More than any other rapper, Dr. Dre was responsible for moving away from the avant-noise and political stance of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions as well as the party vibes of old-school rap. Instead, Dre pioneered gangsta rap and his own variation of the sound, G-funk.
While BDP 's early albums were hardcore but cautionary tales of the criminal mind, Dre 's records with N. Dre was never much of a rapper -- his rhymes were simple and his delivery was slow and clumsy -- but as a producer, he was extraordinary. With N. On his own, he reworked George Clinton 's elastic funk into the self-styled G-funk, a slow-rolling variation that relied more on sound than content. When he left N. Soon, most rap records imitated its sound, and his productions for Snoop Doggy Dogg and Blackstreet were massive hits.
For nearly four years, G-funk dominated hip-hop, and Dre had enough sense to abandon it, and Death Row, just before the whole empire collapsed in late Dre retaliated by forming a new company, Aftermath, and while it was initially slow getting started, his bold moves forward earned critical respect. He later launched Beats by Dr. Dre, a company that introduced the celebrity headphones phenomenon, later morphed into a streaming music service, and was then bought by Apple Inc.
Dre born Andre Young , February 18, became involved in hip-hop during the early '80s, performing at house parties and clubs with the World Class Wreckin' Cru around South Central Los Angeles and making a handful of recordings along the way. In he met Ice Cube , and the two rappers began writing songs for Ruthless Records, a label started by former drug pusher Eazy-E.
When the group refused, Eazy formed N. When will it arrive? Only one man knows the answer to that. One thing that has kept Dre busy and uber-relevant in lieu of a new album is his headphone brand, Beats by Dre. In , Dre and Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine teamed up to produce high-end headphones. The first Beats by Dre studio headphones launched in The Beats brand has since expanded to include a host of headphones, earbuds, speakers and a streaming service.
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Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. He has lived some of his lyrics, experiencing numerous scrapes with the law. Dre reportedly hit TV host Denise Barnes and tried to push her down a flight of stairs. The attack was triggered by a segment she had done about Ice Cube's departure from N. Dre faced assault charges and a civil suit for his actions, but both parties decided to settle out of court.
The following year, Dr. Dre again faced assault charges for an alleged attack on producer Damon Thomas. He was arrested for battery of a police officer a few months later.
Dre seemed to take his dangerous behavior to the extreme in when he led police on a high-speed chase while intoxicated. Having violated his probation for the earlier battery offense, Dr. Dre was sentenced to several months in jail and ordered to pay a fine. He served his time in Dre first became a father in high school.
He didn't meet his first son, Curtis, until the boy was twenty years old. Another high school relationship yielded a daughter named La Tonya. Dre had a relationship with singer Michel'le who had worked with him in the World Class Wreckin' Cru, and they had a son together named Marcel. In the late s, he fathered another son, Andre R. Young, Jr. Andre Jr. They have two children together, a son named Truth and a daughter named Truly.
Dre is not the only performer in his family. His stepbrother, Warren G, had several hits in the s. His son Curtis is an aspiring rapper who performs under the name "Hood Surgeon. Dre began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N. He released his solo debut album The Chronic in , released under Death Row Records, which led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of and to win a Grammy Award for the single " Let Me Ride ".
In , he left Death Row to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. He produced a compilation album titled Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath in , and released a solo album titled in Dre signed Eminem and 50 Cent to his record label in and respectively, while contributing production on their albums.
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