“Snoop is a diamond in the rough and we need to polish it up” – Dr. Speaking in the 2017 Netflix documentary The Defiant Ones, Dre said that the thought of producing his own solo album only became a reality once discovering Snoop, who would wind up being a superstar in his own right while working on ‘The Chronic’. “This is a diamond in the rough and we need to polish it up,” Dre said upon hearing Snoop Dogg rap for the first time, via a cassette passed to him by his stepbrother, the rapper Warren G. put the bug in his ear, it was a young, unassuming rapper from Long Beach, California with canine features, a strangely refined manner, a unique rapping delivery and a superhuman appetite for weed that put the battery in Dre’s back. for “talking me into doin’ this album.” But while D.O.C. In the album’s thank you notes, he gives a special shout out to D.O.C. But Dre had to be persuaded into making it first. With the label ready to fire on all cylinders, the scene was set for ‘The Chronic’ to become the jewel in the Death Row crown. and Solar Records’ Dick Griffey, founded the era-defining Death Row Records, a major cultural force for most of the 1990s. Quickly securing the funds to purchase a recording studio from Solar Records (allegedly with the help of incarcerated drug dealer Michael ‘Harry O’ Harris), Knight, along with Dre, D.O.C.
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DRE set the bar so fucking high it turned the world upside down”įor his role in helping free Dre from the shackles of his former label, Knight became famous as hip-hop’s most fearsome hustler, almost overnight. “THERE’S NEVER been a better produced hip-hop album. “It was a genre-changing moment that brought us the sound of G-Funk and changed the way rap music was perceived forever. “It’s arguably the most important album in hip-hop history,” Barry Ashworth of Dub Pistols tells NME. Its rumbling low-end bass dumps (influenced by A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Low End Theory’), funky rhythms and innovative soul samples dominated boomboxes and car stereos all over America, and the rest of the world caught up soon after. debut sold over two million copies in its first year on shelves and has since gone on to sell six million copies in the US alone. Dre – His 10 best productions so farĭre’s post- N.W.A. Dre’s December 1992 solo album ‘The Chronic’ – which is available for the first time ever on all major streaming platforms today. But there’s one in particular that was so impactful that it launched superstar careers of its guest stars, stole attention away from hip-hop’s birthplace and reshaped popular music as we know it: Dr. From Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)’ to Kanye West’s ’My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, hip-hop has had its fair share of watershed albums.
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