Not That Kind of Doctor: A frequent joke dating back to his World Class Wreckin' Cru days, and appearing throughout his song and album titles thereafter.Mock Hollywood Sign: The cover for "Compton" has a Hollywood-esque sign spelling "Compton" overlooking the titular city.Misogyny Song: "She Swallowed It" and "Bitches Ain't Shit" are considered amongst the forefathers of the 'bitches and hos' tendency in rap.Dre" in one corner and "2001" in another with a small marijuana leaf on a otherwise completely black cover. Minimalistic Cover Art: 2001 basically has "Dr.He largely left the genre once he formed Aftermath. Gangsta Rap: Blue Collar during his N.W.A days and commercial during his time with Death Row.Evil Sounds Deep: "Natural Born Killaz".Dre, even having a cameo appearance in "Let Me Ride", so unlike Eazy-E and Luke, he was not parodied in the music video. However, by the album's release, Ice Cube was on friendlier terms with Dr. The lyrics: "Then we gon creep to South Central, On a Street Knowledge mission, as I steps in the temple, Spot him, got him, as I pulls out my strap, Got my chrome to the side of his White Sox hat, You tryin to check my homey, you best check yo self, Cause when you diss Dre you diss yourself" had references to Cube's production operation Street Knowledge Productions (now Lench Mob Records), the lyrics "steps in the temple" referring to Ice Cube's affiliation with the Nation of Islam and his hit single "Check Yo Self". There were also some lyrics alluding to Ice Cube, who departed acrimoniously from the group in 1989 and ridiculed Dre on "No Vaseline". The Diss Track: "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')" was aimed at Eazy-E Tim Dog, an East Coast rapper who slighted the whole West Coast rap scene and released an incendiary diss track towards N.W.A titled "Fuck Compton" and Luther (Luke) Campbell from Music/2LiveCrew, whose track "Fakin' Like Gangstas" from his debut solo album I Got Shit On My Mind, featuring JT Money from the group Poison Clan, was taken personally for making references to some of the popular rappers in the "gangsta" category (specifically referring to N.W.A).Call-and-Response Song: Eminem and Dre's "Guilty Conscience" is sung in this style, with the two playing the two sides of a person's conscience.It still gets referenced from time to time, but the doctor gimmick was dropped come the N.W.A. Artifact Title: The "Dr." part of his name was relevant during his World Class Wreckin' Cru days, in which his persona was that of a doctor."Tropin' With Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')": The Contract EP (released via Grand Theft Auto Online) (2021).Detox (never released, but the promotional singles "Kush", "I Need A Doctor" and the album track "Die Hard" were released in 20).Dre has also done a small bit of acting work, having roles in films like The Wash and Training Day. Most notably, he created the headphone brand Beats by Dre in 2008, which was later sold to Apple in 2014 for 3 billion dollars. In addition to music, Dre has also worked as an entrepreneur.
of which Dre served as a producer, which also looked at his time at Death Row. By 2015, Dre announced he was officially scrapping Detox for good, and instead released Compton, which was inspired by the film Straight Outta Compton, a biopic on N.W.A. Dre would also continue to work with Eminem throughout the 2000s, producing many successful releases for him.įor many years, Dre was working on a new solo album called Detox, though it was constantly delayed to the point of becoming hip hop's equivalent to vaporware. This also included Aftermath signee 50 Cent, whose first 2 albums both went multi-platinum. Blige to Gwen Stefani rather than releasing solo records. Since then, Dre has been more focused on producing works for other artists ranging from Mary J. Dre also released his second album 2001 on the label, which was also a huge success. It had some difficulties in its first couple of years, releasing poorly received records, but it turned around when Dre signed Eminem, whose debut album The Slim Shady LP proved to be a huge hit. Dre then formed a new record label called Aftermath Entertainment.