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Mar 17, 2017 · When HBO was looking for photos to use in The Defiant Ones, a four part documentary series telling the story of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine that premieres this spring, they reached out to...
- Dr. Dre Named His Album ‘2001’ After Suge Knight Stole The Name ‘2000’
- He Felt Like He Had to Make ‘2001’ Because People Were Saying He Was Washed Up
- It Was Important For Him to Change Up His Sound
Dr. Dre recently spoke about the meaning behind 2001’s name during an interview with Lil Wayne on his Young Money Radio podcast. According to him, he initially planned on naming the album 2000, but the name was stolen before he could. “I think at that time, I wanted to call the album The Chronic 2000, right?” Dre said. “And my previous partners fro...
Dr. Dre spoke in more detail about 2001 in a 1999 interview with Rolling Stone, where he stated that the album was created to silence everyone who’d said his career was over. “There’s only a couple of songs where I’m defensive. I’m just responding to the shit I was hearing. People were saying that I didn’t have it anymore and that I hadn’t made a g...
A large part of Dr. Dre’s motivation to create 2001 came from his desire to reinvent himself and create a new sound. “Well, I definitely wanted a different sound. I wanted people to feel the same vibe they did when they heard the first one, but with some 2001 futuristic sh*t going on. I got the drums much cleaner on this one, and the way I have eve...
Apr 10, 2019 · Amid financial disputes and tired of labels ripping off black writers and performers, Dr. Dre and his partner, The D.O.C., decided to break out of the cycle of exploitation. Enter rap music...
Jun 3, 2020 · The two would feud throughout the ’90s and early ’00s, as Dre recalled the initial reason for calling his album 2001 was due in large part to Suge Knight and Death Row already having the...
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 ( Dogg Food ), and 2Pac ( All Eyez on Me, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory ), during the 1990s.
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- 1991; 32 years ago (original), February 9, 2022; 20 months ago (revival)
Mar 22, 1996 · In a move that will reorder the architecture of the rap music business, rap star Dr. Dre, the top producer in the booming hip-hop music market, is splitting with Death Row Records, the...
Mar 19, 2024 · And though Dre co-founded the notorious and enormously successful Death Row Records with the now-incarcerated Suge Knight in 1991, he left it all behind — at considerable personal expense —...
