Dr. Dre: The Biography

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Born on February 18, 1965 to a sixteen-year-old single mom, Andre Young, AKA Dr. Dre, co-founded the notorious rap group N.W.A. The group used to be some of the successful hip-hop groups of the late 1980s and, most importantly, began what the media quickly dubbed Gangsta Rap. His departure from N.W.A. used to be a story right out of a pulp fiction novel. His new mentor, Suge Knight, allegedly used guns, baseball bats and a kidnap threat to get Dr. Dre released from his contract. Dre and Knight went on to build Death Row Records and turned it into a multi-billlion dollar company. Yet regardless of its unprecedented success with stars such as Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur, the company quickly unraveled in a firestorm of rivalries, greed, violence, and scrutiny by both the government and the media. Not one to fade into the background, Dr. Dre’s next move used to be to start his own record company, Aftermath Entertainment. As CEO, he came upon and created new stars like Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game, and Eve. On this very important addition to any music section, award-winning writer Ronin Ro details the upward push, fall, and resurrection of one of the vital biggest names in rap music.
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