The Death Row roster (including Warren G, Nate Dogg, Samara, Bushwick Bill) features heavily, mixing and matching and taking turns to lay down their bars over Dre's beats. Following the album's intro, Snoop's funky, laid back voice is featured on Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin'), cooly expressing the animosity between Death Row and Dre's former team members. The birth of G-funk introduced new faces, most notably rapper Snoop Dogg who provided the answer to Dre's writing concerns after The D.O.C. suffered serious vocal damage in a car accident. Both events signalled the end for one of the genre's most important and influential groups in N.W.A., and the start of a new era in hip-hop. Dre opted to use more live instruments on The Chronic in order to give himself more control over samples, ultimately redefining the West coast sound. Released in December, 1992, this 16 track opus was Dre's debut as solo artist and the first album to be released on Death Row Records, the label he founded with "Suge" Knight and The D.O.C. Dre's The Chronic is so much more than just a rap record.
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Another one that was missing from streaming for so many years, glad to have it available finally.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. A jump of more than 100 for Dre thanks to the influence this album has on Hip Hop. In terms of “hardness,” probably Hip Hop’s equivalent of Metal, but a rewarding album if given time. For the casual Hip Hop listener, it’s a difficult record to get into. Other than the P-Funk samples, the record is littered with the sounds of Donny Hathaway, Bill Withers, James Brown (of course ‘Funky Drummer’ got a run), Isaac Hayes and even the familiar sounds of John Bonham’s iconic drums from Led Zeppelin’s ‘When The Levee Breaks’ on ‘Lyrical Gangbang.’ The record is filthy, it’s stereotypically Gangsta Rap and it’s an album that so many following albums would be based on. bandmate, Eazy-E and his label, Ruthless Records “Yeah, Eazy-E, Eazy-E, Eazy-E can eat a big fat dick.” ‘Nuthin But A “G” Thang’ is such a great track and is not only the best track on this record, it’s one of the best track to emerge from ‘90s Hip Hop. Dre throws a lot of shade on previous N.W.A. His production was groundbreaking and would push the boundaries of Hip Hop, challenging his contemporaries to build on his way ahead of time production. Dre redefined the West Coast Hip Hop sound. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious.” The record is notable for being the first appearance of 21-year-old emerging rapper, Snoop Dogg, making his entrance with the iconic lyrics on ‘Fuck With Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’,’ “Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay/Doggy Dogg's in the motherfuckin' house,” as well as launching the careers of Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, Nate Dogg and Warren G. Kanye West wrote of this record, “The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. It’s a sound that would come to dominate early to mid-‘90s Hip Hop. Essentially it’s a sound that heavily samples George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic slow hypnotic grooves, heavy bass, melodic synths and female backing vox. Dre released his debut album, ‘The Chronic.’ And with it, he pioneered a new subgenre within Gangsta Rap, G-Funk. Following his acrimonious split from N.W.A.