2001, a big-budget, tightly controlled film, had to create a myth bigger than the man itself.
It had to reassert Dre’s place atop of rap’s hierarchy while also cementing, and smoothing over, his legacy. 2001, released 20 years ago on November 16, had to be more than an album. the Aftermath, which announced his intention to step away from gangsta rap-and the rocky start of his new label that he felt compelled to bend the truth. It wasn’t, actually, but the stakes were so high for Dre to rebound from his real second album-1996’s soulless Dr. “Haters say Dre fell off / How? Nigga, my last album was The Chronic,” he scoffs on the same song.
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It’s not a lie, but it’s certainly not the truth Dre’s version of the period of time between leaving Death Row Records in 19’s triumph in 1999 excludes a series of excruciating personal and professional setbacks that tell a more complex story of who Andre Young really is.
“Since the last time you heard from me I lost some friends / Well, hell, me and Snoop, we dippin’ again / Kept my ear to the streets, signed Eminem,” he raps. It’s cinematic and immersive, which is exactly what Dre intended: Coming off of three years in the wilderness, Dre needed more than a new sound. Twenty years later, even though the myth of 2001 has worn off, the song is still transportive. Dre’s 2001, is an antihero’s theme, the music Denzel Washington’s bad cop Alonzo Harris flips on before his panoramic tour of L.A.’s underbelly in Training Day. “Still D.R.E.,” the first single from Dr. You know the ones: that murderous mob-movie piano, clinking as it’s methodically built out by a lone cello and mournful violins, then by electric bass and drums so crisp they sound pulled from the soul of the Korg Triton machine they were produced on. The Murder Was the Case soundtrack reached #1 on the Billboard 200, becoming Snoop Dogg's second consecutive album to reach that position on the chart.I still can’t shake the goosebumps I get when I hear those keys. Tupac Shakur, who was not yet signed to Death Row, was paid $200,000 by Death Row owner Suge Knight to record a song for the album, but the track ("Life's So Hard" featuring Snoop Dogg) was not released until it appeared on 1997's Gang Related soundtrack. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1996. The single "What Would U Do?", performed by Tha Dogg Pound, was also included on the soundtrack for the 1994 film Natural Born Killers. The title comes from Snoop Dogg's song of the same name that appeared on his 1993 debut Doggystyle. Dre and Fab 5 Freddy and chronicles the fictional death of Snoop Dogg and his resurrection after making a deal with the Devil. It is the soundtrack of the 1994 eighteen minute film of the same name, which was directed by Dr. Murder Was the Case is a soundtrack album by Death Row Records that was released on October 15, 1994. Dre, Jewell, Suge Knight (exec.), Kevin Lewis, Lil' Stretch, Marc McWilliams, Sam Sneed, San Man George "G-One" Archie, Big Wy, Priest "Superfly" Brooks, Dat Nigga Daz, Devante Swing, DJ Quik, Dr. Hip hop, West Coast hip hop, g-funk, gangsta rap, R&B
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