Andre Young was born on February 18, 1965 in Los Angeles. He started out as a DJ at the Los Angeles club Eve After Dark. Then he was engaged in the manufacture of mixes. He recorded his demos in a small room on a four-track tape recorder with future members of the NWA band, Yella and Lonzo WIlliams. The first of these was Surgery, a simple techno track with the repeated phrase "Calling Dr Dre to surgery" - "Dr. Dre is called for surgery." These classes gave Andre the necessary experience with music tracks, and the first track is Andre's pseudonym, Dr Dre. At the age of 17, Andre founded World Class Wreckin "Cru", and a little later, the NWA group appeared - "Niggaz With Attitude". The first NWA album called Straight Outta Compton with the meaningful track Fuck Tha Police caused a lot of controversy, ultimately, the group became persecuted by the FBI, which brought them even more credibility among fans.So the members of the group became the pioneers of gangsta rap, as well as rich and famous personalities.
Through Warren G, his half-brother, Dre meets the aspiring rapper Snoop Dogg and starts working with him. In 1992, Andre leaves the group and releases a solo album, The Chronic, in which he performs all the tracks halfway with Snoop Dogg. The album was a great success, Dre received two Grammy awards for it. Thanks to the singles Nuthin "But a "G" Thang, Dre Day, Let Me Ride, the album became multi-platinum and changed the face of hip-hop around the world. Rap received worldwide recognition, and Dre began working as a producer on the company he founded, Death Row Records " for Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Blackstreet, who also received recognition. In 1993, Dre produced Snoop's debut album, "Doggystyle". For a long time, Dre did not release his solo albums, but did not need to, because he was busy working in his record company.In 1996, the company began working with Tupac Shakur, producing his album All Eyez on Me.Tupac performed the song California Love from this album with Dre.At the end of 1996, Dre leaves the company and founds Aftermath.The first album of this company, compilation Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath, was noticed by the press, but still did not become a hit.In 1998, Dr. Dre, who was then one of the best hip-hop producers, heard Eminem's album, and met him. and their collaboration began. Dre was again talked about as a co-producer of Eminem's acclaimed album The Slim Shady LP. In the fall of 1999, Dre released his album, 2001, and another compilation, 2001 Instrumental, which also featured Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Xzibit. In 2000, Dre continued producing work, and at the Grammy-2001 he was awarded several awards at once, including the well-deserved “Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical” for producing Bitch Please II songs (Eminem Featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit & Nate Dogg), Chin Check (N.W.A.), 2001 album (Dr. Dre), Hello (Ice Cube Featuring Dr. Dre & MC Ren), I "m Back (Eminem), Kill You (Eminem), The Real Slim Shady ( Eminem), Remember Me? (Eminem Featuring RBX And Sticky Fingaz), Who Knew (Eminem), and his other Grammy Award for "Best Rap Duo" ("Forgot About Dre"), his last year proved once again that Dr. Dre is one of the best hip hop producers of the moment.
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Dr. Dre (Andre Romell Young) - American rapper, music producer.Introduction
At the mere mention of his name, the entire East Coast of America has a fit of hatred and fear, the monsters of old-school hip-hop take off their hats to his work, the most venerable sharks of modern show business envy his production talent, and young talents they themselves ask to be under his wing. He is not used to defending his innocence with the help of fists and demonstration of weapons, which some gangster rap figures have become adept at, he prefers to prove his toughness through his armor-piercing lyrics and aggressive music. Our story is about one of the pillars of hip-hop culture, the pioneer of gangsta rap and G-funk, the legendary musician and producer Dr. Dre.
Rejecting the radical political stereotypes imposed on the hip-hop community in the early 80s by dark-skinned radicals from Public Enemy, rejecting intelligent slogans about tolerance, the social significance of hardcore rap and the fact that whites are to blame for all the troubles of "blacks", Dre clearly demonstrated to America that his dark-skinned brothers are also not born with a bast, and only they themselves are the masters of their own destiny (real niggaz rule the world). Street showdowns, dirt, sex, violence, drugs, murders have become an integral part of his lyrics. Dre deliberately took the path of self-accusation of all mortal sins, not only in order to demonstrate self-sufficiency and his own toughness, but also in order to show society the real truth of life that reigns on the streets of America.
With his appearance on the big stage, it became clear that rap is not only a kind of religion for African Americans, but, on top of that, it is a serious business, a lot of money and all the pros and cons that follow from this.
Childhood and youth
Dr. Dre, aka Andre Young, was born on February 18, 1965 in Los Angeles. André was the first child of two young lovers, Verna and Theodore. At the time of the birth of her son, Vernet was only 16 years old ... After the appearance of Andre, the lovers got married, but already in 1968 the couple divorced. Verna later found herself a new husband, Curtis Crayon.
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In 1976, Andre began attending Vanguard Junior High School, a little later due to the high crime rate near educational institution he had to transfer to Roosevelt Junior High School. At the same time, his mother divorced and married a third time to a colleague at work, Warren Griffin. Verna and Warren had children - three girls and one boy.
In 1979, Andre was expelled from Centennial High School due to poor academic performance and transferred to Fremont High School. Andre already then understood that studying was not for him, and he tried to find a job in an airline, but nothing came of this venture. As a result, during the last school years the young man spent most of his time not in classes, but at noisy parties, where he earned his bread as a disc jockey.
Career
He began his creative activity, like most rappers, with a DJ career, mixing records in the World Class Wreckin "" Cru team in clubs hometown, whose starting point was Eve After Dark. In parallel, he tried to record something on his own, doing it in literally words on your knees, or rather, on your hands. In a small room on a four-track tape recorder, along with future NWA partners Yella and Lonzo WIlliams, he created his debut recordings. The first of these was Surgery, a simple house track with the repeated line Calling Dr. Dre To Surgery ("Calling Dr. Dre for surgery"). Actually, then Andre took the pseudonym Dr. Dre.
In 1986, he meets another future cult hip-hop character - (), and two friends begin to record their tracks on Ruthless Records, a label organized by a drug dealer. Soon the idea of creating an NWA (Niggaz With Attitude) team with Dre and at the head comes to mind. In 1987, the team released the first album N.W.A. And The Posses. A year later, the scandalous album Straight Outta Compton is released, devoid of any support on radio and TV because of its vicious lyrics, it overnight becomes an underground hit. Thanks to the composition with the unambiguous name Fuck The Police, the guys get hooked on the FBI: experts strongly recommend that the record companies Ruthless and Priority closely monitor the work of their wards.
Most of the political troubles of the NWA came to naught after the end of 1989, he decided to go freelance because of financial disagreements in the team. after leaving, he became the formal leader, responsible for the fact that the group, thanks to their last two records, more and more approached the level of parody. At that time, almost all the music was already in the hands of Dre. Both discs - the EP 100 Miles and Runnin" (1990) and the album Efil4zaggin (Niggaz 4 Life Reverse) (1991) - Dre filled with a special explosive mixture of hip-hop rhythms and funk harmonies, which, coupled with funny lyrics, again allowed NWA to be at the top At the height of the NWA's popularity, Dre made an attempt to leave the group in 1991. The following year, Dre formed the Death Row Records label with Suge Knight. philosophizing slyly, he put a gun to the head of the team manager and threatened to kill the poor fellow: from that moment on, all Dre and NWA contracts were canceled.Dre set off on an independent voyage on the waves of hip-hop.
In the spring of 1992, his first single Deep Cover was released, which not only showed Dre's achievements in the field own style G-funk, but also laid the foundation for a collaboration with another iconic figure of gangsta rap (). Actually, Dre's acquaintance took place thanks to his half-brother Warren G (remember his remake on Prince Igor). Together, in the same year, Dre's debut album, The Chronic, was released. With action films such as Nuthin "But A ""G"" Thang, Dre Day and Let Me Ride, it's no surprise that the plastic soon went multi-platinum and the Dre phenomenon was talked about outside the States. The next four years new wave subverted hip-hop drew its inspiration from Professor G-funk. Apart from famous work Doggystyle (1993), Dre recorded several soundtracks, including music for the films Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case (1994), he prepared for release albums by Warren G (Regulate) and Blackstreet, and other no less famous black artists. Worth mentioning is his reunion with an old buddy on the Natural Born Killaz project. During this time, he did not record any of his records, but manipulated almost the entire West Coast rap scene, since by that time Death Row had become a powerful record corporation that decided the fate of the global hip-hop movement. The label's troubles began after the release of Tupac's (2-Pac Shakur) All Eyez on Me, which featured Dre and Shakur's 1990s hit California Love. Soon accused of murder, Dre was extremely dissatisfied with the policy pursued by Knight inside Death Row - it's time for another parting with the goose that lays the golden eggs.
In the summer of 1996, Dre publicly declares that gangsta rap is dead, and creates a new company, Aftermath, under sharp ridicule and serious attacks from former colleagues. Soon, the insatiable Knight gets to the bunk on charges of racketeering, while Dre, meanwhile, releases the first collection of Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath, which received rave reviews in the press, but never found its mass audience, despite the presence of hits like Been There Done That. The collapse of Death Row confirmed the viability of Dr. Dre as the most serious producer in America.
In 1998, the rapper came across a recording of a white boy (), who at that time eked out a semi-beggarly state, in which Dre saw the future superstar of world hip-hop and gave him a chance by releasing his record The Slim Shady LP, which put all of America on the ears. The union with finally secured for Dre the glory of a real monster of the hip-hop industry, which was facilitated by the release in 1999 of his cult record "2001", which was attended by such bright personalities hip hop culture like , and
It's hard to imagine what the West Coast would be like now if it weren't for Dr. Dre and his patented G-Funk style that inspired new life in gangsta rap.
This great producer, who ignited new stars more than anyone in the history of hip-hop. It is to him that we say thanks for moving away from the politicking of Public Enemy and Boogie DownProduction and from the monosyllabic and insipid "old school". And now, 6 years after his famous "Chronicle" revolutionized the sound of the West Coast and in one way or another changed the entire rapper world, Dre returns with the album "Chronic 2", shrouded in a halo great mystery. Andre Young (Andre Young or Dr. Dre) was born on February 18, 1965 and grew up in Compton, which some consider an independent administrative unit, but in general it is like another area of Los Angeles. Raised and raised by his mother and grandmother, Andre loved basketball very much and got the nickname (by which everyone knows him) because his basketball idol has always been the famous center Dr. J. His mother's musical tastes (James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Funkadelic Parliament) clearly influenced Dre, and the teenager decided to devote all his free time to music, moonlighting as a DJ at school and club parties.
At 16, Dre was DJing in adult clubs where he would otherwise be banned from entering, and mixing classic soul songs for K-Day radio station, and a year later he was hired by the famous Los Angeles club "Eve After Dark", where he joins hip-hop, and in the club's tiny studio begins to compose his own songs. It is noteworthy that, unlike his colleagues, who built their recordings on samples, turntable scratches and drum machines, Dre, as a DJ and rapper, created the background for recitative, playing keyboards, and was not afraid to sing himself.
In 1982, after the formation of World Class Wreckin "Cru, one of the most famous LA bands involved in electro-funk dance, Dre became their DJ (I hate to kid you, but he had nothing to be proud of - there were all di –Jays) In the studio "Eve After Dark" he meets DJ Yella, his future
partner in N.W.A., and together with Lorenzo Williams they are recording a lot of new demos, among which is Dre's song "Surgery" with the chorus: "Calling Dr. Dre to surgery", which, with the filing of World Class Wreckin "Cru, becomes Dre's first local hit. However, in the company of four DJs, he becomes crowded, and Young is looking for outlets for the huge mass of songs that he wrote in the first half of the 80. In parallel, he continues to carry out his "Skateland Parties", very popular in South Central, on one of where he meets a young Ice Cube and jokingly gets him to sing "My Penis" instead of "My Adidas." Soon, Dre tries his hand as a producer for the first time, representing CIA, the duo of Ice Cube and Sir Jinx.
In 1986, Dre and Cube began to write songs for musical groups recorded on the label Eazy-E Ruthless Records, and together with Eazy form the first line-up of N.W.A. The trio performs for the first time outside of Compton as the opening act for Salt-N-Pepa at the Hollywood Palladium and immediately raises an excited audience that no longer had any desire to listen to Salt-N-Pepa.
In 1987, Dre produced the debut album "N.W.A. And The Posse", and a year later, under his direction, "Straight Outta Compton" was recorded, the most underground rap album of the late 80s, hanging on N.W.A. the label "Sex Pistols of rap". Dre produces Eazy-E's debut solo CD "Eazy-Duz-It", which sells two million copies, and the dance album of his countrymen J. J. Fad (hi-energy was very fashionable then), which goes platinum, after which Dr. Dre buys a luxurious red Mercedes. Between tours, Dre somehow manages to find some free time, and he spreads his platinum production talent on the debut album of Dallas rapper D.O.C. and a super album by one of his many girlfriends, soul singer MichelTle. Dre becomes a pioneer and innovator of the so-called hip-hop soul (rhythm and blues vocals over a hip-hop beat).
In 1990, his hands reach Above The Low. After leaving N.W.A. Ice Cube, of course, becomes the vocal leader of the group, the author of most of the lyrics of Eazy-E, and Dre still manages the music. On two 1990-91 platinum recordings, the "100 Miles And Runnin" EP and the "Efil4zaggin" LP (reversed phrase "Niggaz4Life"), Dre sparkles with funk fiction, while Easy is a vulgar comedian in his lyrics. Late 1991 Dre expresses his intention to leave N.W.A. and founds Death Row Records the following year with Suge Knight under a distribution deal with Interscope Records. , which, in his opinion, unreasonably underestimated the fees for all eight albums that he produced between 1986 and 1991 (seven of them, by the way, went platinum, and one gold!). label Easy, but they still gave him freedom.There is a legend on this score, which, if you think carefully, may turn out to be a real reflection of these behind-the-scenes events. Rumor has it that Suge Knight himself walked into the office of Ruthless one day in full combat readiness and threatened to kill N.W.A manager Jerry Geller, unless he terminates his contract with Dr. Dre. After the departure of Dre, it was reasonable to assume that the thinned N.W.A. they won’t last long (only the ambitious Easy remained from the creative team, and MC Ren and DJ Yella have always been just good performers). Following the departing Dre, Easy began to slander: they say, "Dre is from the breed of those who are called the studio gangster." However, Dre almost crossed out these words with his sad behavior. Even though Dr. Dre had a certain influence on everything West Coast, as a former member of N.W.A., and living in a luxurious home in the San Fernando Valley, he was constantly involved in petty and major offenses. So, television journalist Dee Barnes filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against him, stating that in 1991, "Dre threw her against the wall of one of the Hollywood nightclubs in a fit of mutual misunderstanding." It was also reported that Dre "participated in the damage to the jaw of one producer", for which he thundered under a fairly long house arrest, and was also detained by the police as a direct participant in a noisy showdown that took place in the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans. On top of that, a slightly tipsy company that had a picnic near his home burned down his house, during which two firefighters died. And by the end of that nightmarish 1992, Dre had been shot on top of everything else, and four bullets had been removed from his leg. However, this year was not completely lost for him professionally. After the release of the epoch-making mega-album "Chronic", no one was interested in his assessments from Easy or anyone else. As they say, winners are not judged! Based on the good old funk of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic and extremely real lyrics, Dre managed to formulate a new G-Funk style that fuels gangsta rap to this day. Believe it or not, such an epochal and revolutionary album, which was "Chronic", was named after a handful of marijuana, which is called "chronicle" in black slang (and in my opinion, people who indulge in it should be called chronics). Written by Dre and D.O.C., who damaged his vocal cords in a car accident, "Chronic" sold 8 million copies and stayed on the Billboard Top 10 for 8 months, and its real star was the then-young Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose catchy voice Dre credited his debut single "Deep Cover" (which became the base theme for the soundtrack to the film of the same name by Laurence Fishburne), released in the spring of 1992. It's no secret that Dre's vocal abilities aren't as impressive as, say, his production sense ("I can take a 3-year-old kid and record a song with him that will become a hit." - Dr. Dre). Dre discovered Snoop's talent through his half-brother Warren G and took control of him.
about a rap career. Thanks to this favor, Snoop could be heard on the "Chronicle" no less than Maestro Dre himself. In addition to Snoop, the studio team called The Dogg Pound included future G–Funk stars such as Dat Nigga Daz, Rage, Nate Dogg, Kurupt, Warren G, RBX, and gangsta rap veteran Buchwick Bill of the Geto Boys. MTV quickly became addicted to playing rap videos, and in 1993-94, Dre's singles "Nothin" But A G "Thang", "Dre Day" and "Let Me Ride" broke all sales records. Dr. Dre was nominated for a Grammy in two categories and received one statuette for "Let Me Ride" in the category "Best Rap Performance", although, to be honest, he deserved more. So the West Coast had its own emperor. But what about the conflict with Eazy-E? It was reflected on Chronicle in "Fuck Wit Dre Day", where Snoop and Dre say: "We kept your label on, and then we took your candy and kicked little boy in the ass", and then Snoop slaps Easy's last slap, offering him "to eat a big fat dick". To all this, Easy responds with his song "Muthaphukkin' Gs". In the next four years, you could count on your fingers hip-hop hip-hop records that were not influenced by G-Funk to some extent. Dre helped Snoop record his multi-platinum album Doggystyle, which became one of the best-selling debut rap albums in history with 5 million sales, while Snoop was released on $1 million bail after being charged with murder. which he didn't do. "Doggy Dogg World", the video for which was directed by Dre himself (Doc actually directed most of Doggy Dogg's videos), as well as "Murder Was The Case" from the soundtrack to the film of the same name, Dr. Dre became real hits in 1994. A little after Ice Cube, Dre felt drawn to recording soundtracks, and in 1994-95, soundtracks for the films "Above The Rim" were recorded with his blessing (with the help of this work, his brother Warren G, who recorded for Def Jam, promoted his legendary single "Regulate") and Cuba's "Friday".
collaboration with Ice Cube continues on the joint singles "Natural Born Killaz" and "Helter Skelter", after which Dre produced the hip-hop-rhythm-and-bluesmen Blackstreet, but after the Grammy-nominated platinum single "Keep Their Heads Ringin" ", is in no hurry to release new albums under his own name. However, this does not bother him at all, because the entire Death Row camp is under his sole control, and friends and competitors continue to copy his style, and only 2Pac goes his own way. Dre respects him very much, produces and himself rapping on Shakur's undisputed hit "California Love", which propelled 2Pac's "All Eyez On Me" album to over 6 million copies. he worked his way up to N.W.A., releasing three compilation albums of his early songs."Concrete Roots" (C94) clearly shows that in the early 80's Dre routinely exploited mainstream "old-school" and had no distinct style."Back N Tha Day (C96) looked more interesting, fueled with fresh remixes of his previously unreleased stuff (with two brand new stuff written in the mid-90s), but still, in my opinion, they could only interest ardent Doc fans. Little is known about the "First Round Knock Out" build. In early 1996, Dre receives a short sentence on a year-old forged assault case and spends February 10-July 10 on government bunk beds in a Pasadena prison. There he rethinks his life and leaves Death Row a week after his release, declaring that gangsta rap is dead. But already on the first release of his own new label, Aftermath Records, he says that he "was there and managed to do a lot" ("Been There, Done That"). On the album "Dr. Dre Presents The Aftermath", which appears in November (after Dre got married), East and West, feminine and masculine, hip-hop and rhythm and blues, hardcore and pop, old And new school. New label, new faces, new sound - that was the new motto of the great producer. Since that time, Aftermath Records has established itself not only as a forge of new talent (Nowl, Sharief, Miscellaneous, RC, HANDS ON), but also as a spiritual haven for all respected veterans of King T, RBX and Mel-Man. In parallel, Dre continued to produce records of the most talented rappers of both coasts (Nas, Scarface, FIRM, 2Pac) and issued one after another collections of fresh rhythm and blues and hip hop production. About the fate of Death Row after Suge Knight thundered for 9 years to places where all entertainment is reduced to walking, TV and gym and don't want to remember. For four years, Death Row was a real force, claiming to be the "Motown" of the 90s, but did not work out, because it is impossible to constantly imitate the same sounds and procrastinate the same themes (started in "Chronicle") without the risk of boring everyone and to everyone. “There were a lot of ideas borrowed from me in what I’ve been able to hear so far,” Doc says sadly. “But I’m not offended. I consider all this as a compliment. Although I’m sure that if I ever record "Chronic 2", it will be a completely different music." Now he is recording it, and what kind of album it will be, only Dre himself knows. He still has not given any announcements or interviews on this subject. We only know that, as on the track "Ask Yourself A Question" for the new Karapt album, work was carried out in a Los Angeles studio retreat called "Dre's Krib". The album will be released in the spring. Will "Chronic 2000" show the path of hip– Hop of the 21st century, the future will judge. Dre, for his part, has already assured that he is working on this future. Maybe he was joking, or maybe he really is working!...
Andre Young (or Dr. Dre) was born on February 18, 1965 and grew up in Compton, which some consider an independent administrative unit, but in general it is another area of Los Angeles. Raised and raised by his mother and grandmother, Andre loved basketball very much and got the nickname (by which everyone knows him) because his basketball idol has always been the famous center Dr. J. His mother's musical tastes (James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Funkadelic Parliament) clearly influenced Dre, and the teenager decided to devote all his free time to music, moonlighting as a DJ at school and club parties.
At 16, Dre was DJing in adult clubs where he would otherwise be banned and mixing classic soul songs for K-Day radio station, and a year later he was hired by the famous Los Angeles club Eve After Dark", where he joins hip-hop, and in the club's tiny studio begins to compose his own songs. It is noteworthy that, unlike his colleagues, who built their recordings on samples, turntable scratches and drum machines, Dre, as a DJ and rapper, created the background for recitative, playing keyboards, and was not afraid to sing himself.
In 1982, after the formation of World Class Wreckin' Cru, one of the most famous electro-funk dance bands in Los Angeles, Dre became their DJ (I hate to kid you, but he had nothing to be proud of everyone was a DJ there). jays). At the Eve After Dark studio, he meets DJ Yella, his future N.W.A. bandmate, and together with Lorenzo Williams they record a lot of new demos, among which is the Dre song "Surgery" with the refrain: "Calling Dr. Dre to surgery", which, with the filing of World Class Wreckin' Cru, becomes Dre's first local hit. However, in the company of four DJs, he becomes cramped, and Young is looking for outlets for the huge mass of songs that he wrote in the first half of the 80s. In parallel, he continues to hold his "Skateland Parties", very popular in South Central, at one of which he meets a young Ice Cube and jokingly makes him sing "My Penis" instead of "My Adidas". Dre soon tries his hand as a producer for the first time, representing the interests of the CIA, the duo Ice Cube and Sir Jinx.
In 1986, Dre and Cube began to write songs for musical groups recorded on the Eazy-E Ruthless Records label, and together with Eazy form the first line-up of N.W.A. The trio performs for the first time outside Compton as the opening act for Salt-N-Pepa at the Hollywood Palladium and immediately raises an excited audience that no longer had any desire to listen to Salt-N-Pepa.
In 1987, the Dre produced their debut album N.W.A. And The Posse", and a year later, under his leadership, "Straight Outta Compton" was recorded, the most underground rap album of the late 80s, hanging on N.W.A. the "Sex Pistols of rap" label. Dre is producing Eazy-E's debut solo CD Eazy-Duz-It, which sells two million copies, and the dance album of fellow countrymen J.J. Fad (hi-energy was very fashionable then), which goes platinum, after which Dr. Dre buys a luxurious red Mercedes. Dre somehow manages to find some free time between tours and spreads his platinum production talent on Dallas rapper D.O.C.'s debut album. and the super album of one of his many girlfriends, the soul singer Michel "le. Dre becomes a pioneer and innovator of the so-called hip-hop soul (rhythm and blues vocals over a hip-hop beat).
In 1990, his hands reach Above The Low. After leaving N.W.A. Ice Cube, of course, becomes the vocal leader of the group, the author of most of the lyrics of Eazy-E, and Dre still manages the music. On two platinum records released in 1990-91, the EP "100 Miles And Runnin" and the LP "Efil4zaggin" (reversed phrase "Niggaz4Life"), Dre sparkles with funk fiction, while Easy is a vulgar comedian in his lyrics.
In late 1991, Dre expressed his intention to leave N.W.A. and the following year founds Def Row Records with Suge Knight through a distribution deal with Interscope Records. Dre left for virtually the same reason as Cube. He was unhappy with the financial affairs of the band and Ruthless Records, which, in his opinion, had unreasonably undercharged all eight albums he produced between 1986 and 1991 (seven of them, by the way, went platinum, and one golden). Formally, Dre was still obliged to work for the Easy label, but he was nevertheless given freedom. There is a legend about this, which, if you figure it out well, may turn out to be a real reflection of these behind-the-scenes events. Suge Knight himself is said to have walked into Ruthless's office on full alert and threatened to kill the N.W.A. manager. Jerry Geller, unless he terminates his contract with Dr. Dre.
After the departure of Dre, it was reasonable to assume that the thinned N.W.A. they will not last long (only the ambitious Easy remained from the creative team, and MC Ren and DJ Yella have always been just good performers). Following the departing Dre, Easy began to slander: they say, "Dre from the breed of those who are called the studio gangster." However, Dre almost crossed out these words with his sad behavior. Even though Dr. Dre had some influence throughout the West Coast as a former member of N.W.A., and lived in a luxurious house in the San Fernando Valley, he was constantly involved in small and large offenses. So, television journalist Dee Barnes filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against him, stating that in 1991 "Dre threw her against the wall of one of the Hollywood nightclubs in a fit of mutual misunderstanding." It was also reported that Dre "participated in the damage to the jaw of one producer", for which he thundered under a fairly long house arrest, and was also detained by the police as a direct participant in a noisy showdown that took place in the lobby of a hotel in New Orleans. On top of that, a slightly tipsy company that had a picnic near his home burned down his house, during which two firefighters died. And by the end of that nightmarish year, Dre had been shot on top of everything else, and four bullets had been removed from his leg. Through his half-brother Snoop Dogg, Dray meets an aspiring rapper and begins working with him.
In 1992, Andre released a solo album, "The Chronic", in which he performs all the parts halfway with Snoop. The album was a great success, receiving two Grammy awards for it. Thanks to the singles "Nuthin" But a "G" Thang, "Dre Day", "Let Me Ride", the album became multi-platinum and changed the face of hip-hop around the world. Rap received worldwide recognition, and Dray began working as a producer on the basis of to Death Row Records for Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Blackstreet, who also received acclaim.
In 1993, Dray produced Snoop's debut album, Doggystyle. For a long time, Dray did not release his solo albums, but he did not need to, because he was busy working in his record company.
In 1996, the company began working with Tupac Shakur, producing his album All Eyez on Me. The song "California Love" from this album, Tupac performed with Dray.
At the end of 1996, Dre left the company and founded Aftermath. The first album of this company, the compilation "Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath", was noticed by the press, but still did not become a hit.
In 1998 Dr. Dre, then one of the top hip-hop producers, heard Eminem's album and met him. This is where their collaboration began. Dre was again talked about as a co-producer of Eminem's acclaimed album The Slim Shady LP.
In the fall of 1999, Andre released his album, Chronic 2001, and another compilation, 2001 Instrumental, which also featured Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Xzibit.
In 2000, Dray continued to work as a producer, and at the Grammy-2001 he was awarded several awards at once, including the well-deserved "Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical" for producing the songs "Bitch Please II" (Eminem Featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit & Nate Dogg), Chin Check (N.W.A.), Dr. Dre 2001 "(Dr. Dre), Hello (Ice Cube Featuring Dr. Dre & MC Ren), I "m Back (Eminem), Kill You (Eminem), The Real Slim Shady (Eminem), Remember Me? (Eminem Featuring RBX And Sticky Fingaz), Who Knew (Eminem), and his other Grammy Award for Best Rap Duo (“Forgot About Dre”), his last year proved once again that Dr Dre best hip hop current producer.
The next album Dr. Dre will be out by the end of 2008. Dre himself announced that this album will be his last, and in the future he wants to devote himself only to producing work. The new album will be called "The Detox".
At the beginning of the year, Dre released "beats by Dr. Dre" headphones. His son, Andre Young Jr., died. Now Dr.Dre is finishing work on his Detox album, and the album of his main student of the last 2 years Bishop Lamonta, whose debut album is released in November, and Dr.Dre in December.
In addition to solo work,Dr. Drehas produced albums for numerous rappers, includingSnoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Xzibit, 2Pac, The Game and Busta Rhymes.
Dre began his musical career as a member of the World Class Wreckin "Cru group. He gained wide popularity at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s as a member of the N.W.A. rap group, which stood at the origins of gangsta rap. After the collapse of N.W.A. Dre began solo career. In 1992 he released his first album called "Chronic". It became a bestseller and brought the author a Grammy Award for the single "Let Me Ride". Dre left Death Row Records in 1996 to form his own label.Aftermath Entertainment. For the second album in 2001, released in 1999, Dre received a Grammy as "Best Producer of the Year ».
During the 2000s Dr. Dre has mainly produced side projects, sometimes recording duets with various artists. In 2001 and 2004, he was named by Rolling Stone magazine among the highest paid representatives of show business. In addition to his musical career, Dre has appeared in three films: Set It Off, The Wash, and Training Day.
Youth
Andre Rommel Young
, the first child of Verna and Theodore Young, was born on February 18, 1965, when Verna was only 16 years old. After that, Andre's mother married his father, Theodore Young. His middle name - Romell - Dre received thanks to his father, who loved the group The Romells. Verna divorced Theodore Young in 1968 and later married Curtis Crayon.
In 1976, Young began attending Vanguard Junior High School, but due to the activity of criminal gangs in the vicinity of the school, it had to be changed to Roosevelt Junior High School. Dre's mother later married Warren Griffin, whom she met at her new job in Long Beach. Subsequently, Warren and Verna had several children. Thus, Dre had three half-sisters and one half-brother, who later also became a popular rapper, known as Warren G.
Throughout 1979, Dre attended Centennial High School in Compton. Soon, due to poor grades, he was transferred to Fremont High School. After failing to get a job with an airline, André spent the rest of his high school years working as a disc jockey at parties. On December 15, 1981, 16-year-old Dre and Lisa Johnson had a son named Curtis. Curtis was raised by his mother and did not see his father for twenty years.
Musical career
Album cover of The Chronic After a conflict with Eazy-E, Dre left the group at the peak of its popularity and, on the advice of a friend, began to collaborate with Suge Knight, a famous gangster, businessman and owner of Death Row Records. In 1991, Dre released his first single. It was a duet with Snoop Dogg, which was included in the soundtrack of the film "Deep Cover". Dre's debut solo album The Chronic was released on Death Row Records the following year. On this album, Dre created a new style of rap music, both in terms of instrumental and textual components. Thanks to the singles "Nuthin" but a "G" Thang", "Let Me Ride" and "Fuck wit Dre Day", recorded as a duet with Snoop Dogg, the album became a hip-hop phenomenon of its time, and the new style of G-funk dominated rap -music throughout the 1990s. In addition to working on own album, Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, which went straight to number one on the Billboard chart. In 1994, Dre also produced soundtracks for the films Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case. In 1995, as soon as Death Row signed a contract with Tupac, Dre left the label, arguing that Suge Knight had become corrupt, dishonest and out of control. After that, Dre formed his own label, Aftermath Entertainment, which became a subsidiary of Interscope Records.N.W.A (1986-1991)
Album cover of Straight Outta Compton
In 1986, Dre met rapper Ice Cube, with whom he recorded several songs for Ruthless Records, Eazy-E's rap label. Later Dr. Dre, Ice Cube и Eazy-E объединились в группу, которой дали название «Niggas With Attitude» (англ. Ниггеры с понятиями) или, сокращённо, N.W.A.. Группа работала в новом тогда жанре «гангстерского рэпа», записывая агрессивную музыку, дополненную нецензурными texts about violence, poverty, sex, drugs and confrontation with the police. Their songs were very different from their predecessors, and N.W.A. quickly became famous, becoming the first real stars of gangsta rap. Their first full-length album, Straight Outta Compton, and in particular the song "Fuck the Police" included on it, became quite popular despite the complete lack of promotion in the form of airplay on radio or television.
Ice Cube soon left N.W.A. due to financial disagreements, and Dre almost single-handedly produced and released the band's second album, "Efil4zaggin", which reads backwards as "Niggaz4Life".
The Chronic and Death Row Records
Aftermath Entertainment (1996-1998)
November 26, 1996 Young released the following record - Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath which became the first album recorded on Aftermath. Despite the fact that the RIAA awarded the album Platinum status, it was not popular among fans. In October 1996, Dre premiered "Been There, Done That" on Saturday Night Live. Aftermath Entertainment also faced a trademark violation lawsuit aftermath, as there was already a band with the same name. 1996 also saw the release of the First Round Knock Out compilation, which collected all of Dre's unreleased recordings from World Class Wreckin' Cru to Death Row.
The turning point for Aftermath came in 1998. Then Jimmy Iovine, the head of Interscope, advised Dre to sign Eminem, a rapper from Detroit. Young also produced the debut album EMinem The Slim Shady LP, released in 1999.
"2001" (1999-2000)
The second solo album, which was released on November 16, 1999, marked Dre's return to the roots of gangsta rap. It was originally called The Chronic 2000 but after a while the name had to be changed to 2001 because in May 1999 Death Row released the compilation Chronic 2000: Still Smokin. Other working titles included The Chronic 2001 and Dr. Dre.
Many guest rappers took part in the work on the disc: Devin the Dude, Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg and Eminem. The album was a major success, climbing to number two on the Billboard 200 charts and eventually going six times platinum. The main task album was to confirm that Dre "still decides on the streets" despite not making himself known for about 5 years. The album included super hits like "Still D.R.E." and "Forgot About Dre", first performed on Saturday Night Live on October 23, 1999.
In 2000, Dre received a Grammy for Best Producer of the Year, after which he joined the Up in Smoke Tour, which also featured Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube.
Still D.R.E.
On the 2001 album Dr. Dre has moved away from his trademark G-funk.
Playback Help
The success of the 2001 album coincided for Dre with the participation in several lawsuits at once. A lawsuit filed by Lucasfilm Ltd., the film company behind Star Wars, was linked to its use of trademark Deep note. The Fatback Band sued Dre for copyright infringement; it was about a fragment of their song "Backstrokin" ", used in the track "Let's Get High" from the 2001 album. Dre had to pay the group $ 1.5 million in compensation.
Producing other projects
Detox
Dre has only released two solo albums in his 20 year musical career and his third album, Detox, is set to be his last. In a 2002 MTV news story, Dre talked about Detox being a concept album. Work on it, which began in the first quarter of 2004, was discontinued in the same year: Young decided to start producing other artists. He eventually moved the release date to the end of 2005. After several delays, it became known that the album would be released by Interscope Records, and the release date was moved to 2009. Among the artists whose participation on the album was confirmed are DJ Khalil, Nottz, Bernard " Focus" Edwards Jr., Hi-Tek, J.R. Rotem, RZA, Jay-Z, Warren G, and Boi-1da. According to Rolling Stone magazine, Snoop Dogg claimed that work on the album was completed in July 2008.
After another delay related to the production of the albums Before I Self Destruct and Relapse - 50 Cent "a and Eminem, respectively - the release date was again postponed, now to the end of 2009. In early 2009, Young produced and performed as a guest on Eminem's song " Crack a Bottle", which received over 419,000 downloads in its first week of release, and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 12, 2009.
In late 2010, Dre again promised an album release; 1st single was Kush featuring Snoop Dogg and Akon; came out soon pirated version songs I Need a Doctor. And so, at the beginning of 2011, 2 singles were finally released, and the album itself is expected very soon. The clip I Need a Doctor with the participation of Eminem appeared on the network on February 24, 2011 (in it, Dre compares his creative lull that began in 2001 with an accident and a coma, Eminem helps him get out of it, as Dre once helped him, basically the clip consists from flashbacks of Dre's life).
Film career
Dre made his film debut in 1996. He played a gun dealer in Set It Off. In 2001, Young also starred in The Wash and Training Day. In February 2007, it was announced that Dre would produce comedy and horror films for New Line Cinema. Young once said:
Together with Ice Cube, Dre plans to make a documentary about N.W.A.
Entrepreneurship
In July 2008, Dre launched his Beats by Dr. Dre. Headphones are made by Monster. Young also plans to release "Aftermath Cognac and vodka" within Detox's release time. In 2009, Dre and HP agreed to bundle Beats by Dr. Dre with HP laptops. The deal was announced on October 9, 2009 at a press conference in Santa Monica The new laptop, presented as the HP ENVY 14 Beats limited edition, will be available for $2,299 on October 22, 2009. In addition to the laptop itself, Dre's signature headphones will be included.
Musical influence and style of Dr. Dre
Attitude to work
Dre has repeatedly proved that he is a demanding person, and requires the musicians to give their all to the cause. In 2006, Snoop Dogg gave an interview to a website where he revealed that Dre once made a singer re-record part of a song's vocals 107 times. Young also stated that Eminem is also a perfectionist and his success on Aftermath was due to this.
A consequence of this moral improvement doctrine is that some musicians who initially sign deals with the Dre label never release an album. In 2001 Aftermath released the soundtrack for movie The wash. Rappers such as Shaunta, Daks, Joe Beast and Toi took part in his recording. To date, none of these musicians have released a full length album. However, the collaboration with Aftermath is not broken.
However, everyone got a chance to express themselves. While Dre was at Death Row records, his half-brother Warren G and Tha Dogg Pound were doing many compilations for Young's first album, The Chronic, and for Snoop Dogg's debut Doggystyle.
Once Upon a Time, Scott Storch, Canadian producer known for work on his second album, Dre 2001 said in an interview with Rolling Stone: When I first saw Dre, I thought he needed something. He needed a boost, a fuel injection, he used me like nitrous oxide. He involved me in a new combination, where the piano sounds integrally fit into the general mood. So I was on keyboards, Mike Elizondo on bass and Dre himself on the drum machine.
In a November 2003 article in The Source magazine, a group of Dre's former label partners complained that they weren't getting enough money for their work. Producer Neff-U claimed to have worked on the songs "Say What You Say" and "My Dad's Gone Crazy" from The Eminem Show, as well as the bonus tracks "If I Can't" and "Back Down" from Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
Although Snoop Dogg has business relationships with Warren G and Daz, who are not considered involved in the production of The Chronic, Dre is able to make beats without anyone's help. It should be noted that prominent Aftermath staff members, including Scott Storch, Elizondo, Mark Batson, and Davon Parker, have been featured on co-produced recordings and instrumentals where Dre serves as producer.
It is also widely accepted that most of Dre's lyrics are written for him by other people, although he retains ultimate control over the lyrics and themes of the songs. Regarding this, one of the Aftermath producers said in an interview with Scratch: It's like classroom. He has three students there who write to him. And he, like a teacher, says "change this line, change that word." This is how he checks the lyrics
Personal life
Marriage and family
Dre has 4 sons and one daughter. The first son is Curtis Young, also known as the rapper Hood Surgeon. Dre's second son, Andre Young Jr., by Jenita Poter, died at the age of 20 from an overdose of morphine and heroin.
From 1990 to 1996, Young dated Michelle, lead singer of Death Row. In 1991, Michelle gave birth to Dre's third son, Marcel. In 1996, Dre married Nicole Srit. Dre and Nicole have two children together: son Truth (born 1997) and daughter Truly (born 2001).
Income
In 2001 Dr. Dre made about $52 million by selling part of Aftermath Entertainment to Interscope Records. Then Rolling Stone magazine declared the rapper one of the most highly paid musicians year (after U2). In 2004 Dr. Dre was already in 44th place in this ranking with an annual income of 11.4 million, and in 2008 his earnings amounted to 15 million dollars, according to Forbes magazine.
Awards and nominations
"Let Me Ride" - Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance - 1994.
"California Love" - Grammy nomination for "Best Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group" (shared with 2Pac) - 1997.
"No Diggity" - Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (with Blackstreet and Queen Pen) - 1998
"Forgot About Dre" - Grammy Award for Best Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group - 2001 | (together with Eminem)
Still D.R.E. - Grammy Award for Best Rap Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (shared with Snoop Dogg)
"The Marshall Mathers LP" - Grammy for "Best Rap Album" - 2001 (with Eminem)
Grammy Award for Best Producer of the Year - 2001
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