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- (album by Dr. Dre) Released: December 15, 1992
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The Chronic is the debut studio album by the American hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre. It was released on December 15, 1992, by his record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records. Recording sessions took place in Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. [3]
- June 1992
- December 15, 1992
- Al Shipley
- The Chronic‘s low end was inspired by A Tribe Called Quest. To fans in the early Nineties, Dr. Dre‘s West Coast gangsta-rap movement and the East Coast’s insurgent conscious-rap collective Native Tongues may have seemed to exist in direct opposition.
- Multiple major labels passed on The Chronic. Dr. Dre recorded The Chronicwithout a distribution deal in place for the newly formed Death Row Records, and then shopped the completed album, cover art and all, to multiple major labels.
- A song was removed in the wake of the “Cop Killer” controversy. It might be hard to believe that Dr. Dre shied away from any controversy on an album that included “Fuck Wit Dre Day” and “The Day the N****z Took Over.”
- Eazy-E directly profited from sales of The Chronic. The Chronicopens with Dr. Dre dissing his former N.W.A groupmate Eazy-E, but Eazy actually netted a significant profit from the album that calls him a “penguin-lookin’ motherfucker.”
Dec 15, 2023 · Death Row’s arrival Released on December 15, 1992, The Chronic peaked at No.3 on the Billboard 200 and sold three million copies in the US alone, eventually going multi-platinum.
- Rashad Grove
On February 11, 2022, Snoop Dogg released his third studio album on Death Row Records, marking a 26-year lapse from the label after Tha Doggfather album. Snoop Dogg's purchase of Death Row Records did not include the rights to Tupac or Dr. Dre's albums originally which those rights have been reverted back to Interscope Records.
- United States
- Active
- 1991; 32 years ago (original), February 9, 2022; 20 months ago (revival)
Apr 20, 2020 · But before Dre could arrive at this genre-defining moment, he had a few obstacles he had to overcome. A date with Death Row. As a member of tinderbox rap collective N.W.A. in the mid 1980s, Dre ...
- Will Lavin
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(album by Dr. Dre) Released: December 15, 1992; Labels: Death Row, Interscope, Priority; Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download; 3: 1: 91 — — 74 — — — 43 US: 5,700,000; RIAA: 3× Platinum; Doggystyle (album by Snoop Dogg) Released: November 23, 1993; Labels: Death Row, Interscope; Formats: CD, LP, cassette, digital download; 1: 1 ...
Dr. Dre. HIP-HOP/RAP · 1992. It isn’t long into Dr. Dre’s Death Row Records debut that a then-promising MC named Snoop Doggy Dogg draws a hard line in the sand.
