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It would come to life as soon as the team started working on The Chronic. The product was called G-Funk, an amalgam of the past, present and future. There was sort of this cleanliness and presence to his production that very much contrasted the noise ethos of the Bomb Squad and Public Enemy.' 'It was blending of breakbeats undergirded by real instruments. 'It wasn't actually a sound, rather it was a production method,' explains Dan Charnas, author of The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of Hip-Hop and professor at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.

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Dre and Snoop Dogg at the 1993 MTV Movie Awards Funk sampling, mixed with breaks and live instruments, provided an aggressive yet relaxed sound.Дr. Snoop - possessing a mix of gang ties and weed smoke - when paired with Dre's P. Dre had already laid a foundation for his sound by the time the final N.W.A album, 1991's Niggaz4Life, would drop, but there was a vibe he was after. Once Dre met Snoop Doggy Dogg (as he was then called) through stepbrother Warren G, it was truly trouble when Compton and Long Beach, Calif., came together. While The Chronic boasts a sufficient amount of fun, weed, money, and women, there still exists an element of anger fueled by both Dre's beef with Eazy as well as the ongoings of a world as seen through Dre's then-27-year-old eyes. The Los Angeles riots had finally dwindled in mid-May 1992, though the scars of the Rodney King verdict and a constant cloud of police brutality lingered in the streets. Societally, the country was in a state of flux. He was coming off the high of the post-N.W.A era, where his friendship with Eazy-E had rotted considerably and de-facto group leader Ice Cube vehemently parted ways with both N.W.A and Ruthless Records to pursue his own solo trajectory.Дre was still somewhat wound around the pen of manager Jerry Heller that inked his recording contract years earlier, though Suge Knight - a then-strong-yet-silent enforcer - would handle the messiness while Dre focused on his solo debut LP via Death Row Records (with Interscope Records serving as the distributor). It was a perfect storm - yielding one GRAMMY for Best Rap Solo Performance for 'Let Me Ride.' The Chronic would go on to sell millions, and like West mused, would serve as the prototype for any serious musician who existed within the hip-hop space.ДЄ quarter-century later, its presence is still felt in the aftershocks of an earthquake that was more than a year in the making.

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The Chronic was a series of coincidences backed by like-minded individuals all with one goal in mind: to create a work that would stand the test of time. 'It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious,' West wrote for Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists list, which ranked Dre at No. Dre's The Chronic: He called the album the hip-hop equivalent of Stevie Wonder's 1976 Album Of The Year GRAMMY winner, Songs In The Key Of Life. In 2010 Kanye West heaped some high praise on Dr.

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