dr. dre
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Revisiting Dr. Dre’s The Chronic 25 Years Later
There are a few albums in my life that have held pivotal roles: De La Soul’s De La Soul Is Dead, A Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders, N.W.A.’s EFIL4ZAGGIN and Outkast’s Aquemini, to name a few. Another of those pivotal albums, Dr. Dre’s The Chronic, was released on Dec. 15, 1992, exactly 25 years ago…
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Dr. Dre Donates $10,000,000 to Build Performing Arts Center for Compton, Calif., High School
Hip-hop icon Dr. Dre has shelled out a cool $10 million to help develop a performing arts center for one of the high schools in his native Compton, Calif., the Compton Unified School District announced Thursday. The center—which will be part of the new Compton High School—will include several creative resources, as well as a…
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Michel’le’s Surviving Compton Doesn’t Forget About Dre
“Everybody keeps asking me, ‘Girl, why you ain’t in they movie? You was there. You was down with Ruthless Records right along with them boys,’” Michel’le Toussaint informs us in her intro to her Lifetime biopic, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge and Michel’le. Straight Outta Compton is the movie to which Michel’le, as she is best-known,…