What Was So Groundbreaking About The Chronic?
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How old was you when it came out. That will let everyone else know whether to reply or not.
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How old was you when it came out. That will let everyone else know whether to reply or not.
I think it came out in Dec 92, so I would have been 19. -
Well, I can’t help you. I thought you’d be like 6.
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lol 5 grand had a thunderbird and a big mustache when the chronic came out
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Lmbao
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I was 6 when it came out and I ? with it. -
With an 8-track in the ride and a shag curl.lol 5 grand had a thunderbird and a big mustache when the chronic came out -
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This ? just hate anything not east coast.
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It introduced g-funk and opened the doors for a lot of L.A. rappers. The industry was checking heavy for the westcoast trying to find another snoop and dre.
Go to YouTube and you can find hours worth of videos of unknown rappers that didn't make it from 92-96 that sound like snoop and dre -
lol 5 grand had a thunderbird and a big mustache when the chronic came out
Lmao yo ? this is funny -
- It was the launch of snoop and his signature sound
- Introduced melody in hip hop on a wide scale
- Showed an alternate look at black culture in Cal
- Elevated disses
- Spawned Death Row Era
- It was the best selling album at that point
- G Funk sound was all over the culture
- Took Hip Hop to suburban radio
- Elevated skits
- Began the west coat rapper takeover
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Busta Carmichael wrote: »It introduced g-funk and opened the doors for a lot of L.A. rappers. The industry was checking heavy for the westcoast trying to find another snoop and dre.
Go to YouTube and you can find hours worth of videos of unknown rappers that didn't make it from 92-96 that sound like snoop and dre
At least you answered the question.
Not saying I agree with you but everybody else is too stupid to answer the question -
Busta Carmichael wrote: »It introduced g-funk and opened the doors for a lot of L.A. rappers. The industry was checking heavy for the westcoast trying to find another snoop and dre.
Go to YouTube and you can find hours worth of videos of unknown rappers that didn't make it from 92-96 that sound like snoop and dre
At least you answered the question.
Not saying I agree with you but everybody else is too stupid to answer the question
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5 you saying that you didnt like the Chronic? What did ya ears tell you?
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The Recipe wrote: »- It was the launch of snoop and his signature sound
- Introduced melody in hip hop on a wide scale
- Showed an alternate look at black culture in Cal
- Elevated disses
- Spawned Death Row Era
- It was the best selling album at that point
- G Funk sound was all over the culture
- Took Hip Hop to suburban radio
- Elevated skits
- Began the west coat rapper takeover
Just to name a few
I'll agree to some of the points you made, but Niggaz4life was released about 18 months earlier and had the same sound. The main difference is he replaced Ren with Snoop. Also, from what I've deduced, white people claim The Chronic because they don't feel comfortable saying "Niggaz4life".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aleRvCrXp4
In fact, every point you made could be applied to No One Can Do It Better and Niggaz4life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IJ9vbdNfA
On a side note, I remember that era clearly. I agree that Dre had a different sound from what was going on in the East but they weren't the first rap group to usher in a new sound.
Run DMC had a new sound on their first album
Whodini had a new sound on their first album
Boogie Down Productions had a new sound on their first album
Public Enemy had a new sound on their first and especially their second album
De La Soul had a new sound on their first album
Beastie Boys Paul Boutique had a new sound
A Tribe Called Quest ushered in a new sound with Low End Theory
So saying that Dre had a new sound (Nuthin But A G Thing and Let Me Ride) is true, but that's not the first time somebody came from a different angle.
Lastly, The Chronic wasn't the first posse album. Marley Marl released In Control Volume 1 in the summer of 1988.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gl8dtMjCw -
I was In the the9th grade when the chronic dropped . I remember hearing noting but a g thang for the first time in high school whan a ? was in the stair well bumping that ? from his tape recorder and I was bobbing my head like "damn wtf is that?!?!
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5 you saying that you didnt like the Chronic? What did ya ears tell you?
I'm not saying that I didn't like it, but people are acting like The Chronic was the second coming of Jesus. I'm saying I remember when it came out and it was hyped up but really besides Nuthin But A G Thing and Let Me Ride, it was just another album.
A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory came out about a year before The Chronic and I always thought Tribe's album was far superior, lyrically and production. -
So far I got 5 flags, but none of the people that flagged me had anything intelligent to say
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The Recipe wrote: »- It was the launch of snoop and his signature sound
- Introduced melody in hip hop on a wide scale
- Showed an alternate look at black culture in Cal
- Elevated disses
- Spawned Death Row Era
- It was the best selling album at that point
- G Funk sound was all over the culture
- Took Hip Hop to suburban radio
- Elevated skits
- Began the west coat rapper takeover
Just to name a few
I'll agree to some of the points you made, but Niggaz4life was released about 18 months earlier and had the same sound. The main difference is he replaced Ren with Snoop. Also, from what I've deduced, white people claim The Chronic because they don't feel comfortable saying "Niggaz4life".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aleRvCrXp4
In fact, every point you made could be applied to No One Can Do It Better and Niggaz4life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IJ9vbdNfA
On a side note, I remember that era clearly. I agree that Dre had a different sound from what was going on in the East but they weren't the first rap group to usher in a new sound.
Run DMC had a new sound on their first album
Whodini had a new sound on their first album
Boogie Down Productions had a new sound on their first album
Public Enemy had a new sound on their first and especially their second album
De La Soul had a new sound on their first album
Beastie Boys Paul Boutique had a new sound
A Tribe Called Quest ushered in a new sound with Low End Theory
So saying that Dre had a new sound (Nuthin But A G Thing and Let Me Ride) is true, but that's not the first time somebody came from a different angle.
Lastly, The Chronic wasn't the first posse album. Marley Marl released In Control Volume 1 in the summer of 1988.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gl8dtMjCw
If you cannot tell the vibe difference between the Chronic and those albums than I am not sure what to say as you can not train an ear with written words and yours has no obvious ability to palette the flavor distinctions in the music...
https://youtu.be/2ZjviMmXIY8
