The Chronic - Dr. Dre

People will try and tell you that this album is some kind of landmark or that it changed hiphop. These people are commonly known as “stupid”. The Chronic is neither hideously bad nor divinely good. It is incredibly mediocre. It has been accredited as the album that spawned the genre of “G-funk”, but was that necessarily a good thing?? All this achieved was furthering the gentrification process that hiphop was already going through and the main perpetrator was, rather than being the Dre- the guy whose name credits the album, a certain Snoop Doggy Dogg. Surprisingly Snoop doesn’t sound as awful as he seems to in everything else in ...  Read the complete review

Dr. Dre (Andre Young) was born in February 18, 1965, Los Angeles, California. He was raised in Compton, and got his nickname by adoring basketball superstar, Dr. J. His step-brother is Warren G. His brother got killed in a fight while Dre was on tour with N.W.A He started off as a D.J for parties as a teenager, and soon earned himself a spot in the "Eve After Dark" club, where he would play keyboards and sing. Once a member of the rather anonymous group, "World Class Wreckin' Cru", Dre earned himself a name by producing tracks for Eazy-E, the D.O.C and others, and later became a gangsta rap pioneer as a co-founder, member, ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1992, "The Chronic" is one of the most important album in the history of Hip Hop as it showcased the progression of the genre on how it had gone from New York, and got exposure as far as the other end in the country, here Dr. Dre displays what his unique take on Hip Hop is after leaving the pioneering Gangsta Rap group N.W.A, as he comes with his Parliament Funk-inspired sound named G-Funk. This style uses old P-Funk samples and adapts it to fit in with the most prominant form of Hip Hop at the time in the West; Gangsta Rap. This is the debut album from Dr. Dre and it helped to show off all the talent in the area after he had moved on ...  Read the complete review

This, is a fantastic album, and I'd advise any of you hippy hoppy lovers to get out there and buy it! This is Dre's first album, and one definatly one of raps masterpieces. The beats on this album are different to the familiar 2001 tunes, and are a little dated, but his lyrics remain as good as ever. The beats are very familiar,and are very 'techno' and are very similar to the early works of Snoop Dogg. An example of Dre's lyrics:- 'What would we have if I had my nuts hanging on a wall? I'd have walnuts' Very funny! hehe. Well, enough of Dr. Dre's nuts, and onto his songs: Chronic Intro: A great ...  Read the complete review

Dr Dre recorded this album in 1992 it was produced by a record label called “Deathrow” records, who also recorded albums for Snoop Dogg and Warren G. The album was produced after the split of NWA and is an extremely good debut, solo album by a great rapper. Dr Dre has recorded some fantastic tunes on this album which was really Dre’s first move to make it seriously big. The album is kind of co-recorded by Snoop Dogg who appears in many of the songs and plays not only a fantastic role but an extremely important one too. The great tracks which are on this album include, “let me ride”, “nuttin’ but a g thang”, ...  Read the complete review