Synopsis
The Defiant Ones (2017) is a four-part documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It traces how a longshoreman's son from Brooklyn and a kid out of Compton ended up building one of the most unlikely partnerships in American music.
Jimmy Iovine engineered records for John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen before he ran labels. Dr. Dre came up through N.W.A and reshaped what hip-hop sounded like. Director Allen Hughes pulls in the people who watched it happen — Trent Reznor, Snoop Dogg, Bono, Gwen Stefani, Eminem, Nas — and pairs their testimony with raw archive footage and studio tape. Nobody sugarcoats the failures or the addictions.
What carries it is the friction between two men who shared almost nothing except instinct and stubbornness, and somehow turned that into Beats. Good for anyone who loves music and wants the industry told by the people who broke and rebuilt it. Stream The Defiant Ones (2017) online on iFILM.
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