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In 2002, New York City rapper 50 Cent was signed to Aftermath by Dr. Dre through a joint venture with Eminem's Shady Records. [7] His major-label debut album, Get Rich or Die Tryin', was released on February 6, 2003, through the three labels. It mainly featured production from Dr. Dre and Eminem, who also executive produced the album.
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. [8] The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (The Chronic), Snoop Dogg and 2Pac (All Eyez on Me) during the 1990s.
In 1986, Dr. Dre met rapper O'Shea Jackson—known as Ice Cube—who collaborated with him to record songs for Ruthless Records, a hip-hop record label run by local rapper Eazy-E. N.W.A and fellow West Coast rapper Ice-T are widely credited as seminal artists of the gangsta rap genre, a profanity-heavy subgenre of hip-hop, replete with gritty ...
Dr. Dre & Ice Cube, “Natural Born Killaz” (1994) Listen to the instrumental tone of Dre’s dense, ominous intro — a mean growl. This is the not-so-laidback flipside of “The Chronic” and ...
By THE WRAP Shady Records is an American success story - and now the Universal Music Group label has the documentary to prove it. In a 32-minute video by Complex Mag, Eminem, Paul Rosenberg, Dr ...
This feat is attributed to the record label's first two album releases: Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992 and Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle in 1993. [3] Knight is currently serving a 28-year sentence in prison for a fatal hit-and-run in 2015. [4] Before founding Death Row Records, Knight played college football at UNLV as a defensive end.
Four influential classic hip hop albums — Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, Snoop Doggy Dogg’s Doggystyle, 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me (2x tape set) and Makaveli’s (2Pac) The Don Killuminati (7 day ...
Record labels may be small, localized and "independent" ("indie"), or they may be part of a large international media group, or somewhere in between.The Association of Independent Music (AIM) defines a 'major' as "a multinational company which (together with the companies in its group) has more than 5% of the world market(s) for the sale of records or music videos."