History Music / DrDre

Starting out as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and working in nightclubs as a DJ, Dre joined up with other aspiring rappers like Music/IceCube and Music/EazyE to become a member of the influential rap group Music/{{NWA}}, whose work helped brought gangsta rap to the mainstream, selling millions of records in the process despite huge controversy and backlash from legal authorities.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''2001'' basically has "Dr. Dre" in one corner and "2001" in another with a small marijuana leaf on a otherwise completely black cover.

Dre then formed a new record label called Aftermath Entertainment. 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 ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' proved to be a huge hit. Dre also released his second album ''2001'' on the label, which was also a huge success. Since then, Dre has been more focused on producing works for other artists ranging from Music/MaryJBlige to [[Music/NoDoubt Gwen Stefani]] rather than releasing solo records. This also included Aftermath signee 50 Cent, whose first 2 albums both went multi-platinum. Dre would also continue to work with Eminem throughout the 2000s, producing many successful releases for him.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: A frequent joke dating back to his World Class Wreckin' Cru days, and appearing throughout his song and album titles thereafter. Music/{{Eminem}}, with his [[MunchausenSyndrome Munchausen's-by-proxy victim]]/ AmbiguousDisorder persona, especially loves using this joke, often begging the Dr. for surgery, psychiatric help or pharmaceuticals.

For tropes in Dre's fictionalised role as part of Eminem's Slim Shady mythology, see [[Characters/{{Eminem}} Eminem's Character Sheet]].

* ''Detox'' (never released, but the promotional singles "Kush" and "I Need A Doctor" were released in 2010 and 2011)

* GFunk: The GenrePopularizer.

* WestCoastRap: A TropeCodifier.

* WestCoastHipHop: A TropeCodifier.

* NotThatKindOfDoctor: A frequent joke dating back to his World Class Wreckin' Cru days, and appearing throughout his song and album titles thereafter. Music/{{Eminem}} especially loves using this joke, often begging the Dr. for surgery, psychiatric help or pharmaceuticals.

* MinimalisticCoverArt: 2001 basically has "Dr. Dre" in one corner and "2001" in another with a small marijuana leaf on a otherwise completely black cover.

* AngryBlackMan: During N.W.A.'s early period, though this soon ended when bandmate and principal songwriter Music/IceCube left the group.

* BigGuyLittleGuy: [[https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographs/sX3cpv/NWA-1991 With EazyE]].

* ClusterFBomb and NWordPrivileges: Just like when he was in N.W.A.
* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: Dre had sued Napster after his request to have his songs removed from the site was rejected.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Music/EazyE before their fued.
* TheMentor: To Music/SnoopDogg, Music/{{Eminem}}, Music/FiftyCent and Music/KendrickLamar amongst numerous others

* ThePerfectionist: He is known to pressure artists in giving perfect performance, even making one of his aftermath signees, Bishop Lamont, do a take 107 times in order to get it the way Dre likes. This is why a number of Aftermath signees have never released a full length album on his label.

-->''Forgot About Dre''

Dr. Dre (born Andre Romelle Young, February 18, 1965) is an American rapper, RecordProducer and entrepreneur. He gained fame as a member of gangsta rap group Music/{{NWA}} and helped popularize G-Funk through his first solo album The Chronic. He has helped launch and nurture the work of many other key artists in Hip Hop including Music/SnoopDogg, Music/{{Eminem}} and [[Music/FiftyCent 50 Cent]]. His stage name is based on Dr. J, the nickname of his favourite basketball player Julius Erving, mixed with his own name.

Starting out as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru and working in nightclubs as a DJ, Dre joined up with other aspiring rappers like Music/IceCube and Music/EazyE to become a member of the influential rap group Music/{{NWA}} whose work helped brought gangsta rap to the mainstream, selling millions of records in the process despite huge controversy and backlash from legal authorities.

Dre had a falling out though with fellow member Eazy-E and left N.W.A. to help start Creator/DeathRowRecords with Suge Knight. The first album released on the label was Dre’s The Chronic which proved highly successful, going 3xplatinum, and was a key influence on the g-funk sound that dominated rap music for the next few years. He also worked a lot with protégée Snoop Dogg, who was featured on many of the tracks from the chronic, even producing his first death row album Doggystyle, an album which also proved to be highly influential and commercially successful. Dre also collaborated with [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]] when he was signed to death row, including the number 1 hit California love. Dre left Death Row though in 1996 due to concern over Suge Knight whom he felt was financially dishonest and was becoming increasingly thuggish.

Dre then formed a new record label called Aftermath Entertainment. 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 ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' proved to be a huge hit. Dr Dre also released his second album ''2001'' which was also a huge success, going 6xplatinum. Since then though, Dre has been more focused on producing works for other artists ranging from Music/MaryJBlige to [[Music/NoDoubt Gwen Stefani]], rather than releasing solo records. This also included Aftermath signee 50 Cent whose first 2 albums both went multi-platinum. Dre would also continue to work with Eminem throughout the 2000s, producing many successful releases for him.

For many years, Dre was working on a new solo album called ''Detox'', though it has been [[DevelopmentHell constantly delayed and multiple tracks from it were leaked]], eventually becoming hip hop's equivalent to ''[[Music/GunsNRoses Chinese Democracy]]'' or the [[{{Vaporware}} similarly delayed]] video game ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''. By 2015, Dre announced he was officially scrapping ''Detox'' for good, and instead released ''Compton'', which was inspired by the film ''Film/StraightOuttaCompton'', a biopic on N.W.A, which also looked at Dre’s time at Death Row, of which Dre served as a producer.

->''And [[Music/{{NWA}} the group that said]], "Motherfuck the Police?”''