Dre has also had acting roles in movies such as Set It Off, and the 2001 films The Wash and Training Day. Rolling Stone named him among the highest-paid performers of 20. Dre Presents the Aftermath in 1996, and released a solo album titled 2001 in 1999, for which he won the Grammy producer's award the next year.ĭuring the 2000s, he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals to other artists' songs. Under the label, he produced a compilation album titled Dr. In 1996, he left Death Row to establish his own label, Aftermath Entertainment. His 1992 solo debut, The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993 and to win a Grammy Award for the single "Let Me Ride". Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wrecking Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E and Ice Cube which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.ĭr. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels, such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent. Dre, is an record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. Priority, Death Row, Aftermath, Interscope, RuthlessĪndre Romelle Young born February 18, 1965, known by his stage name Dr. World Class Wreckin' Cru, N.W.A, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Game, Akon, Jay-Z, Nate Dogg, Obie Trice