Биография "Dr. Dre Feat. Snoop Dogg"
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Dr. Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin’ Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E and Ice Cube which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life.[2] His 1992 solo debut, The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993[3] and to win a Grammy Award for the single «Let Me Ride.»[4] In 1996, he left Death Row to found his own label, Aftermath Entertainment, producing a compilation album, Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath, in 1996, and releasing a solo album titled 2001, in 1999, for which he won the Grammy producer’s award the next year.[2]
During the 2000s, he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals to other artists’ songs. Rolling Stone named him among the highest-paid performers of 2001[5] and 2004.[6] Dr. Dre has also had acting roles in movies such as Set It Off, and the 2001 films The Wash and Training Day.[7]. In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it is rumored Carl Johnson (the main character) is inspired by him.
Dre is known for his production ability, and for helping many underground rappers become popular, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and The Game, producing beats for them. He is focused on producing for other artists and rarely producing for himself. The only productions he made for himself were The Chronic and 2001, two of the most influental and essential hip hop albums of all time.
Cordazar Calvin Broadus (born October 20, 1971),[1][2] better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is a Grammy Award-nominated American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre’s most notable proteges. He popularized the catch phrase suffix «-izzle,» a slang term or infix that had been in use for decades, but not nearly to the extent that it currently permeates the pop and hip hop music industry as well as general usage.
Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school; shortly after graduation, he was arrested for cocaine possession and sentenced to three years in prison, then began his music career in 1992 after his release. He was discovered by Dr.
In 1996, Snoop Dogg was cleared of charges over his bodyguard’s 1993 murder of Phillip Woldemariam. His second album, 1996’s Tha Doggfather, was his last release for Death Row before he signed with No Limit Records, with whom he recorded three albums from 1998 to 2001. Snoop then joined Capitol Records in 2002 for his album Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss, and then to Geffen Records in 2004 for his next three albums. He also joined forces with his cousin Nate Dogg and rapper Warren G as the supergroup 213 for an album in 2004.
In addition to music, Snoop Dogg has also starred in motion pictures and hosted several television shows: Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, Snoop Dogg’s Father Hood, and Dogg After Dark. He also coaches a youth football league and high school football team. Snoop Dogg has also run into many legal troubles, some of which caused him to be legally banned from the UK and Australia. He is the cousin of rappers Nate Dogg, Daz Dillinger, RBX and Lil’ Half Dead and the cousin of R&B singers Brandy and Ray J.
Starting in September 2009 Snoop began his role as the chairman of Priority Records[3]. He also plans on releasing his tenth studio album, Malice n Wonderland in 2009.
