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Sep 14, 2021 · According to Radar Online, legal documents alluded that Dre believed there to be a "discrepancy in the payments he received" from Death Row Records and that they'd yet to "honor a bonus" from records sold while the label was in bankruptcy (via TMZ ).
- 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...
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Jun 21, 2023 · 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.
Unknown stated in an interview that he created the name "Def Row" for a potential deal to start another record label under Morgan Creek. [19] However he later sold the naming rights to Dr. Dre and his partners in July 1991 and by 1992 the name changed to its eventual title of Death Row Records. [20]
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Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper and record producer. He is the founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics, and co-founded and was the president of Death Row Records. Dre began his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru in 1985, and later found ...
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."
Mar 22, 1996 · March 22, 1996: On this day in 1996, Dr. Dre parted ways with Death Row Records, the infamous West Coast label he cofounded in 1991 with Marion "Suge" Knight. Prior to Death Row, Dre had been ...
