It all provided a great act to hide behind. There was an effortless gravitation toward an identity that used strong words and threats of conflict by rapping about AKs, UZIs, hollow-tips, dicks too big for your mouth etc. The Chronic played well for plenty of awkward suburban teens looking to find confidence in themselves.
This, from the streets of Salisbury, a white-collar neighborhood in afflutent Virginia. Within a week of The Chronic being released every kid I knew turned into a weed-smoking gangster. Black Sheep / A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing (Intro) Waitin' for the motherfuckin' school bus!! Mailman came so I cut his motherfuckin' throat Pop kept screamin' so I shot him in the face I didn't give a fuck so I shot him in the dick Then I did a sweep, knocked the bitch off her feet Punched her in the chest, cut on her cheek
Slapped her in the head, stepped on her corns Kicked her in the pussy and punched her in the eye Shot her in the leg, shot her in the thigh You stupid ass, dirty ass, nasty ass slut Went to my sister's room, yo bitch, wake up Got my nine and my Rambo knife off the floor In 2020, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Chronic has been widely regarded as one of the most important and influential albums of the 1990s and one of the most well-produced hip hop albums of all time. Dre's production has been noted for popularizing the G-funk subgenre within gangsta rap. "Nuthin' but a ‘G’ Thang" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number one on both the Hot Rap Singles and Hot R&B Singles charts.Dr.
The album's three singles became top ten Billboard singles. The Chronic spent eight months in the Billboard Top 10. Dre becoming one of the top ten best-selling American performing artists of 1993. The Chronic peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and has been certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with sales of 3 million copies in the United States, which led to Dr. Although a solo album, it features many appearances by then-emerging American rapper Snoop Dogg, who used the album as a launch pad for his own solo career.
On The Chronic, he included both subtle and direct insults at Ruthless and its owner, former N.W.A member Eazy-E. Dre's first solo album after he had departed from hip hop group N.W.A and its label Ruthless Records over a financial dispute. The album is named after a slang term for high-grade cannabis, and its cover is an homage to Zig-Zag rolling papers. Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1992 at Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. It was released on December 15, 1992, by his own record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records. The Chronic is the debut studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper Dr.
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