Dr. dre biography book

Dr. Dre: The Biography was exactly what it was supposed to be, a chronological look at the life of the best beat producer in rap history. I consider myself well educated on the musical career of Dr.

Dre, but this book had stuff in it about Dre that I didn't even know about.

This book didn't heat up for me until the NWA period of Dre's life was discussed which happened around page 38.

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Andre Romell Young, known professionally as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, music executive, and actor.

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Born on February 18, to a sixteen-year-old single mom, Andre Young, AKA Dr. Dre, co-founded the notorious rap group NWA.

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I wasn't really concerned with the period of Dre's life before he got in that group. Pretty much for me, the NWA period, Dre's solo career, his working with 50 Cent, and the different albums he worked on over the years were the main reasons why I enjoyed this book.

This book read like an objective and at times congratulatory analysis of Dr.

Dre's professional and personal lives. Plenty of writers and critics praised Dre in the 1990s and 2000s for his solo work and work with other artists, but with this book it was refreshing to read about Dre's hits and misses