RO: And he played live music inspired by funk from the '60s and '70s on a single called "Ain't Nothing But a G Thang." SNOOP DOGGY DOGG: (Rapping) With so much drama in the LBC it's kind of hard being Snoop D-O-GG, but I… And then he continued to evolve and to grow, and by 1992 he'd formed his own record company and had discovered another superstar named Snoop Doggy Dogg. And then he had his group N.W.A., and with them he sort of introduced like this Red Foxx, Richard Pryor form of comedy. And also, musically, like in his first group, The World Class Wreckin' Cru, he sort of fused rap beats to R&B with the song by an artist named Michel'le called "Turn Out the Lights" which was, I believe, in the late '80s, immensely popular. RO: Well, for one, Dre is very well known for introducing a higher level of quality to the actually sound of a recording. And at each stage of his career he wound up introducing new elements, sounds, and techniques that influenced everything that followed.ĬHIDEYA: What kinds of techniques did he introduced? And he had an interest in, you know, performing, and he joined a number of well-known groups. He was unsure what to do with his life right around the time he was going to graduate from high school. Dre was a young man from South Central Los Angeles.
Dre in terms of who he was when he first got into hip-hop? NPR's Farai Chideya spoke with Ronin Ro about his new biography of Dre.įARAI CHIDEYA: Who is Dr. He's thought up all sorts of controversies with record labels and fellow rappers to remain one of the steadiest forces in hip-hop music. He discovered Snoop Dogg and helped rocket Eminem to rap stardom. Busta, where you at? Can't scrap a lick, so I know you got (unintelligible)…ĬOX: Dr. Dre's patented mix of George Clinton-ish funk and (unintelligible) hip-hop beat made him one of rap music's most important artists.ĭr. It was just one of his many hits during and after his days with N.W.A. He dropped his first solo disc, "The Chronic," in 1992. Dre made his first hits with Ice Cube and the gangster hip-hop crew, N.W.A. In the early '90s, the Los Angeles producer almost single-handedly crafted the new G-funk rap sound. Dre's origins in the Compton clubs, it's far better to seek out an old-school compilation that includes "Surgery" or "House Calls.If you want to make your funk the G-funk, then you need to call on Dr. Still, unless you're very curious about Dr. the surprisingly hardcore "Mission Possible" and "B.S." (the first a Public Enemy sound-alike, but the last one a completely original gangster fantasy). The only other interesting inclusions are a pair of tracks that point toward Dre's work in N.W.A. The single "Turn off the Lights" is bland enough to have sounded totally innocuous on the charts during 1988, while dance tracks like "Cabbage Patch" and "The Fly" are tired novelties.
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Turn off the Lights: Greatest Hits Plus has all of the best World Class Wreckin' Cru tracks, but there's still plenty of samey filler. Dre certainly rated with the prime electro producers across the nation - New York's Arthur Baker ( Afrika Bambaataa) and Detroit's Juan Atkins ( Cybotron) - and his best work ("Surgery," "Juice") was a big influence on bass music as well as West Coast rap. Dre's production expertise, the World Class Wreckin' Cru recorded some solid West Coast electro singles, more energetic than the style's other prime production act ( Egyptian Lover), if not as revolutionary. Noted as the first group blessed with Dr.
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