Lead single вЂњNuthin' But a G ThingвЂќ never left MTV rotation and became the nation's go-to party soundtrack. But The Chronic was the first to make it fun. The arrival of N.W.A proved that gangsta rap could even be considered a public enemy by the FBI. By 1987, Schoolly D and Ice-T were banging on both coasts. See also: Compton Rapper Game Returns to an Industry That's Gone Soft вЂњEven if you were from Nebraska, all you had to do was listen to The Chronic and you could feel like a gangsta.вЂќ People were either very timid or very violent,вЂќ says Compton-bred Game, who was Dre's choice to steward the West Coast, gangsta-rap tradition to the next generation. вЂњ The Chronic captured the reality that was with us - the black cloud over L.A. See also: Snoop and Bishop Don вЂњMagicвЂќ Juan on the History of Pimp Cups We were in the Boyz n the Hood era, and The Chronic twisted audio clips from the riots documentary Birth of a Nation 4x29x92 with the white-chalk narratives of 18-year-olds with itchy trigger fingers and homies named Lil Half Dead. were connecting the blood red and marine blue gang warfare of South Central with the turbulence of the civil rights era. Things went deeper than just sampling a song like Hathaway's вЂњLittle Ghetto Boy.вЂќ Dre, Snoop and the D.O.C. But The Chronic did more than extend rap's parameters - it simultaneously revealed its roots. Kanye West wrote that in Rolling Stone, and no knows more about delivering on insane ambition than he. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious.вЂќ вЂњ The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Then he laid down some of the hardest and most hilarious raps and skits captured on tape. Dre fused live instrumentation with a mosaic of Parliament, Donny Hathaway, James Brown and other impeccably selected soul and funk samples. It synthesized the previous quarter-century of soul music and expanded upon its possibilities. It recycles old sounds and ideas and spits them back at semiautomatic speed. (For more see our feature story on the making of The Chronic.) But no album before or since has blended those qualities like the rat-tat-tat murderer's row of Dre, Snoop Dogg, Daz, Jewell, Kurupt, D.O.C., RBX, Nate Dogg and the Lady of Rage. Wu-Tang and Outkast were more otherworldly and Public Enemy more incisively political. A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory is looser. Biggie or Nas' debuts may be more lyrical. You might not agree that it is the greatest rap album of all time, but it's difficult to argue against its selection. Dre's perfectly rolled joint, which soon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Dec. Smoke swirling from the zigzags of anyone able to purchase the bomb, the real sticky-icky, the chronic.ДЄll you hear is The Chronic - Dr. Smoke sepulchral from the barrels of freshly fired AKs. Smoke smoldering from the rubble of post-riot L.A. Users who reposted The Chronic - Dr.If you try to remember the late fall of 1992, all you see is smoke.Published on Baronessmusicjunkie's New Stuff - Dr.Dre - Deeez Nuuuts (made with Spreaker) Published on the day the niggaz took over Genre Hip Hop e Rap Contains tracks 02 Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin') (feat Snoop Dogg & Colin Wolfe) Although a solo album, it features many appearances by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, who used the album as a launch pad for his own solo career. On The Chronic, he included both subtle and direct insults at Ruthless and its owner, former N.W.A member Eazy-E. Dre's first solo album after he had departed from hip hop group N.W.A and its label Ruthless Records over a financial dispute. The album is named after a slang term for high-grade cannabis, and its cover is a homage to Zig-Zag rolling papers. Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1992 at Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. It was released on December 15, 1992, by his own record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records and Priority Records. The Chronic is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Dr.

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