
He’s still got love for the streets, and now he’s got love for Hewlett Packard. Dr Dre, the hip hop producer behind NWA and Eminem, has teamed up with computer maker HP in what record executive and Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine has described as a bid to “fix the entire chain”.In case you’re wondering what “the entire chain” means, Iovine isn’t referring to gold-plated toilets, though he could be talking about gold-plated headphone sockets: Dr Dre has a range of audiophile peripherals sold by high-end manufacturer Monster Cable, branded “Monster Beats by Dr Dre”.