Dr. Dre Producer of Hip Hop

Dr. Dre, producer of hip hop, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor who began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru. He later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group NWA, which stood for Niggaz With Attitude.

Core members were Ice Cube, Dr Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren & DJ Yella. Coming from the Ghetto's of Compton and founders of Gangsta Rap their music and lyrics were both shocking and influential to a whole generation of people regardless of colour or creed.

Straight Outta Compton is constantly rated in the top 150 most influential albums. Other members came and went and the Wu Tang Clan were grown from the influences and some ex members of NWA.

Dre left NWA and formed Death Row Records, Easy-E died from AIDS, MC Ren has moved on and helps with Public Enemys recording schedules guesting on some of their tracks while MC Yella now directs and stars in porn films.

His earliest recordings were released in 1994 on a compilation titled Concrete Roots. His debut solo album, The Chronic, was among the top-selling albums of the 1990s and spawned three hit singles.

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. It was Dre as the eighth best-selling musical artist, The Chronic as the sixth best-selling album, and "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" as the 11th best-selling single.

He produced Snoop Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, which became the first debut album for an artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 album charts. He signed Eminem, a rapper from Detroit and produced three songs and provided vocals for two on Eminem's successful and controversial debut album The Slim Shady LP, released in 1999.

Dre-produced the lead single from that album, "My Name Is", which helped propel Eminem into stardom. He won the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2000 and joined the Up in Smoke Tour with fellow rappers Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Ice Cube that year as well.

Dre also told Scratch magazine in a 2004 interview that he has been studying piano and music theory formally, and that a major goal was to accumulate enough musical theory to score movies. He went on to produce the soundtracks to the films Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case.

Dre earned a total of about $52 million from selling part of his share of Aftermath Entertainment to Interscope Records and his production of such hit songs that year as "Family Affair" by Mary J. Blige.

Dre took on producer Mel-Man as a co-producer, and his music took on a more synthesizer-based sound, using fewer vocal samples (as he had used on "Lil' Ghetto Boy" and "Let Me Ride" on The Chronic, for example). It is obvious that Dr. Dre is truly an innovative producer of hip hop music and culture.