Chronic 2015

Dr. Dre should be a household name. It had its beginnings with The World Class Wreckin Cru and NWA celebrated his first success. After a dispute with Eazy E, Dre left the group and is replaced over to Death Row Records. He has among other things worked with his protégé Snoop on his solo album, which is now rightly regarded as classics. Four years after The Chronic Dre published a compilation which was rather poor, but on a solo album could wait still. Finally in 1999 came the album 2001 or Chronic 2001 to the market and is eingschlagen like a bomb.

This album has survived concerning the sound time. It sounds for the most part even after 16 years is still just as fresh as the release. So it is not surprising that such hits as The Next Episode, Still DRE etc. still up in the club and down to play. The beats are just great. All had come in use drums, samples and even rehearsed elements harmonize perfectly with each other and are very professional mixed for a total of a great soundscape results.
Where the album the sound is fantastic, but it lacks the lyrical content. Basically, it is here solely about sex, drugs, violence and parties. Quite clearly visible on the Pause 4 Porno Skit, with whom I am ashamed really strange even at the first hearing and since then always skip. Has bothered me at The Chronic and here it is not a bit different. My personal highlight, however, is the last track The Message whose beat was not the only one produced by Dre himself but by Lord Finesse. The song is dedicated to his late brother Tyree and God. This shows a lot of depth and Dre Beat with its gentle sound and a perfect end to the album.

Although the album is lyrically hardly convincing and I have honestly not expect otherwise, I give the album 4 out of 5 stars, for the simple reason because this album is fun and now sounds as good as 16 years ago. It lacks only the whole of the contents, substance.