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==Biography==
Dr. Dre started his producing career as a member of the [[World Class Wreckin' Cru]] during the first half of the [[1980s]]. In [[1986]], he and fellow World Class Wreckin' Cru member [[DJ Yella]] were two of the founding members of N.W.A, a highly successful and controversial group that created the prototype for much of what was termed "gangsta rap" in the [[1990s]]. Dr. Dre enjoyed significant success in NWA. After a dispute with [[Eazy E]], a founding member of N.W.A. and [[Ruthless Records]], Dre left the group at the peak of its popularity in [[1991]] to form Death Row Records with Suge Knight.
Dr. Dre released his first solo single, "Deep Cover,"(AKA 187) in the spring of [[1992]]. Not only was the record the debut of his elastic [[G-funk]] sound, it was the beginning of his collaboration with rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg (later simply known as Snoop Dogg), a young man who had recorded some homemade tapes with Dre's stepbrother Warren G. Warren G played Dre some of Snoop's [[mixtape]]s and a Dre arranged a meeting with the young man, beginning a lifelong association. Snoop's voice appeared on Dre's [[1992]] debut album ''[[The Chronic]]'' as much as Dre's did. Thanks to the single "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang," and hits like "Let Me Ride" and "Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')", ''The Chronic'' became a multi-platinum seller, making it virtually impossible to hear mainstream hip-hop that wasn't affected in some way by Dr. Dre and his patented G-funk.
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