For the next four years, it was virtually impossible to hear mainstream hip-hop that wasn't effected in some way by Dre and his patented G-funk. Thanks to the singles "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang," "Dre Day," and "Let Me Ride," The Chronic was a multi-platinum, Top Ten smash, and the entire world of hip-hop changed with it. Dre discovered Snoop through his stepbrother Warren G, and he immediately began working with the rapper - Snoop was on Dre's 1992 debut, The Chronic, as much as Dre himself. Not only was the record the debut of his elastic G-funk sound, it also was the beginning of his collaboration with rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. According to legend, Knight held N.W.A.'s manager at gunpoint and threatened to k** him if he refused to let Dre out of his contract.br /br /Dre released his first solo single, "Deep Cover," in the spring of 1992. The following year, Dre left the group to form d**h Row Records with Suge Knight. While the group was at the peak of their popularity in 1991, Dre began to make efforts to leave the crew, especially after he was charged with a**aulting the host of a televised rap show in 1991. at the top of the charts as Eazy's comic-book lyrics. On both the 1990 EP 100 Miles and Runnin' and the 1991 album Efil4zaggin ("n***az4life" spelled backward), he created dense, funky sonic landscapes that were as responsible for keeping N.W.A.
While Eazy appeared to be the undisputed leader following Cube's departure - and he was certainly responsible for the group approaching near-parodic levels with their final pair of records - the music was in Dre's hands. became notorious for their hardcore lyrics, especially those of "f** tha Police," which resulted in the FBI sending a warning letter to Ruthless and its parent company, Priority, suggesting that the group should watch their step.br /br /Most of the group's political threat left with Cube when he departed in late 1989 amid many financial disagreements. delivered Straight Outta Compton, a vicious hardcore record that became an underground hit with virtually no support from radio, the press, or MTV. an acronym for n***az With Attitude - with Dre and Cube, releasing their first album in 1987. When the group refused, Eazy formed N.W.A. Eazy tried to give one of the duo's songs, "Boyz-n-the Hood," to HBO, a group signed to Ruthless. In 1986, he met Ice Cube, and the two rappers began writing songs for Ruthless Records, a label started by former drug pusher Eazy-E. Dre retaliated by forming a new company, Aftermath, and while it was initially slow getting started, his bold moves forward earned critical respect.br /br /Dre (born Andre Young, February 18, 1965) became involved in hip-hop during the early '80s, performing at house parties and clubs with the World Cla** Wreckin' Cru around South Central Los Angeles and making a handful of recordings along the way. For nearly four years, G-funk dominated hip-hop, and Dre had enough sense to abandon it and d**h Row just before the whole empire collapsed in late 1996. Soon, most rap records imitated its sound, and his productions for Snoop Doggy Dogg and Blackstreet were ma**ive hits. in 1992, he founded d**h Row Records with Suge Knight, and the label quickly became the dominant force in mid-'90s hip-hop thanks to his debut, The Chronic. 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. he melded the noise collages of the Bomb Squad with funky rhythms. 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. celebrated the hedonistic, amoralistic side of gang life. BDP's early albums were hardcore but cautionary tales of the criminal mind, but Dre's records with N.W.A. Instead, Dre pioneered gangsta rap and his own variation of the sound, G-funk. 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.