The Chronic

Having split from N.W.A., Dr. Dre's first solo album established him as one of the biggest rap stars of his era. The Chronic brought the genre now known as G-funk to the mainstream — a genre defined by slow bass beats and melodic synthesizers, topped by P-Funk samples, female vocals, and a laconic, laid-back lyrical delivery referred to as a "lazy drawl". The Chronic featured both subliminal and direct insults to Ruthless Records and its owner, Dr. Dre's former N.W.A. band-mate Eazy-E.



The album is also credited with launching the careers of several prominent West Coast hip hop artists, including Snoop Doggy Dogg, Dat Nigga Daz, Kurupt, Nate Dogg, and Warren G — all of whom went on to pursue successful commercial careers. The Chronic is widely regarded as the album that re-defined West Coast rap [1], demonstrated gangsta rap's commercial potential as a multi-platinum commodity, and established G-funk as the most popular sound in hip hop music for several years after its release, with Dr. Dre himself producing several major albums that drew heavily on his production style.[2][3] Furthermore, the album's success established Death Row Records as a dominant force in 1990s hip-hop.[2]



The album has been re-released twice, first as a remastered CD, then as a remastered DualDisc. The remastered CD was released in an "edited" version which scrambles most profanity and the most explicit drug content backwards. On the original version, most drug references are left uncensored and all violence is completely uncensored. An alternate edited version of "#### wit Dre Day (and Everybody's Celebratin')" can be found on Dr. Dre's The Chronicles: Greatest Hits album. This album fixes some of the slippage of the original remastered edit. On the remastered disc, the editing will commonly leave in some profanity and then censor it other times. "Ass" and "bitch" are commonly censored sometimes, but not others.



The Chronic was included in VIBE's "100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Vibe", ranked #137 in Rolling Stone's list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and was also listed in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the '90s". Furthermore, the album ranked #8 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s", and in 2005 it was ranked #35 in the "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005" list by the same magazine. It was even ranked #6 in VIBE's "Top 10 Rap Albums of All Time". The album was also retroactively given a score of 5 mics from The Source magazine, making it a classic album (it received 4.5 mics in its original review). In 1998, the album was selected as one of "The Source Magazine's 100 Best Rap Albums". On the Billboard Music Charts (North America) album lists, The Chronic hit #1 R&B/Hip-hop and #3 Pop. Also, some critics claim that The Chronic is the best produced hip-hop album of all time.



1. The Chronic (Intro)

2. Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')

3. Let Me Ride

4. The Day the Niggaz Took Over

5. Nuthin' But a "G" Thang

6. Deeez Nuuuts

7. Lil' Ghetto Boy

8. A Nigga Witta Gun

9. Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat

10. The $20 Sack Pyramid

11. Lyrical Ganggbangg

12. High Powered

13. The Doctor's Office

14. Stranded on Death Row

15. The Roach [The Chronic Outro]

16. Bitches Ain't Shiit



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