The Chronic

Dr. Dre

dr. dre had already taken gangsta rap to the mainstream with his earlier group, N.W.A, but on The Chronic, he funked up the rhymes with a smooth, bass-heavy production style deeply indebted to George Clinton’s Seventies jams and the laid-back delivery of then-unknown rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. When Dre and Snoop dropped “Nuthin’ but a

‘G’ Thang,” there was no getting out of the way.