The Chronic is the debut solo album by Dr. Dre, released December 15, 1992 through Death Row Records and distributed by Priority Records. Recording sessions for the album.
. Website Andre Romelle Young: 1 (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr.
Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of and, and was previously co-owner of. He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many rappers, including,. He is credited as a key figure in the crafting and popularization of, a rap style characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.
As of 2018, he is the third richest figure in hip hop, with a net worth of $770 million. Dre began his career as a member of the. He found fame with the influential group with, and, which popularized explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. His 1992 solo debut, released under Death Row Records, made him one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993. It earned him a for the single ', as well as several accolades for the single '.
That year, he produced Death Row labelmate Snoop Doggy Dogg's quadruple platinum debut, and mentored producers such as his step-brother (leading to the multi-platinum debut in 1994) and Snoop Dogg's cousin (leading to the double-platinum debut by in 1995). Dre left Death Row Records to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. He produced a compilation album, in 1996, and released a solo album, in 1999. During the 2000s, Dr. Dre focused on producing other artists, occasionally contributing vocals. Dre signed Eminem in 1998 and 50 Cent in 2002, and co-produced their albums. He has won six, including.
Dr. Dre has had acting roles in movies such as,. Ranked Dre 56 on their list of '100 Greatest Artists of All Time'. Contents.
Early life Young was born in, the first child of Theodore and Verna Young. His middle name, Romelle, is derived from his father's amateur singing group, The Romells. His parents married in 1964, separated in 1968, and divorced in 1972.: 7–8 His mother later remarried to Curtis Crayon and had three children: sons Jerome and Tyree (both deceased): 7,25 and daughter Shameka.: 6–8 In 1976, Young began attending Vanguard Junior High School in Compton, but due to, he transferred to the safer suburban Roosevelt Junior High School.: 9 The family moved often, and they lived in apartments and houses in Compton, and in the and neighborhoods in. Young has stated that he was mostly raised by his grandmother in New Wilmington Arms housing project in Compton. His mother later married Warren Griffin, whom she met at her new job in Long Beach,: 10 which added three stepsisters and one stepbrother to the family; the stepbrother would eventually become rapper.: 14 Young is the cousin of producer. He attended in Compton during his freshman year in 1979, but transferred to in due to poor grades. Young attempted to enroll in an apprenticeship program at, but poor grades at school made him ineligible.
Thereafter, he focused on his social life and entertainment for the remainder of his high school years.: 2 Young fathered a son with Cassandra Joy Greene named Curtis (born December 15, 1981). Curtis was brought up by his mother and first met his father 20 years later, when Curtis became rapper Hood Surgeon.: 11 Music career 1984–1985: World Class Wreckin' Cru Inspired by the song ', he often attended a club called Eve After Dark to watch many DJs and rappers performing live. He subsequently became a DJ in the club, initially under the name 'Dr. J', based on the nickname of, his favorite basketball player. At the club, he met aspiring rapper Antoine Carraby, later to become member of.: 15 Soon afterwards he adopted the moniker Dr. Dre, a mix of previous alias Dr.
J and his first name, referring to himself as the 'Master of Mixology'.: 14 Eve After Dark had a back room with a small four-track studio. In this studio, Dre and Yella recorded several demos. In their first recording session, they recorded a song entitled 'Surgery', with the lyrics 'calling Dr. Dre to surgery' serving as the chorus to the song.
He later joined the musical group under Kru-Cut in 1984. The group would become stars of the electro-hop scene that dominated early 1980s.
'Surgery', which was officially released after being recorded prior to the group's official formation, would prominently feature Dr. Dre on the turntable. The record would become the group's first hit, selling 50,000 copies within the Compton area.: 14–15 Dr. Dre and DJ Yella also performed mixes for local radio station, boosting ratings for its afternoon rush-hour show The Traffic Jam.: 17 Dr.
Dre's earliest recordings were released in 1994 on a compilation titled. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the website AllMusic described the compiled music, released 'several years before Dre developed a distinctive style', as 'surprisingly generic and unengaging' and 'for dedicated fans only'. His frequent absences from school jeopardized his position as a diver on his school's swim team. After high school, he attended Chester Adult School in Compton following his mother's demands for him to get a job or continue his education.
After brief attendance at a radio broadcasting school, he relocated to the residence of his father and residence of his grandparents before returning to his mother's house.: 18–19 He later dropped out of Chester to focus on performing at the Eve's After Dark nightclub. 1986–1991: N.W.A and Ruthless Records. Poster for one of N.W.A's first concerts at a Compton skating rink, 1988 In 1986, Dr.
Dre met rapper —nicknamed Ice Cube—who collaborated with Dr. Dre to record songs for, a hip hop record label run by local rapper. And fellow West Coast rapper are widely credited as seminal artists of the gangsta rap genre, a profanity-heavy subgenre of hip hop, replete with gritty depictions of urban crime and gang lifestyle.
Not feeling constricted to racially charged political issues pioneered by rap artists such as or, N.W.A favored themes and uncompromising lyrics, offering stark descriptions of violent, inner-city streets. Propelled by the hit ', the group's first full album became a major success, despite an almost complete absence of radio airplay or major concert tours. The sent Ruthless Records a warning letter in response to the song's content.
After Ice Cube left N.W.A in 1989 over financial disputes, Dr. Dre produced and performed for much of the group's second album. He also produced tracks for a number of other acts on Ruthless Records, including Eazy-E's 1988 solo debut, 's 1990 debut, 's 1989, 's 1989 debut, 's 1988 debut and funk rock musician 's 1991 album 1992–1996: The Chronic and Death Row Records.
From The Chronic Problems playing this file? After a dispute with Eazy-E, Dre left the group at the peak of its popularity in 1991 under the advice of friend, and N.W.A lyricist, The D.O.C. And his bodyguard at the time,. Knight, a notorious strongman and intimidator, was able to have Eazy-E release Young from his contract and, using Dr. Dre as his flagship artist, founded. In 1992 Young released his first single, the to the film, a collaboration with rapper, whom he met through Warren G. Dr. Dre's debut solo album was, released under Death Row Records with Suge Knight as executive producer.
Young ushered in a new style of rap, both in terms of musical style and lyrical content, including introducing a number of artists to the industry including Snoop Dogg,. Logo used by Chronic-era Dr. Dre On the strength of singles such as ', ', and ' (known as 'Dre Day' for radio and television play), all of which featured Snoop Dogg as guest vocalist, The Chronic became a cultural phenomenon, its sound dominating much of hip hop music for the early 1990s. In 1993 the (RIAA) certified the album triple platinum, and Dr. Dre also won the for his performance on 'Let Me Ride'. For that year, Billboard magazine also ranked Dr. Dre as the eighth best-selling musical artist, The Chronic as the sixth best-selling album, and 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' as the 11th best-selling single.
'California Love' earned Dr. Dre his first number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and two nominations.
Besides working on his own material, Dr. Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album, which became the first debut album for an artist to enter the album charts at number one. In 1994 Dr. Dre produced some songs on the soundtracks to the films. He collaborated with fellow N.W.A member Ice Cube for the song ' in 1995. For the film, Dre recorded ', which reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Hot Rap Singles (now Hot Rap Tracks) charts. In 1995, Death Row Records signed rapper, and began to position him as their major star: he collaborated with Dr.
Dre on the commercially successful single ', which became both artists' first song to top the Billboard Hot 100. However, in March 1996 Young left the label amidst a contract dispute and growing concerns that label boss Suge Knight was corrupt, financially dishonest and out of control. Later that year, he formed his own label, Aftermath Entertainment, under the distribution label for Death Row Records,. Subsequently, Death Row Records suffered poor sales by 1997, especially following the death of 2Pac and the charges brought against Knight. Dre also appeared on the single ' by group in 1996: it too was a sales success, topping the Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks, and later won the award for Best R&B Vocal by a Duo or Group at the. After hearing it for the first time, several of Dr.
Dre's former Death Row colleagues, including 2Pac, recorded and attempted to release a song titled ', containing numerous insults aimed at Dr. Dre and using a deliberately similar instrumental to 'No Diggity', but were forced to replace the production after Blackstreet issued the label with a order stopping them from distributing the song. 1996–1998: Move to Aftermath Entertainment The album, released on November 26, 1996, featured songs by Dr. Dre himself, as well as by newly signed artists, and a solo track ', intended as a symbolic farewell to.
Despite being classified platinum by the RIAA, the album was not very popular among music fans. In October 1996, Dre performed 'Been There, Done That' on. Dre produced several tracks on 's; it was met with largely negative reviews from critics. Rumors began to abound that Aftermath was facing financial difficulties. Aftermath Entertainment also faced a lawsuit by the underground thrash metal band Aftermath., a compilation of various tracks produced and performed by Dr. Dre, was also released in 1996, with material ranging from World Class Wreckin' Cru to N.W.A to Death Row recordings. Dre chose to take no part in the ongoing of the time, instead producing for, and appearing on, several New York artists' releases, such as ' 'Nas Is Coming', 's ' and 's 'Watch Me'.
The turning point for Aftermath came in 1998, when, the head of Aftermath's parent label Interscope, suggested that Dr. Dre sign, a white rapper from. Dre produced three songs and provided vocals for two on Eminem's successful and controversial debut album, released in 1999. Dre-produced lead single from that album, ', brought Eminem to public attention for the first time, and the success of The Slim Shady LP – it reached number two on the Billboard 200 and received general acclaim from critics – revived the label's commercial ambitions and viability.
1999–2000: 2001. Logo used by 2001-era Dr. Dre Following the success of 2001, Dr. Dre focused on producing songs and albums for other artists. He co-produced six tracks on Eminem's landmark, including the Grammy-winning lead single, '. The album itself earned a Grammy and proved to be the fastest-selling rap album of all time, moving 1.76 million units in its first week alone. He produced the single ' by R&B singer for her album in 2001. He also produced ', a duet by rapper and lead singer and signed R&B singer to Aftermath in 2001.
Dre was the executive producer of Eminem's 2002 release,. He produced three songs on the album, one of which was released as a, and he appeared in the award-winning video for '. He also produced 's 2003 album, where he made a guest appearance on the tracks 'Psychic Pymp Hotline', 'Gorilla Pympin' and 'Judgment Day'. Another copyright-related lawsuit hit Dr. Dre in the fall of 2002, when, a film and music company based in, sued Aftermath Entertainment over an uncredited sample of the song 'Thoda Resham Lagta Hai' on the Aftermath-produced song 'Addictive' by singer. In February 2003, a judge ruled that Aftermath would have to halt sales of Truth Hurts' album Truthfully Speaking if the company would not credit Mangeshkar. Another successful album on the Aftermath label was, the 2003 major-label debut album by, New York-based rapper.
Dre produced or co-produced four tracks on the album, including the hit single ', a joint production between Aftermath, Eminem's boutique label and Interscope. Eminem's fourth album since joining Aftermath, again saw Dre taking on the role of executive producer, and this time he was more actively involved in the music, producing or co-producing a total of eight tracks, including three singles. In November 2004, at the Vibe magazine awards show in Los Angeles, Dr. Dre was attacked by a fan named Jimmy James Johnson, who was supposedly asking for an autograph. In the resulting scuffle, then-G-Unit rapper stabbed the man. Johnson claimed that Suge Knight, president of Death Row Records, paid him $5,000 to assault Dre in order to humiliate him before he received his Lifetime Achievement Award.
Knight immediately went on 's to deny involvement and insisted that he supported Dr. Dre and wanted Johnson charged. In September 2005, Johnson was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered to stay away from Dr. Dre until 2008. Dr. Dre also produced ', a 2005 hit single from rapper from his album, as well as tracks on 50 Cent's successful second album. For an issue of Rolling Stone magazine in April 2005, Dr. Dre was ranked 54th out of 100 artists for Rolling Stone magazine's list 'The Immortals: The Greatest Artists of All Time'. Wrote the summary for Dr.
Dre, where he stated Dr. Dre's song 'Xxplosive' as where he 'got (his) whole sound from'. In November 2006, Dr. Dre began working with on his album.
He also produced tracks for the rap albums by, by 50 Cent, by Snoop Dogg, and by Jay-Z. Dre also appeared on 's track 'Bounce', from his 2007 solo album, alongside,. During this period, The D.O.C. Stated that Dre had been working with him on his fourth album Voices through Hot Vessels, which he planned to release after Detox arrived. Planned but unreleased albums during Dr. Dre's tenure at Aftermath have included a full-length reunion with Snoop Dogg titled Breakup to Makeup, an album with fellow former N.W.A member Ice Cube which was to be titled Heltah Skeltah, an N.W.A reunion album, and a joint album with fellow producer titled Chairmen of the Board. Dre's third studio album, formerly known as Detox, was slated to be his final studio album.
Work for the upcoming album dates back to 2001, where its first version was called 'the most advanced rap album ever', by producer. Later that same year, he decided to stop working on the album to focus on producing for other artists, but then changed his mind; the album had initially been set for a fall 2005 release. Producers confirmed to work on the album include, Bernard 'Focus' Edwards Jr.,. Claimed that Detox was finished, according to a June 2008 report by Rolling Stone magazine. After another delay based on producing other artists' work, Detox was then scheduled for a 2010 release, coming after 50 Cent's and Eminem's, an album for which Dr. Dre handled the bulk of production duties. In a commercial that debuted on May 28, 2009, he premiered the first official snippet of Detox.
50 Cent and Eminem asserted in an interview on 's that Dr. Dre had around a dozen songs finished for Detox. 2008–2014: The Planets, a break, Coachella and Detox cancellation. Dre in 2008 On December 15, 2008, Dre appeared in the remix of the song ' by Canadian rapper (also with ); the remix debuted on 's radio show. At the beginning of 2009, Dre produced, and made a guest vocal performance on, the single ' by and the single sold a record 418,000 downloads in its first week and reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on the week of February 12, 2009. Along with this single, in 2009 Dr. Dre produced or co-produced 19 of 20 tracks on Eminem's album.
These included other hit singles ', ', and ' (The only track Dre did not produce was the Eminem-produced single '.) On April 20, 2010, 'Under Pressure', featuring and co-produced with, was confirmed by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre during an interview at as the album's first single. The song leaked prior to its intended release in an unmixed, unmastered form without a chorus on June 16, 2010; however, critical reaction to the song was lukewarm, and Dr. Dre later announced in an interview that the song, along with any other previously leaked tracks from Detox 's recording process, would not appear on the final version of the album. Two genuine singles – ', a collaboration with Snoop Dogg and fellow rapper, and ' with Eminem and singer – were released in the United States during November 2010 and February 2011 respectively: the latter achieved international chart success, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and later being certified double platinum by the RIAA and the (ARIA). On June 25, 2010, the honored Dr. Dre with its Founders Award for inspiring other musicians.
Dre logo In July 2008, Dr. Dre released his first brand of headphones,.
The line consisted of Beats Studio, a headphone; Beats Tour, an in-ear headphone; Beats Solo & Solo HD, a headphone; Beats Spin; Heartbeats by, also an in-ear headphone; and Beats. In autumn 2009, participated in a deal to bundle Beats By Dr. Dre with some HP laptops and headsets. Dre announced the deal on October 9, 2009, at a press event in, California. An exclusive laptop, known as the HP ENVY 15 Beats limited edition, was released for sale October 22. In May 2014, technology giant purchased the Beats brand for $3 billion, Apple's most expensive purchase by far. The deal made Dr.
Dre the 'richest man in hip hop', surpassing. Philanthropy During May 2013, Dr. Dre and donated a $70 million endowment to the to create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation.
The goal of the Academy has been stated as 'to shape the future by nurturing the talents, passions, leadership and risk-taking of uniquely qualified students who are motivated to explore and create new art forms, technologies, and business models.' The first class of the Academy began in September 2014. In June 2017, it was announced that Dr. Dre has committed $10 million to the construction of a performing arts center for the new Compton High School. The center will encompass creative resources and a 1,200-seat theater, and is expected to break ground in 2020. The project is a partnership between Dr. Dre and the Compton Unified School District.
Endorsements. '. '. '. 'Chrysler 300S'—Imported from Detroit Dr. Dre started Burning Man rumors An urban legend surfaced in 2011 when a tumblr blog titled Dr.
Dre Started Burning Man began proliferating the notion that the producer, rapper and entrepreneur had discovered in 1995 during a music video shoot and offered to cover the cost of the event's permit from the Nevada Bureau of Land Management under an agreement with the festival's organizers that he could institute an entrance fee system, which had not existed before his participation. This claim was supported by an alleged letter from Dre to Nicole Threatt Young that indicated that Dre had shared his experience witnessing the Burning Man festival with her.
Mentions the portion of the letter where Dr. Dre purportedly states 'someone should get behind this.and make some money off these fools' and compares Dr. Dre's potential entrepreneurial engagement with Burning Man as a parallel to ' efforts to centralize and profit from the otherwise unorganized online music industry. According to, Dr.
Dre's ethos seems to be aligned with seven of the ten principles of the Burning Man community: 'radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation and immediacy.' Musical influences and style The space, about the size of a college dorm room, is splattered with papers, ideas scribbled down in black ink.
Nuthin' but G thangs waiting to happen. Those that don't happen end up in a round, purple trash can. A kitchen, red and stainless steel like a '50s diner, adjoins the control room. Dre performing with Snoop Dogg, 2012 Over the years, word of other collaborators who have contributed to Dr. Dre's work has surfaced. During his tenure at Death Row Records, it was alleged that Dr. Dre's stepbrother Warren G and member made many uncredited contributions to songs on his solo album The Chronic and Snoop Doggy Dogg's album (Daz received production credits on Snoop's similar-sounding, albeit less successful album Tha Doggfather after Young left Death Row Records). It is known that, who has since gone on to become a successful producer in his own right, contributed to Dr. Dre's second album 2001; Storch is credited as a songwriter on several songs and played keyboards on several tracks.
In 2006 he told Rolling Stone: At the time, I saw Dr. Dre desperately needed something,' Storch says. 'He needed a fuel injection, and Dr. Dre utilized me as the nitrous oxide. He threw me into the mix, and I sort of tapped on a new flavor with my whole piano sound and the strings and orchestration. So I'd be on the keyboards, and Mike Elizondo was on the bass guitar, and Dr. Dre was on the drum machine.
Current collaborator, when speaking about his work with Young, describes their recording process as a collaborative effort involving several musicians. In 2004 he claimed to Songwriter Universe magazine that he had written the foundations of the hit Eminem song ', stating, 'I initially played a bass line on the song, and Dr. Dre, Tommy Coster Jr.
And I built the track from there. Then heard the track, and he wrote the rap to it.'
This account is essentially confirmed by Eminem in his book Angry Blonde, stating that the tune for the song was composed by a studio bassist and keyboardist while Dr. Dre was out of the studio but Young later programmed the song's beat after returning. A group of disgruntled former associates of Dr. Dre complained that they had not received their full due for work on the label in the September 2003 issue of. A producer named Neff-U claimed to have produced the songs 'Say What You Say' and 'My Dad's Gone Crazy' on, the songs 'If I Can't' and 'Back Down' on 50 Cent's, and the beat featured on Dr. Dre's commercial for. Although Young studies piano and musical theory, he serves as more of a than a musician himself, as Josh Tyrangiel of TIME magazine has noted: Every Dre track begins the same way, with Dre behind a drum machine in a room full of trusted musicians. (They carry beepers.
When he wants to work, they work.) He'll program a beat, then ask the musicians to play along; when Dre hears something he likes, he isolates the player and tells him how to refine the sound. 'My greatest talent,' Dre says, 'is knowing exactly what I want to hear.' Although Snoop Dogg retains working relationships with Warren G and Daz, who are alleged to be uncredited contributors on the hit albums The Chronic and Doggystyle, he states that Dr. Dre is capable of making beats without the help of collaborators, and that he is responsible for the success of his numerous albums. Dr. Dre's prominent studio collaborators, including, Elizondo, and, have shared co-writing, instrumental, and more recently co-production credits on the songs where he is credited as the producer. Also praised Dr.
Dre in a 2016 interview with Music Times, telling the publication that it was a dream come true to work with Dre. Ghostwriters It is acknowledged that most of Dr. Dre's raps are written for him by others, though he retains ultimate control over his lyrics and the themes of his songs.: 229 As Aftermath producer Mahogany told Scratch: 'It's like a class room in the booth. He'll have three writers in there. They'll bring in something, he'll recite it, then he'll say, 'Change this line, change this word,' like he's grading papers.' As seen in the credits for tracks Young has appeared on, there are often multiple people who contribute to his songs (although often in hip hop many people are officially credited as a writer for a song, even the producer). In the book, explains that writing was a 'team effort': MC and details how he ' for Dre.: MC In regard to ghostwriting lyrics he says, 'Dre doesn't profess to be no super-duper rap dude – Dre is a super-duper producer'.: MC As a member of N.W.A, The D.O.C. Wrote lyrics for him while he stuck with producing.
New York City rapper ghostwrote lyrics for the single 'Still D.R.E.' From Dr. Dre's album 2001.
Personal life Relationships and family. In 1981, Dr. Dre and Cassandra Joy Greene had a son named Curtis Young when Dr. Dre was 16 years old and Greene was 15 years old. Curtis Young is an aspiring rapper who goes by the rap moniker 'Hood Surgeon'.: 19. In 1983, Dr. Dre and Lisa Johnson had a daughter named La Tanya Danielle Young.
In 1988, Dr. Dre and Jenita Porter had a son, Andre Young Jr. In 1990, Porter sued Dr. Dre in Orange County Superior Court seeking $5,000 of child support per month.
On August 23, 2008, Andre Young Jr. Died at the age of 20 at his mother's home.
The coroner determined that he died from an overdose of. From 1987 to 1996, Dr. Dre dated singer, who frequently contributed vocals to Ruthless Records and Death Row Records albums. In 1991, the couple had a son, Marcel.: 53. In 1996, Dr. Dre married Nicole Threatt, the ex-wife of player.: 145 They have two children together: a son named Truice (born 1997) and a daughter named Truly (born 2001).: 156,204 Violence against women Dr.
Dre has been accused of violence against women in the past. On January 27, 1991, at a music industry party at the Po Na Na Souk club in Hollywood, Dr.
Dre assaulted television host of the television program Pump it Up, because he felt dissatisfied with her news report about the feud between the remaining N.W.A members and Ice Cube. Barnes filed a $22.7 million lawsuit in response to the incident. Subsequently, Dr. Dre was fined $2,500, given two years' probation, ordered to undergo 240 hours of, and given a spot on an anti-violence on television.: 27 The civil suit was settled out of court. Barnes stated that Young 'began slamming her face and the right side of her body repeatedly against a wall near the stairway.'
Dre later commented 'People talk all this shit, but you know, somebody fucks with me, I'm gonna fuck with them. I just did it, you know. Ain't nothing you can do now by talking about it. Besides, it ain't no big thing – I just threw her through a door.' In March 2015, singer accused him of physical abuse during their time together as a couple, but did not initiate legal action. Former labelmate also claimed that Dre assaulted her at a post- party in 1990, in response to her track 'Ruthless Bitch'. During press for the 2015 film, questions about the portrayal and behavior of Dr.
Dre and other prominent figures in the rap community about violence against women – and the question about its absence in the film – were raised. The discussion about the film led to Dr. Dre addressing his past behavior in the press.
In August 2015, in an interview with, Dre lamented his abusive past, saying, 'I made some fucking horrible mistakes in my life. I was young, fucking stupid. I would say all the allegations aren't true—some of them are. Those are some of the things that I would like to take back. It was really fucked up. But I paid for those mistakes, and there's no way in hell that I will ever make another mistake like that again.' In a statement to on August 21, 2015, Dre again addressed his abusive past, stating, 'Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life.
However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. I've been married for 19 years and every day I'm working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way. I'm doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again.' He went on to apologize to all the women he abused, saying, 'I apologize to the women I've hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.'
Other convictions Dr. Dre pleaded guilty in October 1992 in a case of battery of a police officer and was convicted on two additional battery counts stemming from a brawl in the lobby of the New Orleans hotel in May 1991.
On January 10, 1994, Dr. Dre was arrested after leading police on a 90 mph pursuit through Beverly Hills in his 1987 Ferrari. It was revealed Dr. Dre had a blood-alcohol of 0.16, twice the state's legal limit. The conviction violated Dre's battery conviction in 1991 and he was sentenced to eight months in prison in September 1994. Income In 2001, Dr. Dre earned a total of about US$52 million from selling part of his share of Aftermath Entertainment to and his production of such hit songs that year as '.
Rolling Stone magazine thus named him the second highest-paid artist of the year. Dr. Dre was ranked 44th in 2004 from earnings of $11.4 million, primarily from production royalties from such projects as albums from and and the single ' by singer and rapper. Forbes estimated his net worth at US$270 million in 2012. The same publication later reported that he acquired US$110 million via his various endeavors in 2012, making him the highest–paid artist of the year. Income from the 2014 sale of Beats to Apple, contributing to what Forbes termed 'the biggest single-year payday of any musician in history', made Dr. Dre the world's richest musical performer of 2015. Suge Knight conspiracy accusation On April 4, 2016, TMZ and the New York Daily News reported that had accused Dre and the of a kill-for-hire plot in the 2014 shooting of Knight in club 1 OAK.
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