Do you like the legecy of The Doctor with The World Class Wreckin Cru:



Or do you like the legecy of The Doctor with Ruthless Records (Read: NWA):



Or do you like the legecy of The Doctor with Death Row Records:



Or do you like the legecy of The doctor with The Aftermath:


[Edited 7/2/05 19:10pm]
[Edited 7/2/05 19:14pm]
[Edited 7/2/05 22:26pm]

My vote goes to the world class wreckin crew no doubt!

Dr Dre helped usher in the most henious and destructive period of rap music to date. What is there to like?

No doubt he's a talented cat. He's proved himself in every era.

sthom146 said:

Exactly!!! Career-wise, Dr. Dre was part of 4 different eras in his career. And yes, he also a Prince fan.

popgodazipa said:

Music-wise, Dre help started this gangsta shit. But it also help to have lyricists like Ice Cube to push the political shit too.

TonyVanDam said:

Im gonna go with the Aftermath Era. His production is better today than it was ever b4.

The only music of his that I like is The World Class Wrecking Crew. There were original (not sampled) songs like "The Fly" and "Bionic". They were also the kind of songs you could shake ass to. Also, he looked like a "star" when he was in this group, instead of an average everyday piece of street thug trash.

His work after he left this group is the kind can you only sit, listen to a damn story be "talked" over a beat, and be bored to death.
[Edited 7/3/05 1:28am]

vainandy said:

Vainandy, have you heard the hip-hop/dance classic Supersonic by JJ Fad?

THAT was produced by Dr. Dre (during the Ruthless Records/NWA era!!!).

And it was uptempo too!

You really have to admit, the NWA classic, Gangsta Gangsta was funny as hell the first time you heard the album version!

you forgot the era where he made that gay porn video...anyone seen the vidcaps???

MrTee said:

Oh no! Not that gay rumor again?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...eckin'_Cru

The World Class Wreckin' Cru was an American electro hop group, consisting of DJ Yella, Dr.Dre and Cli-N-Tel.

They recorded some solid West Coast electro with Dr.Dre in the production chair, hitting the pop charts with a smooth love jam named "Turn Off the Lights" during 1988 (1988 in music), the same year Dre's N.W.A. delivered the gangsta landmark Straight Outta Compton. The group was formed by Lonzo (Alonzo Williams), owner of the Compton club Eve After Dark, who recruited a pair of popular local DJs, Dr.Dre and DJ Yella, along with Dre's high-school friend Cli-N-Tel. Early singles like "Surgery" and "Juice" -- many of them recorded at a four-track studio that was part of the Eve After Dark complex -- stood alongside work by the Egyptian Lover and L.A. Dream Team as stellar examples of the fast-moving fusion of old school rap and electro. But even as The World Class Wreckin' Cru became one of southern California's most popular rap acts, Dr.Dre and DJ Yella were pursuing other production opportunities, one of which came from a new label (Ruthless) formed by Eazy E. Along with Ice Cube, they wrote a single named "Boyz N The Hood" that was initially offered to the Ruthless act HBO, but later prompted the entire crew to form as N.W.A.. After street-level singles like "Dopeman" and "8 Ball" became huge local hits, The World Class Wreckin' Cru became less of a priority for both Dr.Dre and Yella. Even after the loverman ballad "Turn Off the Lights" entered the R&B Top 40 in 1988, they continued with N.W.A. and the group dissolved. Phases in Life, a World Class Wreckin' Cru LP released in 1990, was basically a solo release by Lonzo.

TonyVanDam said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.W.A

N.W.A (the abbreviation stands for Niggaz with Attitude) was a hip hop group that popularized gangsta rap with the groundbreaking Straight Outta Compton (1989) album, a vicious hardcore record that became an underground hit notorious for its hardcore lyrics, especially those of "Fuck Tha Police," which resulted in Milt Ahlerich, an assistant director of the FBI sending a letter to Ruthless Records and its parent company Priority, advising the rappers that the law enforcement took "exception to such action (fucking the police)." The FBI's letter only served to draw more publicity to the group.

Ice Cube was one of the major MCs in the group, as well as its most outspoken member, until he left the group in 1989.

On both the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin' and the 1991 album Efil4zaggin ("Niggaz 4 Life" spelled backwards), Dr. Dre created dense, funky sonic landscapes (which presaged his innovative G-funk sound). Combined with Eazy E's humorous lyrics and MC Ren's socially-charged raps, NWA remained at the top of the hip hop charts.

Members of the band included:

Dr. Dre (Andre Young) D.J. - producer - rapper
Eazy E (Eric Wright) rapper
Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson) rapper
MC Ren (Lorenzo Patterson) rapper
Yella (Antoine Carraby) D.J.
Arabian Prince (Mik Lezan) D.J. - rapper (only in the very beginning an active member)
D.O.C. - a ghostwriter

NWA was the core group of a much larger rapping collective, most members of which were signed to NWA's label Ruthless. King T, CPO, The D.O.C., Above The Law and Kokane were all part of this larger group most members of which have a lasting reputation on the west coast, though not as big as that of any of the NWA members.

Since the group split in the early 1990s, Dr. Dre has enjoyed a success as both a rapper and record producer for the likes of Snoop Doggy Dogg and Eminem. Ice Cube has been successful as both a rapper and film actor. Eazy E died in 1995 from an AIDS related illness.

Though NWA itself released only two full albums, its impact has been enormous, with its legacy enduring in the solo careers of the members. This is especially true of Dr. Dre and Ice Cube.

The track "Express Yourself" from Straight Outta Compton was featured in the video games Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas .

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ow_Records

Death Row Records (now known as Tha Row Records) is a record company that was founded by Suge Knight and Dr. Dre in 1991, under the parent label of Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Records.

The label was once home to top rappers such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tupac Shakur, not to mention MC Hammer and Lil Bow Wow (although somewhat briefly). Death Row's roster also included The Lady of Rage ("Afro Puffs"), Michel'le, Danny Boy, and Gina Longo, distinguished for being the first and only white artist signed to the label.

Death Row was started on sinister terms, as the money used to start the label allegedly came from known drug dealer Harry-O. In 1995, Suge disavowed any relationship with the imprisoned gangster.

Despite the infamous feud between the East Coast and West Coast, Suge Knight had planned to open in New York a subsidiary of Death Row called Death Row East. Eric B. was slated to head that label. In an interview, Tupac named rappers they planned to sign, from Big Daddy Kane to The Wu-Tang Clan. The label was never formed. [1]

After Tupac was murdered, Suge went to prison, and his rap label disintegrated almost completely after 1997. Artists like Snoop, Dre, RBX, Jewell, and Kurupt had all left; and Nate Dogg, Lady of Rage, and Daz soon followed. Suge's saving grace is the fact that he not only owns most of their names, but also their master tapes with Death Row, which is where most of the money comes from.

In 2001, upon his release from prison, Suge renamed his label "Tha Row" and announced his new roster, headed by a gifted New York rapper named Crooked I. Tha Row also signed Left Eye of TLC, under the name N.I.N.A. Several out-of-print releases from Tha Row were re-released like Tha Doggfather, and most importantly, Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, the concept album by Tupac as Makaveli. However, Death Row slowly looked like it would not be having a comeback, as their new releases were all compilations and they failed to release any solo records by "Tha Row Inmates"; with the exception of unreleased 2pac albums.

Suge was criticized for being a hypocrite when, after blasting people for exploiting 2pac's legacy, specifically Master P's use of his Pac copycat artist Krazy, he had his friend "Tha Realest" rap as a Row inmate, whose raps bore a strange, and tacky, resemblance to the voice of the late Tupac Shakur. Secondly, all of "Tha Rows" songs seemed to be obsessed with negativity against former inmates like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

On the 2001 Too Gangsta For Radio compilation, several skits were aimed at enemies of Tha Row. The intro had a Snoop impersonator, fresh from a nightmare, using his wife to call up Suge Knight's prison to make sure he was still there. On "Fuck Dre", Tha Realist, Twista, and others recorded a skit where Dr. Dre rapes Eminem, and on K-9's "Gangsta'd Out", a disgustingly racist skit portrayed Eminem as a tool of the Ku Klux Klan.

At 2:30 am on May 27, 2003 several bullets were fired by unknown person or persons at the Beverly Hills offices of Death Row Records, they damaged the front door, windows and wall of the offices. Earlier that year, an LA S.W.A.T. team raided the Death Row offices for an unnamed reason, looking for evidence of random gang murders and drug dealing.

In 2004 Death Row signed Petey Pablo to the label, and in 2005 Crooked I left.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre

Dr. Dre started his producing career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru during the first half of the 1980s. In 1986, he and fellow World Class Wreckin' Cru member DJ Yella were two of the founding members of N.W.A, a highly successful and controversial group that created the protoype for much of what was termed "gangsta rap" in the 1990s. Dr. Dre enjoyed significant success in NWA, but left the group at the peak of its popularity in 1991 to form Death Row Records with Suge Knight.

Dr. Dre released his first solo single, "Deep Cover,"(AKA 187) in the spring of 1992. Not only was the record the debut of his elastic G-funk sound, it was the beginning of his collaboration with rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg (later simply known as Snoop Dogg), a young man who had recorded some homemade tapes with Dre's stepbrother Warren G. Warren G played Dre some of Snoop's mixtapes and a Dre arranged a meeting with the young man, beginning a lifelong association. Snoop's voice appeared on Dre's 1992 debut album The Chronic as much as Dre's did. Thanks to the single "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 and his patented G-funk.

The following year, Dr. Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, with similar subject matter and musical style. Doggystyle achieved phenomenal success, being the first debut album for an artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts.

In 1996, the song "California Love," a highly successful collaboration with Death Row artist Tupac Shakur, helped further establish Death Row and Dr. Dre as a major force in the music industry. By the end of the year, however, the success of Death Row had taken a reverse turn, following the death of Tupac Shakur and racketeering charges against Suge Knight. Foreseeing the label's collapse, Dr. Dre left Death Row to form his own Aftermath Entertainment label. The Dr. Dre Presents ... The Aftermath album, released at the end of the year, featured songs by the newly signed Aftermath artists, and a solo track "Been There, Done That". The track was intended as a symbolic good-bye to gangsta rap, in which Dre suggested that he is moving on to another level of music and lifestyle.

In 1997, Dr. Dre signed aspiring Detroit rapper Eminem to his label, producing his controversial album The Slim Shady LP in 1999, followed by the even more successful and controversial The Marshall Mathers LP in 2000. The latter featured slightly less involvement by Dr. Dre. By the time The Eminem Show was released in 2002, Eminem was producing the bulk of his output himself.

Dre released his second solo album, Dr. Dre 2001 (sometimes referred to by fans as "The Chronic 2001: No Seeds"), or more often simply '2001' in 1999. Once again, the album featured about as much of Dre's voice as the voices of numerous collaborators, including Devin the Dude, Hittman, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem. The album was highly successful, thus reaffirming a recurring theme featured in its lyrics, stating that Dre is still a force to be reckoned with, despite the lack of major releases in the previous few years.

The album followed a new musical direction, characterised by high-pitched piano and string melodies over a deep and rich bassline. The style was also prominent in his following production work for other artists, including hits such as "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" by Eve and Gwen Stefani (whom he would produce again on the Stefani and Eve track "Rich Girl"), "Break Ya Neck" by Busta Rhymes, and "Family Affair" by Mary J Blige.

Dr. Dre has also appeared in the movies Set It Off, The Wash and Training Day, though later stated that he does not intend to pursue a career in acting. A song of his, "Bad Intentions" (featuring Knoc-Turn'Al), was featured on the soundtrack to The Wash.

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

The release of Detox, which was to be Dre's final solo album, was planned for 2004. The project was declared to be cancelled for a while, as Dre decided to put all his effort into producing the artists on his Aftermath label, including Eminem, 50 Cent, Eve, The Game, Stat Quo, and Busta Rhymes; former N.W.A member Ice Cube is currently negotiating a contract with the label. However, in November 2004, Dre and Interscope confirmed that Detox was still in the works and is currently scheduled to be released in Fall 2005. On the Eminem song "Encore", featuring Dre himself, Eminem mentions that the Eminem crew will "make" him do the album.

TonyVanDam said:

what happened to Death Row's Eminiem - "Milk Krate"?

MrTee said:

His name was Miilk Bone.

Soulchild82 said:

milk krate was his album right?

what happened 2 him?

TonyVanDam said:

I used to have the first Wreckin´Cru album on vinyl, someone broke into my basement and stole it.
Does anybody here have a picture of it ? They all looked like Prince impostors on it, all dressed in lace and purple and sporting Jheri curls.

ThankUFalettinMeBeMiceElf said:

That album was hot!


Miilkbone dropped another one in 2001, but I never heard it, called "Got Milk?" or somethin...

This is my favorite Dre era:




[Edited 7/3/05 13:59pm]

popgodazipa said:

exactly i never saw what waz so great about "Niggaz with attitude" they started that gangsta rap bullshit. and the whole lets make the word "nigga" cool again

CinisterCee said:

Classic shit there, that was a magic era indeed

Xavier24 said:

Niggaz With Attitude (as a stagename for a band or group) were very intended to shock the media & the public alike.

Think about it: In 1988, the shock value of the words "nigger" and "nigga" were way higher than it is in 2005 (well, depends on who you ask).

As for the band themselves, they may have been "niggaz", but they had very strong attitudes (especially Ice Cube, THE strongest link in the group for pushing the political issues into the spotlight).

But sadly, when Ice Cube left the group, he took that powerful attitude & political sense with him. And the tragic results:

Comical/Self-Parody


Black Trash

[Edited 7/3/05 23:36pm]

Xavier24 said:

NWA did it all tongue-in-cheek. It was kind of a joke, and had humor value. It was taken to the extreme for comedic value. Every gangsta rap artist after has taken that side the wrong way: (ie seriously), and amped up the cliche's - that is why gangsta rap (and a lot of hip-hop) is in the shitty state it's in today. Even Dre is now kind of a parody of himself.

i'll take this one.

Yeah, I've got that album. "Supersonic" was slammin'. It reminds me of the ending bonus beats of the 12 Inch of Run DMC's "Tricky". Those girls could work those tongue twisters too.
[Edited 7/4/05 6:06am]