Dr. Dre Biography

Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre (born February 18, 1965 in Compton, California; bourgeois André Romell Young) is an American rapper. He is regarded as a major hip-hop producer and founder of G-funk. In addition to the earlier commitment to the World Class Wreckin 'Cru and NWA, he was active as a solo act. His productions as responsible for the breakthrough by Snoop Dogg apply, Eminem, 50 Cent and others.
André Romell Young alias Dr. Dre Backstage, March 2008

Biography

Andre Romell Young was born in 1965 as the first child of Verna and Theodore Young. Romell His middle name derives from the name of his father's former band The Romell. His parents divorced when Alexandre was three years old. He was raised by his mother, who with her second husband, three other children. The third marriage of his mother with Warren Griffin, he was the step-brother of Warren Griffin III., Later published under the name of Warren G Rap Albums .

After primary school, Young visited in 1979, the Centennial High School in Compton, but switched because of poor performance on the Fremont High School. Young focused more on his music than his school. At age 16 he was adopted in 1981 the father of his son Curtis, who grew up with his mother and Young met only 20 years later. Curtis Young is under the stage name Hood Surgeon active as a rapper.

Young died in August 2008, the second son, whom he had with a former girlfriend, Andre Young Jr. at the age of 20 years. He was found dead by his mother in their shared apartment. The final report of the forensic shows cause of death as an overdose of heroin and morphine .

From 1990 to 1996 he was involved with at Death Row, which is also under contract with singer Michel'le. With her he was 1991, a son. In May 1996, he married Nicole Threatt, with whom he has two other children .

Musical Career
World Class Wreckin 'Cru (1984-1985)

Young began in 1984 regularly in The Eve After Dark nightclub to go and where he worked under the stage name of Dr. J. as a DJ. During his work he met Antoine Carraby, who was later known as DJ Yella. Young is named in Dr. Dre.

During this time he began with the World Class Wreckin 'Cru (WCWC cooperate), the Electro-hop was music. The first success was the Independent released single "Surgery" were from that in the Los Angeles area sold over 50,000 copies. In contrast to the gangster image shown later appeared on Dr. Dre WCWC in glittering costumes and lipstick. The music consisted of fast rhythms from a drum machine and lots of scratch elements. This simple texts are often repeated ( "Calling Dr. Dre for Surgery"). The group received in 1985 after the single "Juice," a 100,000-dollar recording contract with CBS Records. With the contract conflicts arose in the group over the distribution of money. Dr. Dre, not only with the fashion focus of the group, but also with the musical - he would rather focus on the P-Funk of George Clinton - was dissatisfied, left the group 1985th

Together with DJ Yella, he started the first hip-hop radio station KDAY in Los Angeles to work. There they were involved in the program Mixmasters by Ice-T. During the first steady DJ Yella was the sender, Dr. Dre produced a daily 15-minute set for the show traffic jams.
Breakthrough with N.W.A (1986-1991)

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Dr. Dre in 1986 to hit Ice Cube and Eazy-E petty criminals. Together, Dre and Cube for the label by Eazy-E Ruthless Records began to work. After the electro-hop of the World Class Wreckin 'Cru, the new productions were both musically and in content harder. The motive and inspiration was the street life in Compton.

In 1986 she formed the group NWA (short for "Niggaz With Attiude). Also were added MC Ren and DJ Yella. Within the group, Dr. Dre was primarily responsible for the production and the music, but had also rap shares. NWA 1987's seemed little successful debut album "NWA and the Posse." In the second published in 1988 album "Straight Outta Compton", which was produced within six weeks with a budget of 8,000 U.S. dollars, managed the first commercial success. Total NWA sold 2.5 million units of the album, is now becoming the first major production, Dr. Dre. The controversy over the song "Fuck tha Police" by NWA and investigations into the FBI made the album nationally known. In the conservative American public NWA became the stereotype of the dangerous black America.

Dre produced in 1989, the first album by rapper The DOC "No One Can Do It Better," which also appeared on Ruthless Records. The D.O.C. was considered one of the Shooting Stars on the west coast, but was shortly after the release of the album in a car accident which injured his vocal cords. Dre for the production of the album was the first commissioned work as a producer.

Two more albums of NWA 1990 and 1991 came on the market. Ice Cube in 1989 of grew out of the group and began a solo career. In an interview with Dee Barnes, a television personality and rapper, said Ice Cube about his exit. Dr. Dre and the rest of NWA saw themselves portrayed negatively and announced revenge. On 27 January 1991 Dee Barnes met at a party in Hollywood on Dr. Dre. He kicked and stepped on her several times, broke into a room in which they fled, and they beat up from there. Because of the attack, a court in Los Angeles Young sentenced to a fine of $ 2500 and two years of probation. It was his first conviction.

Following internal disputes over finances, and personal problems between Dre and Eazy-E NWA broke up to 1991 .
Death Row Records and the solo debut (1992-1996)

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After the separation of NWA Dre founded 1991 with his then-bodyguard Suge Knight, the rap label Death Row Records. Here was released in 1992 with the single "Deep Cover", a song from the soundtrack to Deep Cover (OT: "Deep Cover"), the first collaboration with the hitherto unknown Snoop Doggy Dogg. The song was a Diss against Eazy-E, to which the relationship was getting worse. During the Beefs used Eazy-E Photos of Young from the time the World Class Wreckin 'Cru on which Young was wearing lipstick.

On 15 December 1992 was published by Death Row's first album from Dr. Dre "The Chronic". Commercially the album was a success, it reached number 3 on the Billboard charts and has sold over 3 million times. In the United States, the album received three platinum records. Were 7 single, "Nuthin 'but a' G 'Thang "" Fuck wit Dre Day "and" Let Me Ride ", which were all represented in the singles charts. At the Grammy Awards of 1994, Dr. Dre won a Grammy for "Let Me Ride".

In addition to Dr. Dre was especially Snoop Doggy Dogg as a guest rapper on 12 of the 16 songs involved in the album. With the album, the style of the G-funk was popular, was the somewhat less aggressive than the style of NWA. The music was characterized by slow rhythms with a strong, bass-heavy groove, as in George Clinton P-Funk show. Enriched were the pieces with soul samples. A novelty was the use of synthesizers that occurred during the period in many of Dre's productions.

Over the next three years, Dre has worked as a producer with other rappers from Death Row, which also included alongside Snoop Doggy Dogg Tupac Shakur, Nate Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound. In early 1996, Dr. Dre left the label after a dispute with Suge Knight and Tupac. Dre felt hampered by Knight in his work: In addition to financial problems for Death Row, there was regular raids in the studios where sound engineers and other staff members were beaten up. After parting Tupac accused him of lack of loyalty to Snoop Doggy Dogg during his murder trial in 1993, in. Tupac also used the images from the World Class Wreckin 'Cru-time against Dre and described him as a homosexual. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment founded his own label under the umbrella of Interscope.

Aftermath Entertainment (1996 -)

Published in the Aftermath of the founding of the label compilation "Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath presented "on the previously unknown rappers of the labels have been. The album reached platinum status. The subsequent single "Been There, Done That", raps on the Dr. Dre himself, and the song "East Coast West Coast Killas" by Group Therapy, a group consisting of the East Coast rappers Nas and KRS-One, and the west coasts rappers B-Real and RBX were included. Dre wanted to show the selection of West and East Coast rappers that the conflict between the coasts, where his former label Death Row was heavily involved, was independent of it.

If hired Dr. Dre Aftermath producer Mel-Man as the co-producer. This influenced the musical style that had henceforth greater proportion of synthesizers and vocal samples, dispensed as in "Let me ride" and other songs from the Death Row era. In 1997, he produced seven songs on the album, "Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album," which also appeared on Aftermath and Platinum status was given. Its only rap part was in "Phone Tap". Jimmy Iovine, Chairman of Interscope, Dr. Dre introduced 1998, Detroit rapper Marshall Mathers, later known as Eminem, above, produced in 1999 published his debut album "The Slim Shady LP" Dre contributed three songs and two guest appearances. Eminem referred to him as a mentor.
Second Solo Album 2001

Dr. Dre on his label released on 15 November 1999 his second solo album "2001", which is also among the different titles, "The Chronic 2001", "Dr. Dre 2000 "and" The Chronic 2 "is known. Unlike his first solo album were represented alongside the meanwhile, only Snoop Dogg-styled several other rappers from Los Angeles. The album contained, amongst other guest performances by Eminem, Xzibt, Nate Dogg, Mary J. Blige and former NWA rapper MC Ren. Dr. Dre produced the album with his production partner Mel-Man. On two songs, his disciple Scott Storch was involved. As a ghostwriter wrote Royce Da 5 '9 "parts of the texts. In addition to the three singles" Still DRE "" Forgot About Dre "and" The Next Episode, "the album contained the song" The Message "about his 1989 at a gun battle on the Compton Boulevard deceased brother, Tyree. "2001 sold" over 7.2 million units and reached in the United States six times platinum status. In Germany, the IFPI drew out the album with the gold record. Dre was for the album as Producer of the Year award at the Grammy Award in 2001.
Producers activity

Since the publication of his second solo album as a rapper Dr. Dre has rarely made its appearance. The work as a producer for artists of his label and contract work for others came to the fore. Along with Eminem, he produced the New York rapper Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, and helped him to break through. 50 Cent is to Shady / Aftermath - a joint venture of Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Eminem's Shady Records - under contract. In the first two albums "Get Rich or Die Tryin '" and "The Massacre" he was the executive producer. In "Curtis", he produced two songs. Of the three albums, which published 50 Cent to Shady / Aftermath, together sold over 25 million units.

Other albums by the rapper 50 Cent's G Unit crew, as well as their former member of The Game, he produced. The Game, whose solo debut "The Documentary" was published in Aftermath Entertainment, Aftermath had to leave after a dispute with 50 Cent. He dedicated his second album, Dr. Dre and named it as an homage to Dr. Dre "Doctor's Advocate". Several songs from the album "The Games are about relationship with Dre, who is to him a father figure, and his departure from Aftermath.

At the Vibe Awards 2004, a 26-year-old man attacked Dr. Dre, and struck him repeatedly in the face. The rapper Young Buck from the GUnit Dre came to help, and stabbed the attacker with a knife down, leading to a ruptured lung. At the trial of the attackers claimed that Suge Knight him $ 5000 for the attack would have paid for.

Monsters with the firm developed a set of headphones, Dr. Dre beats with the name. 2009 Eminem released his sixth studio album "Relapse" in which Dr. Dre 19 of 20 songs produced and was involved in the writings of 13th In addition, he has participated as a guest rapper on two songs, including the first single "Crack a Bottle".

Detox

Since 2004, a third solo album called "Detox is announced," whose release will be postponed again and again. As justification for the delay is specified, Dre care Initially, the productions of other artists.

Sampler

* 1994: Concrete Roots (Triple X)
* 1996: First Round Knock Out (Triple X)
* 1996: Back 'n the Day (Blue Dolphin)
* 1996: Dr. Dre Presents ... The Aftermath (Aftermath)
* 2002: Death Row Records Presents The Chronicle: The Best Of The Works ... (Death Row)
* 2005: Dr. Dre & Friends (K-Town)
* 2006: Greatest Hits (Street Dance)
* 2006: Chronicles - Death Row Classics (Death Row)

Singles

* 1992: Deep Cover (with Snoop Dogg)
* 1993: Nuthin 'But a' G 'Thang (with Snoop Dogg)
* 1993: Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin ') (with Snoop Dogg)
* 1993: Let Me Ride (with Snoop Dogg)
* 1994: Natural Born Killaz (with Ice Cube)
* 1994: Lil 'Ghetto Boy (with Snoop Dogg and Daz Dillinger)
* 1995: Keep Their Heads Ringin
* 1995: California Love (with Tupac)
* 1996: East Coast West Coast Killas (Group Therapy with)
* 1996: Nas Is Coming "(with Nas)
* 1996: Been There, Done That
* 1998: Zoom (with LL Cool J)
* 1999: Still D.R.E. (with Snoop Dogg)
* 2000: Forgot About Dre (with Eminem)
* 2000: The Next Episode (with Kurupt, Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg)
* 2001: The Wash (with Snoop Dogg)
* 2001: Bad Intentions (with Knoc-Turn'Al)
* 2009: Crack a Bottle (with Eminem and 50 Cent)

Manufacturing (selection)

Produced albums by several artists, the individual productions of Dr. Dre or completely contained by Dr. Dre were:

* Doggy Style, No Limit Top Dogg, The Last Meal, Tha Blue Carpet Treatment by Snoop Dogg
* All Eyez On Me by 2 Pac
* It Was, Written Hip Hop Is Dead by Nas
* The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, Encore, Relapse by Eminem
* Restless, Man Vs Machine by Xzibit
* No More Drama, Love & Life by Mary J. Blige
* Devil's Night, D12 World by D12
* The Blueprint: The Gift And The Curse, Kingdom Come by Jay-Z
* Cheers by Obie Trice
* Get Rich Or Die Tryin, The Massacre, Curtis by 50 Cent
* Beg for Mercy, Terminate on Sight by G-Unit
* The Documentary by The Game

Guest Posts (selection)

* 1996: California Love on "All Eyez On Me" by 2pac
* 1996: Nas Is Coming "to" It Was Written "by Nas
* 1997: Firm Phone Tap and Family on "The Album" by The Firm
* 1999: Guilty Conscience on The Slim Shady LP by Eminem
* 2001: Your Wife on "Music & Me" by Nate Dogg
* 2002: Say What You Say on "The Eminem Show" by Eminem
* 2003: Shit Hits the fan on "Cheers" by Obie Trice
* 2004: Encore on "Encore" by Eminem, also with 50 Cent
* 2005: Higher on "The Documentary" by The Game
* 2006: Imagine on "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment" by Snoop Dogg, with D'Angelo
* 2009: Crack a Bottle and Old Time's Sake on "Relapse" by Eminem
* 2009: Hell Breaks Loose on "Relapse: Refill" by Eminem

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