The Chronic

The beats on this record are groovy and I can bop my head to this. Melodically it's cool too, but where this album falls short is its lyrical quality. It is very conceited and boastful.

An all time g funk classic. Production is beautiful and smooth. The tracks can get a bit samey in terms of beats. Dre is not a great rapper. The subject matter is a bit cringe at times. The skits are rubbish!

Frank does bossa nova. It's alright, might have to listen to it a few more times. A very subtle album. Good stuff. 3 / 5 stars.

Un dels grans referents del hip hop, i amb raó de ser-ho. Partint del gangsta rap que ja havia encumbrat amb la seva anterior banda NWA, Dr. Dre aglutina aquí géneres i veus per fer un compendi del hip hop en un sol disc. Variat, reivindicatiu, farcit d'influències i una de les bases sobre les quals es substenta el génere

Gangsta rap. It's alright.

Nuthin but a g thang Deeez nuts The day the naaaajj took over Mycket bra beat, mitt huvud gungade genom hela albumet, inte helt min typ av utfyllnad utöver beatet bara, en stark 2,7

Bästa låtar: The Roach, Deeez nuuts, nuthin but a ”g” thang

Dr Dre producerar som en gud. Inte riktigt min genre men massa feta övergångar och fet rapp. Favorit låtar: The Roach, Stranded on Deatj Row, Nothin but a G thang

20$ sack pyramid is amazing

Iconic album in the Hip Hop scene, I've known the big songs for years, but never took it in full. And to be honest, it's quite a jam, but all in all a bit too samey. Musically it's pretty great, and a lot of good features from Snoop Dogg. But I highly doubt I'd put this on in full compared to other albums in the future. 6 out of 10

There were some things I enjoyed about this album - the production, the rapping, and several of the songs (Stranded on Death Row, particularly). There were some things I did not enjoy about this album - the length, the skits. Overall, I can see why it's a classic and the influence it had, but it's not my favorite.

decent but 90% of the songs sound exactly the same to me 😭

Cat: Ugh it’s just so good. Dre shows why he’s a legend here. Masterful production and sampling and rapping. I knew all these songs without realizing I knew all these songs.

Only one skit with sex noises so it could have been a lot worse.

Of course the production is top tier, I mean its Dre, its gonna be. However, he has always been limited by his rapping and writing ability and it sadly means this album falls short of greatness.

I finally listened to Dr. Dre.

Is it bad that every time I listen to this, I just want to listen to Doggystyle? Snoop is just... so much more fun than Dre. Still, G-funk is always delicious, and I can respect a landmark album for what it is-- even if it's REALLY showing its age 30 years on, subject-wise. The Eazy-E disses just feel... weird, now. Nuthin' but a "G" 3.5/5.

Mon dieu que c'est thug. Je pensais jamais dire ça, mais c trop thug pour moi. Le beat, les paroles, tout est nice, sauf la voix de Dre (sorry dr). Les débuts de Snoop en plus. J'aurais voulu mettre 4, mais c'est un 3 pour moi.

So...there's a pretty uncomfortable amount of filler in this album for such a cornerstone piece of rap history, huh? It's still great, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kinda disappointed. Favorite track: Fuck Wit Dre Day

Solid rap album but overall vibe wasn't my favorite. Standout is "Nuthin But a 'G' Thang"

Os caras gostam de falar palavrão hein. É uma experiência interessante, mas pro final eu só queria parar de ouvir. 6/10

пока не прочувствовала эту классику, надо будет продолжить

I’m not a fan of gangsta rap but I’m this case at least it’s done pretty well. Snoop and Dre work really well together, Rat-tat-tat-tat was excellent, Little Ghetto Boy won me over. The Chronic could be a 4 from me but again the skits on these 90’s rap albums ruin the flow. Gotta drop it to 3 stars

I'm white

Getting this in the same run as a Public Enemy album makes this seem worse than it probably is. Good beats and flow being hindered by juvenile lyrics and some truly awful skits. I recognize the talent and the historical significance but I just wasn't feeling it today.

Genre wise I think this isn’t for me but it did make me laugh and it got me in a good work groove. I’d recommend it if someone was asking for rap albums.

Wow the entire album is about guns and dicks. Lyrically pretty boring. Some of the beats are cool but that’s only because it’s all lifted from parliament records. I hope George Clinton made a lot of money from all the g funk records.

I understand the significance of this album, and it's by no means bad, I just don't love it. Nothing on this album makes me go "Wow, I want to listen to that again!" Just consistently OK.

I have a feeling most listeners will like this. The tracks on the album are actually quite varied in sound ... that surprised me. But the beat is always the same, which I found monotonous. Let Me Ride is good.

The Chronic has a big, definitive sound from the start, it's not as good as some of the stuff Dre did and produced/worked on afterwards but it is really good in the first half of an album that is admittedly too long and, obviously, full of questionable content. Deeez Nuuuts is my favourite track for pure sound and vibe, Snoop is a strong addition throughout, it's a 3 because there's a bunch of other hiphop I prefer.

Was expecting a fair bit more from this than I got. I'm not mega into rap, so only passingly familiar with Dre's work, but this is way less clever than I thought it would be. Apparently 2001 is better, hopefully we'll get that too. Sampling and production are really good, the actual content and lyrics aren't at the same level. I don't particularly like Snoop, but he does bring this album up a level on the handful of tracks he contributes to. 3/5.

Insert usual speech about mixed feelings regarding violent and misogynistic gangsta rap. There's plenty about this I don't enjoy listening to, and elements I really hate. When it began with obscenity-filled rants about Dr. Dre's previous employer and colleagues, I really wanted to be done. (Although later I was thinking that if I had done such a thing a couple of years ago it might have been something wonderfully cathartic.) Thankfully, the tone changed slightly and we could focus on some good funky beats and some catchy refrains. Some so catchy that I'm afraid I'm going to go into work some morning unconsciously singing "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks" (or worse), just because there are a few such inappropriate earworms in here. I was also impressed with this as Snoop Dogg's début. He really stands out here.

Dre's debut album...sure, I think I should listen to that one. The beats are pretty awesome and the album definitely is some foundational hip-hop of the 90s. Unfortunately, the lyrical content just didn't age well.

Beyond the some iconic synth lines it's G-Funk... which I never liked a ton of. Think I'm an east coast guy I guess.

5 star worthy beats with 1 star lyrical content. This is basically just the 90s version of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On. It’s clear as day the influence this album has had on the genre, but safe to say it’s not for me!

Not so much my thing from a lyrical standpoint, but I really do like Snoop and the music on this.

It's impossible to deny how good the production is, and anytime Snoop comes on it's usually a pretty good time. But I found myself bored at times with it, and the sameness of the lyrics and messages. And the skits are terrible.

Been awhile since I listened to this full album. Influential for sure. The beats and production are kick ass. Maybe I’m a crotchety old bog witch now, but this album doesn’t have much to say aside from guns, hoopties, and bitches. Dre’s verses aren’t clever.

Decent album

As much as I don't really like gangster rap, I actually enjoyed this album. There were a bunch of funky beats throughout, and the transitions between tracks was so smooth. There was also way more Snoop Dogg on this album than I was expecting

I am NOT the target demographic for this album

"You don't understand; he made The Chronic!" -my friend Donovan

Nuthin But A G Thang is a BANGER. The tracks with Snoop were the best overall tbh. The beats were super nostalgic, but it seemed to drag on in a way where I thought multiple times towards the end that it should’ve already ended by now. Also misogyny etc.

I expected to hate it but ended up quite enjoying it. Flies in the face of all the sensitive liberals and is quite a museum piece now but that's kinda why I like it. Good beats, flows well and very professionally done.

some great beats on this album. snoop carried 6/10

neutral. Some standout tracks and some shocking fun ones but not really my scene.

I’ve heard about this album many times, and after listening must say that it encapsulates most of the foundations that defined the genre during the 90s. Definí a seminal work. Not my (G) thing, but “respect”

Score: 70 Album art: 50 On a bad day this album is just repetitive self absorbed trash about killing people, having sex and smoking weed. On a good day it's well made and fun rap music. There's not really any denying that the production is great and all the features are great. Skits are hit and miss like always. I'm having a hard time rating this one as I disliked a lot but liked a lot.

Soldið barn síns tíma.

I know it's a classic, but it didn't click then and it didn t click now.

Ik ben geen fan van hip-hop en als ik ook maar één nummer van dit album meezing word ik gecancelled. Desalniettemin zitten er echt een paar iconische, goed samengestelde nummers in waar zelfs ik van kan genieten.

Ik hou van hiphop maar dit worden toch geen 5 sterren. Alvast een disclaimer: Ik ben een witte man uit Nederland, dus dat ik geen verbinding voel met dit album ligt niet aan dit album. Gangsterrap vind ik al gauw oud worden en zo ook dit album. Naast dat het letterlijk oud is, is het ook een lang album. Volgens mij gaat echt letterlijk elk nummer over geweren en geweld en dan niet op een heel creatieve manier. Het legt niet uit waarom de situatie is zoals die is, het is alleen maar borstklopperij en dreigementen. Als ik deze lijst had gemaakt had ik '2001' (1999) gekozen ipv The Chronic. Ik heb daar wel deels dezelfde verwijten, maar dat album vind ik leuker en beter. Waarschijnlijk komt dat deels ook door m'n leeftijd.

Only got through the first half. a fun album to start my day with nonetheless. Potent stuff alongside the usual downsides of classic rap genre. Great wordart-looking album cover

G-funk is not normally my kinda of thing. There's so much space, it's so relaxed. I think the clue is in the album title. Snoop makes it. Snoop always makes any album. I love the language, although it hasn't aged well.

This album is to be listened for the beats, production, invention of the g-funk and the guest-rappers. They make this a very pleasant rapper, and probably the Top-5 of the best West Coast albums ever. But don't listen this album for the sexist and homophobic lyrics or the wooden Dr. Dre raps. Every time Dre opens his mouth, I'm already looking forward to the next verse of Snoop, Kurupt or RBX. And that just takes this album down. Then we have to talk about the skits which are just not funny at all and bordering on infantile and ths bring absolutely nothing extra to this album. The influence this album has had can't be overstated, but when Dre released 2001 about 7 years later it did show he learned from a few of the mistakes of this album (minus the puerile lyrics) and created an even better version of this.

It's a very good, but not a great album. It invented the shorthand for 'early 90s' and introduced Snoop Dogg to the world, but it's too mean, too overproduced and too self obsessed to be a true great. It shaped white people's idea of what rap was for the next decade, when it was actually much more interesting than Dre's petty beefs with the rest of NWA and his hatred of women.

the lyrical message is a bit suspect, but good sound/rhythm

Not bad - good rapping, good production, etc. - but also doesn't compel me in the way 2001 does.

kannabis referenssi ...kronikka... vihreät propagada albumi... hassua että tohtori on omassa albumissaan paskin räppäri. vaikka vituttaa nuo arvostelut että miks ne mustat saa sanoa neekeri sanan😭😭ne ite sanoo miks mä en😭 niin tota joo ei tässä lyriikoilla ole mitään arvoa, oletuksena että biitit kannattaisi albumia ja joo on osittain hyviä mutta vähän pettymys kun rupesi tuo kalifornia syntikka saundi vähän tylsästyttämään... ei yhtään kultesque... +sketsit on yhä vieläkin perseestä stranded on death row

At times a bit crude, but not bad.

The music still grooves, but the braggadocio quickly gets tiring and the skits are very skippable. The start of a whole new era (for better and worse).

Was surprised by the skit. Not really a fan of raps, I love some rap songs, but not full on. Was a good trip. :)

Stellar production, amazing beats and pretty mid lyrics. Great album that defined G-funk as a genre. Very solid "features" from Snoop Dogg, one could almost mistake this for a colab album.

Return of the 90s hip hop and rap album prank calls!

Fun listen to Dr. Dre's first album. I don't relate to the album but I can still enjoy it and appreciate it's influence. I always love a good Snoop Dogg appearance anywhere I can find it.

Highlight: Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang

Bardzo dobre bity i wyraźny rap jak na 30 lat temu, pół albumu to jednak Snoop Dog, nie Dre. Nie przepadam za gangsterskim rapem, nie ważne czy po polsku czy po angielsku.

Good album and gives me massive nostalgia to GTA SA days. I listened to this before I heard 2001 back in the day and I enjoyed it. Not much to say really. Few stand out tracks but I would say it’s a fair bit behind 2001 for me. Strong 3

I curse a lot, but even this was too much for me. I know that not all rap songs are meant for general audiences, but most on here are N-word this and sexual language that. But I get why this album is important in the history of rap.

IWithout 1001 never would have listened to this one. Not into all this "Niggaz" and "Bitches" and the silly boasting short sex song, but did like the grooves, the protest songs and the samples and variation.

Hip-hop. Ni fu ni fa.

love the use of flute/lead synths doing little licks lots of funk grooves easy to vibe to

This was pretty alright. I mean, the lyrics haven't aged well, and some of the back beats are a little grating. But for everything I didn't like was something I did like. The amount of featured artists was astonishing and kept it fresh, and how apmost every song flowed right into the next was a feat I don't know if I have heard to this extent outside of something like a prog rock album. I probably won't come back to this anytime soon, and the lack of it being on any proper streaming service is a pain, but I did enjoy my time. It did go on a tad long, and with other things I'm gonna put it right down the middle at a 3.

Lejos de polémica del gangsta rap y sus efectos e influencias en la música popular, este disco se deja escuchar. Algunas cosas suenan definitivamente a principios de los 90, pero son las menos.

As mentioned before I am not a fan of rap in general. If I was to look past the misogynistic lingo, and the stereotypical love-hate the black male theme I could enjoy the performance

Man, I apparently haven't listened to much Gangsta Rap (besides here) and though the lyrics are extreme and warrants it's parental warnings, nothing shocks or surprises me anymore. This is the real deal and it's influence and it's importance in pop culture is significantly noted. I can understand why middle-class white America would be scared, this outright nasty and crazy shit. As a side note, I noticing on my music streaming service, I had to listen to a community playlist since this album wasn't listed under the artist's page. I just know I better not be caught video taping myself singing along to these lyrics in my car.

I was quite disappointed by this album, I quite like Dr. Dre but maybe this one was just a bit too fresh for me.

some bangers and a lot of banging on the background. NSFW. :)

not the album i thought, was ok...

Una sola canción en Spotify. Hiphop con colaboradores. Para entusiastas del estilo

Not a big rap fan but I kind of liked this. 3 stars.

Some of the lyrics in the first half of the album are a bit too aggressive. If you stop paying attention to the texts, the beats are pretty chill, good to listen to in the background.

3/5? Liked the instrumentals (I guess that would be the production, not sure) but the lyrics brought it down. Also, don’t understand the purpose of skits. Liked it more than I thought I would.

Not on Spotify

Hip hop

I love the production on this album. Lyrics lean way too heavily into mysogyny and gangster machismo for my tastes. Still worth the listen though.

Decent album but got that 90s goodness with the deez nuts joke and just people having sex in-between the songs. At least it got the GTA bit tho Fav song: Nuthin' but a "G" thang Least fav: any of the skits

Solid rap album. Deez nuts.

bit of a cringe fest, despit the bangers. i remember cringing back in the day too, so it's less of a badly aged buzz, and more it was pretty puerile to begin with

It was alright but not my type of music, I'm ashamed to say. Maybe I'll get there one day.

Another album I never owned, but it was certainly ubiquitous in its time. Relistening now (it's not on Spotify?), it certainly hit me how much of an impact it had on pop culture, and remains very listenable now. Obviously questionable lyrics and themes, but the production is good and the music is fun.

nice dr.

P-funk bass, rolling beats, unrelenting misogyny - the post-golden age rap album of the 90s.

not my usual genre, but nice and clearly innovative.

Wanted to like this one more than i did. Starts strong but i was getting real bored about 2/3rds of the way in.

Most songs are not available anymore

rude swear words

La grosse qualité de cet album est sa production. L’association de Snoop et Dre est superbe. Snoop a un flow unique que j’aime bien. La groove de Let me Ride est excellente. The Day the Niggaz Took Over rappelle Cypress Hill dans sa production avec la petite tension constante en background. J’aimais déjà le sample de Big Sur Suite utilisé par les Beastie Boys sur Pass the Mic, donc gros sourire au début de la pièce A Nigga Witta Gun. Quand même drôle que cet album et Check Your Head soient sortis la même année. Cet album est iconique puisqu’il a rendu mainstream le courant du G-Funk, mais en terme de textes, Ice Cube était beaucoup plus pertinent et intéressant.

Hard choice, but a very strong 3

good beats, classic gangster rap/hip-hop but lyrics a bit repetitive

Is this where the "Deez Nuts" joke came from, or did it exist before? Which came first, Deez Nuts or the Dre? Anyway, this was overall a solid album but I didn't like it quite as well as I expected to (the gleefully misogynistic "Bitches ain't shit" wasn't the only reason, but it didn't help). This is one of those albums I fully acknowledge is good, and I love Snoop Dogg, but like...Dre isn't my favorite and since this is largely his album it just didn't do much for me. Fave track: Lyrical gangbang

I don't have much of an opinion about this album. There was nothing bad about it. I liked listening to Snoop Dogg's parts on this album. I liked the female artists' features. I liked the way most of the songs segued together. But really I didn't care about this album one way or the other. The song that piqued my interest the most was "The Day the N***** Took Over"

Best lines: “I rock pleats in my khakis” and “You look like A.C. Green / Don’t call here anymore.” It’s all in the beats and the eerie, almost sinister instrumentation (guitar twirls repeating, synth and keys chiming quietly). Too many references to Eminem maybe and the Vince Carter shout-out dates it, obvs. As hard to look past the misogyny as it is the milestone influence.

Je m'attendais à pire

ça traine en longueur t'as vu

Bueno

Bro I had a dream I smoked weed the very night after listening to it. That can't be a coincidence

Unfortunately I cold my listen to most of it because it’s not on Spotify. But I did do a lil run through of the classics and I enjoyed.

Best Song: Deeez Nuuuts. Can't go wrong with features from Warren G and Nate Dogg. Smooth as hell. Worst Song: The Doctor's Office. I know it's not fair, this is a skit not a song, but it really doesn't work for how long it takes up from the album. And I just hate when rappers include lengthy "sex" skits in their albums. Overall: It's definitely an overall strong album, with no weak points apart from the skits. Seminal work, surely, but time keeps moving. Hip hop keeps developing. And what's here feels more like a relic of the era than something that still has something interesting and meaningful to say today.

Concours de taille de teub et misogynie à part, les instrus tabassaient sévère Prefs: Fuck wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin'), Let Me Ride, The Day The Niggaz Took Over, A Nigga With a Gun, Stranded on Death Row Moins pref: Lyrical Gangbang

Not on Spotify, will listen later

Couldn't listen to this because Snoop Dogg pulled it off to sell as an NFT so decided to listen to Chronic 2001 instead.

👍👍👍 good album love snoop too i didn’t like some of the parts including the monologue but i liked the old rap

Tough one; this one always frustrates me. The music: fantastic - there's no way to avoid moving your head to virtually every track; if you grew up listening to 70s funk and r&b this is a direct descendant (if not more than occasional ripoff...) of that. Sneaky laid-back synth bass lines, good sounding drums - I like it. The lyrics: there's no way to avoid them. Sadly. No point in my reviewing them, a million others have. I just can't with the "bitches yo...my dick..etc etc" every minute yeah yeah ok jeez; the gunplay, etc. Just a massive distraction at best and deeply troublesome at worst. The vocals: separating the performance from the lyrics...damn, the vocal performances are great. I like Dre's (and to an extent, Snoop's...) voice a *lot* and his rhythmic flow is outstanding. It's just so often hard to reconcile with the lyrics which are so often just so goddamn stupid. If I detach a bit I just try to ignore it :D The production: man this album *sounds great* - it's not a wall of sound; there's enough space for everything to be heard, and there's a great stereo spread - A+ So many individual highs and lows, I think I'm going right up the middle with a 3. It's just hard to get by the stupidity...the misogyny and just too much gangsta (not to mention the skits which are like really really bad high school back of the classroom interludes - hard pass), even if the music and vocals are that good. 7/10 3 stars

It’s hard to get past the vulgar and misogynistic lyrics but the rapping and beats are really very good. I actually kind of liked this record

Huge classic, there's no doubt about this, but it's never been one of my favorites to be honest. It sounds good obviously and there are some awesome tracks here, but as rappers, Dre et Snoop both sounds a bit too lazy to keep me interested for 1 hours straight.

Not sure if Jesus approve this album, but I understand the piece of history it is. Rap is not my cup of tea, but I can enjoy a couple songs from time to time. Also Snoop Doggy Dog is the King. !

The Chronic is foundational in hip hop that can't be questioned. But, fuck, it isn't just constant overt homophobic, misogynistic themes. Knowing where Dre and Snoop have grown helps put it into perspective. What holds up are the hits (interesting that they also have less of the hateful themes).

Snoop has taken this album off streaming to turn it into an NFT. The album itself is good. I recommend stealing it.

3.6 + Yes, it’s deservedly considered a “stone cold classic.” Snoop Dogg has one of the greatest introductions to the mainstream rap game ever (“bow wow wow yippee yo yippee yea”). The rhymes flow, the songs flow and there some undeniable cultural touchstones at every turn. I love the Parliament/Funkadelic samples. And to an extent, I can excuse some misogyny in hip hop (though it feels like I’m reinforcing a double standard). But songs like “Bitches Ain’t Shit” simply take that misogyny way too far for my taste. I’m not denying the importance of this record, but the woman-hate makes it hard for me to really enjoy.

I would pay $35 for this at the Compton Swap Meet

Weight room music. It's fine. I don't have an opinion. I've heard most of this a bunch of times before. I understand it's an important hip hop record. I wish there was a 2.5 rating for "indifferent and ok with that." Also, why isn't this on Spotify?

Lyrically it's honestly kind of a G version of meathead rock - and yeah, its funny, but the whole dis culture and violence and misogyny and hemophilia wears thin. Musically it's obviously super foundational.

The album that paved the way to the smooth sounds of The Fresh prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

time has blunted this one

Ihan ok levy kun mittarina itselle on kuitenkin ko. herran vasta myöhemmin julkaisema levy.

Solid

What up, niggas and niggettes! LMAO G-Funk music like this makes me ALMOST like hip hop.

Nää lyriikat on ihan jäätäviä ja kauheita. Loputonta solvausta ja tappamista. MUTTA en voi sille mitään että funkulasta ja elektrofunkista diggailevalle nää G-funk beatit on kyl herkkuu. 3/5

Yllättävän tiukkaa räbäytystä, ja snoop dogg ei oo niin paska kun nykyään.

Ei kyllä Dre koskaan ollut mitään core-juttua, mut ei tää pahaltakaan kuulostanut. Ei tosin iskenytkään, joten keskitietä mennään 3/5.

Pass on this one. I know it's a landmark album for gangsta rap, and that it has a *huge* cultural importance for hip hop at large, and that its influence turning P-Funk into G-funk was enormous. Without this album, there's no *Doggystyle* by Snoop or the best Cypress Hill records, and that would be a damn shame. But somehow I always thought that *2001* was a far more pleasant and bouncier listen overall (the hits on that next record are a huge plus, too, and I can't see any of those catchy hits on *The Chronic*, honestly). Purists will probably tell me I'm a fool here, but I don't care. As a reply, I could argue that "conscious" rap from before that album did suffer a lot from the advent of that sort of sound, and that it was not necessarily good news for everyone at the time. In a way, I'd be be *more of a purist* than any of those contradictors would be then or now. And remember: nobody here would necessarily be right or wrong in their different stances, as it is most often the case with music anyway. [Number of albums left to review or just listen to: 973 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 10 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 7 Albums from the list I will *not* include in mine (as I think many others are more important): 8 Albums I might not be able to judge (some might end up on my final list but it's because I recognize how culturally important they are): 2 (including this one)]

An album that kickstarted a different direction for rap, exposed the world to the seedy underbelly of urban living, and introduced the inimitable drawl of one Snoop muthafuckin' Dogg. For this pale-as-the-underside-of-a-fish white boy, one listen is probably enough for a lifetime. I can appreciate the artistry of it, but I'm not the target demographic.

Ljómandi

Decent album with nice synth beats that are a little bit too repetitive and similar sounding throughout the album

Not bad but a bit monotonous at times and Dre can't rap

I was very into gangsta rap back in the day but this time around this sounds tiring, I mean I like it but why more than an hour long?

Not my favourite rap...I prefer something lighter with more of a jazzy esthetic. Still some quality stuff here. 3.5 🌟

By coincidence (I guess) I got 2 albums from previous NWA members in sequence (Ice Cube's "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted" and this one). This experience let me think about how these two albums are influential for the modern hip-hop culture and how they both sound a bit repetitive after the first songs but also gave to me the perspective on how much this one is better than the Ice Cube's first solo album, even suffering from the same "drawbacks". Dr. Dre brings much freshness to his songs and lets them sound much more atemporal. This is remarkable in this first release.

some pretty sick beats and a couple classics but overall pretty sophomoric

This was good, pretty straight forward in my opinion.

It's an interesting album but it's obvious how much Snoop carries it and compared to A Tribe Called Quest I just don't find it as interesting from a musical perspective. Gangsta hip hop was never my thing but this is a cut above stuff that would come later.

Pretty fine just not my taste

Idk

I already own this album, but don't really listen to as often as I think I should and then every time I do listen to it, I get the same response as I did listening to it again for this 1001 albums malarkey - it's really, really, really well put together. Beautiful beats playing around with some funky synth and just generally brilliantly constructed hip hop. The music is top notch. The lyrics are ... eh. I'm probably too old to feel the anger oozing out of so many of these. It often just feels like a lot of misdirected rage, but who am I to judge? Some of the songs just sound like macho posturing; a product of their time, perhaps. Nevertheless, there's some really good flow in here, in amongst all the misogny, swearing and violent fantasies.

One of those albums that seems a lot scarier than it is.

Dre, Snoop and co. play bombastic braggadocio paddy-cake for an hour. Not the classic I was informed about. Shout-out to the Deez Nuts joke in 1992, though. HAH, GOT EEM In all seriousness: Dre, if you really wanna do a “G” thang, give your kid a couple of the Gazillions you made off these records (and now make off headphones) so she doesn’t have to be homeless in the Garden State. Goofiest reason to be in the papers for a music mogul, I swear to God. In my day, “Beats by Dre” means something grossly overpriced. Evidently back in the day, “beats by Dre” meant something grossly overrated. 5/10

Hip-hop. Ni fu ni fa.

Something different for me to listen to, old school gangster rap. He talks about dicks a lot lol. The songs and lyrics are a bit predictable and don’t really have much meaning to it but it’s gangster rap. I think he could do a better job.

Ekki ég en merkilega gott

Hip Hop History with Dre's debut album here. The best of Death Row Rosta supporting the dear Doctor. Some dodgy lyrics throughout but I suppose "Fuck Wit Dre Day" and "Nuthin' but a G thing" have merit. Snoop's debut too and his backing gives a clear picture of his musical direction for the future. Not in my collection, but then I'm not Staright Outta Compton am I! Mid range for me just for it's historic context.

classic

Non riesco a seguire molto i testi, spero non sia un problema. Comunque il beat e la seconda voce di Snoop Dogg sono molto accattivanti. Il sound non è dei miei preferiti... Ne capisco l'importanza e ne ho apprezzato l'ascolto, ma non credo lo rifarò.

Kein Weg führt an diesem Monolithen vorbei. West Coast hiphop at its best und allemal musikalischer als der Rap von Raekwon. Basslinien immer bouncy („Let me Ride“), Tracks immer gut geschrieben und obwohl ein klarer Stil die Richtung vorgibt, ziemlich abwechslungsreich. Tiefenentspannter Snoop ist wahnsinnig wichtig und richtig. Bissel underrated 3.4

I missed the Dre on the first take. The Lakers beat the Super Sonics. Drugs are bad. Mmm kay

Given that there are so many Parliament/Funkadelic samples musically this is pretty good, although it does tend to fade into the background. Lyrically, it's tedious, misogynistic, violent braggadocio which, although the sound is fine as part of the overall sound, doesn't really pay listening to in any detail.

I can't believe this came out in '92, I was 11 and didn't first hear this 'til I was 15 but it takes me back -- only thing this listen was missing at 40 y/o was a fat blunt and a 40. Not going to lie, the real highlight to this album is Snoop. He's so on-point, I don't think many could touch his skill behind the mic. Dre's production is next level and his rap ability is by far at the best it ever was. This is some heavy-duty and dark content lyrically but feels fun, how else ya gonna get white kids like me to listen when they're not even driving age? Listening to this on my discman, hoping my parents didn't catch me. This is old school west coast hip hop at its' finest and some definite bangers. I’d give it a 3.5 if that was an option, but since it isn’t, it’ll get a 3.

"Nothin' but a G Thang" is brilliant perfection. Dre should be knighted for discovering Snoop Dogg, who is a national treasure. SO much misogyny in 90s rap, ugh.

2021.11.15

Good

yo mf this and that, n******, yea yea, i hear u. besides this like the flow&beats, snoop especially

An iconic album to be sure but not one I had heard in its entirety until now. Overall an important album but not one of my favorites. I liked one or two songs so that is what I primarily liked but I felt that the topics sung about were rather repetitive and plus there was the addition of skits that I feel were unnecessary and cringy. Favorite song: Nuthin but a G Thang, 5/10

I have a strange fondness for gangsta rap. I guess it's a guilty pleasure? The lyrics are so juvenile and offensive... but it almost becomes a kind of transgressive art like punk rock. It get's so ridiculous that it becomes kind of silly I guess. Still, it's hard to get past a lot of the sexism and macho-ness in these records. But having said that, the grooves and samples are great on this record. And I love all of Snoop's appearances. Like a lot of 90's stuff, it's too long and pretty uneven but it makes sense that this is considered a classic hip-hop record.

The beats are great, the rhymes not as much. Certainly an album you must hear before you die, though

021121 11:20 3

Would be 5 if I was still 16 years old. The world has changed a lot since.

Bit much. Tried listening at 10Am and it wasn't the one.

Great middle finger to eazy-e an the manager for nwa. But honestly for all the classics on this fuck death row and suge night.

decent 90s rap album album

Buen disco, se me hace largo

Impressive album. Enjoyed it.

Okay so my review: It's like this and like that and like this, Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie-yay! It's like this and like that and like this! Fun album.

Another 3-in-1 hip hop review, this time tracing the thread from N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” through Ice T’s “OG Original Gangster” to Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic.” There are a lot of albums that “changed” hip hop, and “Straight Outta Compton” may be peak among them. Peak for impact, not peak for quality. They may not have created gangsta rap, but N.W.A. took it mainstream with their platinum hit album, forcing America to come to terms with life in inner city minority neighborhoods like Compton and popularizing the use of the n-word in hip hop. Incredibly impactful, but musically it’s stuck in 80s hip hop without signs of evolving. That evolution wasn’t necessarily needed though - by far the best part of the album is when Dr. Dre emerges with “Express Yourself.” It’s old school, it’s not violent or profane, and it shows that style can work in a timeless way. As for the rest, Ice Cube’s rapping is pretty solid, whereas MC Ren makes no real impact and Easy E’s nasally rapping is the worst part of the album. On the other hand, Ice T is a better rapper than anyone in N.W.A. (except maybe Dr. Dre, who was mostly limited to small features outside of “Express Yourself”). Ice T is such an OG, he had to tell the rest of America what OG means. He didn’t create the term, any more than he created gangsta rap, but helped bring it to the masses. “OG Original Gangster” is at once a coda for the early days of hip hop and a declaration that gangsta rap would dominate the next decade. The production and musicality is much better than “Straight Outta Compton” (though in a style that was firmly on its way out), and T’s rapping also stood above other MCs. Ice T may be the OG, but as an OG, he’s older and wiser and better able to reflect on where they’ve been and where they’re going. While those who followed in his footsteps often succumbed to the gangsta life, Ice T emerged on the other side with a career in film and TV, and is today probably more known for his role on Law & Order SVU than for his rap music. After Ice T and N.W.A. opened the door, Dr. Dre left N.W.A. and began a solo and rapping career that would fully establish West Coast gangsta rap as -the- rap genre of the 90s. “The Chronic” presented a serious evolution in sound from “Straight Outta Compton” or “OG Original Gangsta.” The themes remained the same, but the edge got even harder and the early trappings and influences of hip hop faded away. My group member pretentious-ass wrote (4 years ago, when I was supposed to review this) that “The Chronic killed hip-hop.” And I think in a lot of ways he’s right. Something different emerged from it, but it was something far removed from Ice T, N.W.A., and everything before it. West Coast gangsta rap after “The Chronic” did seem to become all-consuming, sucking the oxygen away from alternative hip hop and any other style.

Beats hold up, lyrics not so much.

My Spotify isn’t fancy so it doesn’t play the whole album or even only the album (I kept thinking isn’t this too early for Eminem?). But it was my first bbmac class after a week off and it was a SOLO class and i a little bit almost passed out but this helped get me through it.

Not a big fan of rap - liked some of the beats but that is about it. 2 stars for me

Begåvat. För att vara rap riktigt intressant. En stark tvåa

Honestly, I am not that into rap music. Some of the rap suggestions we’ve gotten, I can see why they are interesting, musically experimental, or relevant to some part of music history. But this one seemed mean-spirited and self-referential to the point that I didn’t know what they were talking about. Not to mention they each track sounded the same. It’s also so misogynistic(I guess as a given), that I can’t even tolerate much more.

Unapologetic and full of energy! Like most rap albums of the 90s, I’d happily ditch the skits—especially the ones drenched in coitus. The lyrics are as juvenile as they come: fine in small doses, but they wear thin after a few tracks. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg come across like those obnoxious back-of-the-classroom delinquents who flip tables, refuse to do their schoolwork, and live to piss off the teacher. It’s no wonder Luke had such a visceral reaction to this album. This is what we deserve for giving Q-Tip such a low rating!

Not really that interesting if you’ve heard the N word before

Eh.

A classic of it's time but it aged SO poorly. Like dude please stop talking about your dick. I'd rather listen to just Snoop, which is more than half this album anyway! Idk I enjoyed it because I love classic rap but the lyrics are just SO bad.

I can't lie I love a song about an artist's beef with their record company. The switch between songs was really good. Unfortunately I am a woman and some of these lyrics were a little? interesting.

Notable Textzeile: Sitting in my living room, calm and collected Feeling that gotta-get-mine perspective 'Cause what I just heard broke me in half And half the niggas I know, plus the niggas on the Row is bailing Laugh now, but cry much later Es gibt so Figuren die schon immer da waren und von denen mir gar nicht mehr so richtig im Bewusstsein ist dass sie am Anfang einfach nur Musiker waren. Dr. Dre gehört da absolut dazu. Ich finde es auch lustig, das bei dem der später dieser Master-Produzenten so viel von den Loops und Keys so daneben und schief klingen. Auch klar ist ja, dass er nicht der beste Rapper auf seiner eigenen Platte ist, mit abstand. Thematisch sehr viel Gangsterkram, wenn nicht ausschließlich? Als Person ist er ja anscheinend auch an vielen Stellen kein besonders angenehmer Mensch. Insgesamt historisch interessant, aber gar nix für mich.

I enjoyed the beats much more than the raps. Record Scratch. Oh wait. Maybe this is a proof of concept for a new label and producer who's now free of NWA to do funky shit as well? Smart. Still not good, though

This should be played at high volume preferably in a residential area. Und damit ist dazu eigentlich alles gesagt. Ist Musik die in 1992 LA/Compton garantiert ein krasser Banger war. Nach NWA auch viel Wut, Alltagsgewalt, Gangsterstories musikalisch durch die Mangel gedreht hat und damit ganz viele Leute repräsentiert/verstört hat. Aber für mich sehr stark ein Produkt seiner Zeit, dass ich in seiner Attitüde und dem ganzen Auftreten gar nicht im Jetzt ernsthaft hören kann. Abgesehen davon dass ich mich weit weg von Zielgruppe fühle. Ganz gut, dass Dre als Produzent mit späteren Alben doch eher besser wurde. Hoffe auf das 2001 in dieser Liste und verbleibe bis dahin eher mittelmäßig irritiert von dieser bunten Tüte.

i hate men. beats good👍

I am not the audience for this. I have never been into gangsta rap (I was a senior in high school when this came out, so I am generally familiar). But it never spoke to me. If I wasn't listening to it for this challenge, I would not finish it. What I have learned: 1. Dre is a badass and owns guns 2. Dre hates women but thinks they should shut shut up and fuck him 3. Dre hates his former NWA bandmates and thinks they should be sucking his dick 4. Dre is (at least at the time) friends with Snoop Dogg (who's music I am somewhat more familiar with) Nothin' But a "G" Thang is the only song I recognize (It's like this and like that)

It’s an interesting and significant album that I don’t really give a shit about.

5/10 - not Dre's best, criminal that this is in the list but 2001 isn't

Lets call a spade a spade — this is the most Black album. Dr. Dre is a very good producer, having launched the careers of Eminem, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and many other artists. He's a good rapper, too, but the thing is, while 50 Cent's debut album was a hit with every white kid on the planet, Dre's debut album would only be relatable to a white kid living in the US. The album starts off pretty well, feeling like you're leisurely driving through Vice City in a lowrider, listening to G-funk, but the genre's traditional insults to enemies in the scene (in this case, former N.W.A. bandmates and the label) quickly become tiresome. And then there are the lyrics: "A digga rode through a digga, a digga sees a digga in a digga." (you know which exact word I'm talking about) Overall, I didn't like it, but I'll give an extra star for the young Snoop, who really helps on this record.

Figo, ma non è il mio genere.

ik vond dokter Dré in Thuis beter...

I have a hard time listening to lyrics for an entire album, so I usually rate more based off of sound, u unless lyrics stick out to me. Nice beats… but idk

no es lo mío 2.5

Just not for me. This would have been a one star but was saved to be a two due to the singles. I guess I'm just not a fan of the genre

Meh, I know this is an important album for hip hop history, but really doesn’t do much for me. Beats are sick, lyrics are repetitive and boring.

Why would you choose this album from Dr. Dre instead of 2001? Shitty move tbh. I will give this a 2 because it's Dr. Dre, but it is so dated compared to other rap stuff from the same time, especially with the mysoginy and homophobia. Also, I feel like he relies too much on Snoop.

"G Thang" is one of the most iconic rap songs ever, and I am impartial to the echoey hook on "Lil Ghetto Boy" but the rest of the album is GARBAGE. Especially the extremely unfunny and unimaginative skits. Overrated!

This just made me want to listen to Parliament/Funkadelic.

Ok

This is not for me.

Álbum de negro, deush.

Some beats still are top notch, but all I hear is Snoop Dogg, swearing and wannabe alpha-male behaviour. Didn't age too well.

It is a groundbreaking album with orchestral backup to Ghetto lyrics and a celebration of life in the hood. The constant use of foul language and racial slurs just does not sit well.

Fan of the beats, not so much the lyrics

Let Me Ride Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang Stranded On Death Row

Nee, niet mijn ding. De productie is erg goed, een snoop is wel aardig op dit album. Ik kan mij alleen niet zo goed over de tekstuele armoede heen stappen. Het gaat over wiet, pikken, geweld en vrouwen slaan. Ik kan best een dingen vanuit een culturele achtergrond bekijken en heb best wel wat tolerantie maar het is wel een beetje plat. Misschien maken ze een karikatuur van zichzelf en moet je het niet te serieus nemen maar normaliseren van misogynie is wel kwalijk. De raps klinken ook wel af en toe wat verouderd maar productie blijft erg goed.

'The $20 Sack Pyramid' skit might have knocked this down a point - I hated it. Especially when you have an album like High and Rising that does quiz skits in a way I could listen to a whole album of.

Still not my genre, but not unpleasant to listen to -- had some good beats.

I confess I can't evaluate this honestly by getting outside of my own music taste. It wouldn't be fair to the album. I hate this so much, the lyrics, the music. Everything. But that's just my taste, not a fact. It's not fair to judge anything solely based on my taste and my limited ability to transcend my personal taste. I am sorry but I just can't. I hope you like it though.

This captures a moment. Time to let it go... lots of vivid instances, but they are diminished over time. Wanted to like it more.

Music for misogynistic white kids.

The beats are great but the lyrics grate

Way too much rapping about dicks. Aged very poorly and the lyrical contents of this ganger-rap album are just steaming trash. Give me lyrics with real meaning not this misogynistic shit. The beats aren’t even that good and he relies on Snoop a lot.

A lot of rhymes about dicks, balls, bitches and gang-banging set to a P-Funk — sorry, G-Funk — soundtrack. I never really got it and definitely don’t now.

Ist mir zu viel Kreisgewichse und Selbstbeweihräucherung.

let me ride, stranded on death row

nah

Dit soort muziek is zoals bekend niet helemaal aan mij besteed, maar ik begrijp dat dit een iconisch album is, dus ik zal het moeten doorstaan. Wat me als eerste al gelijk opvalt, zeker op de wiki, is dat alle samples er bij staan. En dat maakt het leuk en interessant om te luisteren. De samples zijn veelal funky (regelmatig van George Clinton en zijn funk-projecten) en geven het een hele relaxte chille vibe. De teksten zijn uiteraard weer bijzonder kinderachtig. "Never hesitate to put a n* on his back!". Dat past niet helemaal bij de gezellige funky vibes. Ik blijf daar dus helemaal niks van begrijpen, maar ik heb er ook wel weer genoeg over gezegd. Al helpt het uiteraard nog steeds niet mee voor bonuspunten. Of misschien moet ik het omdraaien: qua kinderachtigheid scoort dit album een overduidelijke 1 ster. Ik geef een bonuspunt voor de funky vibes.

Well yeah. Some good beats and if I don’t listen to the words it’s a three. Lyrics are just too painful.

Es un artista emblemático y con sello propio. Se nota que su legado está instalado culturalmente, sin embargo no es mi tipo de música y es muy lejano a mi cultura.

Most gangster shit I’ve ever heard. It’s a vibe but I gotta be in the right mood for it.

It’s not possible for me to fully understand this album because of the subject matter and hiw many times the “n” word gets used. The beats and backing tracks are pretty static and the subject matter is unrelateable. There’s really not much “music” here but I can get ti a better understanding if I just switch my perception towards fantasy.

no lo termine, no me copo

i get it, the chronic is legendary and drdre is a legend too. But this album just isn't my cup of tea

I had never listened to a full American hip-hop/rap album before; I don't think I had even heard more than five songs in the genre. Obviously, that's because it's not my kind of music. Despite that, I enjoyed the album, and while I don't think I'd listen to it again, I liked it.

3/10

repetitive

no es mi estilo

not my kind of music... its ok

Much like listening to Notorious B.I.G. this album offered little textual variety outside of the gangsta rap trifecta of guns, drugs and women. Pioneer for the genre but glad that we've moved on (mostly).

Good production. Good rhymes. Good flow. But I do not need an hour of rapping about literally nothing but gun violence, drugs, and abusing women. It may be a realistic reflection of the "gangsta" lifestyle of the time, but it's not something I want to listen to.

Again, i appreciate it's overall importance to modern music, but it's just not for me. Also interesting how juvenile it all comes across, something I haven't reflected as much on before. It gets a 2 not based on my preference but based on legacy.

I like rap music. I appreciate the genre, the lyrics, and the message. But this one... this was rough for me. The beats are great, and Snoop has the kind of flow that I'm here for. But given the state of the US today, this really sounded like the conservative narrative about why non-whites don't deserve to be treated like humans. So much commentary about murder, looting, sexual assault... and maybe it has a deeper meaning for the culture (of which I am not a part) beyond the way it sounds. Maybe that's the point; it's relevant to those who live it and just a banger for those who don't. It's certainly not something that I would feel comfortable singing along to, although I did listen to it at work. (I'm a rebel.) Enjoyable, yes, but it was difficult too.

It’s just not my thing, I don’t get how these guys think that bragging about how big your dick is, how hard you are with an uzi or AK and calling women bitches makes them look. Maybe I’m too old but it sounds like playground stuff, a bit embarrassing to be honest. But hey ho it had my feet tapping

not for me

Fun, if a bit chaotic. Certainly different than what would have been going on at the time

Pretty sure that the oldest target audience for this is sixth graders.

Like a lot of other reviewers, I have complicated...or maybe not so complicated...feelings about this album now. I can viscerally recall the impact of this album on the landscape of music and culture. I was in college at the time, and it was just a cultural wave that caught almost everyone. However, it is an understatement to say this album has not aged well. In the least. The music is phenomenal. Dr Dre's embrace of 70s funk was genius, and the music created a musically revolutionary template. And at the same time the lyrics are pathetic and embarrassing. As a middle aged person now, I marvel at what was acceptable 30 years ago...or at the very least something we decided to overlook. Honestly, now I understand how emotionally and morally stunted these men were/are. The lyrics can only be described as pathetic. This album is worth remembering. It is not worth listening to. So I don't know how to rate this thing. It is a one and a five. It was revolutionary and embarrasing at the same time. To my ears today, it is something to acknowledge and admire, and never listen to again.

Not really my type of music. Didn’t listen to the entire album.

As much as they pack their lyrics with misogyny and violence, they really can't help but fixating on their fantasies of fellating one another... That, and the childishly over-offensive lyricism aside, it's obviously well produced, and has an extensive cast, but to someone who doesn't even like rap, Snoop is an obvious standout and it may as well be his album. As a side note, there's also major obsession with advertising the label, which is sort of funny to me. Obviously Dre was more interested in setting up a media empire than writing songs, and the genre is all about posturing, but can you imagine if Sabrina Carpenter kept throwing in verses about Island Records or AC/DC had a record about how much they love Sony music?

I appreciate the art, but too much violence and profanity for me.

Not for me

I don't know, this was never my thing. I enjoy the the flow at times but only on a track here and there. Surprised how much of Nuthin' but a "G" Thang was in my brain through osmosis. The lyrical content is boring and a bit repetitive. An hour of this gave those who liked it their money's worth, but it's too long for me.

Terrible. Nuthing but a g thang do be goated tho :^)

The beats were sick, but so was the subject matter.

So much dick.

A key album from the hip hop genre and the 1990s. Dr Dre’s first post NWA solo album bringing a slower more relaxed ‘G-Funk’ approach to the genre with some very funky obscure 70s funk samples. Clearly of artistic significance but I can’t get past the n words and mofos that permeate the album as a whole. ‘Bitches ain’t shit’……really?!

Not written for me, so no surprise that it’s not for me. The funk gets a mark up though.

It’s iconic and influential. However, I don’t care too much for all those high end frequencies

Demasiado rap, no me gustó

I can respect it, doesn't mean I like it

can't with the sexism

This kinda sucks? Compared to an album like Doggystyle I think the beats are much less interesting and the raps are quite boring. The skits get boring really fast too. I get that this is a really influential album but I didn’t enjoy listening to it. It drags on too long as well.

Party rap is for people who like parties. The Chronic is for people who like to bake in the sun and imagine they are attractive to women while fantasising about men who smoke cigars. East Coast rap is infinitely superior. Chilly, evil beats accompanying violent rhymes versus music to play next to a pool in a music video?? I will take the former eleven times out of ten. Not to mention I hate Dr. Dre's dopey voice and his little synthesizer. Ugh. Don't get me wrong; I still had a better time listening to The Chronic than the random late 90's Brit rock stinker du jour, but man is this ever overrated. Of course, nobody cares what I think, but hey, that's what the internet is for. A bunch of poorly considered and unwanted opinions mixed in with the sponsored opinions of robots. Humanity plateaued briefly there for a minute, and we are on the swift decline. The run from "A N***a with a Gun" to "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" is one of the only times where I am briefly transported away from the desperately horny rhymes and beats of the Worst Coast and still, I can't help but feel like they were good beats wasted on extremely MID rapper, Dr. Dre. When the Lady of Rage finally appears, this album gains an entire star. Learn to delegate Doctor. Leave the rapping to the professionals. I'm booking a flight to New York. This sun is killing me. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Do rappers ever get embarrassed pretending to have sex on a record? If not, I'm embarrassed for them.

I was really disappointed with this album as I had high hopes for Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg, but it’s mostly just noise with meaningless lyrics, with an attempt at telling a story in the occasional song.

Inte min grej

Kändes i början som en potentiellt oväntad favorit men blev snabbt tröttsamt.

Technically it's a great album. The flow the Cadence the Rhymes are all top notch. And I just don't have any connection to the content.

While I know fully that this music wasn't made with people like me in mind, and it was pretty influential, it doesn't take away from the fact that I do not like this. The lyrics seemed pretty shallow throughout the album which i also didnt like. I understand having a signature sound to your music, but a lot of the songs on here came off as repetitive. Wouldn't listen to again

This had some decent parts and good beats which made it okay to listen to. But the lyrics were just so ugh. I don't feel the need to explain the problems with them because its pretty self explanatory... Other thoughts - please snoop dogg you do not need to announce yourself every 30 seconds WE GET IT - what is it with rappers and sexualising medical stuff ('The doctor's office' sounded like it was straight off Doctor Octagonecologist)

For some reason I went into this thinking that I'd really like it but it didn't take me long at all to realise I was mistaken. Every lyric was just sex sex sex and *** *** *** in a very unenjoyable way - the whole album is just drugs, violence and insults through sexism and homophobia. I get that this is an 'important' album and the lyrics are rooted in 'gang-culture' but its not really what I want to hear.

⭐⭐ Trodde detta skulle kunna vara Hip hop för mig, så var det inte. Jag går inte igång på det alls och kommer på mig själv med att önska att det ska ta slut. Det är otroligt daterat i attityd och texter. Ett antal bra beats och Snoop gör att det hamnar på en 2a men tveksam till om jag kommer lyssna på det igen. Bäst är The day the niggaz took over, Nuthin' but a "G" thang, Lil' Ghetto boy.

The mental images this album produces is just depraved and hilarious. What do you mean everyone wants their nuts on someone’s face? Why are they saying they want to do this so often? I laugh when people say this album is a classic.

Again a bit nostalgic bit not my style of music generally

I don't think I will listen to this on a daily basis, but the album itself is great. I'm a big fan of Eminem, and here are the roots of the atmosphere he and dr. dre created in his earlier works, with interludes, sound effects and eccentric narratives. I like the whole concept, but I'm not a fan of the flow and the songs themselves.

Not convinced he is a doctor. Not really for me.

First of all, I did not like the fillers on this album. This includes the skits, but also all the sections where they just talk over a beat instead of actually rapping verses. Musically, "The Chronic" has more creative beats and production than the other rap albums that came out in this era. Even so, the album still sounds dated, and I'd rather be listening to something more modern instead. None of the rappers stood out to me. Also: "n****ettes"? Nah, Snoop was crazy for that one. How come that never caught on though? 🤔

As far as America rap goes, Dre is up there producing and writing wise and is revolutionary in this genre, not only going against the grain, bringing new talent through, so I do have a lot of respect for him. In terms of this album, I used to listen to this as an early teenager, and loved it. Nothin but a g thang, bitches ain’t shit, fuck with Dre day. To say he doesn’t actually like rapping himself that much and coming off the back of nwa with all what was going on to release an album like this fair play. Is it the best album, no, not at all, snoop dog makes this album i think, both of them on a song, is a hit. Just very old school and would offend a lot of people in the words but hey it was acceptable then. Is this album above a 3 unfortunately not he has over songs that’s I would have put above a 3 in his catalogue but overall it’s just steady, does what it says in tin.

Not the vibe for me

sjjwjw

A few solid tracks but does not excuse the overlong runtime and blatant misogyny

2 pga Snoop Dog. Ellers var det litt jævlig. Fikk litt følelsen av å være fanga i San Andreas til tider.

Kult instrumentalt. Det store problemet e at tekstan ikke har tålt tidens tann. 2001 e myyyyye bedre!

Some interesting Clintonesque backing tracks give this album a 70's funk feel. Unfortunately the rapping isn't as soulful and the Snoop vocal drawl adds very little even if it got gangsta rap into the pop charts. Could have been better.

Man, this is a complete mess. Dr. Dre is easily one of the most influential rappers and producers in all of hip hop, but an actual full studio album from him? No thanks. This is way too consistently energetic for an album of this length, making it exhausting to listen to, as well as just the pacing in general is all over the place. Now let's talk features, an aspect that can often make or break an entire album. And to be fair, that's the one thing that this album does actually have going for it, even though the revolving door of features does contribute greatly to the album's messiness, most of them are still really good individually, even if they don't fit together as well as you would hope.

Same old same old there is nothing inspirational about the lyrics. Same old cringe skits as well

There is no doubt that this album is one of the most influential albums in the genre. Dre took a price of chalk, drew a wall on some bricks and walked right in through- like a scene from beetlejuice- making no apologies. Speaking of apologies, I’m unsure if he ever actually made one to the woman he beat up on camera, later laughed about then eventually profited off. Not sure Dre qualifies for the “seperate the art from the artist” card- maybe there were no fucks given- so in my rating there are no fucks to be had..

-not my usual type of music but still a cool album -not great for listening to at work, and I can’t think of many other situations where I would go out of my way to listen to -

Fun and some songs have interesting background instrumentation but it's always overlaid with boring synth. I guess I could see not liking this album if I was a parent in 1992. Highlights: "The Day The N-z Took Over", "Lil' Ghetto Boy", "A N-a Witta Gun"

This has aged terribly, snoop is carrying, the actual music and beats and fab though.

I'm starting to learn i dont really like gangster rap

Ehh. Not for me.

i liked some of the choruses but i probably wouldn't listen again

Not my thing but ok

Гангста рэп про большие пушки и большие члены. Мизогиния, гомофобия, классные биты.

2/5 Not quite warmed to this style of music yet. I did quite like stranded on death row though

Classic. Not my style anymore but it is a classic.

We should really stop excusing misogyny in music because it was "important at the time". You're still listening to it now, and it's still bad. Aside from this issue, this album is quite musically dull. Dres flow is stuck in the 80s. Static, unchanging and dull. The beats are very of the era, in a negative sense. A rehash of the same 90s synth patches you've heard 1000 times before. The album also seems to contain no emotion aside from "look how cool I am", which I find distasteful.

The definitive collection of West Coast Gansta Rap cliches.

Lyrics are a little out of pocket for me, but the instrumentals are fun.

The album had some bops but mostly wasn't my style. Half of it was just my guy trying to sound tough. Had all elements required to be a chronic but doesn't qualify as great music for me.

Not my thang, dogg.

More palatable than Doggy Style.

In a nutshell: Snoop, Dillinger, RBX... featuring Dr Dre. The production is good, which is what you'd expect from a producer like Dre. It's an album that showcased the then upcoming Snoop Dogg. It pulls great samples from Funkadelic et al... Yet I couldn't dig it. I really tried. That said, I won't ignore the fact it influenced future rap and hip-hop in the 90s. Overall: 4/10

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I don't know about this one...the beats are good and groovy, they have good flow, but...it's not clicking for me. Maybe they just talked about sticking dicks in mouths and nuts too much. No respect for women here. I also did not like one of the synths they were using, way too high pitched for me. I did NOT like "F Wit Dre Day" at all. It wasn't all bad though, "Let Me Ride" was fun, and "The Day the [Neighbors] Took Over" was enjoyable for the most part. Sweet flute in Lil' Ghetto Boy. And even Stranded on Death Row was great, mainly because of Lady of Rage and a killer hard beat. 4/10

The samples and the production are elite, but the lyrics only offer the worst of all the -isms put out in the 1990s. Not an album that helped African Americans efforts at all. The popularity of this album led to the rise of one of the worst musical genres ever, Gangsta Rap. Some of the most tone deaf and vacuous stuff ever made. So, its inclusion on this list might make sense because of how many acts it inspired, but I admit this fact reluctantly while pinching my nose to avoid the stink. The grooves on "Let Me Ride (feat. Jewell)" and "Nothin' But a 'G' Thang" are undeniable, even if the lyrics are regrettable. 2 stars, instead of 1 for the production and engineering brought to the effort. Not an album that I will ever listen to again.

mmm not my thing - also what beef did him and snoop have bruh omg