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The Chronic

Dr. Dre

1992

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The Chronic
Album Summary

The Chronic is the debut studio album by American hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre. It was released on December 15, 1992, by his own record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1992 at Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood. The album is named after a slang term for high-grade cannabis, and its cover is an homage to Zig-Zag rolling papers. It was Dr. Dre's first solo album after he had departed from hip hop group N.W.A and its label Ruthless Records over a financial dispute. On The Chronic, he included both subtle and direct insults at Ruthless and its owner, former N.W.A member Eazy-E. Although a solo album, it features many appearances by then-emerging American rapper Snoop Dogg, who used the album as a launch pad for his own solo career. The Chronic peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and has been certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with sales of 3 million copies in the United States, which led to Dr. Dre becoming one of the top ten best-selling American performing artists of 1993. The Chronic spent eight months in the Billboard Top 10. The album's three singles became top ten Billboard singles. "Nuthin' but a ‘G’ Thang" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number one on both the Hot Rap Singles and Hot R&B Singles charts.Dr. Dre's production has been noted for popularizing the G-funk subgenre within gangsta rap. The Chronic has been widely regarded as one of the most important and influential albums of the 1990s and one of the most well-produced hip hop albums of all time. In 2020, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Tue Aug 24 2021
1

Woke up, didn't choke up Saw my AK, it was broke up Put it together like a jigsaw Got my nine and my Rambo knife off the floor Went to the bathroom, and beat the rush Yo, who the fuck used my toothbrush? Went to my sister's room, yo bitch, wake up You stupid ass, dirty ass, nasty ass slut Shot her in the leg, shot her in the thigh Kicked her in the pussy and punched her in the eye Slapped her in the head, stepped on her corns Don't fuck with mine bitch, word is bond Went downstairs to eat wit' my folks Ma, you broke my fuckin' egg yolk! Punched her in the chest, cut on her cheek Then I did a sweep, knocked the bitch off her feet Knee to the pussy, kick to the skull AK y'all, shot that bitch in the temple Pop got mad 'cause mom got licked I didn't give a fuck so I shot him in the dick Hungry as fuck, said my grace Pop kept screamin' so I shot him in the face Ate my food, found my coat Mailman came so I cut his motherfuckin' throat Waitin' for the motherfuckin' school bus!! - Black Sheep / A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing (Intro) --------------------------- Within a week of The Chronic being released every kid I knew turned into a weed-smoking gangster. This, from the streets of Salisbury, a white-collar neighborhood in afflutent Virginia. The Chronic played well for plenty of awkward suburban teens looking to find confidence in themselves. There was an effortless gravitation toward an identity that used strong words and threats of conflict by rapping about AKs, UZIs, hollow-tips, dicks too big for your mouth etc. It all provided a great act to hide behind. Now, nearly 20 years removed from this, I assumed I would listen to it with new ears and find something that I enjoyed. And, I did --- the beats --- those dope beats behind tracks like Let Me Ride, Fuck Wit Dre Day, "G" Thang, etc. are amazing. I'm gettin' into it, bobbin' and weavin', thumpin' my chest and consuming those yummy hardcore lyrics signing "...I'm callin' 1-8-7 with my dick in ya mouth..." [record skips] Wait. What?! In addition to the beats, and possibly moreso, the popularity of this album is predicated on the attitude and strong persona it conveyed to those kids in Salisbury. And it's not such a far cry from recent tactics used by a former U.S. president. Both employ chest-thumping, direct FU conflict attitudes to up the ante. They both change the game, and normalize violence and confrontation to instill confidence in a people unsecure in the world around them. This album, for all of its regurgitated funk beats, deep bass and good grooves, does not outweigh its detriment on society and the mainstream acceptance of gangster rap. The Chronic killed hip-hop. Tribe / De La / Eric B. and Rakim / BDP / PE etc. groups with real messages and a good time dried up overnight for this shit. The Black Sheep track "Intro," cited at the top ends by waking up ... it was all a dream... he dreamed he was 'hard.' In reality, the popularity of this style rap lasted for years. So yeah, twenty years on, this album is worse than I remember. It has new meaning based on the times we live in and for that, I'm allocating a BIG FAT zero stars. Sorry, Dre and Co., the content of this shit sucks. You are better than this. But it's not all bad news, I'm doling out a bonus star for those dope funktastic beats that got me movin' and shakin'.

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Sat Nov 13 2021
1

Hated this album with a passion, though Snoop Dogg's contributions lifted my mood somewhat. Can't get past those gangsta rap subculture vibes, youknowwhatimsayin?

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Tue Apr 26 2022
1

(Due to the nature of this album, I suppose I should add a content warning for language which some may find offensive. No offence is intended. By the by, am I the only one here offering such a courtesy?) God, I'm chary about reviewing this. I have previously suggested that the commercial success of gangsta rap proved ultimately detrimental to hip hop's artistic development, both in that it smothered other branches of the genre, and also it didn't have that much of interest to say. However, I recognise that maybe I'm arguing from a surface understanding of the music; I love other transgressive music like Throbbing Gristle and Slayer, so I might appreciate this particular style of bluenose-tweaking. Anyway, I had The Chronic aged 18, so I'm not coming into it virginally. But, one aspect that has made me uncomfortable with gangsta rap is, yes, the exploitation of negative stereotypes of a minority. Now, NWA were rather guilty of that themselves, but there was some leavening due to Ice Cube's undeniable intelligence. The Chronic, of course, does not have Ice Cube on it. And as such, it largely lacks any point to make. It's a repetitive series of depictions of racial violence, but it says nothing to make the listener ponder, except to wonder if this is unpleasantly comparable to a minstrel show. Are they just showing nasty caricatures of African-Americans for your entertainment? Take the song The Day the Niggaz Took Over. As a song, it purports to show narrratives of participants of the LA riots. But it conveys no message: it's just people saying they like to go looting. That would be criticisable enough, but the opening uses the word "apartheid". In 1992, apartheid was finally being dismantled, and even though he'd once committed sabotage against the regime, Nelson Mandela renounced violence. Did they not pick up on the cognitive dissonance? So what is good about The Chronic? Well, the production is fantastic: the squelchy synths and Funkadelic basslines still make white people bite their lower lip as they rock out. But it's in service to a charmless conceit. You know, the misogyny and homophobia aren't just massively offensive, they're not nice to listen to. Also, has there ever been a skit on a rap album that rises above the level of chore? But, the failure of The Chronic is due to none of this. Not the shallowness, not the coarseness, not even the bigotry. The album fails because it's boring. I realised that by track 10, the poetically titled Lyrical Gangbang, that I was really, really bored, that the album was just something on in the background. This should be no surprise; an hour of some men continually shouting out motherfucker for the sake of shouting out motherfucker doesn't appear prima facie to be the most enlightening use of your time. But it is surprising how tedious it gets. For all its supposed attitude, The Chronic is extremely ignorable. This is the sound of talented individuals wasting their time and yours solely because some idiots will always throw their money at people blowing raspberries and saying "bum".

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Mon Sep 13 2021
4

Important - yes. Hugely influential, created an entire sound, often emulated, never bettered, there are some incredible beats here - Let Me Ride, Nuthin' but a G Thang, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat - and plenty of mood and novel innovations. It's hard to overstate The Chronic's significance in the history of hip hop and the rise of the West Coast. But - looking back - there are no classic verses on this album. Despite his charisma, Snoop was never a great rapper and Dr Dre isn't a rapper at all (the DOC would surely have featured more but for his tragic vocal accident). The skits are infantile, puerile and, most unforgivably, unamusing. The subject matter barely moves beyond smoking, macking, hoes, fronting and general gangsta BS - when you compare this record with the searing social commentary of Cube's Predator released the same year, this album just has nothing to say. Dre would later perfect the formula with the massive 2001, arguably near single handedly flipping hip hop from niche to the main stream (where EVERY beat in the charts was a hip hop beat). This album leads there for sure and it's a classic in its context but aside from a handful of tracks, age well it has not.

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Fri Feb 04 2022
3

It feels almost blasphemous to give this album only three stars. It was and is a cornerstone of west-coast hiphop. But. How much do you really need to talk about your dick? At some point, you gotta move on to a different subject or people are going to start thinking you're compensating for some shortcomings, you know? Honestly, the album didn't age very well. Both Dre and Snoop are capable of more and, as time has moved on, they've proved it, leaving this album to stand by the road as a milestone but not a destination in its own right.

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Thu Sep 23 2021
2

it's aged pretty badly and he relies on snoop...a lot.

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Wed Dec 29 2021
2

Very dated especially with the homophobia and misogyny

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Tue Aug 24 2021
5

“This should be played at high volume. Preferably in a residential area.” Right on. I listened to this album many times as a youngster and thoroughly enjoyed it. However after listening again today, I realize that I used to skip a bunch of tracks. For instance, I don’t recognize Lil’ Ghetto Boy, A N**** With A Gun, nor Stranded on Death Row. But oh my are there some great tracks here. F**k Wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’), Let Me Ride, and Nuthin’ But A G Thang are the standouts. The beats sound a bit outdated, but fresh enough to still get by. Nuthin’ But A G Thang is the best of them all. I listened to this over and over again on my Koss stereo writing down the lyrics a couple of words at a time until I had the whole thing. Where was AppleMusic with the live streaming lyrics??? The skits were also enjoyable, especially The $20 Sack Pyramid. I still like that one just as much as 30 years ago. Songs I like even though they aren’t the cream of the crop: Lil’ Ghetto Boy, Lyrical G******g, and The Roach (The Chronic Outro). In the 90s, this was definitely a five star album. If I were hearing this for the first time today, probably four stars due to the filler tracks. But I have too much history with The Chronic to not put it in my top tier.

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Wed Aug 25 2021
5

Stone-cold classic. I feel unable to speak to the music in any cohesive way. But I know that the sampling work is second-to-none, pulling a wide swathe of music into a cohesive statement of the tip-top West Coast sound. There are multiple performers featured on top of that production, too, but they also blend beautifully. It's an exuberant album for the most part, occasionally dipping into dread. Predictably, most of those occasions are connected to cops somehow, but there's also a game show segment? In any case, it, like the other skits, is neither profound nor distracting. The last track could easily be dropped to keep the thing under an hour, though.

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Sun Dec 12 2021
3

Impossibly overrated. If not for the contributions by the always appealing Snoop Dogg, this would be a challenge to get through. It has its moments, but maybe ease up on the historical praise a bit (really Rolling Stone? The 37th greatest album of all time?). Plus I never cared for Beats headphones. Snoop bumps it up from a 2. Actual rating is 2.5.

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Thu Nov 25 2021
2

71. The Chronic - Dr Dre 16 tracks. He N****** I'm gonna F*** you up Mofo then I'm gonna shove my cock in yo Mofo mouth you Mofo N***** Yippe-yo-yippe-ye you Mofo N***** 😳 Nah. It's not for me you mofo's 🤣 2/5

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Sat Oct 02 2021
1

rap music, with a lot of N****R & Mother F****R in the lyrics. ZERO if I could.

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Tue Jan 18 2022
1

Very dated with misogynistic lyrics.

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Sun Sep 19 2021
4

Never been into rap very much but heard this one a lot over the years. It's good enough that even without being a fan of the genre you'd say "oh yeah, The Chronic is all time" etc etc. A couple of things to note though: this album was pretty much the point where heavy sampling stopped, and also the point where the excessive weed worship began in rap. Pretty much everything released afterwards in the 90s took its cues from this - for better or worse. Some of it was awesome (Cypress Hill, Ice-T's Return of the Real), but towards the end of the 90s I really started to fucking hate a lot of what this album inspired. But can I hold that against this? The other thing is: it's a LONG album. I never really listen to the whole thing. It didn't bore me on this listen, but it did start to feel like the album could've ended already. 4/5

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Sun Dec 05 2021
2

Une performance absolument minable de la part de Dr. Dre, qui vient récupérer la place de pire album de rap du générateur, éjectant ainsi Queen Latifah du trône. On peut légitimement se demander pourquoi cet album figure dans la liste, en lieu et place de 2001, le meilleur album de Dre. Mais ça, seul Robert en détient la réponse, en sécurité dans un de ses nombreux coffre-fort.

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Sun Apr 02 2023
1

Offensive, misogynistic, an album of nothing but the N word because he thinks he can and an uncountable amount of mother fuckers.

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Thu Sep 29 2022
5

G-funk is the heart and soul of what makes West-Coast and LA Hip-hop so unique, and this is the blueprint that all other music I grew up on is based off of. Even with that being said, there were moments that come across as a little dated (mostly skits), which put it dangerously close to a low 10. Bit of a weird paradox, but still a phenomenal album.

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Mon Jun 26 2023
5

Some of the best beats ever created, some of the best features, just an essential album. RBX steals the show on all his features.

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Fri Dec 22 2023
5

This used to be my favorite hip hop album, cruising the mean streets of East Oxford in the passenger seat of a BMW Z3 with this blasting down the Cowley Road. It's still great through the first skit ($20 Sack Pyramid) but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I thought I would today, and the end of the album just drags.. Made from the finest ingredients - like a good "Paul's Boutique"; Parliament, Donny Hathaway, Rudy Ray Moore. Part of the fun of this website is hearing the samples in their original settings, unexpectedly! Still well worth a 5

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Tue Aug 31 2021
4

I could do without the skits.

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Fri Sep 03 2021
4

A HUGE bounceback from the disappointing album yesterday. It's Dr. Dre's blueprint for West Coast hip hop, basically Cali's Illmatic. I do love this album, the production is consistently fantastic, and the charisma from and chemistry between Dre and Snoop is intoxicating. Sounds much fresher than 1992, there are plenty of '90s albums that followed this and did not age as well. I've always preferred 2001 to the Chronic, and that opinion remains the case as I think this one is bogged down by the skits. But still, a very excellent and impressive project, built from the ground up by one of the most influential forces in the history of hip hop production. Favorite tracks: Nuthin But a G Thang, Fuck Wit Dre Day, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat, Let Me Ride, Bitches Ain't Shit. Album art: Iconic, timeless. Such an amazing design here, to look like the Zig-Zag rolling papers logo. Perfectly referential. They don't make 'em like this anymore. 4.5/5

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Tue Sep 07 2021
4

Really cool music, really uncomfortable lyrics. I can't remotely pretend I can relate with gangsta rap, but I can appreciate it. "The Day the N*****z Took Over" and "Little Ghetto Boy" are particularly powerful. The beats and music on this album are amazing. This album just oozes cool. Glad we recently listened to Parliament's Mothership Connection since it's so prominently sampled here. Loved hearing the drums from "When the Levee Breaks" on "Lyrical Gangbang." Amazing grooves on "A N***a with a Gun" and "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" but, again, difficult lyrics. I feel like this album deserves a 5, but I reserve that for albums I can listen to any time...this is not that, but I can definitely appreciate why it's on this list. Solid, powerful 4.

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Tue Sep 07 2021
4

Yeah, the music and the grooves are great. Undeniably that this stuff, if you are into Gangster Rap is great. But I just felt... uncomfortable listening to it. There's a scene in Office Space where one of the characters is listening to Gangster Rap blaring out of his car and then a car drives by with black people in the car. This is probably the first album I listened to on headphones, just because I didn't want anyone in the house hearing it. The music itself is really good, but it's all about getting stoned and killing and f**king. No way I am going to listen to this again. I can see how this could be considered a classic. I remember a number of my students having this way back when I first became a teacher, and even years later. It definitely has staying power.

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Mon Sep 20 2021
4

good album, was perfected in 2001 however, this is rawer, but still has that Dre gloss

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Sat Oct 16 2021
4

Some of the lyrics are really dated and ruin the listening experience. The production, beats and grooves still reign supreme

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Mon Jun 12 2023
4

The fact that I got to listen to this while driving around los angeles, windows down, blasting…. is a treat like no other.

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Fri Dec 22 2023
4

This is the first good hip hop album I’ve heard on this list, and scandalously a new one to me. The opulent minimalism of the music is a sorcerer's creation, and the lyrical bombast has panache as well as bare offensiveness. More varied than the sound-image of West Coast hip hop I held, the synth squeak and whine is still a defining element, but the record has wallop, fuzz and a surprising quantity of space for the sounds to float in.

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Thu Feb 08 2024
4

Brilliantly produced album with some serious flaws that can't be ignored. On one hand, the central theme of life in South Central LA in the late 80s/early 90s is enlightening for those that didn't experience it and likely serves as catharsis for those who did. I remember seeing the Rodney King beatings, subsequent trial, and riots after the unconscionable aquittals of the LA PD officers from afar through the lense of CNN. Listening to this in 2024 puts in stark relief how little things have changed in regards to police violence and accountability; it's easy to identify with the anger and calls for uprising. On the other hand, the ever present misogyny is impossible to ignore and hard to get past. So is the imagery of the fantasy tyrant that rules his hood with a gun and kills for any and all infractions committed against them, no matter how small, which I think cheapens the overall message. The repeated suggestion? threat? of homosexual felatio, while obviously hyperbolic, is frequent enough to be a bit off-putting. Gangsta rap isn't really my thing, and there aren't any tracks that resonate with me on a lyrical level, but Dre's beats, mixing, and use of samples is masterful. Genius use of the Bernie Worrell synth sound, too. It's also pointing out that, while Dre has plenty of verses and is the genius behind it, this is Snoop Doggs album as much as anyone else's. Doc clearly knew he'd struck gold there. The interstitial skits are hit and miss, but "$20 Sack Pyramid" is objectively funny. Overall, technically impressive and a cultural touchstone.

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Sun Dec 05 2021
2

Just a another mother fuckin'...

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Wed Sep 08 2021
1

Unlistenable lyrical content from an evil man.

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Tue May 02 2023
1

Even with the vocal rendition of the theme from the $20,000 Pyramid this was the worst musical hour this month. Guns, big dicks, hoes, misogyny, homophobia. Ugly.

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Thu Sep 28 2023
1

This album and artist just grind me, such an ignorant form of music, it is certainly the lowest form of Hip Hop, which although this crap may have sold well at the time, it is extremely stale, ignorant and childish in comparison to other HipHop out at the same time like Del La Soul. With conitnuous profanities for lyrics, aimed at their target audience of pubescent teenagers stoned out of their heads on mushrooms or sucking the end of a bong, who have just learnt how to tug on their pogo sticks, thinking they're "Billy big balls" cool listening to mutha fker niggah lyrics rapped out to a backing track created on a Rolf Harris Stylophone, bopping about in jerky alleged dance movements like a drunk chicken pecking through the grit for grain. Every track is exactly the same stylophone backing with different arrangements of every profanity you can think of.... So in summary... This album is pure shite.

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Thu Sep 16 2021
5

First album I got that I already listened to. Dre and Snoop are some of the greatest of all-time.

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Tue Sep 21 2021
5

On this list of 1001 albums this album deserves 5 stars. If I were to rate it outside of this? 3/5

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Wed Sep 22 2021
5

Had me in a west coast mood all day!

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Sun Oct 17 2021
5

Hard-hitting bars, the upbeat west coast flow is timeless. This is a true classic

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Wed Nov 03 2021
5

"This ain't Areosmith" It's probably not this simple but it felt at the time like this album changed hip hop overnight. Groundbreaking sonically and commercially.

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Thu Nov 11 2021
5

Classic rap album one of my favorites

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Thu Nov 11 2021
5

Excellent gangsta rap album, as well as an excellent output from a then-up-and-coming Snoop Dogg. Among the best in the rap genre, as well as all-time.

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Sat Nov 13 2021
5

It has been a while since I last listened to this, but beats, choice of samples, flow ..so much better than that album of the Streets a few days ago.. It is the Funkadelic/Parliament 70s feel of it.

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Sun Nov 28 2021
5

The innovator of G-Funk. Dre and Snoop are both incredible on this album. Very few weak spots. Best track: Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang

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Sun Dec 05 2021
5

Doesn’t get much better. This is rap music everything else is second best.

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Fri Jan 07 2022
5

Iconic, you know? Not much more to say there.

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Sun Jan 09 2022
5

I'm not that much of a fan of hip-hop/rap, but I have to admit, this is one of the most influential albums in that regard. Was revolutionary at the time.

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Fri Jan 14 2022
5

Smooth beats. Great features. Slick verses and skits from Snoop. Actual classic

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Tue Jan 18 2022
5

The Chronic does what it needs to do. The song is best listened to on a hot summer's day, preferably in an automobile. Yes, feel it. It introduced Snoop Dogg and established Dr Dre as both a rapper and a talented producer who could pull together the best bits of the funk era to create a brand new sound straight outta South Central Los Angeles. The album is also rooted in the 1992, in the months after the LA riots when the city was still coming to terms with what had happened. One of the most refreshing things is that this is not purely a boy's club. The Lady of Rage and Jewell feature on several tracks, a perspective not often heard on gangsta rap. There's also the frequent odes to weed. In a time when a teen idol like Justin Bieber can be at the top of the charts singing about getting his weed from California, here's a reminder of the blunt force (lol) that The Chronic unfurled. Also " Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" is such a good song.

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Fri Jan 21 2022
5

This album is so good. The sampling is amazing. And it really laid the tracks for all of the great rap that has come after it. Loved it!

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Fri Jan 21 2022
5

Bem mais tranquilo que aqueles que as meninas ouviam nas viagens, mesmo tendo um monte de motherfucker.

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Sat Jan 22 2022
5

Have this one on vinyl. A classic

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Sat Jan 22 2022
5

Nice album, de gros souvenirs d’enfance. J’adore 5*

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Tue Jan 25 2022
5

Classic! Definitely dated in parts but still has some great tracks.

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Sun Feb 27 2022
5

A classic. Dre may not be the greatest rapper out there but Snoop carries a lot of the load for him. The G funk sound is just amazing. While Dre may be a bit deficient in mic skills he is a God of beats. Some of the greatest songs in the history of the genre are found here. The only real negatives I can think of are when Snoop is absent from the tracks. It's most notable in the second half of the album. The lyrical content is also a bit iffy. I'm not a big fan of some of the choices made, but it was 30 years ago. Times were different. Even so the gangsta era of rap was always a bit of a double edged sword. There were some absolute brutal lines delivered that just sounded awesome or ice cold but one has to wonder how much damage might have been done by glorifying this lifestyle. I'm not some uptight Tipper Gore type but I don't thinknit can really be ignored either. Just something to think about or debate. Uh, anyway this album is an all time great. It helped put Snoop on the map and is just so damn fun to listen to. Any negatives are immediately offset by legendary beats and songs. 5 stars all the way. The only real

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Tue Mar 15 2022
5

This album is like Kind of Blue (the first Wu-Tang is too) in that so much talent appears on the album and almost everything AFTER this album from the people on it is great.

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Fri Apr 08 2022
5

Absolutely out of this world

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Fri Apr 08 2022
5

An all time classic that of course had to be tarnished by crypto culture. Thanks Snoop Dogg.

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Tue Apr 12 2022
5

This is my second gangsta rap album in a row. Yesterday, I gave ICE-T's "O.G. Original Gangster" a 5/5 and I actually enjoyed this one even more. Stop giving me good rap albums or I'll have to go down a rabbit hole I never envisioned myself peeking my head into. The only thing I didn't like were the cheesy skits. I've also noticed that hip hop albums in general happen to be really long. This one, at around 63 minutes, was one of the shorter ones.

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Wed Apr 27 2022
5

Shame Spotify didn't have the whole album. Well worth seeking it out on YT though

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Wed May 04 2022
5

Let me ride pops into my head at least once a month

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Thu May 05 2022
5

Transformational. Changed the face of hip-hop and, by extension, pop music. Plus, introduced the world to Snoop. 'Nuff said.

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Thu May 19 2022
5

I dont usually listen to rap, and today is no different

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Thu Jun 02 2022
5

It's rare you can find an album that captures two moods so well: there's a certain revelatory nature of the whole record; the beats are huge and have aged like fine wine while still capturing a time and place. At the same time, this record isn't as lackadaisical as it seems on the surface: there are plenty of shots to other rappers ("Come over here and let me suck your dick!") and just talks of hard living. G-funk is still a fantastic genre that only Dr. Dre seems to fully understand, and Snoop is in prime form on this record. Favorite tracks: "Lyrical Gangbang", "A Nigga Witta Gun", "The Next Episode"

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Wed Aug 24 2022
5

THE CHRONIC FAV TRACKS: LET ME RIDE, NUTHIN BUT A 'G' THANG, DEEEZ NUUUTS, LIL' GHETTO BOY, A N**** WITH A GUN, RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT, THE $20 SACK PYRAMID [SKIT], THE DOCTORS OFFICE [SKIT], THE ROACH [THE CHRONIC OUTRO], BITCHES AINT SHIT 9/10

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Sun Aug 28 2022
5

Not on Spotify unfortunately, but on YouTube plenty. A classic, set out a path for hip-hop for years to come, and still the standard everyone is striving for.

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Thu Sep 01 2022
5

One of the top 5 best West Coast rap albums of all time. Need I say more?

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Mon Sep 05 2022
5

The lyrics are at times debatable. Snoop carries a LOT of this album in that regard. But THE PRODUCTION. Jeez. These are the crispest beats of the 90s, hands down. You could write entire dissertations in music theory about the finer arts of sampling on this beast, and people went ahead and did that. If you try to explain hip hop as a genre, as a movement, as a timeline, you can not pass up on the Chronic.

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Wed Sep 07 2022
5

Fantastic album. Love the G-Funk sound. Let Me Ride, Dr. Dre, G Thang...all absolute classics. 4.5/5

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Fri Sep 09 2022
5

8th September 2022 Listened throughout the day on YouTube on the day the Queen died. The production on this is insane as you would expect. One of the greats, vintage west coast rap.

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Fri Sep 09 2022
5

It’s for sure in the top 5 best hip hop album of the ‘90s. Maybe top 5 of all time.

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Fri Sep 23 2022
5

The first half is classic Dre, but the second half took me by surprise, sounding more like Beastie Boys meets Hieroglyphics meets west coast rap. 5/5

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Thu Sep 29 2022
5

ya think snoop and dre ever fucked?

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Mon Oct 10 2022
5

From the start, you can tell how important this album was and still is for rap. Dr. Dre is certainly well know for being one of the greatest producers of all time, but this album proves he has the chops to make a hard hitting solo record from a rap perspective. His arrangement and feature choices are also top notch and the whole album listen now is one that you can feel forlorn for a grittier, more real time in rap, I'd give this album a 9/10.

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Wed Nov 02 2022
5

A classic. Changed the entire game.

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Sat Nov 05 2022
5

Delighted to open this one, been meaning to give it a listen for a while now. Hard opening with the squeaky balloon synth. Nuthin' but a "G" Thang is some banger, perfect. And I didn't realise Beastie boys had sampled A Nigga Witta Gun, love that beat. Brilliant album overall, very impressed.

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Wed Nov 09 2022
5

Almost half of these songs are in GTA games so even though this was technically a first time listen it was still nostalgic for me

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Wed Nov 23 2022
5

Fantastic record debut for Dr. Dre.

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Tue Nov 29 2022
5

Dre's first album, he's only done three solo albums One for every time rap needed a doctor Man is a legend

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Mon Jan 09 2023
5

I haven’t listened to this in probably 10 years and it is so fucking dope.

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Mon Jan 09 2023
5

There’s a reason this album is here. It is the quintessential gangsta rap album from the ‘90s. Iconic beats and bars from start to finish. Dre shows off his producer hat as well as still breathing some fire with his incredible features as well. Back to front a classic.

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Sun Jan 15 2023
5

Ne možeš vjerovati. Prvo N.W.A. pa ovaj g-funk klasik. Najdraži njegov (definitivno ne može ovo nadmašiti) kao i što Snoop Dogg nije nikad mogao nadmašiti Doggystyle and it shows. Jače je od četvorke, ali nije čista petica, pa tako da...se to uzme u obzir.

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Mon Jan 16 2023
5

No listen necessary. This album has been burned into my brain for a LONG time. Dre set the standard with this one and mainstream rappers have been trying to match that for a long time. I was never huge on Dre as a rapper in general. His flow is fine, his lyrics are fine, he's good. But Dre always seemed to know what sounded good for a moment in time and how to get the best out of his team. Revolutionized the way hiphop was made, sold, and loved.

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Tue Jan 17 2023
5

Had the cassette when it was new. Still good.

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Wed Jan 25 2023
5

shame that it’s not on apple music or spotify anymore

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Wed Feb 08 2023
5

The OG of ‘G-Funk’. Terms of style, influence and popularity not much hip hop comes close. Falls short where every hip hop album does by having a few tunes which aren’t 100%. Yet to find one that doesn’t. Sot The Chronic (intro) Fuck Wit Dre Day Nuttin but a “G” thang Little Ghetto Boy Rat-tat-tat-tat High Powered Bitches Ain’t Shit 4.5/5

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Wed Feb 08 2023
5

One of the best hip-hop albums ever made. Dre’s production put G-funk on the map. Those loud beeping, distorted synths and funky samples and instrumentals are way more accessible than the gloomy, gritty boom-bap of the East Coast, yet it still sounds like a gangster rap album. Snoop Dogg’s first ever appearance on a record, unreal lyricism and flow at just 19yo. The tail end of the album features less of Dr. Dre and more from the ‘Death Row Inmates’ but they’re still banger-central. The Lady of Rage particularly SLAPS one’s potatoes. No hesitation, this gets a whopping big 5/5

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Wed Feb 08 2023
5

Now I'm not sure Dre and I have the same values - especially his attitude to violent crime and cats - but we share a love for a some muthatrucking synthesized beats. Every song had some crazy hook, often backed by Snoop D going all in. Aggressive as hell, but it needed to be. Hadn't realised that Doctor Dre, Snoop and NWA were all cut from the same cloth - a cloth wiped on the botbot and thrown in an old lady's face whilst it called her a BIATCH - but glad I found out. Synthesizer a bonus. FIVE STARS

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