole thing? Like, a lot of times, I mean, like, I think Dolly Parton will write all her songs and she’ll show up and she has the song all kind of ready to go.

Well, usually the track is laid out. Every now and then, the artist comes in with the lyrics first. And that has only happened a couple of times in my career. One time was with Eminem on a song called “Forgot About Dre.”

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So nothing comes out when they move their lips, you know, right? Yeah, Eminem wrote that. He had the entire song written before the track. So we had to make the track work with his lyrics.

Is it true that you don’t like the artist to write the lyrics down on paper?

No, that’s not true. That happens. I mean, these days, it just feels a little bit boring as a producer to sit in the studio and wait for an artist to go away or go in another room and write the lyrics while you’re sitting there waiting. So I’d like it to be a collaborative effort. And once the track is done, we’re collaborating with the lyrics. And that’s how it…

In the movies and sometimes in television, producers don’t do anything. Like, I’m learning that now. They do nothing. Yeah, their name is on the thing. Yeah, the word “producer,” “executive producer” in the movies, it means absolutely nothing. I’m starting to learn that.

You know, you listen to a lot of music. You’re looking for inspiration. You’re going through old records like you go to yard sales. Where do you get all your records?

I used to. I used to go to pawn shops and what have you to find different sounds for music. Because back in the day, I had, let’s say, one or two keyboards to make an entire album. So I had to figure out ways to make the sounds different. So I would go in pawn shops and find guitar pedals and what have you to make the sounds in this one particular keyboard sound different so I can make an entire album using one keyboard.

Do you still do that?

No, the song “The Next Episode” that everybody knows, this is a huge hit. This is where you got the music track from this album. You go to a pawn shop and this is one, you take all, man. You know what, I collect records. I’ve been collecting albums, but not this one.

That was part of it. Jimmy, international records like Lalo Schifrin and all these types of… this guy was on NCIS, really?

I didn’t know that.

You know he was, yeah, this just happened to be a song that was in one of my crates, you know, and it worked out.

You went through every track on this album and found that?

Yes, and you’re like, “Oh, that’s great.” And you never really looked at the cover and said, “Man, maybe not.”

No, no, to be honest with you, I sampled this song before I knew who the artist was.

Did you ever meet this guy?

No, I never met him. Unfortunately, he’s passed away, so it’s not going to happen.

You guys also sometimes will create sounds