The Chronic put the entire hip-hop industry on notice, but none more so than those artists living in New York. ‘The Chronic’ immediately inspired The Notorious B.I.G. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and “Let Me Ride,” which won Dre a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. The album included hit songs like “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang,” which reached No. It was the first album released on the fledgling label, with the second being Snoop Dogg’s debut album Doggystyle released the following November. He, along with Suge Knight and The D.O.C., created Death Row Records in 1991.ĭre released his debut solo album The Chronic in December 1992. got to work on his own debut project - not just as a rapper, but as a producer. After the dissolution of the group in the early 1990s, Dr. Dre first rose to prominence in the late 1980s as a part of the hit rap group N.W.A. Dre released his debut solo album ‘The Chronic’ in 1992ĭr. Dre | Ken Weingart/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Dr. Dre’s 1992 debut solo album The Chronic signaled that the West Coast wasn’t playing around, and it inspired an up-and-coming Brooklyn rapper - who later became The Notorious B.I.G. Dre showed that California had talented MCs just like there were in New York, the birthplace of hip-hop. In the early 1990s, West Coast rappers like Tupac Shakur and Dr.
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