Andre Young Junion, Dr Dre’s son, died of a drug overdose in August 2008 and at the of 20.
Dre wrote a tribute to his late son but probably won’t include it on his eagerly anticipated follow up to The Chronic 2001, Detox.
Dre told Vibe: “I’m actually back and forth about that. I’m leaning towards no because I don’t know if I want to put myself or my family through that. I kind of want the record to stay fun. Right now as we speak, I’m leaning towards a no. Though I do have a couple of things that I’ve donefor him.”
A coupla of points:
1. As Emily once mentioned to me. A celebritys life is or entertainment.
2. There is no moral to a drug OD. If everybody who took drugs OD’d it would be a quiet country.
3. Of all the losses, losing a son is an overwhelming personal tragedy.
4. But it is a personal TRAGEDY
because
5. I don’t care that people are dying.
6. Because I can’t care that people are dying. All day, all night, people die. It is what we do. You can’t function through your life dealing with people you don’t knows death.
7. For death: first children, then loved ones, then family, then relations.
8. Person Who Died (Sitting Presidents first)
8. Proximity and numbers matter next.
9. Number of deaths
10. Manner of death.
Our lives are fragile but we don’t live life through death: the only way to deal with our eminent mortality is by transmogrifying it through theology and a wild hope.