The D. O. C feat. Dr. Dre The Formula (1989)

The Formula is a song by American rapper The from his 1989 debut album No One Can Do It Better. The song was produced by Dr. Dre and contains samples from Marvin Gaye s Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), from his 1971 album What s Going On. The music video for The Formula was shot before The car accident. It begins with Dr. Dre and EazyE in a studio where musicians come in for an audition but get turned down; the two complain about the experience, finding it increasingly difficult to locate the perfect rapper. In the video, Dre plays a scientist, and is implied to be biologically modifying the in a method similar to Frankenstein s monster; this seems to be in order to create the perfect rapper, rather than finding him through the initially shown auditions.