Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, in podcasts, and in books.
Today is a story of February 18th
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It is the 49th day of the year, leaving 316 days remaining in 2023.
He tells his stories while he helped invent new forms of rap and hip-hop music, particularly in the genre now known as gangsta-rap. It includes explicit descriptions of street violence and drug dealing. He also helped create part of the West Coast style, which used a synthesizer, heavy, plodding beats, and samplings from 1970s funk.
He has since moved mostly to the business side, finding and recruiting new artists, and founding such companies as Death Row Records, Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics.
He was born as Andre Romell Young of musically inclined parents, who broke up when he was a young child. He first found fame as a 20-year-old with the group World Class Wreckin' Cru, and later with N.W.A., where he helped perfect the violence of gangsta rape.
With fellow rappers Eazy-E and Ice Cube, they released Straight Outta Compton, which told of the violent street life that Dr. Dre grew up with. One of their popular early recordings was Fuck tha Police, which brought the group a warning letter from the FBI.
Dr. Dre then went solo, releasing The Chronic's, which garnered him his first Grammy Award for Let Me Ride.
While keeping a hand on the performing side, he also produced albums, including Snopp Dogg's debut album Doggystyle; he formed Death Row Records and signed 2Pac, and later started Aftermath and signed Eminem. He continues to perform, including at the halftime show of Super Bowl LVI in 2022, for which he won an Emmy Award.
He also has won six Grammy Awards. He lives in Los Angeles.
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