![]() " East Coast/West Coast Killas" (Group Therapy ( Scarface, Nas, RBX, KRS-One, and B-Real)) "Aftermath (The Intro)" (RC, Sharief and Sid McCoy) Everything isn't going to be out of the park." Track listing I was off track then and trying to find it. That was a hit and miss." More broadly, Dre explained, "That point of my life, musically, it was just off balance. Plus the single 'Been There, Done That' was cool, but it was taking away from the gangster style that people wanted." Himself commenting on the album, Dre remarked, "It was just okay. They weren't looking for a compilation album. The Glove, among the album's coproducers, reasoned, "People were upset because they wanted a 'Dr. Nonetheless, quite unlike Dre's prior album- The Chronic, released in December 1992 as Dre's debut solo album and Death Row Records' first album-Dre's new offering, not a standout, received mixed reviews and lukewarm appraisals. ![]() The 1996 album's first single, a Dre solo, is the only track with Dre as main vocalist, " Been There, Done That." The second single was " East Coast/West Coast Killas", prominent rappers from California, New York, and Texas rebuking rap's recently ugly East–West "war." A platinum seller, the album peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and at #3 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop-Albums charts. (Dre had co-founded Death Row Records in 1991 amid his embattled split from Ruthless Records and its pioneering, gangsta rap group N.W.A.) Dre's scarce vocals, newly critiquing gangsta rap, marked Dre's reemergence after his March 1996 departure from Death Row Records, where Dre himself had propelled gangsta rap into the mainstream. It was released on November 26, 1996, as the first album on Aftermath Entertainment. The Aftermath is a compilation album by American and West Coast rapper Dr. Shortly after the release of Documentary, tension between The Game and 50 Cent ignited, resulting in The Game leaving Aftermath Entertainment in mid-2006 and G-Unit Records in mid-2005.Dr. Rapper, The Game, who signed with the label in 2003, also released his début album The Documentary through a joint venture with 50 Cent’s G-Unit Records in 2005. Aftermath released 50 Cent’s multi-platinum major label début album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ through a joint venture with Shady Records in 2003. Several more artists were signed to, and later dropped from Aftermath, including Hittman, Truth Hurts, and Last Emperor. The album went on to be certified 6x platinum. Dre’s follow-up to his 1992 album, The Chronic. The album topped the Billboard albums chart, went on to be certified quadruple platinum, and arguably became the label’s first successful release.Īlso in 1999, Aftermath released 2001, Dr. The following year, Eminem’s major label debut, The Slim Shady LP was released. Upon recommendation from Interscope Records head, Jimmy Iovine, Aftermath signed now multi-platinum rapper Eminem in 1998. Legal troubles forced Truth Hurts to leave the label, and Rakim’s highly anticipated comeback album that was shelved due to production conflict also forced his departure. ![]() Veteran rapper Rakim also signed with the label. His album, however, was shelved, and King Tee also left the label. ![]() Aftermath’s next release was supposed to be by rapper King Tee. Dre himself, debuting atop the Billboard 200 and being certified platinum, it sold below commercial expectation. Despite the highly anticipated album featuring production and cameo appearances by Dr. In the autumn of 1997, Aftermath released the first, and only, collaborative project by hip hop super-group, The Firm (comprised of AZ, Foxy Brown, Nas, and Nature). Dre had been too slow to get the “ball rolling” on her project. Before the year’s end, however, she abruptly left the label, claiming that Dr. In 1997, Dawn Robinson announced her departure from the R&B group En Vogue and that she had signed with Aftermath. Dre Presents the Aftermath was released towards the year’s end, featuring artists who were amongst the label’s first signees (most of the acts featured, however, quickly became disassociated with the company). Dre quickly launched Aftermath Entertainment through Interscope Records (which at the time was Death Row’s distributing label). Upon his departure from Death Row Records in March 1996, Dr.
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