riots in April 1992, and several vocal samples from people on the streets were used on songs such as The Day the Niggaz Took Over and 'Lil. Its hit single “Still D.R.E.”, is certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA and is a household name in the Hip Hop world. The Chronic was created in the aftermath of the L.A. As far as its legacy, the album has made its appearances on music charts worldwide since its release and is #17 on the Billboard 200 chart for the 2000s. The album also claimed the #1 spot on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, #4 on the UK Album Chart, and #17 in the Dutch Albums Chart. Containing some of the most known tracks in rap, Chronic 2001 has been extremely. Dre put out Chronic 2001, his last album before a 16-year hiatus. The Chronic 2001 is the equal of its illustrious predecessor in almost every respect a hip-hop. It debuted in 1999 at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart where it peaked and sold 516,000 copies in its first week. On this day in 1999, legendary super-producer Dr. The real gems here are a series of guest-laden album cutslike The Next Episodethat find a veritable who’s who of Los Angeles rap royalty spitting fire over some of Dre’s sparest, fiercest beats. By the time The Chronic 2001 emerged at the beginning of the new millennium many still doubted that Dre was capable of. By the mid ‘90s the once formidable west coast hip-hop scene was fragmented and weakened by years of overindulgence. Dre found himself adrift in an unfamiliar world. His production informed the dominant trends for several decades of rap, updating the noisy clamor of Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad-produced tracks by bringing in funky rhythms for his breakthrough work with his group N.W.A., single-handedly inventing G-Funk in the ‘90s by reworking George Clinton. After the messy dissolution of Death Row records Dr. It would be an understatement to say that this project was an influential part of west coast rap and culture.Īs previously stated, this album was widely regarded and critically acclaimed. Dre’s impact on rap, hip-hop, and pop music in general is nothing short of revolutionary. Dre had a new partner, a up incoming rapper, Snoop Doggy Dogg. Rappers such as The D.O.C., Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Nate Dogg, and Eminem made appearances on this album. When Dre switched to Death Row, he needed to find himself some new collaborators, and Death Row had many. It was at first called The Chronic 2000 as a sequel to his first album The Chronic, but was changed to 2001 after Death Row released an unrelated album called Chronic 2000: Still Smokin in 1999. Of course, the production of this album is more solid than most coming from Dre himself along with Mel-Man and Lord Finesse, but the vocal features that were at Dre’s disposal due to his success at the time also helped to make this project such a classic. Dre's second album, 2001, released in 1999, was his return to gangsta rap. The quality of work that makes up Chronic 2001 is epic.
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