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| Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath | ||||
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| Compilation album by
Various Artists
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| Released | November 26, 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
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| Length | 71:12 | |||
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| Singles from Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath | ||||
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| Allmusic |    link |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ link |
| Muzik | 6/10[2] |
| Rap Pages magazine | (mixed) link |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | link |
Dr. Dre Presents... The Aftermath is a compilation album by American and West Coast rapper Dr. Dre. It was released on November 26, 1996, as the first album on Aftermath Entertainment. 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. (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.)[3]
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."Aplatinum seller,[4] the album peaked at #6 on the Billboard 200 and at #3 on the 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.
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."[5] Himself commenting on the album, Dre remarked, "It was just okay. That was a hit and miss."[6] 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."[7]
| No. | Title | Sample(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Aftermath (The Intro)" (RC, Sharief and Sid McCoy) | 2:51 | |
| 2. | "East Coast/West Coast Killas" (Group Therapy (Scarface, Nas, RBX, KRS-One, and B-Real)) | Quincy Jones - "Ironside" | 4:54 |
| 3. | "Shittin' on the World" (D-Ruff, Hands-On and Mel-Man) | The Fuzz - "I Love You For All Seasons" | 4:58 |
| 4. | "Blunt Time" (RBX, Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) | Quincy Jones - "Summer In The City" | 4:22 |
| 5. | "Been There, Done That" (Dr. Dre) | 5:10 | |
| 6. | "Choices" (Kim Summerson) | Isaac Hayes - "Look of Love" | 4:45 |
| 7. | "As the World Keeps Turning" (Cassandra McCowan, Mike Lynn, Flossy P and Stu-B-Doo) | 4:43 | |
| 8. | "Got Me Open" (Hands-On, Dr. Dre) | K-Def & Larry O - "Real Live Shit" | 4:19 |
| 9. | "Str-8 Gone" (King Tee) | 4:33 | |
| 10. | "Please" (Maurice Wilcher and Nicole Johnson) | 4:22 | |
| 11. | "Do 4 Love" (Jheryl Lockhart) | Heath Brothers - "Smiling Billy Suite Pt. 2" | 3:23 |
| 12. | "Sexy Dance" (Cassandra McCowan, Jheryl Lockhart and RC) | 4:55 | |
| 13. | "No Second Chance" (Who'z Who) | 4:49 | |
| 14. | "L.A.W. (Lyrical Assault Weapon)" (Sharief) | 4:24 | |
| 15. | "Nationowl" (Christian Nowlin) | 4:06 | |
| 16. | "Fame" (Jheryl Lockhart, King Tee and RC) | David Bowie - "Fame" | 4:30 |
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| 1996 | "East Coast, West Coast, Killas" | – | – | ||
| 1996 | "Been There, Done That" | – | 40 | ||
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| United States (RIAA)[13] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
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