“We spoke to someone who’s worked with him before who was able to source one for us and we brought in at least the major components that he would use,” Nelson says. To get Dre into Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar Games built a set for him and obtained one of his favorite in-studio consoles.

Dre and DJ Pooh in ‘Grand Theft Auto Online: The Contract.’ Rockstar Games The tracks include “Gospel” with Eminem, “Diamond Mind” with Nipsey Hussle and Ty Dolla $ign, and “ETA” with Snoop Dogg and Anderson.

What’s more, players will be able to hear six new Dre songs through the course of the game - a rare event given how little music he’s released in the last two decades. Dre is being formally incorporated into the Rockstar Games universe this week, appearing as a character in Grand Theft Auto Online: The Contract. But he was blown away how deep you can get into the whole thing. The man behind hits like “The Next Episode” and “Xxplosive” “had no idea what was about because he’s not a gamer at all,” Pooh explains. Still, he brought a copy of Grand Theft Auto along with the two consoles, intent on showing Dre “just how freaking cool” the videogame was. “Dre is the person that says no to everything, we all know that,” Pooh says. Dre, a pal of Pooh’s since the two were in their late teens. But Pooh had a more serious mission: Converting a skeptic. Most gamers are content to play with the millions of other enthusiasts who already own consoles.

A couple of years ago, the hip-hop veteran DJ Pooh - producer behind West Coast classics like Tha Dogg Pound’s “New York, New York,” and an inveterate gamer - lugged a couple of Playstations over to a friend’s house.

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