Another way that Dr. Dre had innovated the music industry was his career as a record producer and talent manager. To start with, Dr. Dre began this portion of his career by founding Death Row Records, a hip-hop label that was “...co-founded in 1991 by controversial music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight” (Fisher). During that time, the duo signed some artists into their company and soon they “...began churning out multiplatinum hits, starting with Dr. Dre's ‘The Chronic’ and later his protégé Snoop Dogg's ‘Doggystyle’” (Fisher). As a direct consequence of the successes of these music releases, hip-hop and rap music had become more popular in America than before; many young people listened to this genre more often and became very influenced by such recordings. A few years later, Dr. Dre moved on to found Aftermath …show more content…
One of these artists signed to Aftermath was Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers. Dr. Dre had discovered Eminem in the late 90s while listening to a demo tape sent by him (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgztAU7p-WM). After listening to the demo, Dr. Dre was so impressed that he met this aspiring rapper in Los Angeles at Dre’s home. Afterwards, the two did a recording session “...in his home studio, where the white wordsman came up with his sobriquet Slim Shady, the song "Role Model" and two others that ended up on his first album” (Rush). This record was very successful that it “reached number two on the Billboard 200 and received general acclaim from critics...”, which gave Aftermath Records huge potential for success as a recording label (Walters). This success gave Dr. Dre a chance to sign multiple recording artists into Aftermath Records, “...such as Busta Rhymes, Eve (twice), Rakim and The Game” among others, such as Kendrick Lamar, who had much success in the hip-hop industry
For instance he has won thirteen awards in total. He has won four grammys, three soul train music awards, two ama favorite awards, one mtv award, one echo award, one bet award, and one billboard top award. Dr.Dre has sold many platinum selling awards.Dr.Dre has made many deal such as signing death row records, co founding beats headphones which were sold to apple.He has signed many artists such as Eminem and 50 Cent.Dre once said “ i’ve sold a lot of records, did it keep other artists from
Around his neighborhood, Biggie Smalls, as he called himself then, began building a reputation as a musician. After a tape of his landed in the hands of Mister Cee, a DJ, Smalls was featured in the hip-hop company, The Source. That article soon caught the attention of Sean "Puffy" Combs, “a young producer at Uptown Entertainment, a New York-based label expert in hip-hop and rhythm and blues (Google/bio/biggie smalls/.com).” Uptown to start his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment, he brought Smalls with him.
However, the taboo nature of N.W.A's music was the most important factor of its mass appeal. Media coverage compensated for N.W.A's lack of airplay and their album eventually went double platinum.[16] One month after Straight Outta Compton, Eazy-E's solo debut Eazy-Duz-It was released. The album was dominated by Eazy's persona—MC Ren was the only guest rapper—but behind the scenes it was a group effort. Music was handled by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella; the lyrics were largely written by MC Ren, with contributions from Ice Cube and The D.O.C. The album was another double platinum success for Ruthless[17] (in addition to girl group J.J. Fad in 1988 and singer Michel'le in 1989). 1989 saw the re-issue of N.W.A and the Posse and Straight Outta Compton on CD, and the release of The D.O.C.'s No One Can Do It Better. His album was essentially a collaboration with Dr. Dre and notably free of "gangsta rap" content, however including the N.W.A posse cut "The Grand Finalé." It would become another #1 album for the record label.
There is little question that he came from the streets, but this had been a growing comparison among the correlation of hip hop and the crack generation. “Not only did black teenagers in similar situations relate to what Eazy was talking about, but white suburban kids fantasized about being in his situation” (Eriewine).
During his early years he dropped out of high school and was a drug dealer for some years. He was good friends with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. They started making songs for their new album that was called “Boyz-N-The Hood”. In 1987 they made another album that was called “Straight Outta Compton” that album
His contract was cancelled with the record company because they didn’t think that was good influence on the company. (Marcovitz 25) He was shot again at again 3 years later but the shooter missed. (www.s9.com) Eminem heard his tapes and thought he was real good and signed him into a record deal with Eminem’s company “Shady Records” (Marcovitz 25)
Sean "Puffy" Combs has established himself as one of the biggest names in hip-hop (Heal). Combs a Harlem native whose father was killed when he was only 3 years old, rose from the mean streets to the top of the music business (AP wire, March 18). "It is true that he started from scratch, and I don't think that because he was arrested, people will stop buying his albums (AP wire, March 18). Before pursuing his career as a vocalist, Combs was a business-minded Howard University student and an intern at Andre Harrell's Uptown Records. Combs soon became the A&R representative for Uptown. He then began producing for soon to be mega-stars Mary J. Blige, Heavy D., and Jodeci to name a few. After being let go
DJ Premier’s music career has been amazing and he will go down as a legend for it. He has worked with some of the biggest names in Hip/Hop history including The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, and Jay-Z. DJ Premier also made some huge hit songs like NY State of Mind by Tupac, Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G., and D’Evils by Jay-Z. DJ premier has worked with multiple top tier talents and with that he has earned his reputation .
FYI, Dr. Dre will be starring in Apple's first scripted television series titled "Vital Signs." Dre is the also the executive producer on the project, rumor has it the pilot consists of six 30-minute episodes and is supposed to depict parts of Dr. Dre's life . Each episode is said to focus on a "different emotion" and the way Dre's character handles it.
Dr. Dre was one of the most influential figures in the history of American rap because of his unique style and the passion he had for it, in addition to signing well-known
“And the hip hop community responded as Lil Wayne went on to become one of the most useful artist of all time selling millions of albums. The flood doors were now open and southern hip hop influence was only growing and producers such as Lil Jon and artists such as Young Jeezy and rick ross began to appear. With that generation we started to see more and more southern artists. With this increase of artist came a drastic increase in influence within the hip-hop community. These artist pale in comparison when it comes to the artist that have been coming out of the south in todays south, some of the most famous people in music not just hip hop have come out of the south and names such as Future, the migos group, bankroll fresh, young thug etc. Are known as some of the most important artists in hip hop today and the list only continues to grow longer as the stronghold
Today’s hip hop have changed as where the DJ was once is now the producer as the key music maker, and the park was once is now a studio.
Also by releasing a series of increasingly popular Mixtapes, which brought him to the attention of hip hop producer Dr. Dre. Lamar's debut major-label recording, Good Kid, m.A.A.d City, was released to great success and impressive sales for an up and coming recording artist.
From the beginning Death Row Records was like a family, according to Dr. Dre. With acts like Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, and Warren G, Death Row
The release of The Slim Shady LP was the beginning of Eminem’s ride to the hip-hop hall of fame and it was with this album that Eminem was truly