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Apr 3, 2021 · According to Dr. Dre himself, he named the album 2001 after his former colleagues at Suge Knight’s Death Row Records stole its original name, 2000. Dr. Dre named his album ‘2001’ after Suge ...
Jun 29, 2006 · Dr. Dre didn't just reconfigure rap music with The Chronic, he played perhaps the largest role in making it the most viable form of American popular music this century. What's gotten lost in the ...
Feb 17, 2023 · The label was co-founded and creatively led by legendary producer Andre "Dr. Dre" Young, whose previous outfit NWA achieved platinum success with virtually no radio play — but Death Row brought gangster rap to the mainstream airwaves, making a superstar out of Dre and a bona fide mogul out of co-founder Marion "Suge" Knight, whose business style could politely have been described as "brutal."
Jun 21, 2023 · Why did Dr. Dre sue Death Row Records? Dr. Dre left the label way back in the year 1996. It was a piece of very popular news back then, and the popular news publisher, Los Angeles Times, believed that Dre’s exit was due to a conflict between the rapper and the people who directed the business. The conflict was ugly.
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (The Chronic), Snoop Dogg (Doggystyle, Tha Doggfather), Tha Dogg Pound (), and 2Pac (All Eyez on Me, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory), during the 1990s.
Shortly after Death Row’s Chronic 2000 release, Dr. Dre changed the name of this album to Chronic 2001 and a big budget promotional campaign began. Suge was tipped off about the name of Dr. Dre ...
Apr 21, 2015 · According to Billboard, U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder ruled that Dr. Dre is entitled to be paid more royalities from the digital sales of his 1992 debut album than what he has been getting ...
