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The Chronic

Index The Chronic

The Chronic is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Dr. Dre. [1]

175 relations: Acclaimed Music, Album, AllMusic, Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop), ARIA Charts, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Atomic Dog, B. T. Express, Beastie Boys, Bernie Grundman, Bernie Worrell, Bill Withers, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Bitches Ain't Shit, Blaxploitation, Blender (magazine), Boogie Down Productions, Brian Wilson, Bushwick Bill, California, Cannabis (drug), Cassette single, Chicago Tribune, Chris Taylor (music producer), Concrete Roots, Cop Killer (song), Cypress Hill, Da Lench Mob, Daz Dillinger, Death Row Records, Deep Cover (song), Detroit, Digable Planets, Discogs, Doggystyle, Donny Hathaway, Dr. Dre, DualDisc, Easy listening, Eazy-E, Edna Gundersen, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Entertainment Weekly, Executive producer, Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin'), Funkadelic, Funkentelechy, Funky Drummer, ..., G-funk, Gangsta rap, George Clinton (musician), Gil Scott-Heron, Graham Central Station, Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Greg Kot, Hip Hop Connection, Hip hop music, HipHopDX, Hollywood, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, Ice Cube, Interscope Records, Irish Recorded Music Association, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Jewell (singer), Joe Tex, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Jon Pareles, Kanye West, Kay Gees, King T, Kurupt, Laconic phrase, Led Zeppelin, Leon Haywood, Let Me Ride, List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1993, List of hip hop albums considered to be influential, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Lou Donaldson, Luther Campbell, MC Ren, Michel'le, Mothership Connection (Star Child), Motown, Music of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Music recording certification, Music Week, Musical keyboard, N.W.A, Napster (streaming music service), Nate Dogg, Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang, Ohio Players, Omnibus Press, One Way (American band), Oxford University Press, P-Funk, P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up), Parliament (band), Perry Mason (TV series), Phil Spector, Poetic Justice (film), Prince Ital Joe, Priority Records, Prometheus Global Media, Public Enemy (band), RBX, Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat), Record producer, Recording Industry Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America certification, Regulate...G Funk Era, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Roy C, Rudy Ray Moore, Ruthless Records, Select (magazine), Simon & Schuster, Singing, Slick Rick, Snoop Dogg, Solomon Burke, Songs in the Key of Life, Soopafly, Spin (magazine), Stevie Wonder, Suge Knight, Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000, Sustain, Swing Down Sweet Chariot, Tha Dogg Pound, The Bomb Squad, The D.O.C., The Lady of Rage, The Mack, The New York Times, The Predator (Ice Cube album), The Rolling Stone Album Guide, The Source, The Village Voice, The Yale Herald, Tim Dog, Time (magazine), Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Touré, UK Albums Chart, USA Today, Viacom Media Networks, Vibe (magazine), Warren G, West Coast hip hop, When the Levee Breaks, Whodini, Willie Hutch, X Clan, XXL (magazine), Yahoo!, Yahoo! Music, YGD Tha Top Dogg, Zig-Zag (company), (Not Just) Knee Deep, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 2 Live Crew, 2001 (Dr. Dre album), 36th Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (125 more) »

Acclaimed Music

Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm, SwedenMatt Rosoff, "The critics vs.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)

"Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" is a song by funk band Parliament.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.

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Atomic Dog

"Atomic Dog" is a song by George Clinton from his 1982 album Computer Games.

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B. T. Express

B.T. Express (originally named Brooklyn Transit Express) was an American funk/disco group, that had a number of successful songs during the 1970s.

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Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.

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Bernie Grundman

Bernie Grundman is an American audio engineer.

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Bernie Worrell

George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads.

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Bill Withers

William Harrison Withers Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bitches Ain't Shit

"Bitches Ain't Shit" is a song by American hip hop recording artist and record producer Dr. Dre, taken from his debut studio album The Chronic (1992).

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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s.

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Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more".

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Boogie Down Productions

Boogie Down Productions was a hip hop group, originally composed of KRS-One, D-Nice, and DJ Scott La Rock.

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Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Bushwick Bill

Richard Stephen Shaw (born December 8, 1966) is a Jamaican-American rapper better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Cassette single

A cassette single (CS, also known by the trademark "Cassingle" or capitalized as the trademark "Cassette Single") is a music single in the form of a Compact Cassette.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Chris Taylor (music producer)

Chris Taylor, known as "The Glove", is a DJ and producer on the West Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Concrete Roots

Concrete Roots is a compilation album featuring songs produced by Dr. Dre, released on September 20, 1994.

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Cop Killer (song)

"Cop Killer" is a song composed by Ernie C with words by Ice-T for American heavy metal band Body Count, of which they were both members.

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Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California.

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Da Lench Mob

Da Lench Mob was an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California, associated with Ice Cube.

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Daz Dillinger

Delmar Drew Arnaud, better known by his stage name Daz Dillinger (formerly Dat Nigga Daz), is an American rapper and record producer from Long Beach, California.

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Death Row Records

Death Row Records (formerly Future Shock Entertainment and Tha Row Records) was an American record label founded in 1991 by Suge Knight, The D.O.C, and Dr. Dre.

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Deep Cover (song)

"Deep Cover", also known as "187", is the debut solo single by American rapper Dr. Dre and his first track released after the breakup of N.W.A. The track was recorded for the soundtrack of the film Deep Cover.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Digable Planets

Digable Planets is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987, in Brooklyn, New York.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Doggystyle

Doggystyle is the debut studio album by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg.

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Donny Hathaway

Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American jazz, blues, soul and gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, organist, and pianist.

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Dr. Dre

Andre Romelle Young (born February 18, 1965), better known by his stage name Dr.

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DualDisc

DualDisc was a type of double-sided optical disc product developed by a group of record companies including MJJ Productions Inc, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and 5.1 Entertainment Group and later under the aegis of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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Easy listening

Easy listening (sometimes known as mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s.

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Eazy-E

Eric Lynn Wright (September 7, 1964March 26, 1995), better known by his stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who performed solo and in the hip hop group N.W.A. Wright is affectionately called "The Godfather of Gangsta rap".

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Edna Gundersen

Edna Gundersen is an American journalist who was a longtime music writer and critic for USA Today.

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music was created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Executive producer

Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product.

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Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')

"Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", titled on the single simply "Dre Day," is a hip-hop diss track by American artist and producer Dr. Dre, with a guest appearance from fellow rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg.

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Funkadelic

Funkadelic was an American band that was most prominent during the 1970s.

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Funkentelechy

"Funkentelechy" is a song by the funk band Parliament.

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Funky Drummer

"Funky Drummer" is a song recorded by James Brown and his band in 1969.

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G-funk

G-funk, or gangsta-funk, is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast Gangsta rap in the early 1990s, heavily influenced by 1970s funk sound of artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic.

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Gangsta rap

Gangsta rap or Gangster rap is a style of hip hop characterized by themes and lyrics that generally emphasize the "gangsta" lifestyle.

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George Clinton (musician)

George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer.

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Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet,Kot, Greg (May 26, 2011).

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Graham Central Station

Graham Central Station is an American funk band named after founder Larry Graham (formerly of Sly & the Family Stone).

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Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group

The Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group was awarded between 1991 and 2011, alongside the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.

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Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance was awarded from 1991 to 2011, alongside the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

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Greg Kot

Greg Kot (born March 3, 1957) is an American writer, author and journalist.

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Hip Hop Connection

Hip Hop Connection (HHC) was the longest running monthly periodical devoted entirely to hip hop culture.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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HipHopDX

HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Hot Rap Songs

Hot Rap Songs (formerly known as Hot Rap Tracks and Hot Rap Singles, and also known as Rap Airplay) is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.

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Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, writer and actor.

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Interscope Records

Interscope Records is an American major record label.

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Irish Recorded Music Association

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to manage and control the music industry in the Republic of Ireland.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.

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Jewell (singer)

Jewell (a.k.a. Ju-L, born Jewell Caples, June 15, 1968; later Jewell Peyton) is a recording artist that has performed on multi-platinum R&B/Hip-Hop albums.

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Joe Tex

Joseph Arrington, Jr. (August 8, 1933&ndash; August 13, 1982), better known as Joe Tex, was an American musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of country, gospel, and rhythm and blues.

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Johnny "Hammond" Smith

John Robert "Johnny Hammond" Smith (December 16, 1933 – June 4, 1997) was an American soul jazz and hard bop organist.

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Jon Pareles

Jon Pareles (born October 25, 1953) is an American journalist who is the chief popular-music critic in the arts section of The New York Times.

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Kanye West

Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer.

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Kay Gees

The Kay-Gees were an American funk and disco group during the 1970s, protégés of Kool & the Gang.

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King T

Roger McBride (born December 14, 1968), better known by his stage name King T (formerly known as King Tee), is an American West Coast Hip hop rapper from Compton, California.

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Kurupt

Ricardo Emmanuel Brown (born November 23, 1972), better known by his stage name Kurupt, is an American rapper, actor and former Executive Vice President of Death Row Records.

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Laconic phrase

A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Leon Haywood

Otha Leon Haywood (February 11, 1942 – April 5, 2016) was an American funk and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Let Me Ride

"Let Me Ride" is a 1993 single by rapper and producer Dr. Dre, and the third single from his debut studio album, The Chronic.

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List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1993

These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums that reached number one in 1993.

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List of hip hop albums considered to be influential

This list provides a guide to the most important hip hop albums, as determined by their presence on compiled lists of significant albums: see the "Lists consulted" section for full details.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson (born November 1, 1926) is a jazz alto saxophonist.

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Luther Campbell

Luther Roderick Campbell (born December 22, 1960), also known as Luke Skyywalker and simply Luke, is an American record label owner, rap performer, promoter, and actor.

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MC Ren

Lorenzo Jerald Patterson (born June 16, 1969), better known by his stage name MC Ren, is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Compton, California.

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Michel'le

Michel'le Denise Toussant (born December 5, 1967), known mononymously as Michel'le, is an American R&B singer and songwriter.

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Mothership Connection (Star Child)

"Mothership Connection (Star Child)" is a funk song by Parliament.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Music of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is an open-world, action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.

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N.W.A

N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes) was an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California.

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Napster (streaming music service)

Napster, known as Rhapsody prior to June 14, 2016, is an online music store subscription service based in Seattle, Washington.

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Nate Dogg

Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (August 19, 1969 – March 15, 2011), was an American singer, songwriter, and actor better known by his stage name Nate Dogg.

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Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang

"Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" is a song by American rapper Dr. Dre featuring fellow American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg from Dre's debut solo album, The Chronic (1992).

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Ohio Players

Ohio Players were an American funk, soul music and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is the world’s largest specialist publisher of music-related books.

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One Way (American band)

One Way was an American R&B and funk band that was popular in the late 1970s, and throughout most of the 1980s, led by singer Al Hudson.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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P-Funk

P-Funk (also spelled P Funk or P. Funk) is the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton.

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P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)

"P.

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Parliament (band)

Parliament is a funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as part of his Parliament-Funkadelic collective.

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Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966.

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Phil Spector

Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll.

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Poetic Justice (film)

Poetic Justice is a 1993 American romantic drama film written and directed by John Singleton and starring Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur with Regina King and Joe Torry.

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Prince Ital Joe

Joe Paquette (May 5, 1963 – May 16, 2001), better known by his stage name Prince Ital Joe, was a Dominican American reggae recording artist best known for his collaborations with Marky Mark.

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Priority Records

Priority Records is an American distribution company and record label known for artists including N.W.A, Ice-T, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Silkk the Shocker and Westside Connection.

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Prometheus Global Media

Prometheus Global Media was a New York City-based B2B media company.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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RBX

Eric Dwayne Collins (born June 20, 1968) better known by his stage name RBX (standing for "Reality Born Unknown"), is an American rapper from Long Beach, California.

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Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

"Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" is a 1992 song by jazz rap trio Digable Planets which was released as the first single from their debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space).

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of America certification

In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets.

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Regulate...G Funk Era

Regulate...

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.

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Roy C

Roy Charles Hammond (born August 3, 1939), better known as Roy C or Roy "C", is an American southern soul singer, songwriter and record executive, best known for his 1965 hit, "Shotgun Wedding".

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Rudy Ray Moore

Rudolph Frank Moore (March 17, 1927October 19, 2008), known as Rudy Ray Moore, was an American comedian, musician, singer, film actor, and film producer.

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Ruthless Records

Ruthless Records is an American record label, founded by Eazy-E and Jerry Heller.

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Select (magazine)

Select was a United Kingdom music magazine of the 1990s which was particularly known for covering Britpop, a term coined in the magazine by Stuart Maconie.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Slick Rick

Richard Martin Lloyd Walters (born January 14, 1965); better known as Slick Rick, Rick The Ruler and MC Ricky D, is a British-born American rapper.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Solomon Burke

Solomon Burke (born James Solomon McDonald, March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American preacher and singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s.

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Songs in the Key of Life

Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976, by Motown Records, through its division Tamla Records.

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Soopafly

Priest Joseph Brooks, (known professionally as Soopafly born December 8, 1972) is a hip hop producer and rapper from Long Beach, California.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Suge Knight

Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. (born April 19, 1965) is an American record producer, music executive, and a former American football player.

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Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000

Suge Knight Represents: Chronic 2000 is a compilation album released on May 4, 1999 by Death Row Records featuring performances by various artists, including 2Pac, Treach, Scarface, Tha Realest, Swoop G, Lil' C-Style, K-Ci, Soopafly, Jewell, Danny Boy, Outlawz, Daz Dillinger, Kurupt, E-40, Top Dogg, DJ Quik, and Miilkbone among others.

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Sustain

In music, sustain is a parameter of musical sound over time.

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Swing Down Sweet Chariot

"Swing Down Sweet Chariot" is a traditional spiritual song, a humorous variation of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

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Tha Dogg Pound

Tha Dogg Pound is an American hip hop duo formed in 1992, made up of West Coast rappers Kurupt and Daz Dillinger (formerly Dat Nigga Daz).

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The Bomb Squad

The Bomb Squad is an American hip hop production team, known for its work with the hip hop group Public Enemy.

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The D.O.C.

Tracy Lynn Curry (born June 10, 1968), better known by his stage name The D.O.C., is an American rapper from Dallas.

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The Lady of Rage

Robin Yvette Allen (born February 6, 1970), better known by her stage name The Lady of Rage, is an American rapper, singer and actress best known for collaborations with several Death Row Records artists, including Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg on the seminal albums The Chronic and Doggystyle.

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The Mack

The Mack is a 1973 blaxploitation film directed by California native Michael Campus, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Predator (Ice Cube album)

The Predator is the third studio album by Ice Cube.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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The Source

The Source is a United States-based monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, founded in 1988.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Yale Herald

The Yale Herald is a newspaper run by undergraduate students at Yale University since 1986.

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Tim Dog

Timothy Blair (January 3, 1967 &ndash; February 14, 2013),Margaret Eby, New York Daily News, May 22, 2013.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Touré

Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname (the English transcription is Turay).

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Viacom Media Networks

Viacom Media Networks, formerly known as MTV Networks, is an American mass media division of Viacom that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and Internet brands.

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Vibe (magazine)

Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones.

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Warren G

Warren Griffin III (born November 10, 1970) is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer and DJ, known as one of the pioneers of West Coast hip hop.

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West Coast hip hop

West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music regional genre that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast region of the United States.

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When the Levee Breaks

"When the Levee Breaks" is a blues song written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929.

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Whodini

Whodini is a hip hop group that was formed in 1981.

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Willie Hutch

William McKinley Hutchison (December 6, 1944 – September 19, 2005), better known as Willie Hutch, was an American singer, songwriter as well as a record producer and recording artist for the Motown record label during the 1970s and 1980s.

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X Clan

X Clan (formerly stylized as XCLAN and often incorrectly spelled X-Clan) is a hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York, originally consisting of Grand Verbalizer Funkin' Lesson Brother J, Professor X the Overseer, Paradise the Architect, and Sugar Shaft the Rhythm Provider.

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XXL (magazine)

XXL is an American hip hop magazine, published by Townsquare Media, founded in 1997.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming.

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YGD Tha Top Dogg

Derrick Wade (born February 17, 1979 in Grenada, Mississippi) better known by his stage name Top Dogg is an American rapper.

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Zig-Zag (company)

Zig-Zag is a brand of rolling papers that originated in France.

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(Not Just) Knee Deep

"(Not Just) Knee Deep" is a funk song, with a running time of 15 minutes, 21 seconds, on Side 1 of Funkadelic's 1979 album Uncle Jam Wants You.

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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a musical reference book first published in 2005 by Universe Publishing.

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2 Live Crew

The 2 Live Crew is an American hip-hop group from Miami, Florida.

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2001 (Dr. Dre album)

2001 (sometimes referred to as The Chronic 2001, Chronic 2001 or The Chronic 2) is the second studio album by American rapper and producer Dr. Dre.

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36th Annual Grammy Awards

The 36th Annual Grammy Awards were held in 1994.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronic

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