Synopsis

Dr. Dre spends a laid-back day cruising Los Angeles in his 1964 Chevrolet Impala. After watching the "$20 Sack Pyramid" sketch on television, he receives an invitation to a Parliament concert and heads out through Compton, picking up friends and women along the way. The ride includes freeway shots, lowrider scenes, a carjacking, and an outdoor gathering that grows into a street party. Ice Cube makes a memorable appearance before archival Parliament-Funkadelic footage carries the video into its cosmic finale.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was filmed on location around Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles, with extensive driving footage on the freeways around Compton.

• Its opening uses the "$20 Sack Pyramid," a skit from The Chronic, reimagined as a television game show before Dre leaves home.

• Ice Cube's appearance became one of the video's best-known moments. His line, "Damn right, it was a good day," references his 1993 single "It Was a Good Day" and symbolized the public end of the long-running tension between Cube and Dre.

• The closing sequence incorporates footage from Parliament-Funkadelic's 1976 Earth Tour, including George Clinton's Mothership stage imagery. The visual connection reflects the song's use of Parliament's "Mothership Connection (Star Child)."

• Warren G, The D.O.C., The Lady of Rage, Suge Knight, Jada Pinkett Smith, and producer Bonita "Bo" Money also appear.

• Dre's 1964 Chevrolet Impala became a defining object in his visual style. The same car later appeared in several other Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg videos.

• The video was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video in 1993.

• Music-video scholarship has contrasted "Let Me Ride" with N.W.A's "Straight Outta Compton": where the earlier video emphasizes confinement and movement on foot, Dre's video presents the automobile and the freeway as symbols of mobility and access to the wider city.