Also apart of his return to the states Anderson Paak had a meeting set up with Dr. Dre, were he disclosed his recent trip to Russia stating he worked with DJ Premier, peeking Dre’s interest in hearing the track. After a phone call granted permission for it to be played Dr. Dre expressed interest in rapping on the track and switching the name to “Animals.” Hesitant to switch the name due to already completing a track named “Animal,” Preemo agreed due to the connection of the theme of the movie, the Rodney King trial and 1992 L.A. riots.

Although decades later “Animals” and other new songs share the same meaning and values of tracks released during NWA’s prime. While stated differently from “Fuck the Police,” the same message and civil unrest for African-Americans is present. DJ Premier shares the same sentiments of Paak and Dre. Examining the race issues that dominate the news and culture he states that the incidents are worst than before citing officers firing at point blank range such as Sam DuBose in Cincinnati, but realizing these were all things predicted in records of artists ranging from Ice Cube to Nas to Gangstarr.

But for Preemo the incidents that go on in today’s America have a significant impact to him, not only do the possibilities of injustice pertain to his life, but those who are close to him and feels the need to be aware of society’s issues when creating.

DJ Premier, his manager Ian and Dr. Dre.

“It’s scary cause I have a four year old son and I have to make sure that he understands how to move as a black man when he is of age because he’s a target. I’m a target and I’m a 49 year old man,” Premier said. “I have a twenty year old nephew and he wears his pants sagging and he smokes trees and I’m scared he could be a victim even though his father is a cop. On a reality level I’m trying to make sure he understands he is a target as well. He’s light skin, but he is still a black man.”

To work on “Animals” Dr. Dre flew Premier to California where they bounced ideas in the song’s production, adding scratches and additional vocals and final mixing.

“Our energy was really cool. It wasn’t no funny feeling with each other,” DJ Premier said of he and Dre’s time together. “I let him know my opinions on things I wanted to fix and change cause he added a few things to it. He wasn’t offended when I wanted to add or remove something and I was honest about how I felt about the overall process of the song being finished. We got along great.

“Dre is get it done, get it done. Everybody says he takes forever but they don’t understand we really care about what we put out there,” DJ Premier stated. “That’s why he scrapped Detox, it wasn’t good enough for the public to his ears. That’s how we are, we’re DJs and as DJs we take things to a whole different level of how we look at things and value the integrity of our music going out to the people. Once it’s out there you can’t take it back.”