

The striking image remains one of the hip-hop's most. The Chronic has been widely regarded as one of the most important and influential albums of the 1990s and regarded by many fans and peers to be one of the most well-produced Hip Hop albums of all time. Dr Dre, 'The Chronic' The simple cover artwork for Dr Dre's debut solo album sees a picture of the rapper hanging inside a gold frame. Dre’s production has been noted for founding and popularizing the G-funk subgenre within gangsta rap. Dre becoming one of the top ten best-selling American performing artists of 1993. Dr.

The album peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and had been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America with sales of 5.7 million copies in the United States, which led to Dr. Upon its release, The Chronic received generally positive reviews from music critics and earned considerable commercial success. Although a solo album, it features many appearances by 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. and its label Ruthless Records over a financial dispute. Dre’s first solo album after he had departed from N.W.A. The album is named after a slang term for high-grade cannabis, and its cover is a 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. The Chronic was released by Dr Dre’s own record label Death Row Records and distributed by Priority Records.
