Dr.
Dre
Real Name : Andre Young
Birthdate : Feb 18, 1965
Sign : Aquarius
Hometown : Los Angeles, USA
Dr.
DRE Biography : Dre
(born Andre Young, February 18, 1965) became involved in hip-hop during the
early ’80s, He started off as a D.J for parties as a teenager, and soon
earned himself a spot in the "Eve After Dark" club, performing at
house parties and clubs with the World Class Wreckin’ Cru around South
Central Los Angeles and making a handful of recordings along the way. 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 "My brother was my best friend. He was three years younger
than me." Dre tells of being on the road when he received a phone call
with the bad news. "You never forget that."
Once a member of the rather
anonymous group, "World Class Wreckin’ Cru", Dr 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, co-producer and rapper in the
controversial group, N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude). With N.W.A. he melded the
noise collages of the Bomb Squad with funky rhythms. On his own, he reworked
George Clinton’s elastic funk into the self-styled G-funk, a slow-rolling
variation that relied more on sound than content. When he left N.W.A. in 1992,
he founded Death Row Records with Suge Knight, and shortly after released "The
Chronic" (1992), which sold over three million copies, won two Grammy Awards,
and is still considered to be one of the most influential rap albums ever. The
album introduced the new Death Row artists, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tha
Dogg Pound. The following Death Row album, Snoop Doggy Dogg’s "Doggystyle",
was produced by Dr. Dre, and sold four million copies.
Soon, most rap records imitated its sound, and his productions for Snoop Doggy
Dogg and Blackstreet were massive hits.
In 1994 he directed the short film "Murder Was The Case", and co-produced
the soundrack.
In 1995 he left Death Row, and started his own label, "Aftermath Entertainment", a joint venture with Interscope Records. Dre’s first album for Aftermath, the various-artists collection Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath received considerable media attention, but the record didn’t become a hit. There were also rumors of an N.W.A. reunion, but it seems that Dre was not interested...
Dr
Dre Discography :
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Dr. Dre : 2001 Release Date: November 16, 1999 Label: Interscope Records |
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Dr. Dre : The Chronic Release Date: November 26, 1996 Label: Interscope Records |
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Dr. Dre presents The Aftermath Audio CD: May 22, 2001 Label: Death Row |
Acting:
Training Day
The Wash
Whiteboyz
Ride
Who’s the Man?
Dr
Dre Albums Productions:
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
(1988)
The D.OC. - Nobody Does It Better (1989)
N.W.A. - 100 Miles & Runnin EP (1989)
N.W.A. - Efil4zaggin (1990)
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)
The Firm (1996)
The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Snoop Dogg - The Last Meal (2000)
Xzibit - Restless (2000)
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Truth Hurts - Truthfully Speaking (2002)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)
Xzibit - Man VS Machine (2002)
50 Cent - Get Rich Or Dye Tryin (2003)
Eminem - Encore (2004)
The Game - The Documentary (2005)
50 Cent - The Massacre (2005)
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