Dr. Dre
André Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965 in Los Angeles, California), be… Read Full Bio ↴André Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965 in Los Angeles, California), better known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, actor and record executive. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, bass heavy beats.
Dr. Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A, which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. His 1992 solo debut The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993. In 1996 he left Death Row to found his own label Aftermath Entertainment, producing a compilation album, Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath, in 1997 and releasing a solo album titled 2001 in 1999.
During the 2000s he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals in other artists' songs. Rolling Stone named him among the highest-paid performers of 2001 and 2004. Dr. Dre also had acting roles in the 2001 films The Wash and Training Day. In 2011, his final solo studio album, Detox, is set to be released following much delay and speculation.
Early life
The first child of Verna and Theodore Young, Dr. Dre was born as André Romelle Young on February 18, 1965. His mother was only 16 years old at the time of his birth, after being impregnated by teenage boyfriend Theodore, whom she later married. Young's middle name, "Romelle", came from Theodore Young's unsigned, amateur R&B singing group The Romells. In 1968 his mother divorced Theodore Young for another man, Curtis Crayon, and had other children with him, including two sons named Jerome and Tyree (both of whom are now deceased)[8][9] and daughter Shameka.[10] As a young child, Young was fascinated with vinyl records spinning on phonographs; his family's record collection included many popular R&B albums of the 1960s and 1970s, from such singers as Diana Ross, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin. According to an interview with the Los Angeles Times, his mother Verna found R&B music to be a relief from the two jobs she had to work daily.[11] Despite economic troubles, she continued to encourage Young not to give up in life. During Verna's second marriage, Young and his step-brother Tyree were raised primarily by their grandmother and Curtis Crayon, as their mother spent much time in search of work.[12]
In 1976 Young began attending Vanguard Junior High School and had a new sister named Shameka. However, due to gang violence around Vanguard, he transferred to nearby Roosevelt Junior High School.[13] Verna later married Warren Griffin, whom she met at her new job in Long Beach,[14] which added three new stepsisters and one new stepbrother to the family. The stepbrother, Warren Griffin III, would eventually become a rapper under the stage name Warren G.[15]
Young attended Centennial High School in Compton during his freshman year in 1979 but transferred to Fremont High School due to poor grades. On December 15, 1981, Young fathered a son with Lisa Johnson, however Curtis Young was not brought up by his father and they only met when Curtis had become rapper Hood Surgeon about 20 years later.[16] He was nearly enrolled to an apprenticeship program at Northrop Aviation Company until poor grades at school made him ineligible. Therefore, he focused on social life and entertainment for most of his high school years.[17]
Music career
World Class Wreckin' Cru (1984–1985)
Inspired by the Grandmaster Flash song "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel", he often attended a club called The Eve After Dark to watch many DJs and rappers performing live. Thus, he became a DJ in the club, initially under the name "Dr. J" based on the nickname for Julius Erving, his favorite basketball player. At the club, he met aspiring rapper Antoine Carraby, later to become member DJ Yella of his group N.W.A.[18] Soon afterwards he adopted the moniker Dr. Dre, a mix of previous alias Dr. J and his first name, referring to himself as the "Master of Mixology".[19] He later joined the musical group World Class Wreckin' Cru under the independent Kru-Cut Records in 1984. The group would become stars of the electro-hop scene that dominated early 1980s West Coast hip hop, and their first hit "Surgery" would prominently feature Dr. Dre on the turntables and sell 50,000 copies within the Compton area.[20] Dr. Dre and DJ Yella also performed mixes for local radio station KDAY, boosting ratings for its afternoon rush-hour show The Traffic Jam.[21]
Due to the amount of time Dr. Dre was spending on his rap music he frequently skipped school, affecting his education. His absences also jeopardized his position as a diver for his school's swim team. However, when he did attend he received good grades in certain classes. After high school, he attended Chester Adult School in Compton following his mother's demands for him to get a job or go to school. After brief attendance at a radio broadcasting school, he relocated to the residence of his father and residence of his grandparents before returning to his mother's house.[22] He later dropped out of Chester to focus on performing at the Eve's After Dark nightclub.[23]
N.W.A and Ruthless Records (1986–1991)
In 1986 he met rapper Ice Cube, who collaborated with Dr. Dre to record songs for Ruthless Records, a rap record label run by local rapper and drug dealer Eazy-E. N.W.A however, along with fellow west coast rapper Ice T, debuted with rhymes including profanity and gritty depictions of crime and life on the street. No longer constricted to racially charged political issues pioneered by rap artists such as Public Enemy or Boogie Down Productions, N.W.A shot out with hardcore and realistic perspective of street violence and local black gangster lifestyle. Propelled by the hit "Fuck tha Police", the group's first full album Straight Outta Compton became a major success, despite an almost complete absence of radio airplay or major concert tours and warnings from the FBI.[2] The FBI sent letters to Arabian Prince, Ice Cube and Eazy-E urging them to stop releasing their music as a response to the large amount of complaints they had received about the group's lyrical content and use of expletives.[24]
After Ice Cube left N.W.A over financial disputes, Dr. Dre produced and performed for much of the group's second album Efil4zaggin. He also produced tracks for a number of other rap acts on Ruthless Records, including Above the Law, and The D.O.C. for the album No One Can Do It Better.[25] In 1991 at a music industry party in Hollywood, he assaulted television host Dee Barnes of the Fox television program Pump it Up, after he felt dissatisfied by a news report of hers on the feud between the remaining N.W.A members and Ice Cube. Thus, Dr. Dre was fined $2,500 and given two years' probation and 240 hours of community service, as well as a spot on an anti-violence public service announcement on television.[26][27]
The Chronic and Death Row Records (1992–1995)
After a dispute with Wright, Young left the group at the peak of its popularity in 1991 under the advice of friend, and N.W.A lyricist, The D.O.C. and his bodyguard at the time, Suge Knight. Knight, a notorious strongman and intimidator, was able to have Wright release Young from his contract and, using Dr. Dre as his flagship artist, found Death Row Records. In 1992 Young released his first single, the title track to the film Deep Cover, a collaboration with a rapper whom he met through his own stepbrother and rapper Warren G, Snoop Dogg.[2] Dr. Dre's debut album was The Chronic under Death Row Records. Young ushered in a new style of rap, both in terms of musical style and lyrical content.[28]
On the strength of singles such as "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang", featuring protegé Snoop Doggy Dogg and hits like "Let Me Ride" and "Fuck wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')" (known as "Dre Day" for radio and television play), The Chronic became a cultural phenomenon, its G-funk sound dominating much of hip hop music for the early 1990s.[2] In 1993 the Recording Industry Association of America certified the album multi-platinum,[29] and Dr. Dre also won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance for his performance in "Let Me Ride".[30] For that year, Billboard magazine also ranked Dr. Dre as the eighth best-selling musical artist, The Chronic as the sixth best-selling album, and "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" as the 11th best-selling single.[3]
Besides working on his own material, Dr. Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, which became the first debut album for an artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 album charts.[31] Young also produced other West Coast rap albums of Death Row Records, including Dogg Food by Tha Dogg Pound and the album Regulate...G Funk Era by his stepbrother Warren G. In 1994 Dr. Dre produced the soundtracks to the films Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case and the single "No Diggity" by Blackstreet. He collaborated with fellow N.W.A member Ice Cube for the song "Natural Born Killaz" in 1995.[2]
In 1995, just as Death Row Records was signing rapper 2Pac and positioning him as their major star, Young left the label amidst a contract dispute and growing concerns that label boss Suge Knight was corrupt, financially dishonest and out of control. Thus, in 1996, he formed his own label Aftermath Entertainment directly underneath the distributor label for Death Row Records, Interscope Records.[2] Consequently, Death Row Records suffered poor sales by 1997, especially following the death of 2Pac and the racketeering charges brought against Knight.[32]
Move to Aftermath Entertainment (1996–1998)
The Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath album, released on November 26, 1996, featured songs by Dr. Dre himself as well as by newly signed Aftermath artists, and a solo track "Been There, Done That", intended as a symbolic farewell to gangsta rap.[33] Despite being classified platinum by the RIAA[34], the album was not very popular among music fans.[2] In October 1996 Dr. Dre appeared on the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States, to perform "Been There, Done That".[35] In 1997 Young produced several tracks on Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album; although the album went platinum, it was met with similarly negative reviews from critics. Rumors began to abound that Aftermath was facing financial difficulties.[36]
The turning point for Aftermath came in 1998, when Jimmy Iovine, the head of Aftermath's parent label Interscope, suggested that Young sign the white Detroit rapper Marshall Mathers, artistically known as Eminem, to Aftermath. Young produced three songs and provided vocals for two on his controversial album, ("My Name Is", "Guilty Conscience" and "Role Model") in 1999.[37]
2001 (1999–2000)
Dr. Dre's second solo album, 2001, released in the fall of 1999, was considered an ostentatious return to his gangsta rap roots.[38] It was initially titled The Chronic 2000 to imply being a sequel to his debut album The Chronic but was re-titled 2001 after Death Row Records released an unrelated compilation album earlier in 1999. Other tentative titles included The Chronic 2001 and Dr. Dre.[39] The album featured numerous collaborators, including Devin the Dude, Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg and Eminem. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the website All Music Guide described the sound of the album as "adding ominous strings, soulful vocals, and reggae" to Dr. Dre's style.[38] The album was highly successful, charting at number two on the Billboard 200 charts[40] and has since been certified six times platinum,[29] thus reaffirming a recurring theme featured in its lyrics, stating that Dr. Dre was still a force to be reckoned with, despite the lack of major releases in the previous few years. The album included popular hit singles "Still D.R.E." and "Forgot About Dre", both of which Dr. Dre performed on NBC's Saturday Night Live on October 23, 1999.[41] Dr. Dre won the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2000,[2] and joined the Up in Smoke Tour with fellow rappers Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Cube that year as well.[42]
During the course of the popularity of 2001, Dr. Dre was involved in several lawsuits. Lucasfilm Ltd., the film company behind the Star Wars film franchise, sued him over the use of the THX-trademarked "Deep Note".[43] The Fatback Band also sued Dr. Dre over alleged infringement of its song "Backstrokin'" in his song "Let's Get High" from the 2001 album; Dr. Dre was ordered to pay $1.5 million to the band in 2003.[44] The online music file-sharing company Napster also settled a lawsuit with him and heavy metal rock band Metallica in the summer of 2001, agreeing to block access to certain files that artists do not want to have shared on the network.[45]
Focus on production (2001–present)
Following the success of 2001, Dr. Dre focused on producing songs and albums for other artists. He produced the single "Family Affair" by R&B singer Mary J. Blige for her album No More Drama in 2001.[4] Other successful albums that he produced for Aftermath have included the major-label debut album by Queens, New York-based rapper 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin', in 2003. The album featured the Dr. Dre-produced hit single "In da Club", as a joint production between Aftermath, Eminem's boutique label Shady Records and Interscope.[46] Dr. Dre also produced "How We Do", a 2005 hit single of rapper The Game from his album The Documentary.[47]
Another copyright-related lawsuit came upon Dr. Dre in the fall of 2002, when Sa Re Ga Ma, a film and music company based in Calcutta, India, sued Aftermath Entertainment over an uncredited sample of the Lata Mangeshkar song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" on the Aftermath-produced song "Addictive" by singer Truth Hurts. In February 2003, a judge ruled that Aftermath would have to halt sales of Truth Hurts' album Truthfully Speaking if the company would not credit Mangeshkar.[48] In April 2003 rapper Ja Rule released a mixtape of freestyle raps criticizing Dr. Dre and his associated artists 50 Cent and Eminem.[49] At the Vibe magazine awards show in November 2004, Dr. Dre was attacked by a fan named Jimmy James Johnson, who was asking for an autograph. Johnson, in September 2005, was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to stay away from Dr. Dre until 2008.[50] For an issue of Rolling Stone magazine in April 2005, Kanye West praised Dr. Dre as among the greatest performing artists of all time.[51]
In November 2006 Dr. Dre began working with Raekwon on his album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II.[52] He also contributed to the rap albums Buck the World by Young Buck[53] and Curtis by 50 Cent.[54] Other upcoming albums that he is involved with includeThe Reformation by Bishop Lamont,[55] The Nacirema Dream by Papoose,[56] Here I Am by Eve,[57] and L.A.X. by The Game.[58] Among planned but unreleased albums during Dr. Dre's tenure at Aftermath have included a full-length reunion with Snoop Dogg titled Breakup to Makeup, an album with fellow former N.W.A member Ice Cube which was to be titled Heltah Skeltah, an N.W.A reunion album, and a joint album with fellow producer Timbaland titled Chairmen of the Board.[59][25][60]
Detox: Final album
Detox is to be Dr. Dre's final album.[7] In 2002, Dre told Corey Moss of MTV News that he intended Detox to be a concept album.[6] Work for the album dates back to early 2004,[61] but later in that year he decided to stop working on the album to focus on producing for other artists but then changed his mind; the album had initially been set for a fall 2005 release.[62] After several delays, the album was finally scheduled to be released sometime in 2008 by Interscope Records, which has not set a firm release date for the album as of September 2007.[7] Producers confirmed to work on the album include Bernard "Focus" Edwards Jr.,[63] Hi-Tek,[64] J.R. Rotem,[65] RZA,[66] Jay-Z,[67] and Warren G.[68]
Film career
In 2001 Dr. Dre appeared in the movies The Wash and Training Day.[69] A song of his, "Bad Intentions" (featuring Knoc-Turn'Al) and produced by Mahogany, was featured on The Wash soundtrack.[70] Dr. Dre also appeared on two other songs "On the Blvd." and "The Wash" along with his co-star Snoop Dogg. In February 2007 it was announced that Dr. Dre would produce dark comedies and horror films for New Line-owned company Crucial Films, along with longtime video director Phillip Atwell. Dr. Dre announced "This is a natural switch for me, since I've directed a lot of music videos, and I eventually want to get into directing."[71]
Musical influences and style
Dr. Dre has said that his primary instrument in the studio is the Akai MPC3000, a drum machine and sampler, and that he uses as many as four or five to produce a single recording. He cites George Clinton, Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield as primary musical influences. Unlike most rap producers, he tries to avoid samples as much as possible, preferring to have studio musicians re-play pieces of music he wants to use, because it allows him more flexibility to change the pieces in rhythm and tempo.[59] In 2001 he told Time magazine, "I may hear something I like on an old record that may inspire me, but I'd rather use musicians to re-create the sound or elaborate on it. I can control it better."[72] Other equipment he uses include the E-mu SP-1200 drum machine and other keyboards from such manufacturers as Korg, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Moog, and Roland.[73]
After founding Aftermath Entertainment in 1996, Dr. Dre took on producer Mel-Man as a co-producer, and his music took on a more synthesizer-based sound, using fewer vocal samples (as he had used on "Lil' Ghetto Boy" and "Let Me Ride" on The Chronic, for example). Mel-Man has not shared co-production credits with Dr. Dre since approximately 2002, but fellow Aftermath producer Focus has credited Mel-Man as a key architect of the signature Aftermath sound.[74]
In 1999 Dr. Dre started working with Mike Elizondo, a bassist, guitarist, and keyboardist who has also produced, written and played on records for female singers such as Poe, Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette,[75] for his album 2001. Elizondo has since worked for many of Dr. Dre's productions.[76][77] Dr. Dre also told Scratch magazine in a 2004 interview that he has been studying piano and music theory formally, and that a major goal is to accumulate enough musical theory to score movies. In the same interview he stated that he has collaborated with famed 1960s songwriter Burt Bacharach by sending him hip hop beats to play over, and hopes to have an in-person collaboration with him in the future.[59]
Work ethic
Dr. Dre has stated that he is a perfectionist, and is known to pressure the artists with whom he records to give flawless performances.[59] In 2006 Snoop Dogg told the website Dubcnn.com that Dr. Dre had made new artist Chauncey Black re-record a single bar of vocals 107 times.[78] Dr. Dre has also stated that Eminem is a fellow perfectionist, and attributes his success on Aftermath to his like-minded work ethic.[59]
A consequence of this perfectionism is that some artists that initially sign deals with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label never release albums. In 2001, Aftermath released the soundtrack to the movie The Wash. featuring a number of Aftermath acts such as Shaunta, Daks, Joe Beast and Toi. To date, none have released full-length albums on Aftermath and have apparently ended their relationships with the label and Dr. Dre. Other noteworthy acts to leave Aftermath without releasing albums include King Tee, 2001 vocalist Hittman and 1980s rap icon Rakim.[79]
However, over the years word of other collaborators has surfaced. During his tenure at Death Row Records, it was alleged that Dr. Dre's half brother Warren G and Tha Dogg Pound member Daz made many uncredited contributions to songs on his solo album The Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg's album Doggystyle (Daz received production credits on Snoop's similar-sounding, albeit less successful album Tha Doggfather after Young left Death Row Records).[80]
It is known that Scott Storch, who has since gone on to become a successful producer in his own right, contributed to Dr. Dre's second album 2001; Storch is credited as a songwriter on several songs and played keyboards on several tracks. In 2006 he told Rolling Stone:
"At the time, I saw Dr. Dre desperately needed something," Storch says. "He needed a fuel injection, and Dr. Dre utilized me as the nitrous oxide. He threw me into the mix, and I sort of tapped on a new flavor with my whole piano sound and the strings and orchestration. So I'd be on the keyboards, and Mike [Elizondo] was on the bass guitar, and Dr. Dre was on the drum machine".[81]
Current collaborator Mike Elizondo, when speaking about his work with Young, describes their recording process as a collaborative effort involving several musicians. In 2004 he claimed to Songwriter Universe magazine that he had written the foundations of the hit Eminem song "The Real Slim Shady", stating, "I initially played a bass line on the song, and Dr. Dre, Tommy Coster Jr. and I built the track from there. Eminem then heard the track, and he wrote the rap to it."[77] This account is essentially confirmed by Eminem in his book Angry Blonde, stating that the tune for the song was composed by a studio bassist and keyboardist while Dr. Dre was out of the studio but later programmed the song's beat after returning.[82]
Furthermore, in the September 2003 issue of The Source, a group of disgruntled former associates of Dr. Dre complained that they had not received their full due for work on the label. A producer named Neff-U claimed to have produced the songs "Say What You Say" and "My Dad's Gone Crazy" on The Eminem Show, the songs "If I Can't" and "Back Down" on 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', and the beat featured on Dr. Dre's commercial for Coors beer.[79]
Although Young studies piano and musical theory, he serves as more of a conductor than a musician himself, as Josh Tyrangiel of Time magazine has noted:
Every Dre track begins the same way, with Dre behind a drum machine in a room full of trusted musicians. (They carry beepers. When he wants to work, they work.) He'll program a beat, then ask the musicians to play along; when Dre hears something he likes, he isolates the player and tells him how to refine the sound. "My greatest talent," Dre says, "is knowing exactly what I want to hear."[72]
Although Snoop Dogg retains working relationships with Warren G and Daz, who are alleged to be uncredited contributors on the hit albums The Chronic and Doggystyle, he states that Dr. Dre is capable of making beats without the help of collaborators.[83] It should be noted that Dr. Dre's prominent studio collaborators, including Scott Storch, Elizondo, Mark Batson and Dawaun Parker, have shared co-writing, instrumental, and more recently co-production credits on the songs where he is credited as the producer.
It is also widely acknowledged that most of Dr. Dre's raps are written for him by others, though he retains ultimate control over his lyrics and the themes of his songs. As Aftermath Producer Mahogany told Scratch: "It's like a class room in [the booth]. He'll have three writers in there. They'll bring in something, he'll recite it, then he'll say. 'Change this line, change this word,' like he's grading papers."[84] As seen in the credits for tracks Young has appeared on, there are often multiple people who contribute to his songs (although it should be noted that often in hip hop many people are officially credited as a writer for a song, even the producer). As a member of N.W.A, The D.O.C. wrote lyrics for him while he stuck with producing.[85] Popular rapper Jay-Z ghostwrote lyrics for the single "Still D.R.E." from Dr. Dre's album 2001.[39]
Discography
* 1992: The Chronic
* 1999: 2001
* 2008: Detox
Awards and nominations
* "Let Me Ride"—Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance - 1994
* "California Love"—Grammy Award Nomination as Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with 2Pac and Roger Troutman) - 1997.
* "No Diggity"—Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with Blackstreet and Queen Pen) - 1998
* "Forgot About Dre"—Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group - 2001 | (with Eminem)
* "Still D.R.E."—Grammy Award Nomination Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Snoop Dogg) and The Source Awards Nomination Single of the year (2000)
* The Marshall Mathers LP—Grammy Award for Best Rap Album - 2001 (with Eminem)
Personal life
Marriages and family
From 1990 to 1996 Dr. Dre dated singer Michel'le, who frequently contributed vocals to Death Row Records albums. In 1991 the couple had a son, Marcel. In May 1996 Dr. Dre married Nicole Threatt, who was formerly married to NBA player Sedale Threatt.[86] Dr. Dre and Nicole have two children together: a son named Truth (born 1997) and a daughter named Truly (born 2001).[87] He is also the biological father of rapper Hood Surgeon (real name Curtis Young), impregnating his mother, Lisa Johnson, at 16 when he was 17.[88]
Income
In 2001, Dr. Dre earned a total of about $52 million from selling part of his share of Aftermath Entertainment to Interscope Records and his production of such hit songs that year as "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige. Rolling Stone magazine thus named him the second highest-paid artist of the year.[4] Dr. Dre was ranked 44th in 2004 from earnings of just $11.4 million, primarily from production royalties from such projects as albums from G-Unit and D12 and the single "Rich Girl" by singer Gwen Stefani and rapper Eve.[5]
Filmography
Year Title Role
1992 Niggaz4Life: The Only Home Video Himself
1994 Set It Off Black Sam
2000 Up In Smoke Tour Himself
2001 Training Day Paul
The Wash Sean
Dr. Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A, which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. His 1992 solo debut The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993. In 1996 he left Death Row to found his own label Aftermath Entertainment, producing a compilation album, Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath, in 1997 and releasing a solo album titled 2001 in 1999.
During the 2000s he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals in other artists' songs. Rolling Stone named him among the highest-paid performers of 2001 and 2004. Dr. Dre also had acting roles in the 2001 films The Wash and Training Day. In 2011, his final solo studio album, Detox, is set to be released following much delay and speculation.
Early life
The first child of Verna and Theodore Young, Dr. Dre was born as André Romelle Young on February 18, 1965. His mother was only 16 years old at the time of his birth, after being impregnated by teenage boyfriend Theodore, whom she later married. Young's middle name, "Romelle", came from Theodore Young's unsigned, amateur R&B singing group The Romells. In 1968 his mother divorced Theodore Young for another man, Curtis Crayon, and had other children with him, including two sons named Jerome and Tyree (both of whom are now deceased)[8][9] and daughter Shameka.[10] As a young child, Young was fascinated with vinyl records spinning on phonographs; his family's record collection included many popular R&B albums of the 1960s and 1970s, from such singers as Diana Ross, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin. According to an interview with the Los Angeles Times, his mother Verna found R&B music to be a relief from the two jobs she had to work daily.[11] Despite economic troubles, she continued to encourage Young not to give up in life. During Verna's second marriage, Young and his step-brother Tyree were raised primarily by their grandmother and Curtis Crayon, as their mother spent much time in search of work.[12]
In 1976 Young began attending Vanguard Junior High School and had a new sister named Shameka. However, due to gang violence around Vanguard, he transferred to nearby Roosevelt Junior High School.[13] Verna later married Warren Griffin, whom she met at her new job in Long Beach,[14] which added three new stepsisters and one new stepbrother to the family. The stepbrother, Warren Griffin III, would eventually become a rapper under the stage name Warren G.[15]
Young attended Centennial High School in Compton during his freshman year in 1979 but transferred to Fremont High School due to poor grades. On December 15, 1981, Young fathered a son with Lisa Johnson, however Curtis Young was not brought up by his father and they only met when Curtis had become rapper Hood Surgeon about 20 years later.[16] He was nearly enrolled to an apprenticeship program at Northrop Aviation Company until poor grades at school made him ineligible. Therefore, he focused on social life and entertainment for most of his high school years.[17]
Music career
World Class Wreckin' Cru (1984–1985)
Inspired by the Grandmaster Flash song "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel", he often attended a club called The Eve After Dark to watch many DJs and rappers performing live. Thus, he became a DJ in the club, initially under the name "Dr. J" based on the nickname for Julius Erving, his favorite basketball player. At the club, he met aspiring rapper Antoine Carraby, later to become member DJ Yella of his group N.W.A.[18] Soon afterwards he adopted the moniker Dr. Dre, a mix of previous alias Dr. J and his first name, referring to himself as the "Master of Mixology".[19] He later joined the musical group World Class Wreckin' Cru under the independent Kru-Cut Records in 1984. The group would become stars of the electro-hop scene that dominated early 1980s West Coast hip hop, and their first hit "Surgery" would prominently feature Dr. Dre on the turntables and sell 50,000 copies within the Compton area.[20] Dr. Dre and DJ Yella also performed mixes for local radio station KDAY, boosting ratings for its afternoon rush-hour show The Traffic Jam.[21]
Due to the amount of time Dr. Dre was spending on his rap music he frequently skipped school, affecting his education. His absences also jeopardized his position as a diver for his school's swim team. However, when he did attend he received good grades in certain classes. After high school, he attended Chester Adult School in Compton following his mother's demands for him to get a job or go to school. After brief attendance at a radio broadcasting school, he relocated to the residence of his father and residence of his grandparents before returning to his mother's house.[22] He later dropped out of Chester to focus on performing at the Eve's After Dark nightclub.[23]
N.W.A and Ruthless Records (1986–1991)
In 1986 he met rapper Ice Cube, who collaborated with Dr. Dre to record songs for Ruthless Records, a rap record label run by local rapper and drug dealer Eazy-E. N.W.A however, along with fellow west coast rapper Ice T, debuted with rhymes including profanity and gritty depictions of crime and life on the street. No longer constricted to racially charged political issues pioneered by rap artists such as Public Enemy or Boogie Down Productions, N.W.A shot out with hardcore and realistic perspective of street violence and local black gangster lifestyle. Propelled by the hit "Fuck tha Police", the group's first full album Straight Outta Compton became a major success, despite an almost complete absence of radio airplay or major concert tours and warnings from the FBI.[2] The FBI sent letters to Arabian Prince, Ice Cube and Eazy-E urging them to stop releasing their music as a response to the large amount of complaints they had received about the group's lyrical content and use of expletives.[24]
After Ice Cube left N.W.A over financial disputes, Dr. Dre produced and performed for much of the group's second album Efil4zaggin. He also produced tracks for a number of other rap acts on Ruthless Records, including Above the Law, and The D.O.C. for the album No One Can Do It Better.[25] In 1991 at a music industry party in Hollywood, he assaulted television host Dee Barnes of the Fox television program Pump it Up, after he felt dissatisfied by a news report of hers on the feud between the remaining N.W.A members and Ice Cube. Thus, Dr. Dre was fined $2,500 and given two years' probation and 240 hours of community service, as well as a spot on an anti-violence public service announcement on television.[26][27]
The Chronic and Death Row Records (1992–1995)
After a dispute with Wright, Young left the group at the peak of its popularity in 1991 under the advice of friend, and N.W.A lyricist, The D.O.C. and his bodyguard at the time, Suge Knight. Knight, a notorious strongman and intimidator, was able to have Wright release Young from his contract and, using Dr. Dre as his flagship artist, found Death Row Records. In 1992 Young released his first single, the title track to the film Deep Cover, a collaboration with a rapper whom he met through his own stepbrother and rapper Warren G, Snoop Dogg.[2] Dr. Dre's debut album was The Chronic under Death Row Records. Young ushered in a new style of rap, both in terms of musical style and lyrical content.[28]
On the strength of singles such as "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang", featuring protegé Snoop Doggy Dogg and hits like "Let Me Ride" and "Fuck wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')" (known as "Dre Day" for radio and television play), The Chronic became a cultural phenomenon, its G-funk sound dominating much of hip hop music for the early 1990s.[2] In 1993 the Recording Industry Association of America certified the album multi-platinum,[29] and Dr. Dre also won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance for his performance in "Let Me Ride".[30] For that year, Billboard magazine also ranked Dr. Dre as the eighth best-selling musical artist, The Chronic as the sixth best-selling album, and "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" as the 11th best-selling single.[3]
Besides working on his own material, Dr. Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, which became the first debut album for an artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 album charts.[31] Young also produced other West Coast rap albums of Death Row Records, including Dogg Food by Tha Dogg Pound and the album Regulate...G Funk Era by his stepbrother Warren G. In 1994 Dr. Dre produced the soundtracks to the films Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case and the single "No Diggity" by Blackstreet. He collaborated with fellow N.W.A member Ice Cube for the song "Natural Born Killaz" in 1995.[2]
In 1995, just as Death Row Records was signing rapper 2Pac and positioning him as their major star, Young left the label amidst a contract dispute and growing concerns that label boss Suge Knight was corrupt, financially dishonest and out of control. Thus, in 1996, he formed his own label Aftermath Entertainment directly underneath the distributor label for Death Row Records, Interscope Records.[2] Consequently, Death Row Records suffered poor sales by 1997, especially following the death of 2Pac and the racketeering charges brought against Knight.[32]
Move to Aftermath Entertainment (1996–1998)
The Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath album, released on November 26, 1996, featured songs by Dr. Dre himself as well as by newly signed Aftermath artists, and a solo track "Been There, Done That", intended as a symbolic farewell to gangsta rap.[33] Despite being classified platinum by the RIAA[34], the album was not very popular among music fans.[2] In October 1996 Dr. Dre appeared on the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, broadcast on the NBC television network in the United States, to perform "Been There, Done That".[35] In 1997 Young produced several tracks on Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album; although the album went platinum, it was met with similarly negative reviews from critics. Rumors began to abound that Aftermath was facing financial difficulties.[36]
The turning point for Aftermath came in 1998, when Jimmy Iovine, the head of Aftermath's parent label Interscope, suggested that Young sign the white Detroit rapper Marshall Mathers, artistically known as Eminem, to Aftermath. Young produced three songs and provided vocals for two on his controversial album, ("My Name Is", "Guilty Conscience" and "Role Model") in 1999.[37]
2001 (1999–2000)
Dr. Dre's second solo album, 2001, released in the fall of 1999, was considered an ostentatious return to his gangsta rap roots.[38] It was initially titled The Chronic 2000 to imply being a sequel to his debut album The Chronic but was re-titled 2001 after Death Row Records released an unrelated compilation album earlier in 1999. Other tentative titles included The Chronic 2001 and Dr. Dre.[39] The album featured numerous collaborators, including Devin the Dude, Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg and Eminem. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the website All Music Guide described the sound of the album as "adding ominous strings, soulful vocals, and reggae" to Dr. Dre's style.[38] The album was highly successful, charting at number two on the Billboard 200 charts[40] and has since been certified six times platinum,[29] thus reaffirming a recurring theme featured in its lyrics, stating that Dr. Dre was still a force to be reckoned with, despite the lack of major releases in the previous few years. The album included popular hit singles "Still D.R.E." and "Forgot About Dre", both of which Dr. Dre performed on NBC's Saturday Night Live on October 23, 1999.[41] Dr. Dre won the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2000,[2] and joined the Up in Smoke Tour with fellow rappers Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Cube that year as well.[42]
During the course of the popularity of 2001, Dr. Dre was involved in several lawsuits. Lucasfilm Ltd., the film company behind the Star Wars film franchise, sued him over the use of the THX-trademarked "Deep Note".[43] The Fatback Band also sued Dr. Dre over alleged infringement of its song "Backstrokin'" in his song "Let's Get High" from the 2001 album; Dr. Dre was ordered to pay $1.5 million to the band in 2003.[44] The online music file-sharing company Napster also settled a lawsuit with him and heavy metal rock band Metallica in the summer of 2001, agreeing to block access to certain files that artists do not want to have shared on the network.[45]
Focus on production (2001–present)
Following the success of 2001, Dr. Dre focused on producing songs and albums for other artists. He produced the single "Family Affair" by R&B singer Mary J. Blige for her album No More Drama in 2001.[4] Other successful albums that he produced for Aftermath have included the major-label debut album by Queens, New York-based rapper 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin', in 2003. The album featured the Dr. Dre-produced hit single "In da Club", as a joint production between Aftermath, Eminem's boutique label Shady Records and Interscope.[46] Dr. Dre also produced "How We Do", a 2005 hit single of rapper The Game from his album The Documentary.[47]
Another copyright-related lawsuit came upon Dr. Dre in the fall of 2002, when Sa Re Ga Ma, a film and music company based in Calcutta, India, sued Aftermath Entertainment over an uncredited sample of the Lata Mangeshkar song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" on the Aftermath-produced song "Addictive" by singer Truth Hurts. In February 2003, a judge ruled that Aftermath would have to halt sales of Truth Hurts' album Truthfully Speaking if the company would not credit Mangeshkar.[48] In April 2003 rapper Ja Rule released a mixtape of freestyle raps criticizing Dr. Dre and his associated artists 50 Cent and Eminem.[49] At the Vibe magazine awards show in November 2004, Dr. Dre was attacked by a fan named Jimmy James Johnson, who was asking for an autograph. Johnson, in September 2005, was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to stay away from Dr. Dre until 2008.[50] For an issue of Rolling Stone magazine in April 2005, Kanye West praised Dr. Dre as among the greatest performing artists of all time.[51]
In November 2006 Dr. Dre began working with Raekwon on his album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II.[52] He also contributed to the rap albums Buck the World by Young Buck[53] and Curtis by 50 Cent.[54] Other upcoming albums that he is involved with includeThe Reformation by Bishop Lamont,[55] The Nacirema Dream by Papoose,[56] Here I Am by Eve,[57] and L.A.X. by The Game.[58] Among planned but unreleased albums during Dr. Dre's tenure at Aftermath have included a full-length reunion with Snoop Dogg titled Breakup to Makeup, an album with fellow former N.W.A member Ice Cube which was to be titled Heltah Skeltah, an N.W.A reunion album, and a joint album with fellow producer Timbaland titled Chairmen of the Board.[59][25][60]
Detox: Final album
Detox is to be Dr. Dre's final album.[7] In 2002, Dre told Corey Moss of MTV News that he intended Detox to be a concept album.[6] Work for the album dates back to early 2004,[61] but later in that year he decided to stop working on the album to focus on producing for other artists but then changed his mind; the album had initially been set for a fall 2005 release.[62] After several delays, the album was finally scheduled to be released sometime in 2008 by Interscope Records, which has not set a firm release date for the album as of September 2007.[7] Producers confirmed to work on the album include Bernard "Focus" Edwards Jr.,[63] Hi-Tek,[64] J.R. Rotem,[65] RZA,[66] Jay-Z,[67] and Warren G.[68]
Film career
In 2001 Dr. Dre appeared in the movies The Wash and Training Day.[69] A song of his, "Bad Intentions" (featuring Knoc-Turn'Al) and produced by Mahogany, was featured on The Wash soundtrack.[70] Dr. Dre also appeared on two other songs "On the Blvd." and "The Wash" along with his co-star Snoop Dogg. In February 2007 it was announced that Dr. Dre would produce dark comedies and horror films for New Line-owned company Crucial Films, along with longtime video director Phillip Atwell. Dr. Dre announced "This is a natural switch for me, since I've directed a lot of music videos, and I eventually want to get into directing."[71]
Musical influences and style
Dr. Dre has said that his primary instrument in the studio is the Akai MPC3000, a drum machine and sampler, and that he uses as many as four or five to produce a single recording. He cites George Clinton, Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield as primary musical influences. Unlike most rap producers, he tries to avoid samples as much as possible, preferring to have studio musicians re-play pieces of music he wants to use, because it allows him more flexibility to change the pieces in rhythm and tempo.[59] In 2001 he told Time magazine, "I may hear something I like on an old record that may inspire me, but I'd rather use musicians to re-create the sound or elaborate on it. I can control it better."[72] Other equipment he uses include the E-mu SP-1200 drum machine and other keyboards from such manufacturers as Korg, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Moog, and Roland.[73]
After founding Aftermath Entertainment in 1996, Dr. Dre took on producer Mel-Man as a co-producer, and his music took on a more synthesizer-based sound, using fewer vocal samples (as he had used on "Lil' Ghetto Boy" and "Let Me Ride" on The Chronic, for example). Mel-Man has not shared co-production credits with Dr. Dre since approximately 2002, but fellow Aftermath producer Focus has credited Mel-Man as a key architect of the signature Aftermath sound.[74]
In 1999 Dr. Dre started working with Mike Elizondo, a bassist, guitarist, and keyboardist who has also produced, written and played on records for female singers such as Poe, Fiona Apple and Alanis Morissette,[75] for his album 2001. Elizondo has since worked for many of Dr. Dre's productions.[76][77] Dr. Dre also told Scratch magazine in a 2004 interview that he has been studying piano and music theory formally, and that a major goal is to accumulate enough musical theory to score movies. In the same interview he stated that he has collaborated with famed 1960s songwriter Burt Bacharach by sending him hip hop beats to play over, and hopes to have an in-person collaboration with him in the future.[59]
Work ethic
Dr. Dre has stated that he is a perfectionist, and is known to pressure the artists with whom he records to give flawless performances.[59] In 2006 Snoop Dogg told the website Dubcnn.com that Dr. Dre had made new artist Chauncey Black re-record a single bar of vocals 107 times.[78] Dr. Dre has also stated that Eminem is a fellow perfectionist, and attributes his success on Aftermath to his like-minded work ethic.[59]
A consequence of this perfectionism is that some artists that initially sign deals with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label never release albums. In 2001, Aftermath released the soundtrack to the movie The Wash. featuring a number of Aftermath acts such as Shaunta, Daks, Joe Beast and Toi. To date, none have released full-length albums on Aftermath and have apparently ended their relationships with the label and Dr. Dre. Other noteworthy acts to leave Aftermath without releasing albums include King Tee, 2001 vocalist Hittman and 1980s rap icon Rakim.[79]
However, over the years word of other collaborators has surfaced. During his tenure at Death Row Records, it was alleged that Dr. Dre's half brother Warren G and Tha Dogg Pound member Daz made many uncredited contributions to songs on his solo album The Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg's album Doggystyle (Daz received production credits on Snoop's similar-sounding, albeit less successful album Tha Doggfather after Young left Death Row Records).[80]
It is known that Scott Storch, who has since gone on to become a successful producer in his own right, contributed to Dr. Dre's second album 2001; Storch is credited as a songwriter on several songs and played keyboards on several tracks. In 2006 he told Rolling Stone:
"At the time, I saw Dr. Dre desperately needed something," Storch says. "He needed a fuel injection, and Dr. Dre utilized me as the nitrous oxide. He threw me into the mix, and I sort of tapped on a new flavor with my whole piano sound and the strings and orchestration. So I'd be on the keyboards, and Mike [Elizondo] was on the bass guitar, and Dr. Dre was on the drum machine".[81]
Current collaborator Mike Elizondo, when speaking about his work with Young, describes their recording process as a collaborative effort involving several musicians. In 2004 he claimed to Songwriter Universe magazine that he had written the foundations of the hit Eminem song "The Real Slim Shady", stating, "I initially played a bass line on the song, and Dr. Dre, Tommy Coster Jr. and I built the track from there. Eminem then heard the track, and he wrote the rap to it."[77] This account is essentially confirmed by Eminem in his book Angry Blonde, stating that the tune for the song was composed by a studio bassist and keyboardist while Dr. Dre was out of the studio but later programmed the song's beat after returning.[82]
Furthermore, in the September 2003 issue of The Source, a group of disgruntled former associates of Dr. Dre complained that they had not received their full due for work on the label. A producer named Neff-U claimed to have produced the songs "Say What You Say" and "My Dad's Gone Crazy" on The Eminem Show, the songs "If I Can't" and "Back Down" on 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', and the beat featured on Dr. Dre's commercial for Coors beer.[79]
Although Young studies piano and musical theory, he serves as more of a conductor than a musician himself, as Josh Tyrangiel of Time magazine has noted:
Every Dre track begins the same way, with Dre behind a drum machine in a room full of trusted musicians. (They carry beepers. When he wants to work, they work.) He'll program a beat, then ask the musicians to play along; when Dre hears something he likes, he isolates the player and tells him how to refine the sound. "My greatest talent," Dre says, "is knowing exactly what I want to hear."[72]
Although Snoop Dogg retains working relationships with Warren G and Daz, who are alleged to be uncredited contributors on the hit albums The Chronic and Doggystyle, he states that Dr. Dre is capable of making beats without the help of collaborators.[83] It should be noted that Dr. Dre's prominent studio collaborators, including Scott Storch, Elizondo, Mark Batson and Dawaun Parker, have shared co-writing, instrumental, and more recently co-production credits on the songs where he is credited as the producer.
It is also widely acknowledged that most of Dr. Dre's raps are written for him by others, though he retains ultimate control over his lyrics and the themes of his songs. As Aftermath Producer Mahogany told Scratch: "It's like a class room in [the booth]. He'll have three writers in there. They'll bring in something, he'll recite it, then he'll say. 'Change this line, change this word,' like he's grading papers."[84] As seen in the credits for tracks Young has appeared on, there are often multiple people who contribute to his songs (although it should be noted that often in hip hop many people are officially credited as a writer for a song, even the producer). As a member of N.W.A, The D.O.C. wrote lyrics for him while he stuck with producing.[85] Popular rapper Jay-Z ghostwrote lyrics for the single "Still D.R.E." from Dr. Dre's album 2001.[39]
Discography
* 1992: The Chronic
* 1999: 2001
* 2008: Detox
Awards and nominations
* "Let Me Ride"—Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance - 1994
* "California Love"—Grammy Award Nomination as Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with 2Pac and Roger Troutman) - 1997.
* "No Diggity"—Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with Blackstreet and Queen Pen) - 1998
* "Forgot About Dre"—Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group - 2001 | (with Eminem)
* "Still D.R.E."—Grammy Award Nomination Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Snoop Dogg) and The Source Awards Nomination Single of the year (2000)
* The Marshall Mathers LP—Grammy Award for Best Rap Album - 2001 (with Eminem)
Personal life
Marriages and family
From 1990 to 1996 Dr. Dre dated singer Michel'le, who frequently contributed vocals to Death Row Records albums. In 1991 the couple had a son, Marcel. In May 1996 Dr. Dre married Nicole Threatt, who was formerly married to NBA player Sedale Threatt.[86] Dr. Dre and Nicole have two children together: a son named Truth (born 1997) and a daughter named Truly (born 2001).[87] He is also the biological father of rapper Hood Surgeon (real name Curtis Young), impregnating his mother, Lisa Johnson, at 16 when he was 17.[88]
Income
In 2001, Dr. Dre earned a total of about $52 million from selling part of his share of Aftermath Entertainment to Interscope Records and his production of such hit songs that year as "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige. Rolling Stone magazine thus named him the second highest-paid artist of the year.[4] Dr. Dre was ranked 44th in 2004 from earnings of just $11.4 million, primarily from production royalties from such projects as albums from G-Unit and D12 and the single "Rich Girl" by singer Gwen Stefani and rapper Eve.[5]
Filmography
Year Title Role
1992 Niggaz4Life: The Only Home Video Himself
1994 Set It Off Black Sam
2000 Up In Smoke Tour Himself
2001 Training Day Paul
The Wash Sean
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"Forgot About Dre" Y'all know me, still the same O.G. but I been…
03) Let Me Ride Biatch Eeh? W'appen nuh, baby? You look good inna yuh car, …
05-Nuthin' But A G Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
07. What's The Difference What's the difference between me and you? Back when Cube, w…
10 Time to snap out of it, welcome to the real…
11 The Next Episode La-da-da-da-dah It's the motherfucking D-O-double-G (Snoop D…
12 Steps To Recovery Break out your fucking Swishers Light up your fuckin' weed I…
13.Dr.Dre His moms and pops met in Compton Pops was from Nutty…
14.-The car bomb And now, the car bomb Yo, Re-Re, come on man, let's…
15 Scottie,scottie Scottie,scottie (andre nickatina) Put the p…
17. Some L.A Niggaz Yeah nigga, MC Ren up in this motherfucker (West West y'all)…
187 Hit this mothafucka', G Naw man, I can't fuck with that. Man…
2 Live Angel loshe beat John Dre pon the sing song Issa late night…
2Nite Tonight, we're gonna get badder (Badder) You're gonna get we…
3- The Hard Way They say that hip hop's dead I bring it back when…
5 big ego`s Los Angeles approach control This is Cessna 0281-Echo-119.3,…
6 In The Morning What's that Ion know grab the Glocks nigga Who's there It's…
8 Ball I don't drink brass monkey like to be funky Nickname…
A Nigga Witta Gun Yeah, nigga what's up with all that motherfuckin' shit you…
A Star Is Born Christ is born this day A king is born in Bethlehem Let…
A Story to Tell I'm living for today Cuz it's not over I'm living for today …
Ackrite It's fuckin ackrite Question is can I get some? Know what…
Ackrite (feat. Hittman) [Hittman] It's fuckin ackrite Question is - can I get some? …
Ackrite ) It's fuckin ackrite Question is can I get some? Know what…
Afro Puffs I rock rough and stuff with my afro puffs (Rage!) Rock…
After U Die Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
Aftermath This is dedicated to the niggaz that was down from…
Ain't No Fun Yeah, wassup? Lil' Jon and my muthafuckin' nigga Mac muthafu…
Ain't Nothin But a G Thang One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Ain't Nuthin But A G-Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
All I Need I'm about to lose my mind You've been gone for so…
All in a Day's Work Sittin' 'bout a hundred stories up, like what the fuck? And…
All My Niggas Hi Jason I love you Yeah I gave you all my…
Animals These old sneakers, faded blue jeans No tricks no gimmicks, …
Anotha 'G' Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
As the World Keeps Turning As the world keeps turning chronic keeps burning (This…
Ask Yourself A Question featuring Dr. Dre Kurupt: Check it out Here's a penn…
B**** N****z Bitch I might be Bitch I might be Bitch I might be Bitch…
B**** Please II Yeah, what up, Detroit? Nu-uh, nu-uh nuh, no, he didn't Th…
B.S I was walkin' through the park one day Puffin’ on a…
Bad (Super ugly) Put your cups up, get your smoke in Baby, we…
Bad Guys The wild, Gotham The Wild West Ha ha, ride All you see …
Bad Guys Always Die The wild, Gotham The Wild West Ha ha, ride All you see is…
Bad Guys Always Die (feat. Eminem) The Wild.. Gotham The Wild.. West {*BANG BANG, BANG*} Ha ha,…
Bad Intention (Super ugly) Put your cups up, get your smoke in Baby, we…
Bad Intentions-FIX (Super ugly) Put your cups up, get your smoke in Baby, we…
Bang Bang Everywhere I go, all I ever seem to hear is Bang…
Bar One [Ms. Roq]Damn girl, it is hotter than a motherfucker up…
Been There And Done That [Chorus: Repeat 2X] I been there - been there Done that…
Big Ego Los Angeles approach control This is Cessna 0281-Echo-119.3,…
Big Ego's (feat. Hittman) [Dr. Dre] I got mo' class than most of em, ran…
Big Ego's (Instrumental) I got mo' class than most of em, ran wit…
Big Ego's Instrumental I got mo' class than most of 'em, ran wit'…
Bitch I'm Back Yeah, this is Dr. Dre And this is the next Aftermath…
Bitch Niggas [Snoop Dogg:] Check it out, Dogg; This game is a muthafuc…
Bitch Niggaz That's some good-ass weed Check it out Dawg, this game is…
Bitch Niggaz (feat. Snoop Dogg, Hittman & Six-Two) (feat. Snoop Dogg, Hittman & Six-Two) [Dre] Some good-a…
Bitch Please Yeah, what up, Detroit? Nu-uh, nu-uh nuh, no, he didn't Th…
Bitches Ain't Shit Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks Bitches ain't shit b…
Black Privilege I'm just standin' here, lookin' at the man in the…
Blow It Remix When the world feels like it's in disarray I hit pause,…
Blow Up Yo DreLaylow Are you venturing into the music industry? Am I…
Blunt Time DEAD! INTRO (Blunt time-pull out your philly)Ha ha,mighty …
Bounce (Tempo has reached critical level) (Tempo has reached critic…
Boyz-n-the-Hood [Dr. Dre] Hey yo, remember that shit Eazy did a while…
Bridgette There once was this girl i knew named Bridgette She asked…
Cabbage Patch Y′all know me, still the same O.G. but I been…
California love California love California knows how to party California kno…
Can't C Me Well I can't stop (won't stop) Can't stop shaking Can't stop…
Candy Some say that love is sweet as a rose, Some say…
Cant C Me Well I can't stop (won't stop) Can't stop shaking Can't stop…
Car Bomb And now, the car bomb Yo, Re-Re, come on man, let's…
Chevy Ridin High This is, this is, this is, this is Chevy ridin' high…
Chillin 6 in the mornin', nigga drink all the patron Ho! Right!…
Choices Ah, yeah Ah, ah Ah yeah [Verse 1] Time and time again knew o…
Chronic This is dedicated to the niggas that was down from…
Church Do that shit a little better Put a little emphasis in…
Coming Back Yeah yeah Just know that my time I'm taking it For the…
Compton Now everybody serenade the new faith of Kendrick Lamar This …
Crooked Cop I speak on behalf of y'all Think I ever gave a…
D Yeah, nigga I'm still fuckin' with ya Still waters run deep …
Darkside Gone Where you at? Where you from? What you doing over here…
Dead Wrong (How you do that SAV?) Meet your Maker Mucho Mota From Jamai…
Deeez Nuuuts Just let me call this old bitch, see what this…
Deep Cover Hit this motherfucker, G (N-naw, man, I can't fuck with that…
Deep Cover (feat. Snoop Dogg) SDD] {*Snoop inhales*} Hit this motherfucker G [Cop] No, naw…
Deep Cover (ft. Snoop Dogg) Hit this motherfucker G No, naw man, I can't fuck with…
Deep Water I heard you talking about respect, I gave you niggas…
Deez Nuuuts Let me call this old bitch See what this bitch doin' Call…
Detox We turn up all night with my niggas in the…
Detox Is Done What, wait, hold up, pass Time to roll another bag Time to…
Dignity When you've had too much to drink there's certain things to…
Dippin Yeah, uhh Wanna say whattup to all them riders All them side…
Do 4 Love Hmm, hmm, mm You make me do, do, yeah girl (Yeah) I never…
Do You Tell me, Father, do you hear me I've been pulling on…
Do You Know What You Talkin About Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans And…
Doggy Dogg World We'd like to welcome y'all to the fabulous Carolina West I…
Don't Sleep Chilling, vibe and flow She wanna cake, no way Chilling, vib…
Don't Stop You love me love me so good You make me feel…
Don't Talk Don't Talk To Me People try to tell me, they're all…
Don't You Baby I don't like you No I don't like you No Did you get ready…
Dr Dre His moms and pops met in Compton Pops was from Nutty…
Dr. Dre- Still D.R.E Yeah, nigga I'm still fuckin' with ya Still waters run deep …
Dr. Dre- Still D.R.E. Yeah nigga I'm still fucking with ya Still waters run deep S…
Dr.Dre His moms and pops met in Compton Pops was from Nutty…
Dre Yeah, nigga I'm still fuckin' with ya Still waters run deep …
Dre Day Yeah, hell yeah, know what I'm sayin'? Yeah Mista Busta, wh…
Dre's Beat Stamping with my feet gospel tramples with my words At cross…
Dre's Beat Remix Pode fazer o que quiser, até me machucar Transborda no meu…
Dwayne I'm sitting back Maxing relaxing Chatting bout how we gone m…
East Coast / West Coast Killas East coast killer, West coast killer [x8] [RBX] While child…
Ed-Ucation Aww they say uhh A black man is a pimp Well let…
ED-Ucation (feat. Eddie Griffin) [Eddie Griffin] Aww they say uhh.. .. a black man is a…
Education Aww they say uhh A black man is a pimp Well let…
Elements There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen …
ETA Ay, I think my shit kickin' in What's the perfect hue…
Everyday Uh, word you don't get this everyday, word With so much…
Evon Is On Ey Dre can you feed me beats so I can…
Explosive That I'm lyrically proven This is not a hypothesis Sublimina…
F*** You Wait Its you And at the end of it all its you And…
F**k You (Instrumental) Hi baby I know your under a lot of pressure at…
Fame Fame makes a man take things over Fame lets him loose,…
Fast Lane [Bilal] Hey, living in the fast lane Driving fast 'broads' W…
Firm Family A tale of two cities. Right here It's time we set…
Fist Full of Dollars One's for the money two's for the weed spot Undercover cops…
Flashes Como se câmeras e flashes estivessem voltados pra mim Meu…
Flirt (Oh yeah) (Flirt) (flirt) (flirt) (flirt) (flirt)... (Oh ye…
For the Love of Money For the love of money It's beautiful outside Looks like it'…
Forget About Dr. Dre Dr. Dre: Y'all know me, still the same ol' G, but…
Forget about Dre Y'all know me, still the same O.G. But I been low-key Hated…
Forgot About Dre (feat. Eminem) {Dr. Dre} {First Verse} Y'all know me, still the same ole…
Forgot About Dre ) Y'all know me, still the same O.G. but I been…
Four in the morning What's that Ion know grab the Glocks nigga Who's there It's…
Freak-A-Holic This is the real Turn me up aye Turn me…
Freestyle Money, power, and respect Keep my foes in check and Kill eve…
Friday Yo, Check me out right now, Haam, Yo, You got me feeli…
Fuc Wit Dre Day Yeah, hell yeah, know what I'm sayin'? Yeah Mista Busta, wh…
Fuck The Police Я делал грязный стиль Я повторил бы это Тебе приветы,…
Fuck Wit Dre Day Yeah, hell yeah, know what I'm sayin'? Yeah Mista Busta, wh…
Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin') Yeah, hell yeah, knowhatI'msayin, yeah [Verse One: Dr. Dre]…
Fuck Wit' Dre Day Yeah, hell yeah, know what I'm sayin'? Yeah Mista Busta, wh…
Fuck You Hi baby I know you're under a lot of pressure at…
Fuck You (feat. Devin the Dude & Snoop Dogg) [answering machine girl] Hi baby I know your under a lot of…
Fuck You Feat. Tray-Dee & Snoop Dogg I just wanna fuck bad bitches All them nights I never…
Funky Chicken Yeah, you know what i like the playettes No diggity, no…
Funky Flute Listen as he executes the funky flute He can play…
Game Over Man, what's up with these niggas out here Mad at us…
Gang Bang 'Flow my tears', the new Police song The slogan of peace…
Genocide Stone cold killers in these Compton streets One hand on the…
Get It On You gotta get it get it get it playa Count all…
Ghetto Fabulous I got juice but I can't stop no ocean liner…
Gin Heah hah hah! I'm serious nigga one of y'all niggaz got…
Gorilla Pimpin (feat. 6 Two) [Verse 1: The D.O.C.] big baller, of blind diggy black foe d…
Gospel Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah What? Uh, wha…
Got Me Open Ah Ah-yo butter is, uh, hands-on in the house Well check…
Grow Up My lil' sister said, bro, don't play with drugs When she…
Guilty Conscience Meet Eddie, 23 years old Fed up with life (damn) And the…
Gz & Hustlas This is for the Gz, and this is for the…
Hands On Spend all my time, yes Spend all my time, yes Spend all…
Hard Liquor (Hard liquor) Dre you must've been of the hennessy when he…
Hardest Man in Town Now handsome guys get girls that are pretty Other guys get…
Hate Me Now Love me or hate me 我只想跟你一起 Nobody like you 讓我心燙燙 IG的story 你還…
Hell Breaks Loose I want you to understand something That when I come up…
Here We Go Again Yo, Yo, Here we go Spitting these rhymes cuz its all…
High Powered Yo, yo, what's up? Yo man, give me some of that…
House Calls Hello this is Dr. Dre. I'm not in right now but…
House Wife Now this this is one of them occasions Where the homies…
Housecalls Hello this is Dr. Dre. I'm not in right now but…
Housewife Now this this is one of them occasions Where the homies…
Housewife (feat. Kurupt & Hittman) Chorus: Kurupt Now this this is one of them occasions where…
I Am Hip-Hop "Everything that's happening to you is God processing you. E…
I Just Wanna Fuck you I dont want you To be no slave I dont want you To…
I Know Sound The ambassador of sound, the bridge between the AI and…
I need a Doctor I'm about to lose my mind You've been gone for so…
I Need A Doctor (Prod. by Alex D Skylar Grey: I'm about to lose my mind You've been …
I Need a Doctor (feat. Eminem I'm about to lose my mind You've been gone for so…
i still be ridin Yo, I'm caught up in this Cyclone, my Mind's home This…
I'm Back Yeah, this is Dr. Dre And this is the next Aftermath…
Imagine Yo Doc, what up my nigga? Snoop Dogg, this what…
In Da Club My head in the clouds, my face in the cup They…
In da zone Either me or you so you know I'm quick to…
innovator Innovator. Indicator. Regulator. The tone. Diamonds. Skeleto…
Instrumental Ackrite It's fuckin ackrite Question is can I get some? Know what…
Instrumental Still Dre Yeah, nigga I'm still fuckin' with ya Still waters run deep …
Instrumental The Message This one is for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P A message to…
Interlude Maafi dena yaaro mujhe kar rha bhool chook Shuru karu yeh sa…
Intro Compton was the american dream Sunny california with a palm …
Issues From close range we official Cocaine, money and pistols Godd…
It Could've Been I ain't been here in minute Imma need a couple minutes Imma…
It's All on Me Family problems, it ain't easy handling those needs (Sometim…
It's Bad You don’t really Wanna pop shit rock shit I just want u…
It's Funky Enough One, and here comes the two to the three and…
It's Like That [[Intro]] Yeaaaah... Aftermath... D.R.E. [[Verse One]] I…
It's Not Over Honestly girl you a lot to handle But i knew all…
It's On Family problems, it ain't easy handling those needs (Sometim…
It's On Remix When the world feels like it's in disarray I hit pause,…
Its You I Adore Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice message…
it`s funky enough One, and here comes the two to the three and…
Juice Alright kid, here's the deal At any given time, there are…
Just Another Day It's motherfuckin' Game time! Six pounds of chronic on my g…
Just Say No You came to stay a long time ago It was my…
Keep the Heads Ringing Yeah, what up, this is Dr. Dre The party's goin' on Thank…
Keep Their Heads Ringing Yea, What up this is Dr. Dre The party's goin' on…
keep they heads ringin Yeah, what up, this is Dr. Dre The party's goin' on Thank…
Knoc feat. Knoc-Turn'al & Missy Elliot Whatchu want? Whatchu want? Get off me I pull quick, it's u…
Kush Roll up, wait a minute Let me put some kush up…
Kush (Ft.Snoop Dogg Hold up, wait a minute Let me put some kush up…
Kush ft. Snoop Dogg & Akon Roll up, wait a minute Let me put some kush up…
l.a. is the place Free and easy, that's my style Howdy-do me, watch me smile F…
L.A.W It's like it's like this Word up knowhutI'msayin?…
L.A.W. It's like it's like this Word up knowhutI'msayin?…
LAW It's like it's like this Word up knowhutI'msayin?…
Lay Low (D. Locorriere) Well I've been runnin' so long I'm ready to…
Let Me Ride Biatch Eeh? W'appen nuh, baby? You look good inna yuh car, …
Let Me Ride feat Ruben Jewell & Snoop Dogg Creepin' down the back street on Deez I got my glock…
Let Me Ride Feat. Jewell & Ruben Biatch Eeh? W'appen nuh, baby? You look good inna yuh car, …
Let Me Ride/Jewell/Ruben Creepin' down the back street on Deez I got my glock…
Let's Get High (feat Hittman (all together) All these niggaz and all these hoes in here …
Let's Get High (feat. Hittman, Kurupt & Ms. Roq) [all together] All these niggaz and all these hoes in here S…
Let's Jam As I walked into the room, I seen a beautiful…
Let´s Get High All these niggas and all these hoes in here, somebody…
Life's A Bitch Chorus: Bitch Life's a bitch Life's a bitch and then you die…
Light Hey, yo whassup? My name is Dre Can I blaze some chronic…
Light Speed (feat. Hittman) [Dr. Dre] Hey, yo whassup? My name is Dre Can I blaze some…
Light Speed ) Hey, yo whassup? My name is Dre Can I blaze some chronic…
Lil So, all of you Africans, all of you Africans That…
Lil Ghetto Boy Wake up, jumped out my bed Hung in a 2 man…
Lil' Ghetto Boy So, all of you Africans, all of you Africans That…
Lil' Ghetto Boy (remix) [Featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg] The Ghetto x8 Snoop Doggy Dogg:…
Lil' Ghetto Boy Feat. Daz & Snoop Dogg So, all of you Africans, all of you Africans That…
Listen to the Gang Bang Story 'Flow my tears', the new Police song The slogan of peace…
Loc It Up Trap aye aye aye aye If its something that you need…
Lolo Goddamn, wassup, nigga? Oh, shit Wassup? Hey, that motherfuc…
Lolo Version ) Goddamn, wassup, nigga? Oh, shit Wassup? Hey, that mother…
Loose Cannons All my life, I've been down to ride Till I kept…
Love Letters 2 26 95 Nicole Hopefully you doing well and you realized y…
Lovers La da da di da da da da La da da…
Lyrical Gangbang This should be played at high volume Preferably in a residen…
Medicine Man Don't let me find out, the bitch in you Don't let…
Message This one is for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P A message to…
Message The [Dr. Dre] This one is for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P. .. {*Mar…
Mind Made Up I got my mind made up, come on get in Get…
Mo Friends and family start to call Snowflakes flutter see them…
Monay I never wanted to work for muthafuckas That told me what…
Money For the love of money It's beautiful outside Looks like it'…
Murder When darkness be closin in I'm motivated, with the howlin wi…
Murder Ink (feat. Hittman & Ms. Roq) [Hitman] When darkness be closin in I'm motivated, with the …
Murder Ink. When darkness be closin in I'm motivated, with the howlin wi…
Murder Was the Case As I look up at the sky My mind starts tripping A…
Must Be the Music Sometimes I wonder Just what am I fighting for? I win some…
My Dogs I'm walking all around the town I'm seeing all the people…
My Life Just smokin' weed for hours Drinking Hennessy for hours Tha…
My Name Is धीना धिन ढा धीना धिन ढा धीना धिन ढा धीना धिन ढा रम पं…
My Syllables It is not about lyrics anymore It's about a hot beat…
N-Tervu [Dr. Dre] Hey yo, remember that shit Eazy did a while…
Nas वो हम न थे वो तुम न थे वो हम न…
Nasty She love it She love it Ouuu yea yea Uh huh Yo she really…
Nationowl (All right is everybody ready yeah!) (Alright now …
Natural Born Killaz Shit, I'm tired as fuck Come on, baby, let's get the…
Natural Born Killaz (feat. Ice Cube) Artist: Dr. Dre & Ice Cube (Dr. Dre) Journey with me Into th…
New Day Party people say, party people say Ay it's a new day,…
New West Rising Shadowstrider rising, in the Dark, I'm grinding Seeker of Tr…
Next Episode 2006 Da da da da da It's the one and only D-O…
Nicety (Intro: x6) Nice and... (James Brown:) ("Nasty! ") (Ho!) ("H…
Nigga with a Gun Yeah, nigga what's up with all that motherfuckin' shit you…
No Diggity Yeah You know what I like the playettes No diggity, no doubt…
No More Lies Hello? Hello? Hello? 'Course you're the only girl. You're…
No One I no longer feel pain I am no longer the same Anymore…
No Second Chance (* Group Harmonizing *) (Chorus 1 x2) Na na na, Na na…
Not Today I ain't got no opps so I be moving how…
Nothin To It ft. Serenade I used to carry a Glock on the waist line,…
Nothin' But A G'Thang- Feat. Snoop doggy Dogg One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nothin' to It I used to carry a Glock on the waist line,…
Nothing But A G Thing One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Numb Encore Sh-sh-sh-shady Aftermath, ha ha (G-G-G-G-G-Unit ha ha) I've…
Nuthin One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin but a 'G' Thang (club mix) (feat. Daz, Snoop Dogg) [Snoop] Now I be mobbing like a moth…
Nuthin but a 'G' Thang (Freestyle remix) One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin but a 'G' Thang (LP version) (feat. Daz, Snoop Dogg) [Snoop] Now I be mobbing like a moth…
Nuthin but a G Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' But a "G" Thang/Snoop Dogg One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' But a %22G%22 Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' But A &Quot;G&Quot; Thang One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' But A G Thang Feat. Snoop Dogg One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' but a G Thing One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin' But a G'Thang One, two, three and to the fo' Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthing But a G Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang 1, 2, 3 and to the 4 Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Nutthin But A G Thang One, two, three and to the four Snoop Doggy Dogg and…
Old Time's Sake Good evening! This is your fucking captain speaking We will …
On My Back Hook: Soon as I wake up I get to the racks/ Still…
On The Boulevard You in the office of the good doc again, let's…
One Day (feat. Snoop Doggy Dog If I die, Before I wake I hope I'm happy for…
One Eight Seven I wake in the morning and see the sun is…
One Hundred Speakers If you turn this shit on This is a sign for…
One Shot One Kill Guess who's back, it ain't a fuckin' question They know the…
Oooh My God! Hello my God Hello my God I just want to say You're beautifu…
Original Bad Boys TS terror Squad Yeah uh It's another one bad Boy Kool & Dre…
Out Of Control Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa Inaudible* yeah, yeah I can't contr…
Outro Who you Dr. Dre? Haha Are you a real doctor dude? I mean…
paid Yoo You know what time it is Shawty say my neck look…
Paid For It Making it look easy when it's hard as hell Don't know…
Paradise I thought the Light would be my saving grace A sanctuary…
Pause 4 ***** Y'all ready to get nasty? Yeah! Shit! Yeah! Oh Damn! Oh…
Pause 4 Porno (Jake Steed's lines are in {}'s) (Ya'll ready to get…
Pause 4 Porno (feat Jake Steed Y'all ready to get nasty? Yeah! Shit! Yeah! Oh Dam…
Pause 4 Porno (feat. Jake Steed) (feat. Jake Steed) (Jake Steed's lines are in {}'s) (Y抋ll …
Pause 4porno Y'all ready to get nasty? Yeah! Shit! Yeah! Oh Damn! Oh…
Phone Tap Yo, this Esco, who this? What's the deally, I just touched…
Please [Verse 1] I've told you over and over again Knew that wasn't…
Popped Off Ay, [Hook] See a party aint a party til the Doc walk…
Prelude Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her ear…
Pretty Girls 10 pretty girls, other side of the city Car full of…
Puffin on Blunts and Drankin Tanqueray [Lady Of Rage] All ways and forever, forever and all ways th…
Puppet Master I spark like a blunt's tip, somethin cavi Makin Greene like…
Put It on Me [Dr. Dre] Why'all ready to get dirty? Do why'all really want…
Quarter Till 4 Why the fuck you turn my game off bitch I was…
Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat "You really don't understand do you? Hey man, don't you real…
Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat Feat. Snoop You really don't understand do you? Hey man, don't you reali…
Rat‐Tat‐Tat‐Tat "You really don't understand do you? Hey man, don't you real…
Revelation We got the power to be better this ain't overstepping Come…
Ride or Die Feel like the summer time, a summer breeze Feel like doin…
Rims रिमझिम रिमझिम रूंझूम रूंझूम भीगी भीगी रुत में तुम हम हम तुम …
Ring Ding Dong (Ha Ha) Yeh, What up, this is Dr. Dre The…
Rollin Heavy load, on the open road, the life your showed,…
Rollin' I roll and I tumble, cried the whole night long Yes…
Satisfiction Simple pleasures, rockstar living Drugs and mansions, hit th…
say dr. dre His moms and pops met in Compton Pops was from Nutty…
Say What U Say So I'm out the game, huh? Yo, Dre, we ridin'? Whatever Haha,…
scream Filling these sidewalks Everyday after five Choking for spac…
Serial Killa Six million ways to die, choose one It's time to escape,…
Set It Off Late night when it get dark Thats when the demons walk You…
Sex Butt sex, penis in the ass sex Let's go get a…
Sexy Dance Would you like a table dance? (Repeated in background) A…
Sh**tin' on the World Yes yes y'all, ooh funk Yes yes y'all, to the beat…
She In the depths of the caverns, beneath the Under-City's reign…
She's the One She's the one, don't let her get away She's the one,…
Shittin' on the World Intro: Yes yes y'all, ooh funk.... Yes yes y'all, to the be…
Skit And now, the car bomb Yo, re-re, come on man, let's…
skit 2 And we're back It's your DJ host with the most Kyle, you're…
Slip-N-Slide Yeah, slip, slide Hope she gon' ride Hope, it is a yes,…
Slow Down Ik kan van jou zijn Ik ben for life En jij wilt…
Some L.A. N****z Yeah nigga, MC Ren up in this motherfucker (West West y'all)…
Some LA Niggaz (feat. DeFari, Xzibit, Knoc-Turn'al, Time Bomb, King T, MC Ren & Kokane) [MC Ren] Yeah nigga, MC Ren up in this motherfucker (West We…
Standard I've walked the line and Shadowed Souls Seen the lows and…
Still Yeah nigga I'm still fucking with ya Still waters run deep S…
Still D R E Yeah, nigga I'm still fuckin' with ya Still waters run deep …
Still D.R.E. Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre: Yeah nigga, I'm still fuckin'…
Still D.R.E. (Instrumental) Instrumental Instrumental Instrumental Instrumental Instrume…
Still D.R.E. ) Yeah nigga I'm still fucking with ya Still waters run deep…
Still D.R.E. ft. Snoop Dogg Yeah, nigga I'm still fuckin' with ya Still waters run deep …
Story To Tell I'm living for today Cuz it's not over I'm living for today …
STR-8 Gone Haa Woo Dedicated to the up city Straight West Coast nigga,…
Str8 Gone Ha Woo Dedicated to the up city Straight West Coast nigga, …
Stranded on Death Row "Yes, it is I," says me And all who agree are…
Stronger I won't pretend That I intend to stop living I won't pretend…
Sunshine Ft. Snoop Dogg Flex I'll be late night cruising Flex I'll be late night cru…
Surgery Records... Mixer... Turntables... Speakers [Repeat x 2] How.…
SURVIVOR Let me tell you a story About this boy called James It…
Sweat I've been swinging from telephone wires just to catch a…
Sweet Shorty be tasting like sugar aye They call me wavy the…
Take the Heart In my soul, have to let it go Gotta be free Nowhere…
Talk About It I don't give one fuck, off the top I wish…
Talking to My Diary I just need y'all to try to bear with me…
Tha Next Episode You thought it was gone But it's on once again light…
Tha Shiznit Popping, stopping, hopping like a rabbit When I take the Nin…
That’s What It Is Hey hey hey Hey hey hey D-Dre's on the beat Pack out the…
The $20 Sack Pyramid Damn, it seems its always something, fucking TV, man Motherf…
The Car Bomb And now, the car bomb Yo, Re-Re, come on man, let's…
The Car Bomb (feat. Mel-Man & Charis Henry) (feat. Mel-Man & Charis Henry) And now, The Car Bomb. …
The Car Bomb feat. Mel-Man Charis Henry And now, the car bomb Yo, Re-Re, come on man, let's…
The Chronic This is dedicated to the niggas that was down from…
The Day the Niggaz Took "I'ma say this and I'ma end mine If you ain't down…
The Doctor Yes may I help you? Hello I had a twelve o'clock…
The Doctor's Office Yes may I help you? Hello I had a 12: 00…
The Doctor's Offices Yes may I help you Hello I had a 12 o'…
The Fly Close your eyes into this life l need you to…
The Formula High energy flowin' with the wisdom Sense of a rich man,…
The Future Don't know what the future holds Just hope that we get…
The Future Part One Rüyalar masallar kovalamıştı beni Seni bulana kadar Uçan h…
The Future Part Two Chorus might make it look easy Thats just the way I be…
The Genius Is Back Evil Jack Is Back…
The Grand Finale [Dr. Dre] Check this out, we've come to the last and…
The Greatest It's Spittaa with 2 As don't forget it MVRRO made it…
The Juice Alright kid, here's the deal At any given time, there are…
The Kush Roll up, wait a minute Let me put some kush up…
The Message This one is for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P A message to…
The Message (feat Mary J Blige [Dr. Dre:] This one is for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P. A mes…
The Message (feat Mary J. Blig This it's for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P A message to God Sin…
The Message (feat. Mary J. Blige & Rell) [Dr. Dre] This one is for my brother, Tyree, R.I.P. .. {*Mar…
The Next Episode Snoop Dogg and Kurupt: Da da da da da It's the moth…
The Next Episode (feat Snoop La-da-da-da-dahh It's the motherfuckin D-O-double-G (SNOOP D…
The Next Episode (feat. Snoop Dogg) La da da da daaaaa It's the motherfuckin D-O-double-G (SNOOP…
The Next Episode (instrumental) [(Snoop Dogg)] Da da da da da. It's the motherfuckin' D-O-do…
The Next Episode ) La-da-da-da-dah It's the motherfucking D-O-double-G (Snoop D…
The Next Episode Featuring Snoop Dogg La-da-da-da-dahh It's the motherfuckin D-O-double-G (SNOOP …
The Next Episode ft. Snoop & Nate Dogg La-da-da-da-dah It's the motherfucking D-O-double-G (Snoop D…
The Next Episode Lyrics Da da da da da It's the one and only D-O…
The Next Episode Remix La-da-da-da-dah It's the motherfucking D-O-double-G (Snoop D…
The Office Yes may I help you? Hello I had a twelve o'clock…
The Planet It's me Tokyo Let's get it! I won't deny it I really wanted …
The Raw If you know the struggle then I invite you to…
The Real Slim Shady I'm a pacifist, unless there’s ass to kick It'll be tragic…
The Roach Cannabis Sativa, haha Or in the heart of LA known as…
The Roach (The Chronic Outro) [Dr Dre] Cannabis ???? Oh in the heart of LA known as…
The Roach {The Chronic Outro} Cannabis Sativa, haha Or in the heart of LA known as…
The Scenic Route Biggest, the untouchable (huh) D-r-e (what's up my nigga? Bu…
The Streets She gone bust it down for a nigga yea She gone…
The Wash As the wheels turn city to city, hundred-spoke Chronic smoke…
The Watcher Things just ain't the same for gangstas Times is changing, y…
The Watcher (Instrumental) Things just ain't the same for gangsters Times is changin, y…
The Watcher ) Things just ain't the same for gangstas Times is changing, y…
the watcher 2 (The watcher) Jeah, uhh Shit I do for a livin' nigga Shit I…
The Way I Be Pimpin Well here it is , my time has come Won't be…
The%20$20%20Sack%20Pyramid [Dr. Dre:] Damn, it seems that always is somethin' with the…
There They Go There i go, there i go, there i go again Seeing…
These Days I don't wanna waste time I don't wanna stay here Deciding wh…
This Is Detox What, wait, hold up, pass Time to roll another bag Time to…
Throwback House Party Domino motherfucker what's happenin'? Ahh nigga eat a dick …
Time To Mak Ends Oooh, ooh, ooh Oooh, ooh, ooh Oooh, ooh, ooh Oooh, ooh, ooh …
Tone It Down Yeah ya don't stop In the motherfuckin house and ya don't…
Topless My motto is "live by the bottle" So why is my…
Trouble On My Mind Oo, wet Yeah I pull up with the gang, free da…
Turn It Up Loud **Title: "Turn It Up"** **Verse 1:** Lights are flashing,…
Turn Me On I wish upon a star finally, there you are Dream love…
Turn Off The Light Turn Off The Lights Hey what's happening baby I'm the one wh…
U Know Most niggas get it confused, right? Huh, they think it's all…
Under Pressure [Dr Dre] The long-awaited Detox, trick 'Cause maybe I don't …
V.I.P. Chillin 6 in the mornin', nigga drink all the patron Ho! Right!…
Wait Can't imagine the feeling of grabbing a million Need a fair…
Watch Me Yeah Uh uh uh-uh, boom boom boom D-R-E Say it with me niggaz…
Watcher Things just ain't the same for gangstas Times is changing, y…
Westcoast You as hot as summer Hearts colder than winter Girl you a…
What So I'm out the game, huh? Yo, Dre, we ridin'? Whatever Ha…
What I Like I don't like you No I don't like you No Did you get ready…
What's The Difference What's the difference between me and you? (Me and you) What'…
What's the Difference (feat. Eminem & Xzibit) [Dr. Dre] Back when Cube was rollin wit Lorenzo in a…
What's The Difference feat. Eminem Xzibit & Time Bomb What's the difference between me and you? Back when Cube,…
What's Your Sign What is your feminism even for if it isn't intersectional? N…
What'sThe Difference What's the difference between me and you? Back when Cube, w…
What’s The Difference What's the difference between me and you? (Me and you) What'…
Where I'm From I'ma be-L-double-O-D Been on songs with S-N-double-O-P Insid…
Where's T Ay, ay, ay where the fuck did Tee just go? Where…
Who Am I See the sun shining While going through groceries The city s…
Who's Phuckin' Who Who's the man (yea, yea) Who's the man (check this out) Who'…
Why Should I "I hope someday, somebody could love me" These words echo in…
Wild Boy There was a wild colonial boy, Jack Doolan was his…
Wit Dre Day Yeah, hell yeah, know what I'm sayin'? Yeah Mista Busta, wh…
Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin') Yeah, hell yeah, kno what I'm sayin, yeah One: Dre Mista B…
World Class We call him Yella, he is the best He rocks the…
X Time to snap out of it, welcome to the real…
Xplosive (Hittman) Explosive, West coast shit My niggerish ways att…
Xplosive Part 2 Chorus might make it look easy Thats just the way I be…
Xxplosive Xxplosive West coast shit My nigga-ish ways attract girls th…
Xxplosive (feat Hittman (Hittman) Explosive, West coast shit My niggerish ways att…
Xxplosive (feat. Hittman, Kurupt, Nate Dogg & Six-Two) [Hittman] Xxplosive, West coast shit My nigguh-ish ways attr…
Xxplosive (Featuring Hittman A (Hittman) Explosive, West coast shit My niggerish ways att…
Xxplosive (Instrumental) Explosive, West coast shit My niggerish ways attract girls t…
Xxplosive ) Xxplosive West coast shit My nigga-ish ways attract girls …
Xxplosive Feat. Hittman Kurupt Nate Dogg & Six-Two Xxplosive West coast shit My nigga-ish ways attract girls th…
Your Wife Your wife, my bitch Your love, my trick Her mouth, my dick…
Your Wife feat. Nate Dogg Your wife, my bitch Your love, my trick Her mouth, my dick I…
Zoom I got my mind made up, come on get in,…
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best dr.dre song and that phone call in the beginning funny ash