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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 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.
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 ...
A platinum seller, [11] the album peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and at #3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop-Albums charts. Nonetheless, quite unlike Dre's prior album—The Chronic, released in December 1992 as Dre's debut solo album and Death Row Records' first album—Dre's new offering, not a standout, received mixed reviews and lukewarm appraisals.
Former N.W.A bandmate Dr. Dre, his protégé Snoop Dogg, and their record label Death Row Records "Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" and "Bitches Ain't Shit" by Dr. Dre [48] Oct 19, 1993 "It's on" Eazy-E: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tha Dogg Pound: Another diss track from Eazy-E in response to comments made about him from Dre's debut ...
Dr. Dre's former Death Row colleagues, including Shakur, recorded and attempted to release "Toss It Up", containing numerous insults aimed at Dr. Dre, and using a deliberately similar instrumental to Dre's production on "No Diggity" by Blackstreet, but were forced to replace the production after Blackstreet issued the label with a cease and ...