Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg Earn Their First Billion-View Video Following Halftime Show

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg have A LOT to celebrate about this week.  Following their massive all-star Halftime Show inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., which averaged 103.4 million viewers (7 percent increase from last year’s performance the by The Weeknd), their music video for ‘Still D.R.E’ reached one billion views on YouTube, marking this as their first billion-view video on the platform.

 

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The pair released the music video back in 1999 and it’s off of Dre’s album, 2001.  According to Billboard, “The video — first uploaded to YouTube in October 2011 –stands as a hermetically sealed time capsule of one of Dre’s most iconic songs, from the shots of the dynamic rap duo bouncing along the streets of L.A. in their lowrider, to the giant party scene and brief cameos from Slim Shady, Xzibit, Funkmaster Flex and Warren G.”

 

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At the time of its release, ‘Still D.R.E’ reached No. 93 on the Billboard charts, and it became one of Dre’s biggest anthems to date.  It was later featured in the 2001 Denzel Washington/Ethan Hawke drama Training Day.