![]() Name of Eminem that Dre would make his comeback. Working on his 2001 album, and discovering an underground MC by the It would be at least three years before anything big came out of the great producer. were murdered, putting a sudden end to the East Side/West Side hip-hop war, and Suge was later arrested and sent to prison. ![]() Soon thereafter, both 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. In the summer of 1996 to form Aftermath, declaring gangsta hip-hop wasĭead. Itself to Tupac Shakur's label debut, "All Eyez on Me," and Snoop was busy recovering from his draining murder trial. He co-founded Death Row Records in 1991 before starting up Aftermath Entertainment in 1996, signing Eminem and 50 Cent to his label. Snoop would become great friends with theĭoctor and was on Dre's 1992 debut "The Chronic" as much as Dre The 56-year-old, whose real name is Andre Young, first made it big with hip-hop group NWA in the 1980s but later enjoyed success as a solo act after releasing his first album in 1992. Then Dre discovered Snoop Dogg through his stepbrother 'Warren G', and he immediately began working with Dre didn't know how he got out, nor did he care, he was making music. Knight held NWA's manager at gunpoint and threatening to kill him if he refused to let Dre out of his contract. Left the group the next year to form Death Row Records with Marion 'Suge' Knight. Suddenly the the music was in Dre's hands. Ice Cube suddenly departed in late 1989 amidst many financialĭisagreements with Dre. While it seemed that the group was strong, N.W.A.īecame notorious for their violent lyrics, which resulted in the FBI sending a warning letter to Ruthless and its distributor, Priority Records, suggesting that the group should watch their step. Support from radio, the press, or the still hip-hop-free MTV. ![]() Misogynistic record that became an underground hit with virtually no delivered "Straight Outta Compton," a vicious, violent, and Then, in 1989, with distributionįrom Bryan Turner and his Priority Records label (now a part of EMI), N.W.A. The record-buying public, but Eazy formed NWA', with Dre, Cube, and newcomers M.C. Instantly becoming goodįriends, the two MCs began writing songs for Ruthless Records, a label Wearing aĭoctor's mask when he performed, he called himself Dr. World Class Wreckin' Cru around South-Central Los Angeles. With NWA celebrated the hedonistic, amoralistic side of gang life.īeing around during the birth of west coast hip-hop during the earlyġ980s, Dre found himself performing at house parties and clubs with the Violent but cautionary tales of the criminal mind, but Dre's records Young, February 18, 1965) pioneered gangsta hip-hop and his own Considered by many to be hip-hop's greatest producer, Dr.
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