“12 Steps to a Recovery” is a song from Dr. Dre’s scrapped third album, Detox (aka The Chronic III). Throughout the song, he goes through 12 steps of him taking back his title as King of Hip Hop, much like the 12 steps that an addict would go through to get sober.

In a true hip-hop fashion, Dre shows influence of one of the other greats, The Notorious B.I.G.. In Ten Crack Commandments, Biggie goes through his list of 10 Commandments, prefacing each commandment with “number n”. Dre borrows that concept for his 12 steps to recovery.