Dr. Dre

Rags to Riches: How the Rise of Graffiti Has Mimicked its Artists On Saturday Night Live in 1997, then-mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani declared “we’ve gotten [graffiti] off our subways, but there are still idiots out there trying to turn our streets into an eyesore! (McKay)” Now, almost twenty years later, an original piece of iconic street artist Banksy’s work sells for as much as $1.7 million (Randal). Each of Banksy’s most valued pieces was undervalued by hundreds of thousands of…

Hailee. The heartbreak and rage of Kim leaving, and his intense poverty, led him resulted in him creating his alter ego, Slim Shady. In 1997 he participated in Rap Olympics, and came second, gaining the interest of Dr. Dre who was also impressed by Slim Shady EP. In 1999, with the help of Dre, he released Slim Shady LP, which immediately raised him to fame. Also, in 1999 Eminem’s mom filed a $10,000,000 lawsuit against him, but only received $25,000, and Marshall married Kim. In the year…

Don’t point your weapons at me.” The decision to soften the beat for the second half of the chorus uses a strategy that artists such as Dr. Dre and DJ Screw used in the 1980s when aggressive, “hardcore” rap first gained its popularity. Fernando Orejuela explains this strategy stating, “In the later years of hardcore’s “incubation” period, producers like Dr. Dre and DJ Screw slowed down the tempo considerably… P.E. supported the party orientation of rap music of the day but also demonstrated…

different form of media, in which several films nowadays are those of a biopic, a biographical film. “Straight Outta Compton” is a biopic from 2015 that talks about the career of the hip-hop artists of NWA, Niggas with Attitude- Ice Cube, Easy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, and DJ Yella. The release of the film “Straight Outta Compton” allowed many different depictions and interpretations to arise, focusing on its culture and music. “Straight Outta Compton” was a biopic that was not afraid to address many…

gangsta rap focusing on the ills of inner-city life. It remains the one of the most dominate popular music styles well into the 21st century” (Starr and Waterman 574). On August 9th, 1988 an album that to this very day is still relevant. Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella, and MC Ren were the original members of the famous rap group N.W.A; which stands for Niggas with Attitude. They released their first album Straight Outta Compton, which featured a song that described the relationship with…

As more people first started to notice Kendrick Dr. Dre soon signed him to his independent record label, Aftermath Entertainment. Kendrick dropped his album good kid, m.A.A.d city, in October 2012, this was a huge album within the label. His hit singles like “Poetic Justice” and “Swimming Pools (Drank)…

Dre and his beats, Ice Cube absolutely loved the game of basketball as depicted in his iconic song, “It Was a Good Day,” which came out in 1992. In “It Was A Good Day”, Ice Cube said, “Called up the homies and I’m askin y’all, ‘Which park are y’all playing…

exactly, they would have seen a number of people who are wearing the headphone which has lower-case “b” on the ear-cups. “Beats”, exact name of the brand is “Beats Electronics”, was founded by Dr. Dre on 2006, and they have focused on headphones and speakers. In last year, people faced the interesting news that Dr. Dre sold Beat Electronics to Apple with US$3.0 billion. An article by Elizabeth Lazarowitz reported that this is the most expensive acquisition in Apple’s 38-year history.…

In the past 30 years or so, hip hop has tried politics and it has tried gansterism. But in the end it settled for capitalism, which energized it and brought it to a position of global dominance (Steve Yates Rap lyrics encourage positive capitalist views). The topic of Rap and its effects has a deep history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic. There is data that proves both sides right and wrong. Some people think it promotes sexism…

life of fictional Caine Lawson, a son of drug dealers trying to escape the dangers of a Watts project neighborhood. F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, released in 2015, follows the formation of N.W.A. and the biographies of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre. Although both directors employ vernacular…