Dr. Dre: Deeez Nuuuts - (feat. Warren G, Snoop Dogg, Dat Nigga Daz & Nate Dogg) Song Sample: "Chestnuts" by Rudy Ray Moore Album: "The Chronic" Recorded: June, 1992 - Death Row Studios (Los Angeles, California) & Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California) Date of Release: 12/15/1992 Record Label: Death Row / Interscope Producer: Dr. Dre, Suge Knight-(Executive) Sub-genre: Gangsta/Hardcore/G-Funk - (West Coast) **Production History: -The production on The Chronic was seen as innovative and ground-breaking, and received universal acclaim from critics. Allmusic commented on Dr. Dre's efforts, "Here, Dre established his patented G-funk sound: fat, blunted Parliament-Funkadelic beats, soulful backing vocals, and live instruments in the rolling basslines and whiny synths" and that "For the next four years, it was virtually impossible to hear mainstream hip-hop that wasn't affected in some way by Dre and his patented G-funk." Unlike other hip hop acts (such as The Bomb Squad) that sampled heavily, Dr. Dre only utilized one or few samples per song. In Rolling Stone's The Immortals - The Greatest Artists of All Time, where Dr. Dre was listed at number 54, Kanye West wrote on the album's production quality: "The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious." -Jon Pareles of the The New York Times described the production, writing "The bottom register is swampy ...
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