
Dre has also appeared in the movies Set It Off, The Wash and Training Day, though he later stated that he does not intend to pursue a career in acting. The album was highly successful, thus reaffirming a recurring theme featured in its lyrics, stating that Dre is still a force to be reckoned with, despite the lack of major releases in the previous few years. Once again, the album featured about as much of Dre's voice as the voices of numerous collaborators, mainly Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and Eminem. Dre: 2001 or Chronic 2001: No Seeds and variations thereof). In 1999, Dre released his second solo album, "2001" (sometimes called Dr. By the time "The Eminem Show" was released in 2002, Eminem was producing the bulk of his output himself. The latter featured slightly less involvement by Dr. Dre signed the aspiring Detroit rapper Eminem to his label, producing his controversial album "The Slim Shady LP" in 1999, followed by the even more successful and controversial "The Marshall Mathers LP" in 2000. The track was intended as a symbolic good-bye to gangsta rap, in which Dre suggested that he is moving on to another level of music and lifestyle. The Aftermath" album, released at the end of the year, featured songs by the newly signed artists, and a solo track "Been There, Done That". Dre left Death Row Records to form his own Aftermath Entertainment label. By the end of the year, however, the success of Death Row Records had taken a reverse turn, following the death of Tupac Shakur and racketeering charges against Suge Knight. Dre as a major force in the music industry. In 1996, the song "California Love", a highly successful collaboration with Death Row Records artist 2Pac, helped further establish Death Row Records and Dr. Doggystyle achieved phenomenal success, being the first debut album for an artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts. Dre produced Snoop Dogg's debut album "Doggystyle", with similar subject matter and musical style. "The Chronic" became a multi-platinum seller, making it virtually impossible to hear mainstream hip-hop that wasn't affected in some way by Dr.Dre and his reinvented G-funk. It was also the beginning of his collaboration with rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg (later simply known as Snoop Dogg), a young man from Long Beach who was a member of the Rollin 20s Long Beach Crips, and who Dre met through Snoop Dogg's work with Warren G., who is Dr.Dre's stepbrother. It was the beginning of his elastic G-Funk sound. Dr.Dre released his first solo single, "Deep Cover " in the spring of 1992. Dr.Dre enjoyed significant success in N.W.A., but left the group at the peak of its popularity in 1991 to form Death Row Records with Suge Knight. In 1986, he and fellow World Class Wreckin' Cru member DJ Yella were founding members of N.W.A., a highly successful and controversial group that created the protoype for much of what was termed Gangsta rap in the 1990s. Dre started his career as a member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru during the 1980s. Dr.Dre (born Andre Romel Young in Los Angeles, California February 18, 1965) is a world renowned African American producer and MC and former member of the World Class Wreckin' Cru as well as N.W.A.
