On “Issues,” co-starring Ice Cube, Dre declares, “Fuck money, that shit could never change me.” The line seems at once boastful and true, for better and worse: The track ends with a jarring fantasy about a woman’s violent murder. Lyrically, Compton is not only vibrant but full of an indignation that suggests world-beating success has done little to lessen the vitriol that fueled Dre back in N.W.A. Dre COMPLETE Studio Album Discography: 1992-2015 The Chronic / 2001 / Compton Including Bonus Art Card Dr Dre (Contributor) Format: Audio CD 35.96 35. and Mi'Chel'le and formed his own record label with co-founders Marion 'Suge' Knight and Dick Griffey and formed Death Row Records and the. Dre's recording contract after Dre left the label along with The D.O.C. On standouts like “Talk About It” and “Genocide,” Dre and his co-producers manage insane juggling acts between throbbing funk bass, jazz trumpet, extended high-hat solos, acoustic guitars and irresistibly pounding drums. Dre needed his first-ever solo album after he decided to leave Ruthless Records after Jerry Heller and Eazy-E decided not to renew Dr. Compton contains some of his most ambitious, idea-stuffed production ever, combining the layered bombast and narcotic ooze of his catalog’s peaks with a bunch of bold new tricks. Compton is a companion piece to the new N.W.A biopic, and the album’s backward gaze is evident from the intro, where narration from an old TV documentary describes how Dre’s California hometown went from black-middle-class idyll to a crime-ravaged “extension of the inner city.” Dre reminisces over past indignities (“Face down on the pavement with the billy clubs . . .”) and glories (“. . . Now it’s ‘Fuck Tha Police’ all up in the club”) - but this is no dusty museum tour.
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