Reviews (page 12 of 13)
Well the one thing the generator has taught me is that I don't like gansta rap
Album #210 Dr. Dre: The Chronic One of the first rap songs I ever heard was Bitches Ain’t Shit; it was introduced to me by a friend who just couldn’t stop singing it, as he thought it was so hysterical, so I went home and sought it out myself, and what can I say, I thought it was great. That being said, we were both 7 years old, and I can’t speak for my friend, but I think I was over-joking about women only being good for sucking dick by 11. That really sums up the album for me. I’m not elitist when it comes to music, but I really can’t see how self-respecting grown men put shit like this on and feel that it represents them. When you’ve got fools like the NFR podcast going around talking about this album’s lyricism like it’s fucking Blonde on Blonde, I guess I was expecting it to be half decent. But no, you literally have Snoop Dogg singing a ‘deez nuts’ prank call over a gospel and flute; I mean, how the fuck is this not a joke? Ok, so definitely don’t fuck with Dre, especially if you’re Eazy E, or else he’ll fucking kill you, man. He’ll do it; he’s from the streets and dangerous. Snoop will help too because he also loves seeing bodies hit the floor, but oh yeah, that murder trial was a load of bullshit, and they set him up. I think that was all covered in the first song, boys; probably didn’t need to elaborate for another hour. I came away from Doggystyle enjoying it for what it was, and acknowledging the camp of it all, but The Chronic seems to me like they are actually trying to be taken seriously as artists, while simultaneously also being feared, and they fail in both respects horribly. I actually liked Dre as a producer from what I’ve heard from him, but by the tenth track I started to see that his beats were incredibly repetitive and one-note. I really didn’t expect to dislike this album as much as I did, but honestly, outside of being stoned out of your mind, to the point that you can forget you’re an adult with a functioning brain, this album is pretty turgid. At least Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang is a fun track, which prevents it from being a complete flop. Sidenote, but I don’t think an album skit has ever made anyone laugh, and I can’t fathom why they are so popular in hip hop, especially when their albums tend to be bloated already. Best Songs: Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang, Let Me Ride, Fuck Wit Dre Day Worst Song: The $20 Sack Pyramid Score out of 10: 3
I wish I had an hour and 6 minutes of my life to know if Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg smoke weed, kill people, and/or fuck women. I really wished they expressed these actions in 4-5 minutes songs with little beat change. How’s this a classic?
Total rejection of the pursuit of enlightenment. I don't want to live in a world where redemption is scoffed at. At the risk of sounding disrespectful or old or even racist—this question is genuine—what would you do if your twelve-year-old son came home from school one day and said, "I've been really digging this album called The Chronic"?
Album #113: The Chronic - Dr. Dre (DNF) Genre (W): West coast hip hop, gangsta rap, G-funk Singles: Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang, Dre Day, Let Me Ride I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: I had to DNF this album. The production and beats were good, but the lyrics ruined the entire album for me, even for the songs I found somewhat enjoyable, I despised the lyricism. Lots of misogyny, violence, and graphic sexual stuff. Disgusting. Favorite songs: DNF.
Not my thing at all. If I talked that way, I would have all kinds of problems. That’s the wonderful thing about music…it opens the window for self expression that may not have any other method for self expression. I didn’t listen to all of the cuts…made about halfway through.
Still not my thing.
HELL TO THE NAW NAW NAW!!! Already knew this was a NOPE even before I saw the Snoop reference on so many tracks.
It's the misogyny. Hard pass.
Rap stuff
Shit.
Interesting beats but, nope
Gangster Rap is not for me. It does make me wonder about the culture and lifestyles that spawned it.
Misogynistic lyrics from a woman beater, shocking.
Noise pollution
Fem sekunders lyssning. Omöjligt.
Nope
Leaving the lyrics aside, it has 2 or 3 songs that are ok. Overall, the album is still insufferable. 2/10
Non merci.
Was für ein Sch... Jedes zweite Wort Motherfucker, Nigga oder Fuck. Gibt es noch eine andere Botschaft?
Straight up freakin mid track it was wild. Certainly memorable. Akin to that time you get up on stage in front of the school ready to drop some beats in the talent show before your friend pants you cause he was payed 3 bucks and a lollipop to do it. Drink: water sweetened with Cotten candy and your dad’s cough syrup. Rating: 2.35/10
i've never understood the love for gangster hiphop. noting that i didn't finish listening to the entire album, i guess it was a lil catchier than the other hiphop albums i've heard so far? not my style though. bye byeee women beater!!!
Nope, Nope to both rap and hip hop. No interest whatsoever in that music culture.
Wtf?!
Lots of foul language.
My opinion of this is the same as every other time I've been generated a gangster rap album. I think the beats are okay (I will say I've heard better from other albums on here) and I don't like the vulgarity and skits. Also, for a Dr. Dre album, there's significantly less Dr. Dre than there are other guests, especially Snoop Dogg.
Yeah it's hip-hop and it's the kind I really cannot stand.
i genuinely can’t listen to this my ears are being attacked with so much absurd profanity and lewdity (?)… i love snoop’s voice and dre’s smooth too but for these reasons, im out.
Less than Zero
Je n’ai pas aimé le son
3/10 Pfft. We done?
Sure maybe this album was important at the time, maybe it was played an important role in modern hip-hop and rap but man, it is bad. The lyrics aren’t great and have aged so poorly, the beats are okay and Snoops features are good but there are definitely better Dr Dre albums.
I can't say that I'm a fan. The violent fantasies presented in these tracks are exhausting to listen to, and not even Snoop Dogg's incredible charisma can sustain my interest through an hour of this album. Dr. Dre's performance here is drowned out by the other artists he features. I'm also so far removed from the culture that this album existed in that the diss tracks don't impress me, since I have no idea who they are talking about. Favorite track: "Stranded on Death Row"
bad.
랩 꺼져
I am hyper specific about the rap I like. This was the opposite of what rap I end up liking.
Rap, 1992 -> 1
This is terrible.
Gangsta rap is the original Manosphere: media savvy guys playing misogynistic characters, and young white boys from the suburbs eating it up.
The is absolutely nothing 1990's Dr.Dre adds to the lexicon of music ... Hos, his balls, and fucking Snoop Dog.
Don't like the words
I'm not opposed to swearing and coarse language. Hell, I swear daily, but holy crap the language being used within the first 10 minutes was making me sick. This is nothing but absolute garbage. 🤮
Dit soort albums zijn voor mij echt korvee. Het is voor dit soort nitwits kennelijk onmogelijk 10 seconden 'muziek' te maken (lees: slap te kletsen) zonder d'r een krachtterm door te gooien. Hoe zal ik het zeggen? Vriend, alles waar je je druk over staat te maken interesseert me werkelijk geen ene mallemoer, en dat komt allemaal door hoe je het zelf brengt. Een hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, dikke 1.
As my Gran used to say. Swearing is not big, its not clever and its not funny. By all means pepper your songs with swearing, but when it gets to the point that most your words are that, they lose any impact whatsoever. I felt from beginning to end that this was just dreadful. And what he did to Parliament's P-Funk was a war crime. Most of all, this album was soulless.
Average middle school hallway experience
Gave up after 5 songs, I'm not gonna "give it a chance" if every song sounds the same and there's no variety or anything worthwhile at all within one third of the album duration. I don't owe Dr. Dre shit.
ovo je čisto smeće. glazbeno skroz bezvezno, tesktovi su JAKO loši, skečevi su izrazito nesmiješni, snup dog javlja se na svakoj drugoj pjesmi... koji je ovo kurac? i stvarno nije zbog toga što ne volim rep (ne volim ga), jer se može snimit itekako dobar rep album, što mi je i ovaj popis od hiljadu i jednog albuma otkrio. ovo ne samo da je daleko, daleko najgori rep album koji sam dosad poslušao nego konkurira za najgori album koji sam u sklopu ovog izazova poslušao, a konkurencija u toj disciplini je strašna: linkin park, slipknot, white stripes... sad mi je u stvari žao što sam eminemu dao kečinu (prvu na ovoj stranici) jer koliko god da je taj njegov album loš, i dalje je hiljadu puta bolji od ovog sranja, barem pokazuje neko umijeće pisanja tekstova, premda su dosta glupi. ovo je banalno, prvoloptaški, jeftino. stalno, ali STALNO niga niga niga niga, kao neka karikatura rep glazbe koju snima klanovac... mislim da je ova sramota nanijela repu kao žanru užasno puno štete
it was trash
Awful misogynistic crap
This is just not my vibe. I totally get that Dr. Dre is appreciated by others, but I can’t get on board with his music.
I don’t like it.
not my style, very repetitive
Can I give this zero ? I'm so not the target audience for this . I even listened to it in a residential area and I still didn't get it .
Not the target audience but this is really boring. Like listening to the results of some stoned yr9 kids fucking around in the music room at lunchtime. Flashes of Dre's production skills and Snoop livens it up at times but overall pretty shit.
Kill it with fire
Not my style of music with too much swearing and the word nigger
рэп c'est кал
I can't get over the bravado and misogyny. I can hear music that I would like to listen to, but it's not made for me
Too many m'fers and n words for me.
He really hates women huh.
Misogynistic
Hasn't aged well, and probably wasn't that great when it came out either. He can't rap or sing and the album really suffers from the degrading language he uses. It feels unnecessary and uncouth
No más hip-hop o similar. Dónde están Wilco, Grateful Dead.....
Just awful
Ew. 1.5/5
Ei mun kuppi teetä. Varmaan genressään hyvä mut mua vaan tökkii
When I heard this I thought it was from the 80's. How is this from 1992? It sounds dated even for the 90's.
Couldn’t relate to it , wasn’t a fan of the lyrics I can see why it’s popular to certain. Subcultures but wasn’t a fan
Some of the sampling and arranging is groovy and gets your head boppinf that's undeniable. Although it gets pretty repetitive, pretty quickly, and there's not a lot of variation in the musical arrangements, so for that reason, it doesn't really hook me. i haven't read the lyrics sheet yet but if i do i think i'll be disappointed because it sounds like there's a lot of negative topics being discussed in there.. I'm totally out of this world. Probably an album I'd have loved as a bong smoking teenager but it's kind of a parody now to me. When you put this alongside something like the Beastie Boys, it's just childish and surface level elevator music. Sorry. Gangsta, ni--er-, fuck, shit blah blah blah. Is this on this list as an example of how music can be made by anyone, if so it covers the lower end of the spectrum without a doubt.
Ulidelig.
Sure, the beats are fun, but I can’t get behind it. 1
It's not terrible, but it's not my thing at all
This album is... oh, well, at least I got to the last song. Because it's the most boring thing I've ever listened to. And probably the worst thing too. I mean, it's so so repetitive and insipid! I may not understand hip-hop (of course, it's a genre I don't like at all), but this album is just so horrible... And, what did I get from this? Really, is there something the least interesting on this album or is it just some uninspired music? Because I'm confused by how bad it is.
Could not listen
Niks voor mij, die beats beginnen wel leuk, maar uiteindelijk is het gewoon heel saai en kinderachtige stoerdoenerij
Tedious!
Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '92 It’s the money!
Heavy weather is right!
I tried to like it, I found it too violent (in both the sound and the lyrics) and did not like the derogatory messaging about women. Did not finish
Nopenopenopenopenopenopenope. Nope. 1/5
I knew Dr. Dre as Eminem's producer, but like all producers, he also wanted to be a good musician and therefore released something under his own name at some point. To cut to the chase: he would have been better off not doing that. It's not for nothing that Dre is known for his beats, but not for his lyrics or his “singing.” Yes, I realize that in the early 90s there was a market for lyrics on the level of pubescent teenagers—but I won't go into that further. What you could expect even back then, however, was a somewhat finished album with some noteworthy output besides the rhythm tracks. What we have here, however, is 62 minutes of backing tracks with, for some inexplicable reason, unedited vulgar conversations between some rather immature guys. This would be my starting point for a list of 1001 albums to avoid until you die.
The sound is very thời đó, khá chill không gang gang như nhạc rap bây giờ =))) Lyrics khá… nhưng melody upbeat, khá pop(?) Why is there a song named “deez nutz”? The songs started having some depth, but then the vulgar and problematic language ruins it. “Let Me Ride” 5/5 😺 “The $20 Sack Pyramid” is questionable af, are they fcking? Is it rap? Idk lmao 0/5 The lyrics can be misogynistic af tho, overall its so-so because it requires cultural knowledge, and I aint from the hood 😔
Should be rereleased as The Chronic {fatigue} because I am SICK and TIRED of all the misogyny in 90s rap. I don't want to hear any more about your dick, or how you belittle women, or the glorification of violence, drugs and money. Obviously this music is of its time, and it was deeply encouraged by the music industry and the audience in the 90s - but I just don't want to listen to this kind of music anymore. Not trying to be woke, just had enough.
I usually enjoy the sound of a woman screaming in pleasure, but imagining Dre fucking anyone made me vom. My ears are still bleeding.
non ci provo neanche
Whilst working through this list over thst 18 months, sometimes we have to make our penance. Listening to this load of shit has hopefully brought me a lot of credits!
Yeah I hated this. This is pretty much everything about rap that I hate and struggled to get through. They say mother fucker about every 3 words, half the album is about his cock and everything else just isn’t for me
Toxic and angry
Imma be honest, not my type of genre. There was one song i recognized- the intro. Idk if I'll listen to all of the album, prolly not. 🤷 Yeah...idk not for me. 2/5? Maybe less lol (Nenoklausijos vis tho, kadas 3 dziesmas tikai)
Everything kind of sounds the same to me
Not for me
Dre beat Drew Wallace. Dre gets no stars.
beeaatch
Too hard
Zero stars
Who is the man…….?
Beyond the repetitious beats, the boring recurrence of specific words, the pounding on the same few ideas of pantomime violence and sexism, the thing that is truly chronic about The Chronic is its shallow self-referencing. Plenty of record labels have made mythic brands of themselves, but Deathrow is mentioned so frequently that the whole record feels like an informercial for itself. There is nothing here other than the fact that the record exists and its existence is exhausting. 1 ‘You never been on a ride like this befo' (One of the raps on this album) Such ‘flow’. Such ‘beats’. And from ‘The Streets’. Guns being fired and ‘bitches’ castigated over a few seconds of music on a loop. One hears such wonders and what else can one say? It can only be a Rap album by someone. 1/5
Bome ne mogu ni ovaj rep baš probaviti. 1/5, 1/10
this sucks
OK, I may not be the target audience but I still don't understand how 'music' has sunk this low.
No.
I had low expectations before starting to listen and the album failed to meet them. The only redeeming "quality" is that it does eventually end.
Not a single redeeming thing.
Not my kind of music.
The album is about one hour too long. "Nigga" and "Fuck" as well as other derogatory terms are used as often as the letter E. Reminds me why I don't like Death Row Records and Rap as a whole. 75% of album was Snoop Dogg.
Don’t like gangsta rap
got through 6 tracks, dont know how. What a load of bilge. Lived up to the title, chronic indeed.
Yeah, no.
It is a classic. But I can't stand this type of vulgar, aggressive, ultra-macho posturing. What's the point? Key tracks: Nuthin' but a "G" Thang
Not my thing
Ah Yes, the beginning of the fall of the American Suburb. I remember when some of the stores in our popular suburban mall started playing this album. That mall is now shuttered because the culture shifted and it became unsafe. Thanks Dre!
What a load of shite. Only made it to track 2, what a load of vulgar nonsense.
The obligatory Niggas, Mutha fuckers and bietchas. Definitely not my thing
Yet another entry in the electronica and hip hop music hellscape that is chronically over-represented on this list. No thank you 365/24/7.
I can live without it. F this and F that. It gets old.
1.5
Just name calling! It's the worst of the rap albums I have heard so far along with Eminem
I only had 4 songs available on youtube and well I don't like it at all.
Beats are fun, but the lyrics and vocals are truly awful. Got this too early in my list and had to come back and change my rating to a 1. It is infinitely worse than most other albums on this list
Faux alpha male bullshit.
I think this album should be renamed "The Diabolic". Which sort of rhymes with Chronic.
I’m glad I have a bad ear for lyrics, but I still caught more than I cared to. This was awful.
Just not my type of music :)
Chronic!
Juvenile poser b.s. What a waste of good beats.
Why anyone would want or need to listen to this before they die, is beyond me. Terrible.
Really not my thing
-1 for every "nigga" within first minute of the record
ну реп кал, особенно у доктора
This one wasn't for me. There's not a lot of music that I just, flat out, don't enjoy and gangster rap, for the most part, is one of them. The only redeemable quality for this album was some of Snoop's lines, but the beats weren't there and every time Dre spoke I wanted to shut it off.
Nope!
Für mich ist diese Mischung aus Hip Hop und Rap nichts. 1/5
this is not for me.. or women in general I think
I would’ve eaten way more apples if i knew this was the Dr 😭😭😭 What’s his PhD in? Making music that aged poorly and compensating for self-confidence issues by talking about how big his penis is in every song? Fuck you and your shitty headphones
Not my jam.
Did not like at all.
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This is exactly the reason that I don't listen to (c)rap.
Nope
sucks nigga
As one Chicago critic wrote “superficial, unrefined entertainment, …. Dre combines street potency with thuggish stupidity in equal measure." Couldn’t say it any better. Hard pass.
I think I just going to copy my review of Doggystyle by Snoop Dogg from a few days ago because it’s still applicable here: I really dig the beats and overall production on this album, but once again, I just can’t stand the rapping or the lyrics. It’s just standard gangsta rap cliches; drugs, bitches, mfers, n***as, and blatant misogyny. Maybe I’m just grumpy because I’m on a string of bad albums and this is the fourth hip-hop album I’ve had in a week. Ok, the flute solo on Lil Ghetto Boy was pretty sweet. Fucking hell, I almost shut it off during the Doctor’s Office.
Not good. Too much of Snoop spelling his name; I'm glad he can, we all can and he doesn't need to prove he can. Several stupid skits or things that could be classified as skits, like pretty much every rap album I've heard. I'll never return to this and wish I never heard it to begin with. 1/5
Old
really horrible
This should have an rating option of less than one. Can't stand this self absorbed macho sexist violence worshipping stuff.
Good rhythms...awful words
More tired hiphop braggadocio.
Just what I wanted today - another hip hop album full of misogyny, homophobia, glorification of violence, shitty electronic beats, and music stolen from other artists. I get that this is sort of a cultural cornerstone but that doesn't make it good. I think that makes the whole situation unfortunate. There are much better ways to promote African Americans and the amazing culture they share. We don't need Dr. Dre to tell everyone it's cool to assault women and kill people. I have to wonder if this music actually originated from an intention of just shock value. 0/5 but that's not an option.
Abysmal
Not my taste at all
An album that sounds like a call of duty lobby.
When the opening song actively drives me away, I can't appreciate the rest of it.
Yet another Hip-Hop / Rap album - why so many in this list? It just doesn't appeal to me.
This album has been sat in my in tray for nearly a month, like a tricky administrative form I don't quite have the mental stamina to work my way through. I think I can appreciate the beats here. The sounds, the rhythms. Let Me Ride is a great example of this. Or Stranded on Death Row. There is intricacy and feeling, and a lot of work has been put in to this. This album also helps open up for me a lot of 1990s culture and understand a bit more the music I was seeing but not really listening to as I grew up. But so many of the songs sort of blend into each other in a giant cacophony of rap noise. The skits are terrible. And the moral footprint is dubious. Fundamentally, do I ever want to hear any part of this album ever again? The answer is no, and so I can't give this album any higher than the lowest score possible.
Puh... Gangsta Rapper
AWFUL
I don't like when art is used to spread hate towards anyone. I've listened to this when I was younger, and less able to challenge certain views. But yeah, with older ears, the only enjoyable part of this album are the beats. The lyrics are trash, and haven't aged well at all.
Wasn't really my thing.
Not for me back in the day and it’s only got worse since then. Just sounds toxic.
The Chronic is the prime example of everything that I hate about rap music. It’s just a monotonous slog of the most typical gangster rap to exist; nothing but rapping about sex and your dick. There’s not really a message, outside of maybe The Day The N****s Took Over (obviously about the LA Riots given the year this was released), but even then it feels shallow as fuck. Honestly, Rage Against the Machine did it better with Killing In The Name of, and a good chunk of that song is literally repeating “Fuck You, I won’t do what you tell me”. Outside of that, nothing but rapping about violence and sex and whatever without really a point. To be honest, it’s not really the lyrical content that gets to me, it’s just not anything special given it’s reputation. Outside of pretty being Snoop Dogg’s platform to his own success, what the fuck about this album makes it iconic? The production’s nice, I guess, but what else? The amount of circle-jerking to Death Row? The terrible skits? (I was going to be a little generous with this album, but after The $20 Sack Pyramid, my generosity took a holiday) I figured maybe a one star might be too harsh and thought at least a two, but then I realized… I don’t want to listen to anything from this album again. There are no songs that I can take that I really enjoyed. Maybe Little Ghetto Boy, and I remember hearing Nuthin’ But A “G”Thang, but like, I’m not crazy for them. There’s much better rap out there that made as much as an impact that are miles better than this. Hopefully some that don’t use the n word like a crutch. Favorite track I guess: Lil’ Ghetto Boy Other hits I guess: Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang
I am not a fan of swaggering, misogyny, or glorifying violence. Three songs on the album did not include those noxious themes. They were okay to hear, but musically forgettable and I wouldn’t ever listen to them again.
Another one from the gangsta rap genre, with all the customary ick, but at least it has the pervasive presence of Snoop as a bright spot.
Hip-hop, 30eme album => 1/5
Didn't listen beyond a few minutes.
I just don’t get this genre still. Not a fan.
I can be tolerable of cursing when it’s occasional but due to the amount of cursing everything lost its meaning. Using same words over and over again didn’t make the album better
so much violence, demeaning/derogatory language towards women. no more of this please
Nach dem dritten Song habe ich abgebrochen, ist so überhaupt nicht meine Musik.
I hate it. It’s music for idiots
And back to the hip hop with obnoxious sound effects. The one on the first track is actually uncomfortable to my ears.
Did not like. Swearwords in music don't bother me, but this seems to be purely gratuitous use of bad language, with basically no musicality behind it.
This is the 77th album I’m rating. I haven’t really listened to anything by Dr. Dre but I hear this is pretty good. Adding to my Playlist - Let Me Ride, The Day the Niggaz Took Over, Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang, Deeez Nuuuts, Lil’ Ghetto Boy, A Nigga Witta Gun, Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat, and Bitches Ain’t Shit. Not Adding to my Playlist - The Chronic (Intro), Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody’s Celebratin’), The $20 Sack Pyramid (Skit), Lyrical Gangbang, High Powered, The Doctor’s Office (Skit), Stranded on Death Row, and The Roach (The Chronic Outro). All in all I liked 8/16 songs. This wasn’t that bad but it was a pretty big disappointment for one of the most acclaimed artists of all time.
Not for me
I don't like rap.
Das war nichts
Tuff Negroes talking about dicks. I thought this was supposed to be a classic?
Cool beats but not my stuff
Did not enjoy.
Not for me.
Terrible aggressive lyrics and completely un-listenable.
Not a fan, listened to this, unfortunately I can’t get that wasted time back.
No songs resonated with me. Not for me
1 stern
Only heard some Dr. Dre hits before. What I'm finding out from my listening journey is that g-funk is not my thing. Like, totally not my thing. Not a single song on this album that I even vaguely enjoyed. 1/5
Gross. Maybe I'd like it better if I didn't know English.
Has aged very poorly. The kind of album some suburban Gen X mom would play at top volume on wine night with her girlfriends.
Ni**a, Mutha F##ker, Dick these guys have a serious vocabulary deficiency! I suffered through this lp even though it’s very difficult for me to hear the N word in any context. The music was better than most other rap albums I’ve been exposed to but spoiled by the foul language and misogyny of the lyrics. I hope these guys have all reformed themselves and don’t get caught up in the P-Diddy horrifics!
Not my kind of music
Ledwie raz przesluchane, szkoda czasu.
One thing which really pisses me off when walking through most cities is the sound of gangster rap being inflicted on me by cool kids cruising through the streets pounding out from expensive speakers fitted in blacked out BMW’s. Reading through the reviews it would seem that this album is responsible for that reprehensible behaviour. So for that alone I condemn this album to the shitter. But if that was not bad enough how on earth have we arrived at a place in musical history when singing? (rapping? whatever) about one’s cock, shooting people and gross sexual deviance is considered normal and to lots of people to be valued? How ever bad your upbringing was or is I don’t want to be bombarded with this music which as far as I can see is telling the world or making excuses why you have turned out as you have. My life hasn’t exactly been easy and for that reason I sought out music to enhance my well being or be soothing. A momentary break from the chores of life. I don’t need this type of music in my life reminding me all the misery out there. I feel sorry for anyone wanting this music in their life. Please be joyful, be like me and listen to say..(off the top of my head) The Beatles (there are lots of others but a good example as I don’t think they ever sang about rape, knifing and the size of their penis) 1/5 10/1/25
Yeah, this is a million, billion trillion percent not for me. It's hard to want to listen to this when that one frequency is constantly piercing through my eardrums and violating the innermost depths of my soul. Rather than bitching and moaning, I think I'll make this review as pasty as possible. It's hard to say with certainty since the game's from Japan, but I'm dead sure that "Imprinting" from The World Ends With You (https://youtu.be/sYHtqyJirgU&t=58) borrows the chorus from A Nigga Witta Gun but alters the lyrics to be less vulgar. Funny that they would choose this album of all things. I wouldn't say that this tidbit of trivia justifies the listen, but it's definitely a silver lining to know more about one of my favourite works of fiction.
A disgusting album. No music, just rap with foul language
No thanks, I already know enough swear words. 1 star or F.
I really don’t like hip hop but I have been pleasantly surprised by some hip hop albums I’ve listened to through this project. Not this one though, I couldn’t even finish it.
Has not aged well.
Did not like lyrics! Too many N, F, B words. Painful to listen to!!!!
Schrecklich langweiliges Hip Hop Album ohne irgendeinen interessanten Track. Heat & Skip & OneStar.
I am just not a fan. I get it's a classic but it sucks
All E
Nope
Not my jam
No
Oh, boy... we finally made it. The artist that every rapper name-drops in every one of their tracks since the early 90s. This guy better freakin' blow everyone else out of the water. After listening to this album in full, I can safely say that Dr. Dre fits in snugly with the rest of the 90s hip-hop crew. The percussion is consistently very bad, using low-quality, poorly produced loops that add little to the overall sound. The synths are a coin flip on each song, with their timbre being either fair or ear-piercingly terrible (see: the first three tracks). And the vocals... Dr. Dre's voice is so incredibly hip-hop-generic that the music is much better when you tune him out completely. And thankfully, it's not too hard to do that. Once you do, you realise nearly every track is completely devoid of anything interesting – with the exception of the quasi-outro The Roach, whose instrumental is actually kind of fire. Nice brass-synth interaction going on there. Decent riffs are spread here and there throughout the album, including on Fuck Wit Dre Day, High Powered, and A Nerd Witta Gun – but for the most part, there's nothing of value to glean here. Then we get to the lyrics. Huh... There's a ton of swearing, misogyny, sex noises, pretty much the usual fare for 90s hip-hop music. But the lyrics of Bitches Ain't Shit are a new level of heinous. It might have been partially because the vocal enunciation was more brash and unique-sounding, so I had to pay attention to it. Check out the poetic lyricism in the chorus: "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks Lick on deez nutz and suck the dick Get's the fuck out after you're done And I hops in my ride to make a quick run" ...Yeah. That's what we're dealing with here. I can't justify anything higher than a 1. I didn't have the heart to sift through the lyrics to the other tracks, so I'm relying on another reviewer's opinion here: "The subject matter barely moves beyond smoking, macking, hoes, fronting and general gangsta BS... this album just has nothing to say." Do people genuinely like this guy's music? 1/5 Key tracks: High Powered, The Roach
Lifes too short fot rap.
I saw this and said to myself ... oh no! And sure enough, I was right. The lyrics, if you can call them lyrics, are trash. If I could get this without all the nasty lyrics, I'd might enjoy it. But as it is, it should not be on any must listen to list. No.
Not for me
Begon belovend, eindigde met nietszeggende poep
Nope not for me
Not my genre
not a fan, couldn't finish the album.
Not to my taste
Hip-hop with angry teenager vocabulary. If you like, you like it. But I don't.
That’s too much for me
Dr. Dre is a sack of shit, does anything more need to be said? I don't think so.
I can respect the cultural and historical significance it brought to gangsta rap in terms of what it represented before the "Bling" era. But good lord, between the long outros, annoying and obnoxious sound clips, and "interesting" interludes, this album was a pain to sit through. The production quality is solid, but I hate just about everything else on this album. I'm fine with loud and rambunctious music, but the songs on this just came off as annoying more than anything else. I don't care about the vulgarity that plagues this record, but I start to care when it feels like it takes up half your lyrics and has no real message or substance behind it. Despite what this album represents and the influence it brought, it's not all that good content-wise. Plus, it aged quite poorly. Whatever this is, this ain't it chief.
Gefühlt jedes zweite Wort Motherf***. Das muss ich mir nicht antun!
I really tried hard to find something great about this album. Dr Dre is known to be a fantastic producer. And perhaps it show son this record... But I honestly can't get past his 1 trick raps. I've never heard this record in its entirety. I'm familiar with 2001 and that album and this album almost could be double records. The same content. Almost the same guest rappers. The lyrical content is very dated... It reminds of all the white kids in high school who thought they were gangster. When they lived in low crime neighbourhoods and raised by proper loving parents. There is nothing gangster or ghetto about their upbringing. Which is a shame that this record reminds me of that. But ultimately it displays a sense of immaturity and poorly written raps. I almost could say this is equally a Snoop Dogg Record as he is on 90 per cent of this record. Dres raps are shit. It's basically tough guy gangster rap meets 80s flow. How many times do they have to rap about their record label? Or DOCs? Or pulling triggers? It's the same shit over and over.... Dre is probably so happy l he chose a name Like Dre because he can rhymr a lot of one to two syllable words with it. Chronically disappointing.
While there are some musically outstanding tracks on here, I give it it's well deserved one to ZERO stars for all the hate, homophobia and misogyny it introduced to the world, without even listening to it again.
Awful. Couldn’t get through it. Too aggressive for me.
Er, no.
Hip-Hop
I'm quickly done with that again today. Hip hop is not music. I listened to the album briefly, played 3 tracks and was immediately satisfied. That was all I needed. It's not my genre. 1/5
I tried and didn't make it far. I'm not going to force myself to listen to it.
This is one of those albums that seems so ridiculous, lyrically, that I just find it very difficult to take seriously. Pointless waste of talent. I say talent because the musicality on this is actually pretty good. But then it just goes down the worst route possible. Obviously, I am not the target audience, but it kind of worries me that anyone would be. Grim.
I'll listen to anything, I gave it a go, I just wish I could give it zero. What's the point of rap if doesn't make a point, if it's not eloquent? This is a million miles from 'The Message', 'White Lines', 'Fight The Power' or even 'The Magic Number'. Sad that so much rap went in the wrong direction. And it has to be said, their attitude to women is shocking.
Pretty much unlistenable for me. I tried, I really did, but it had all the filth of an Eminem album, without the anger and strong feelings. This just had bad words and bad attitude. I didn't like it
Es mag ja vielleicht wichtig gewesen sein, aber es ist meiner Meinung nach nicht gerade gut gealtert. Die Texte sind misogynistisch und homophob. Darauf kann ich gerne verzichten.
Dr. Dre? Dr. Eadful more like, an hour of pure shite, why is this on here? Singing about bitches all the time makes you sound dumb
When you point out to people who like this stuff that the music part of the music sucks, they typically point to the poetic quality of the lyrics. So I think it's kind of funny to note that the poetry on this CD includes such intricate meter as: "Eazy-E can eat a big fat dick Tim Dog can eat a big fat dick Luke can eat a fat dick" Yeah, so this guy rhymed "dick" with "dick" twice consecutively. Pass.
Too explicit for me
Not my vibe. The constant jabs at his former band mates and the use of the n word put me off.
couldn't do it
You can like it if you want, and I respect that, but I will never listen to it again.
Not my cup of tea. While the artists are undeniable talented in their genre, I couldn't get past the lyrics.
no.
Garbage
All N-words and MFers...not my jam.
Sorry bro, it hurts. I can do it. 2 stars
Dre(a)dful
1 hour long listening to the following words creatively being used: bitches, ho, dick/nuts, N'&&@$, Longbeach, motherfuk@, and let's not forget the references to themselves and the record label. All in all an album that will not be listened to again.
'90s gangsta rap is a huge Hawaiian pizza, but I don't like pineapples. I've tried, but the music and my personal tastes are simply incompatible.
Not feeling it
I am not so sure I had to listen to this before I die.
Nope
Yuck
Does not age well. Catchy, but I can definitely see the point of all the reviewers who say this album killed hip hop.
I’m sure it’s absolutely perfect. A work of art but when you’ve spent the last 7 years trying to tell your son to put his Willy away it’s a bit exhausting hearing all about Dre and where he wants to put his. Freud would love to examine him I’m sure
Beat fine. Lyrics and sentiments don’t
Not my thing - but 30 years later, it all sounds a bit ridiculous
I could not get through it. I am not a fan of hip hop or rap in general, but sometimes there is some semblance of melody that I can appreciate even if I don't like the vocals. I guess it's a classic, but this doesn't have much for me at all.
A lot of nonsense lyrics and unnecessary parts. Very disappointed.
I feel like this is gonna be a hot take, but the production was actually my least favorite part of the album. I didn’t mind the misogyny and dick jokes. But the shrill synth all over this album? Absolutely unlistenable: ear blood. And the jingle bells/tambourine that starts at the top of 4 and doesn’t end until the end of track 5 was so painful. My ears heaved a sigh of relief when it ended.
Don't like rap in general. Absolutely hate these lyrics! Could not get through this. There should be an option to give a 0.
Hip hop, gangsta, ou seja, não é para mim.
I really don't get this. It's just swear words, homophobia, and misogyny over something resembling a beat. Is this supposed to make people feel tough? It just pushes the worst kind of male ego nonsense.
Oof, gangsta rap. This album sounds great. The vibes are funky, the bass is bouncy and the fluid synth lines are excellent. I always liked the way Dre updated the P-funk feel. But I just can't get past the lyrics. It's so violent, so misogynistic, so homophobic, it just makes me feel sick to play it. I just can't.
Really just terrible
# 193 : Very dated with misogynistic lyrics and unnecessary language. You know what I'm saying?
Do not like rap music
Nothing But A G Thang is great but I can't do a whole album of this, so much of it is infantile and I find it pretty boring.
Gangster rap definitely not for me
Violent, misogynistic and offensive. Has not aged well. 1
Well I listened to this,.....um.....not......my.....thing.
This kind of music will never not be awful
just not for me!
This is the kind of thing that made me dislike rap. I am way out of the target audience here but the mostly middle-school level lyrics about how tough they are, how they treat the "bitches', guns, weed, blah blah. I don't have a problem with the abundance of n#$%az and motherf$%&ers, that is the language they used in their lives. I'm just not sure what they are trying to convey other than "don't fuck with me". Take away the lyrics and the beats were cool, although a bit dated now.
Too much swearing for me
yuck
Nam
Ich kann etwas davon abgewinnen, aber nicht wirklich meins. 2.5/10
Managed about half. I was determined to listen to it all but the continual use of certain words in every song put me off
I don’t like.
Meh. Rap.
I'm apparently not this guy's target audience.
I don‘t enjoy lyrics where every third word is „motherfxxxer“
Not interested in this genre - lyrics often come across angry...I can only imagine why.
I don't need this. I'm sure Dr. Dre made a difference in music culture with this album, but I can do without all the foul language. Not my style.
Putrid. I hate Gangsta rap and this is putrid by gangsta standards.
Not for me
I really wanted to like this album. What I listened to was enjoyable if you could get past the lyrics. Maybe I'm just an old white guy, but the pervasive language and incessant n-word is just too much. What you listen to is how you speak, and I just can't be someone who talks like that.
1/5. Just awful. Horrific. Glad to see this is what kids in the inner-city were listening to. Hasn’t changed a bit. Horrible messages, but it seems to be a cultural thing.
Not my kind of music
Not a fan
Just not my style
not into gangsta rap and hated this in particular
Motherfuckin terrible from motherfuckin start to motherfuckin finish, Motherfuckers.
West coast bitches trying to act hard
Das Positive: Der Flow ist gut. Das Negative: Alles andere. Im Hintergrund zum Teil quälend nervige Quietschgeräusche, die in den Ohren weh tun. Alle Tracks klingen für mich mehr oder weniger gleich, es gibt wenig Variation. Aber das Schlimmste und ein absolutes No-Go sind die Lyrics. Dass gefühlt jedes zweite Wort motherfucker, bitch oder das N-Wort ist, ist dabei noch das kleinere Problem. Richtig abstoßend finde ich, wie sehr hier Gewalt glorifiziert wird und Frauen systematisch abgewertet werden. Zeilen wie „Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks/Lick on deez nutz and suck the dick/Get's the fuck out after you're done/And I hops in my ride to make a quick run.“ lassen ein Weltbild erkennen, das nicht mit meinen Werten vereinbar ist. Sie zeugen zudem von einem Reifegrad, den ich bei einem Teenager aber nicht bei einem erwachsenen Mann erwarten würde. Mehr von dem Zeug brauche ich wirklich nicht.
Exactly what I expected. This album just does absolutely nothing for me, I’m not sure I could pick out anything I liked. That’s an hour of my life I’m never getting back. 1/5
Not my favorite 1 of 5
Everything I do not like about hiphop
A bit sweary.
Not for me.
Don't like this one much. Very braggadocios and full of not very creative sexual humor, prominent in most songs. Decent beats though.
Dre ei pärjää Ice Cubelle lainkaan. Tältä aikakaudelta kyllä tulee paljon parempaakin räppiä.
not my taste
Wtf was that random sex audio in the middle about. Ew.
Garbage that helped legitimize thug culture. This album should have been titled "De-evolution: 13-90". IYKYK...
im sorry but these lyrics were so uncreative and boring