Revisiting Dr. Dre leaving Death Row Records and starting Aftermath Records

[treezee]

He got tired of pulling up to the studio and seeing...

 

[Da_Eggman]

em saved him honestly

 

[satam55]

shyt was a shot in the dark and its crazy to see how cold he was those couple of years before Eminem hit..

i remember the first time i saw the My Name Is video on tv and i legit thought "wow...Dre is FINISHED!"

needless to say that song grew on me and i was completely wrong about where he was headed. he cleaned house after that Aftermath album tho...aint heard from none of them except Mel Man off the top of my head.

How old are you?

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

yeah they were expected to go 5 Mil at least. Gotta realize numbers were inflated during that era. Going platinum was like selling 100k in today's time. We don't consider that a flop today, just a

Back then you had to pay $15+ for one CD. A million motherfukkers paying that is a lot of revenue. Now if the Firm dropped all I gotta do is add it to my library on whatever streaming service i'm using. I'm paying 4.99 a month.

It'd be interesting to see how many people would be willing to pay $15 for Tekashi69

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

i thought a factor was suge smashing michelle?

 

[Cheech&Chong]

the firm is classic in my circle. We use to play the shyt out of that album. Nature kills every verse and the nore n canibus spots are legendary

 

[Sinister]

I think it did go platinum. So it did well commercially, but as far as being a project that was critically acclaimed, not even. It was a letdown.
While it did well commercially, the expectations were for it to do even better, both commercially and as far as it's artistic merit.

Platinum was a joke by Dre standards.

In a world where Pac, Big, Mase, Nas, Snoop, Dogg Pound, Wu Tang, Outkast, Fugees, Bone thugs etc were multi it was a terrible flop. Even double plat would have been terrible.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

One of the best documentaries ever.

Top 3 easy in my book if not #1

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

He got tired of pulling up to the studio and seeing...

Wrong color

 

[Bigsuk]

i thought a factor was suge smashing michelle?

proberly a number ov reasons ..... that , pac/suge bouncing off eachother / wanted no parts really ov the deathrow vs badboy(east vs West ) too many goons around that had shyt all to do with music n then the constant fights etc we have heard .... pac was making up excuses as to why he was dissing Dre after he left but I just think pac was riding off suges animosity toward Dre for leaving ..... best choice Dre made ....

 

[KingSol81]

i thought a factor was suge smashing michelle?

And Pac smashing

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

How old are you?

67

 

[satam55]

How old are you?

67

For real? I always thought you were around my age.

 

[zayk35]

I remember buying the 1st aftermath album just off the strength of it being Dr.Dre presents....and then being extra dissatisfied .....wasn't nothing redeeming about that album I really thought he was going down in flames like Deathrow was at the time....but his bounce back in 99 is legendary now he damn near a billionaire and he is cemented on hip hop's mt Rushmore of producers

 

[bucks3115]

DRE IS STILL A bytch