Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|1996 compilation album by Aftermath Entertainment}}

| name = Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath

| type = compilation

| artist = [[Aftermath Entertainment]]

| cover = DrDre-PresentsTheAftermath.jpg

| alt =

| released = November 26, 1996

| recorded = 1996

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|[[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]|[[G-funk]]|[[R&B]]}}

| length = 71:12

| label = {{hlist|[[Aftermath Entertainment|Aftermath]]|[[Interscope Records|Interscope]]}}

| producer = {{hlist|[[Dr. Dre]] ([[Executive producer#Music|exec.]])|[[Bud'da]]}}

| prev_year =

| next_year =

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath

| type = compilation

| single1 = East Coast/West Coast Killas

| single1date = August 13, 1996

| single2 = [[Been There, Done That (Dr. Dre song)|Been There, Done That]]

| single2date = September 1, 1996<ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=fTq5E8r8ei4&t=21s|title=Dr. Dre reveals the struggles of launching Aftermath|website=[[YouTube]] |date=August 2, 2017|access-date=November 20, 2019}}</ref>

'''''Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath''''' is a [[compilation album]] by American and West Coast [[Rapping|rapper]] [[Dr. Dre]]. It was released on November 26, 1996, as the first album on [[Aftermath Entertainment]].

The album was mainly produced by Aftermath's production team, the Soul Kitchen, which consisted of Dr. Dre, Bud'da, Flossy P, Stu-B-Doo, and Chris "The Glove" Taylor.

==Background==

Dre's scarce vocals, newly critiquing gangsta rap, marked Dre's reemergence after his departure from [[Death Row Records]] on March 1996, where Dre himself had propelled [[gangsta rap]] into the mainstream. (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]].)<ref>The exact facts of Dre's contractual status with Ruthless Records and of his cofounding Death Row Records are debated, yet in practice, at least, Dre left Ruthless in 1991 while finishing [[Niggaz4Life|N.W.A's final album]] and forming Death Row amid financing and assistance now often overlooked, but with Dre himself and [[Suge Knight]] as its core founders. For major story versions, see Ben Westhoff, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0T5UCwAAQBAJ&q=%22popular+imagination%22 "We know where your mother lives"], ''Original Gangstas: [https://books.google.com/books?id=0T5UCwAAQBAJ&q="D.O.C.+gave" The Untold Story]'' (New York & London: [[Hachette Book Group|Hachette]], 2017).</ref>

The 1996 album's first single, "East Coast/West Coast Killas", features prominent rappers from California and New York rebuking rap's recently ugly [[East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry|East–West "war."]] Dre participates himself on the chorus and the music video features a cameo appearance by Southern rapper, [[Scarface (rapper)|Scarface]]. The second single, a Dre solo, is the only track with Dre as main vocalist, "[[Been There, Done That (Dr. Dre song)|Been There, Done That]]."

==Critical reception==

| rev4 = ''Rap Pages'' magazine

A [[RIAA certification|platinum]] seller,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924152940/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=Dr.%20Dre&artist=&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2008&sort=Artist&perPage=25 RIAA Searchable Database]. Recording Industry Association of America. Accessed May 29, 2008.</ref> the album peaked at #6 on the [[Billboard 200]] and at #3 on the [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|Top R&B/Hip Hop-Albums]] charts. 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.

[[Chris Taylor (music producer)|The Glove]], among the album's coproducers, reasoned, "People were upset because they wanted a 'Dr. Dre' album. They weren't looking for a compilation album. That's what messed that up. Plus the single 'Been There, Done That' was cool, but it was taking away from the gangster style that people wanted."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://allhiphop.com/features/exclusive-chris-the-glove-taylor-talks-death-row-aftermath-and-dr-dre-part-2-XakqDFCasE2jtoLr4XS_Ug|title=Exclusive: Chris "The Glove" Taylor Talks Death Row, Aftermath and Dr. Dre (Part 2)|access-date=2020-02-14|archive-date=2019-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428232211/https://allhiphop.com/features/exclusive-chris-the-glove-taylor-talks-death-row-aftermath-and-dr-dre-part-2-XakqDFCasE2jtoLr4XS_Ug/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Himself commenting on the album, Dre remarked, "It was just okay. That was a hit and miss."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/04/dr-dre-interview-with-ll-cool-j-full-audio/|title=Dr. Dre & LL Cool J Have Recorded More Than 40 Songs Together (Audio)|date=April 24, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425122700/https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2019/04/dr-dre-interview-with-ll-cool-j-full-audio/|archive-date=April 25, 2019|access-date=April 25, 2019}}</ref> More broadly, Dre explained, "That point of my life, musically, it was just off balance. I was off track then and trying to find it. It was a period of doubt. . . It happens with artists. Everything isn't going to be out of the park."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://defiantones.clique.tv/en/ |title=Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine meet French journalist/Producer Mouloud Achour |access-date=May 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520055113/http://defiantones.clique.tv/en/ |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| note1 = RC, Sharief and Sid McCoy

| extra1 = [[Dr. Dre]], [[Mel-Man]]

| title2 = East Coast/West Coast Killas

| note2 = Group Therapy ([[RBX]], [[KRS-One]], [[B-Real]] and [[Nas]])

| extra2 = Dr. Dre, Stu-B-Doo, Stocks McGuire

| note3 = D-Ruff, Hands-On and Mel-Man

| extra3 = Dr. Dre, Mel-Man

| note4 = RBX, Dr. Dre and [[Roger Troutman]]

| extra4 = Dr. Dre, Stu-B-Doo

| extra5 = [[Bud'da]], Dr. Dre

| note6 = Kim Summerson

| extra6 = Ewart A. Wilson Jr., Floyd Howard, Glen Mosley

| note7 = Cassandra McCowan, Mike Lynn, Flossy P and Stu-B-Doo

| extra7 = Flossy P, [[Chris Taylor (music producer)| Chris "The Glove" Taylor]]

| note8 = Hands-On, Dr. Dre

| extra8 = Bud'da

| note9 = [[King T]]

| extra9 = Bud'da

| note10 = Maurice Wilcher and Nicole Johnson

| extra10 = Maurice Wilcher

| note11 = Jheryl Lockhart

| extra11 = Bud'da

| note12 = Cassandra McCowan, Jheryl Lockhart and RC

| extra12 = Bud'da, Dr. Dre

| note13 = Who'z Who

| extra13 = Rodney Duke, Rose Griffin

| note14 = Sharief

| extra14 = Stu-B-Doo

| note15 = Christian Nowlin

| extra15 = Bud'da

| note16 = Jheryl Lockhart, King T and RC

| extra16 = Dr. Dre, Chris "The Glove" Taylor

;Sample credits

* "East Coast/West Coast Killas" | [[Quincy Jones]] - "Ironside"

* "Shittin' on the World" | [[The Fuzz (band)|The Fuzz]] - "[[I Love You for All Seasons]]"

* "Blunt Time" | Quincy Jones - "[[Summer in the City (song)|Summer in the City]]"

* "Choices" | [[Isaac Hayes]] - "[[The Look of Love (1967 song)|Look of Love]]"

* "Got Me Open" | [[K-Def]] & Larry O - "Real Live Shit"

* "Do 4 Love" | [[Heath Brothers]] - "Smiling Billy Suite Pt. 2"

* "Fame" | [[David Bowie]] - "[[Fame (David Bowie song)|Fame]]"

!Chart (1996–1997)

|US ''Billboard'' 200<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1997/top-billboard-200-albums|title=Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1997|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 21, 2021}}</ref>

|US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1997/top-r-and-b-hip-hop-albums|title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1997|magazine=Billboard|access-date=April 21, 2021}}</ref>

|"East Coast/West Coast Killas"

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=United States|artist=Various|title=Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath|award=Platinum|relyear=1996|certyear=1997|refname="riaa"}}

[[Category:Albums produced by Chris "The Glove" Taylor]]