Dr. Dre (innate Andre Romel Young in February 18, 1965 in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American record producer, rapper, & record executive, one of a virtually all successful and easily-known producers in the field of hip hop music.

Dre is right-referred to as for his collaborations by owning West Coast hip hop artists such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Tupac Shakur, and likewise as a previous member of pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. He is besides notable for existence a co-founder of Death Row Records (with Suge Knight); and a founder of Aftermath Entertainment, a successful imprint for Interscope Records that features multi-platinum artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, (and thomas more recently) Busta Rhymes, Eve, Stat Quo, The Game and of course Dr. Dre himself.

Biography
Dr. Dre began his producing career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru during the number 1 half of the 1980s. Inside 1986, he and fellow Globe Class Wreckin' Cru member DJ Yella were two of the innovation members of N.W.A, a highly successful and controversial group that created the prototype for much of what was termed "gangsta rap" in the 1990s. Dr. Dre enjoyed important profits within NWA. When the dispute sustaining Eazy E, a introductioNorth member of N.W.The. & Ruthless Records, Dre left a class action at the peak of its popularity inside 1991 to form Death Row Records by having Suge Knight.

Dr. Dre freed his 1st solo lone, "Deep Cover,"(AKA 187) in the spring of 1992. This was a introduction of & at last a beginning of his collaboration using rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg (later on just referred to as Snoop Dogg), a young human world health organization experienced recorded occasionally homemade tapes using Dre's half-brother Warren G. Warren G played Dre a few of Snooper's mixtapes and Dre intended the meeting using the young human, beginning a womb-to-tomb association. Snooper's voice appeared in Dre's 1992 debut album The Chronic as much as Dre's did. Thanks to the individual "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang," and hits like "Let Me Ride" and "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", The Chronic became a multi-platinum seller, making it virtually impossible to hear mainstream hip-hop that wasn't affected in some way by Dr. Dre. Shortly when its release, the Chronic became one of a biggest-selling hip to hop albums around history, & was followed shortly by a string of multi-platinum albums from either Dre’s protégés, including Snoop Dogg’s debut album Doggystyle and Warren G’s G-Funk Era.

A as punishment season, Dr. Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, with similar subject matter & musical genre. Doggystyle achieved fantastic profits, existence a 1st debut album for an creative person to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts.

Within 1996, the song "California Love," a extremely successful collaboration by using Dying Row creative person Tupac Shakur, helped farther establish Dying Row & Dr. Dre as a major inflict in the music industry. Per prevent of a month, yet, the profits of Dying Row got taken a reverse turn, resulting the demise of Tupac Shakur & racketeering charges against Suge Knight. Foreseeing a label's collapse, Dr. Dre left Dying Row to form his have Aftermath Entertainment label. A Dr. Dre Presents ... A Aftermath album, freed at the prevent of the season, featured songs per new gestural Aftermath creative person, & a solo track "Been There, Done That". A track was meant as a emblematical adept-bye-bye to gangsta rap, where Dre suggested that he is moving in to an additional level of music & modus vivendi.

Within 1997, Dr. Dre signed aspirant Detroit rapper Eminem to his label, producing his controversial album The Slim Shady LP in 1999, followed by the possibly thomas more successful & controversial The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000. A latter featured slightly less involvement by Dr. Dre. Per period The Eminem Show was released within 2002, Eminem was producing the bulk of his output himself.

Dre freed his 2nd solo album, Dr. Dre 2001 (every now and again referred to by fans when "The Chronic 2001: No Seeds"), or even extra typically only '2001' around 1999. Again, a album featured astir as much of Dre's voice when a voices of many collaborators, including Devin the Dude, Hittman, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem. a album was extremely successful, so reaffirming the revenant theme featured inside its lyrics, stating that Dre is however a click to become reckoned sustaining, despite the deficiency of major releases in the last pack years.

the album followed the freshly musical comedy counsel, characterized by high-high piano & string melodies above a deep & rich bassline. A style was as well large within his charted production function for more creative person, including hits like "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" by Eve & Gwen Stefani (whom he would produce over again on the Stefani & Eve track "Rich Girl"), "Break Ya Neck" by Busta Rhymes, & "Family Affair" by Mary J Blige.

Dr. Dre has as well appeared in the moving-picture show Set It Off, The Wash and Training Day, though he later stated that he doesn't intend to pursue the career inside acting. The song of his, "Bad Intentions" (featuring Knoc-Turn'Al), was featured on the soundtrack to The Wash.

Inside 2003, Dr. Dre & Eminem produced a major-label debut ''Get Rich or Die Tryin' for Queens rapper 50 Cent, featuring the Dre-produced hit individual "In Da Club."

A release of Detox'', which was to be Dre's final solo album, was planned for 2004. A task wwheNorth declared to become cancelled awhile, as Dre decided to put completely his effort into producing a creative persin on his Aftermath label, including Eminem, 50 Cent, Eve, A Game, Stat Quo, & Busta Rhymes; previous N.W.The member Ice Cube is currently negotiating a locate the label. Nonetheless, within November 2004, Dre and Interscope confirmed that Detox was still inside the works & is presently scheduled to exist as freed in Fall 2005. On the Eminem song "Encore", featuring Dre himself, Eminem mentions that a Eminem crew will "make" him wash a album. Dre may likewise become producing Snoop Dogg's next album, The Blue Carpet Treatment which will be freed within 2006.

Albums Discography

With N.W.A
N.W.A. and the Posse, Ruthless Records, 1987. Straight Outta Compton, Ruthless Records, 1989. ''100 Miles and Runnin' , Ruthless Records, 1990. Efil4zaggin ("Niggaz4life" spelt backwards), Ruthless Records, 1991.

Solo
The Chronic, Death Row Records, 1992 #3 US Concrete Roots Triple X, 1994 Greatest Hits, Central Station , 1996 Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath, Aftermath Records, 1996 First Round Knock Out, Triple X, 1996 Back 'N The Day, Blue Dolphin, 1996 Dr. Dre 2001, Aftermath Records, 1999 #2 US, #4 UK Chronicle: Best of the Work, Death Row Records, 2001 Maximum Dr. Dre, Orchard, 2001 Greatest Hits V.Two, Central Station, 2004 Detox, Aftermath Records, 2006.

Other (as artist and/or producer)
Globe Class, Kru-Kut, 1985. (World Class Wreckin Cru) Rapped Within Romance, Epos, 1986. (World Class Wreckin Cru) Telesis, Kru-Kut, 1987. (Telesis) Eazy-Duz-It, Priority, 1988. (Eazy E) Ultrasonic, Atco, 1988. (JJ Fad) Straight Outta Compton, Ruthless, 1989, North.W.A There are no A single Potty Be intimate Better, Pitiless, 1989. (The D.O.C.) Those days are gone Lies'', Atco, 1989. (Michel'le) ''Livin' Like Hustlers, Epic, 1990. (Above The Law) Niggaz4life, Priority, 1991, North.W.A Doggystyle, Death Row, 1993. (Snooper Doggie Dogg) Concrete Roots, Triple X, 1994. Slaying Was a Out break, Dying Row, 1994. (contributor) First Round Knock Out, Triple X, 1996. Back N Tha Day, 1996. Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album, Aftermath, 1997. (A House) Possibly Deeper, Nothing, 1999. (Nine Inch Nails) Slim Shady LP, Aftermath/Interscope, 1999, Eminem Marshall Mathers LP, Aftermath/Interscope, 2000, Eminem Become Rich people or even Die Tryin, Aftermath/Shady, 2003, 50 Cent A Documental, Aftermath/G-Unit Records, 2005, A Game The Massacre, Aftermath/Shady, 2005, 50 Cent

Mixtapes
Detox - Millennium Of Aftermath (by DJ Rukiz), Pickwick, 2005. #183 UK

Singles Discography
"Deep Cover" (effort. Snoop Doggy Dogg) (1992) "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" (1993) #2 US; #31 UK (1994 release, and double A-Side with "Let Me Ride" in the UK) "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" (1993) #8 US "Let Me Ride" (1993) #34 US "Keep Their Heads Ringin'" (1995) #10 U.s.; #25 UK "California Love" (2Pac feat. Dr. Dre) (1996) (too featuring talk box-filtered lyrics by Roger Troutman) #1 US, #6 UK, #4 AUS "No Diggity" (Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre) (1996) #9 UK, #21 AUS "Zoom" (sustaining LL Cool J) (1998) #15 UK "Guilty Conscience" (Eminem feat. Dr. Dre) (1999) #5 UK "Still D.R.E." (exploit. Snoop Doggy Dogg) (2000) #6 UK "Forgot About Dre" (deed. Eminem) (2000) #25 US; #7 UK "The Next Episode" (deed. Snoop Dogg) (2000) #23 US; #3 UK "Bad Intentions" (deed. Knoc-Turn'al) (2002) #4 UK "Knoc" (Knoc-Turn'al with Dr. Dre & Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott) (2002) #98 US "Symphony In X Major" (Xzibit feat. Dr. Dre) (2003) #43 AUS "Encore" (Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent) (2004) #25 US