As a white kid in the North East of Scotland who was juuuuust dipping his toes into hip hop this album was mindblowing! Listen to it front to back reguarly to this day.
One of the best things about dr dre is he knows how to line up his tracks lol. You can listen the chronic 2001 from start to finish without skipping a song
That's one of the hardest things to do with any album of any genre, but Dre has done a a few times now, he's one of the best producers of all time, not just in hip hop but in music. Period.
I remember when Kanye was about to release “Late Registration “ and he stated he wanted to make an album you can put on and wouldn’t need to skip any tracks, like if you’re cleaning your house or cooking. Not colloquially known as a “press-play” Super rare to make happen
This album epitomizes the west coast for that era. The sounds and music makes you think. California. The original chronic was groundbreaking brining the g funk sound but this album cements the sound as the official west coast sound.
Seeing Still Dre performed at the Super Bowl made me feel like all the old people who have seen their favorite artist from when they were teens on the big stage Shit was fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Literally got goosebumps watching the SB performance, took me right back to my youth, think my kids were a bit weirded out by me rapping along to nearly every song lol
One of the top 5 albums ever for me. The production is unbelievable. Nothing comes close to it. The production of Dr.Dre,Mel-Man,Scott Storch,Mike Elizondo is incredible. And I’m sure a lot more behind it too. Just classic.
This Album bring back a lot of memories. I remember calling into work the day this album dropped and going to pick it up at Wherehouse records back when that record store was around. I remember waiting for my boy Mike to get out of work (R.I.P) and we would sit down in his basement and blaze up while listening to this album from start to finish. Classic album and it is still in my top 3 hiphop albums to this day. Good memories!
This was a great retrospective! Very detailed and well put together from beginning to the end! This is truly a great watch for everyone that has interest in this topic or not, thank you for covering this! 💯😀👏👍
4 sets of 20 kush ups My favoritepart about 2001 chronic: The message skit with Eddie Griffin talking his shit was one of my favorite skits on a hip hop album. My friends mom got me the edited version for my bday and I loved that cd. Xxxplosive is my all time favorite track off the album next to the next episode. I still remember hearing forgot about dre on the radio!
@@terrenceperkins5282 he's still on top and making money to this day all his rivals are broke, dead or in jail 👌 last man standing, king of the hill my G ✌️
@@rhinodonkey7339 it depends on a person what call stop of the hill . When you by your self at nite & know you don't write or produce any & u used ppl to stay on a so call top . Your son die of a overdose you beat up women your wife don't want you, your lil bro die cause of you , you wasn't by easy e side when he was dying , your health is not in good health . Dre Jr was struggling & u live a lie .
@@rhinodonkey7339 if you call being a lie to your self beating up women your wife don't want you 2 son dead the other you don't help ppl saying you gray with all that $ & wife still don't want you & your healt not looking gd . If you say so 🤣
Still D.R.E." "Forgot About Dre" "The Next Episode" "The Watcher" "Xplosive" I'd have to say this was a great video and well put together, also I'd like to add this album would have to be one of my all time favorite G-funk records as well. This is album and the chronic are two most influential albums of their times! GOAT
17:33 LL Cool J said the beat for Xxplosive was originally his and that he did a song with Dr. Dre to it but it wasn't right and didn't quite work so LL Cool J passed on it
21:36 Dr. Dre said Eminem wrote Forgot About Dre for him & Snoop Dogg originally and Eminem did the reference vocals for Snoop Dogg but Dr. Dre liked the way it sounded with Eminem on it, so they just kept it that way and Dr. Dre did his vocals and that was it. th-cam.com/video/o0hawoYz11o/w-d-xo.html (At 2:54 mark) Also Eminem actually did write the whole song as on the 2001 album back cover, Eminem is credited for writing both of Dr. Dre’s verses and as you already mentioned Dr. Dre even said "Eminem actually wrote that. He came in and was like, ‘I got this song I wrote for you.’ The song is considered a response to the Death Row Records compilation album Suge Knight Represents Chronic 2000 Still Smokin', Death Row Records artists Tha Realest, Swoop G, Twist & Lil C Style responded with a song called F*** Dre where they diss Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A & Nate Dogg on a modified beat of the Forgot About Dre song, the song is on the Death Row Records compilation album Too Gangsta For Radio that came out in September 2000
I was just turned 1 in September when this album dropped the following month but I remember my dad playing it in his car when we was living in LA. Top 5 of the album for me is the watcher, still Dre, forgot about Dre, let's get high, and the message
I know kids don't buy CD's anymore but this is the ONLY CD I ever bought multiple copies of back in high school. The entire album slaps, even the skits (Ed-Ucation might be the greatest rap skit of all time imo). Also a shame that Hittman didn't do much after this, I loved his bars on this album. edit: top 5 for me is kind of impossible. I absolutely love every song except for The Message (still a good song, just doesn't really fit imo). Big Egos is probably my favorite at the moment but that changes almost every time I listen to the whole album
This album is a classic, I'm surprised it didn't went diamond. My top 5 from the album is 1.F***k You 2. What's The Difference 3. Forget About Dre 4. The Message 5. B***h N****z
Good Job just listening to this podcast every song you mention it took me back to what I was doing and I remember every song vividly as you mentioned it I could just picture something I was doing back then it was crazy took me back down memory lane
i wasn’t born yet when this album dropped, i’m 18. i do, however, have very fond memories of walking down the street listening to The Next Episode doing my paper route in the 5th grade. i felt like such a lil pimp making my money.
This album came out during my senior year of high school 2001 so I had to buy this CD. Too many songs to name but I like Still Dre, forgot about Dre, the next episode, the watcher, and explosive.
Foo this album came out in 1999. He named it 2001 because Suge dropped the Chronic 2000 which was supposed to be the original name for this album but Suge messed that up. So Dre upped Suge one and dropped 2001.
“2001” was one of albums we listened to while I visited a friends in the US. The other albums in heavy rotation were: -And then there was X -Born again -Da real world
Damn the timing of nate dogg, i literally bought the album when it came out, after all these years, i still can not time it, not even by accident, not once
Hittman is the co-host to 2001 and I feel like he should’ve got a fair shot he was raw to me I remember asking about him forever and I remember ppl saying he died which made sense at the time he didn’t come out but to know he’s alive and well but didn’t drop on aftermath still blows my mind
How does everyone feel about Snoop Dogg removing the entire death row catalog off of Spotify and other streaming services and only wants to sell them as an NFT in the meta-verse? I get that Artists don’t get paid a lot of money from streaming, but at the same time, not everyone can afford an NFT, they just wanna listen to the album that’s it. If you wanna listen to the OG chronic album, it’s no longer on Spotify neither is doggy style, also, he’s trying to get a hold of 2Pac’s catalog next.
Chronic 2001 is sonically better than the first Chronic. The way he used Mel Man, Royce, Knoc-Turnal, Scott Storch was crazy. My top five from this album go: Housewife Light Speed Let's Get High Ackrite Next Episode Not to mention Hittman had some of the best verses on the whole album and then to go on tour in the Summer of 2000 to support the album! Sheesh!
This video is very informative and worth a few more watches! I like both Chronic albums. The first the reason I like it is because the songs got that funky party vibe, added with undeniable bounce. Chronic 2001 for me is more cenematic dark and a little laid back in the production process. Both albums just makes you want to either dance or zone out!
Iovine is straight cappin. According to Eminem (and Dre), Eminem gave a copy of the Slim Shady LP to a woman at the rap olympics, who eventually ended up getting a position at Interscope (by chance). SHE gave the record to Iovine, along with a bunch of other demos. Iovine forwarded the tapes to dre, and eventually Dre listened to it. He claims he never even realized Em was white until he showed up for that first recording session.
I remember having this album when I was a kid. I had the edited version I bought from Walmart. Then I needed up getting the explicit one I was so excited! It had the chronic 🍁 on the cd 💿 I was so stoked! Lol the whole album was great!
South Side California here.....when this album dropped there was alot of tension on the streets between gangs and fans due to what had transpired in the last decade....the album brought the people in california togerher by rapping the cali culture that everyone in the world loved....what was that????? LOWRIDERS... CHRONIC... CALIFORNIA... FINE ASS FEMALES... BBQS AT PARKS LA CULTURE....This is why i would have to say my best track is LOLO (Intro) when the album played for the first time it was like a movie co starring Xzibit and everybody was excited that we had Xzibit on the team....that intro its self made it known that this album is gonna be fucking hard....everybody was happy....ill never forget....people where happy that Dre went back to what we and the world loved and thats CALIFORNIA CULTURE.........AND THAT LOLO INTRO WAS THE MONIKER THE BATMAN SYMBOL THAT CALIFORNIA IS BACK WITH GOOD MUSIC FOR THE WORLD ........I NEVER PLAY THIS ALBUM WITHOUT PLAYING THE INTRO FIRST .....
It came out as I was a freshman in college! Such an awesome time, and it was our soundtrack, so to speak. Side note, the MM LP had already came out that spring, and I’m embarrassed to admit this now, but since Em was a white rapper, I kind of dismissed him, and didn’t really listen to it or give him a chance. But then, when I heard Forgot about Dre, Em’s parts blew my socks off!! I was like, this is literally the best rapper I’ve ever heard! Been an Em fan ever since!
I was 11 when I snuck thos album home. Idk wtf they were talking about, but I was in love with the beats. It was nothing I've ever heard before. I literally thought at that age that the word chronic was the title they give rappers for having good music. I had no idea till someone explained it to me.
I lived in Pittsburgh for years and was in tune with the music scene. A lot of that album as done by east coast artists like Sam Sneed, Mel Man, Jay Z, Joe Beast both production and writing credits. You could dive wayyyy deeper but could insight.
Classic for 1999, I remember getting this album. This was my first Dre album that I was old enough to get when it came out. My favorite song gotta be bitch niggaz but front to back it’s a classic.
Dope video!!🍻 Bro I still listen to 2001 today. Ive always wondered about the Housewife track. It was originally recorded for Kurupts album as Hos a housewife. If you listen to both versions it sounds like they re-recorded the song for Dre album. Speaking as a fan they both sound similiar but to keep it real everybody verse sound better on Kurupts album.
An unsorted batch of some info not mentioned in the video. There's a bunch of tracks that surfaced from his 1996 "Papa got a brand new bag" sessions including that smoking weed and OG Dre solo "California Love". Probably the album was supposed to have more Dre solo joints as "Been there, done that" and "Keep the heads ringing on" were also solo joints, which normally is very rare for Dre. OG "the next episode" was indeed a leftover from Snoop's "Doggystyle" album. It was most likely cut at the very end of the album's development as it's still printed on the tracklist on the album's first pressing with "G's up, H's down". Because of the nature and quality of the sound the OG version sound very haunting and i absolutely love it. I always thought "The Watcher", which is my favourite track off the album, was written by Nas. It's because i never really found Em to be "street" introspective (diff to general introspectiveness), which is something that Nas excels at. I believe the album took a hard turn around mid 1998 when Em, X & Storch were added to the team. Before that apparently the theme for the album was sort of a continuation of the creepy futuristic style Dre had under Sam Sneed in the mid 90's. Around 2 years ago a tape surfaced with a batch of demo joints including possibly the earliest track for the album called "Airwave Terrorists" and possibly the very first variant of the "What's the difference". It was back, when Melman, Hittman & Diezel were the main guys behind the album. All of "What's the difference" versions have a different Dre verse. Technically if you combined all of them you would achieve a Dre solo joint. There's an unrecognizeable amount of unreleased and never seen stuff off this album. Possibly the most known is "Malibu Dre", which was supposed to be the first single before "Still Dre" was finished. There's also a theory that some joints from Snoop's "No Limit Top Dogg" album were early leftovers from 2001 album. Snoop's album was released in mid 99, so a couple of months before 2001.
Last time i listened to "The Watcher" was quite some time ago and i wrote that part from memory. I decided to relisten to it and i admit i can hear Eminem all over the place. I always liked the tight yet bumpy stuff more so things like the aforementioned watcher, "Murda Ink" etc are more in my lane than Xplosive etc.
I gotta say bro I appreciate the work you put into these videos. I can tell you do a lot of research cause I know most of this stuff but it took me years of watching and reading shit, plus you got unheard demos I've never come across and whatnot, I definitely appreciate your hard work. also you delivery when you talk has improved and I can just tell you're a big fan so thats wussup, glad we got you on youtube so its not just all the weird white kids who dont know what they're talking about lol.
This album stayed in my 💿 CD player in the the 1st chamber and I played it EVERY SINGLE MORNING and would open all of my windows in the warmer months blasting it on 10 waking up my neighbors ha ha ha 😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉❤❤❤.
I was just young&free back then. X-plosive, The Watcher, what's the difference, Still D.R.E, forgot about Dre top 5 tracks. every morning back then to start my day💯👑
The first rap album I ever listened to "In Full" and on repeat Was Chronic 2001, This album was the start of me being a hiphop head 2nd was😮 Hot boys Guerilla Warfare, 🔥
I'm from the west of Ireland where are fighting with the Southside at the moment "Westside Till I Die" The Chronic is one of why top 5 albums respect from🇮🇪👍🏿
I had to go back and listen to the original version it was a beast it's like it warms you up for the keep your head ringing if it was going to be on that album both of those songs are party starters 😎
I was 12 in sum kids home early smoking days n this was the soundtrack after nwa Dre returning with snoop and the whole death row movement was a big moment even here in London
I was about to say "how could you have missed that 'The Next Episode' was a reference to 'Nuthin' But A G Thang'?" but then I remembered that I just realized the other day that the name of the band Raydio is a play on leader Ray Parker Jr.'s name haha!
Im glad u made this video!🔥🔥 as my propic says this my fav hiphop album of all time! All tracks are great but if I had to share my top 5 it'd be 1. Still D.R.E. 2. Fuck You 3. Xxplosive 4. What's The Difference 5. Forgot About Dre peace!🔥🔥🔥
This Album Was Released On November 16 1999 By Aftermath Entertainment And Interscope Records It Peaked At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100 Charts The Album Was A Huge Commercial Success Selling 785,000 Copies In Its First Week. Then It Sold Over Seven Million Copies And Was Certified 7x Platinum And Certified Seventuple Platinum On February 12 2000. It Won A Grammy For Best Album At The 2000 Grammy Awards. It Was Featured On Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Hip Hop Albums Of All Time List Being Ranked Number 36 In 2024. And On There 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time List Being Ranked Number 69 In 2023. It Got 4.5/5 Mics From The Source Magazine And On There Top Greatest Rap Albums Of The 90s List. And It Was Featured On NME’S Top Essential Recordings Of The 90s List Being Ranked Number 30 In 2015.
I have been looking for that beat about 7 mins in, only heard it once live as they performed g thang in 1995 . The best with Dogg gone at the beginning preceded by a scoody do sample … where can I find it ?
I think Nas wrote it.. Nas is also known to rhyme bars inside of bars Ny state of mind is a perfect example and on top of that Jay Z literally said get wrapped up in plastic when it happens that’s it ..in the takeover .. which was a Nas dis🤷🏿♂️
The album is legendary fo sho 💫 I didn't realize all the verses that were written for Dre, but that's some dope collaborative collective type shii. The song Forgot about Dre is what changed my life and got me on that Eminem tip #ThankYouDre #whoopwhoop 🤙🔥
I've been arguing with older heads about 2001 vs Doggystyle. I am definitely a 2001 fan and I don't think Doggystyle is on the same level as either chronic. I would really like to hear which ome you guys think is better.: Doggystyle or Chronic 2001?
The Chronic 2001 and The Chronic is like night and day. As a guy who isn’t a fan of east coast rappers, I was like, how did Dre fall off? His last album was The Chronic.
That album was ok but after coming up on that first chronic it just wasn't the same. I think it was because it was my first time hearing Nate/daz/kurupt/rbx etc. That chronic 1 was sick , still in my top 5
Xxplosive will never get old for me. That beat and Nate Doggs vocals go so well together.
I copy. The Watcher f/ Eminem is always great.
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those drums were so good that kanye himself said he ripped xplosive’s drums off
Actually Xxplosive is the worst beat
Probably the one song I can sing without missing a word.
As a white kid in the North East of Scotland who was juuuuust dipping his toes into hip hop this album was mindblowing! Listen to it front to back reguarly to this day.
Cringe
Let man chill, ain't nothing wrong with listening to music.
One of the best things about dr dre is he knows how to line up his tracks lol. You can listen the chronic 2001 from start to finish without skipping a song
just that one skit
@@fuzzynugget5181 lmfao I think I know
You got it in my eye 😢
That's one of the hardest things to do with any album of any genre, but Dre has done a a few times now, he's one of the best producers of all time, not just in hip hop but in music. Period.
I remember when Kanye was about to release “Late Registration “ and he stated he wanted to make an album you can put on and wouldn’t need to skip any tracks, like if you’re cleaning your house or cooking.
Not colloquially known as a “press-play”
Super rare to make happen
This album is definitely in the soundtrack of my life..I was 18 when it came out
I was born a year later after the chronic album 🙏💞🥰💕
I was 8 when it was released! Classic for sure.
I was 15 getting all the Kitty in skool.
@@frontandcenter7941 I was 18 getting 0 Kitty in school
This album epitomizes the west coast for that era. The sounds and music makes you think. California. The original chronic was groundbreaking brining the g funk sound but this album cements the sound as the official west coast sound.
Seeing Still Dre performed at the Super Bowl made me feel like all the old people who have seen their favorite artist from when they were teens on the big stage
Shit was fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Literally got goosebumps watching the SB performance, took me right back to my youth, think my kids were a bit weirded out by me rapping along to nearly every song lol
One of the top 5 albums ever for me. The production is unbelievable. Nothing comes close to it. The production of Dr.Dre,Mel-Man,Scott Storch,Mike Elizondo is incredible. And I’m sure a lot more behind it too. Just classic.
One of the greatest put together albums of all time the time and resources and gems and bases put in there was phenomenal
I can't make a top 5 of 2001 the whole album is legendary.
Could not agree more, every song on that album is fire ✌️
@@rhinodonkey7339 yep
Ehh
Facts
My favorite is defently forgot about dre.but yeah there are all great
This Album bring back a lot of memories. I remember calling into work the day this album dropped and going to pick it up at Wherehouse records back when that record store was around. I remember waiting for my boy Mike to get out of work (R.I.P) and we would sit down in his basement and blaze up while listening to this album from start to finish. Classic album and it is still in my top 3 hiphop albums to this day. Good memories!
This was a great retrospective! Very detailed and well put together from beginning to the end! This is truly a great watch for everyone that has interest in this topic or not, thank you for covering this! 💯😀👏👍
I was 17 when this album dropped. Every car stereo was bumpin it. Every house party was blaring it. That was one of the best summers of my life 👌🏻
This was a dope overview. Chronic 2001 was a great project and era, but nothing compared to how the original Chronic seemed to change the world. 😳😎
4 sets of 20 kush ups
My favoritepart about 2001 chronic:
The message skit with Eddie Griffin talking his shit was one of my favorite skits on a hip hop album. My friends mom got me the edited version for my bday and I loved that cd. Xxxplosive is my all time favorite track off the album next to the next episode. I still remember hearing forgot about dre on the radio!
Clout Cancun is my new favorite TH-cam channel - no bs. Good job bro. You're well researched.
2001 came out the same year I was born so as long as I can remember I’ve always heard this album
1. The Next Episode
2. Let's Get High
3. Still DRE
4. Forgot About Dre
5. Xxplosive
Next episode and still are my two favorite 1.3 for me
What’s crazy is Eminem wrote forgot about Dre for snoop and dre originally. I kind of want to hear that version.
Dre's success in the game is incredible when considering he had to start from scratch twice 👐 King of West coat hip hop 😎👌
Dre no king he don't write or produce his own music or smoke weed or gang bang he came what with idea explored his community.
@@terrenceperkins5282 he's still on top and making money to this day all his rivals are broke, dead or in jail 👌 last man standing, king of the hill my G ✌️
@@rhinodonkey7339 it depends on a person what call stop of the hill .
When you by your self at nite & know you don't write or produce any & u used ppl to stay on a so call top .
Your son die of a overdose you beat up women your wife don't want you, your lil bro die cause of you , you wasn't by easy e side when he was dying , your health is not in good health .
Dre Jr was struggling & u live a lie .
@@rhinodonkey7339 if you call being a lie to your self beating up women your wife don't want you 2 son dead the other you don't help ppl saying you gray with all that $ & wife still don't want you & your healt not looking gd . If you say so 🤣
Geez, bro I'm a fan of his music I didn't say he was a nice guy 🙄😂 calm down 👌
Still D.R.E."
"Forgot About Dre"
"The Next Episode"
"The Watcher"
"Xplosive"
I'd have to say this was a great video and well put together, also I'd like to add this album would have to be one of my all time favorite G-funk records as well.
This is album and the chronic are two most influential albums of their times!
GOAT
10:13 Eminem and Knoc-Turnal do the hook on The Watcher, their both credited as background vocals
17:33 LL Cool J said the beat for Xxplosive was originally his and that he did a song with Dr. Dre to it but it wasn't right and didn't quite work so LL Cool J passed on it
Yh it just wouldn't work not hating on my boi cool j but I can't see j on that beat that beat isn't for him that's a westcoast beat 🔥
It's normal for producers to shop Instrumentals to other big artists
Classic album and I’m from Sacramento California great video man
21:36 Dr. Dre said Eminem wrote Forgot About Dre for him & Snoop Dogg originally and Eminem did the reference vocals for Snoop Dogg but Dr. Dre liked the way it sounded with Eminem on it, so they just kept it that way and Dr. Dre did his vocals and that was it. th-cam.com/video/o0hawoYz11o/w-d-xo.html (At 2:54 mark) Also Eminem actually did write the whole song as on the 2001 album back cover, Eminem is credited for writing both of Dr. Dre’s verses and as you already mentioned Dr. Dre even said "Eminem actually wrote that. He came in and was like, ‘I got this song I wrote for you.’
The song is considered a response to the Death Row Records compilation album Suge Knight Represents Chronic 2000 Still Smokin', Death Row Records artists Tha Realest, Swoop G, Twist & Lil C Style responded with a song called F*** Dre where they diss Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A & Nate Dogg on a modified beat of the Forgot About Dre song, the song is on the Death Row Records compilation album Too Gangsta For Radio that came out in September 2000
I was just turned 1 in September when this album dropped the following month but I remember my dad playing it in his car when we was living in LA.
Top 5 of the album for me is the watcher, still Dre, forgot about Dre, let's get high, and the message
I know kids don't buy CD's anymore but this is the ONLY CD I ever bought multiple copies of back in high school. The entire album slaps, even the skits (Ed-Ucation might be the greatest rap skit of all time imo). Also a shame that Hittman didn't do much after this, I loved his bars on this album.
edit: top 5 for me is kind of impossible. I absolutely love every song except for The Message (still a good song, just doesn't really fit imo). Big Egos is probably my favorite at the moment but that changes almost every time I listen to the whole album
This album is a classic, I'm surprised it didn't went diamond. My top 5 from the album is
1.F***k You
2. What's The Difference
3. Forget About Dre
4. The Message
5. B***h N****z
Fr what's the difference goes hard to me 💯
Bro how is Bitch N****z is a top 5 track
@@underkanal3656 this is my list with my opinion
@@SneakyJay630 Fair point
It’s funny how Eminem and Jay both wrote for Snoop on this album and no one ever brings it up or questions Snoop.
Good Job just listening to this podcast every song you mention it took me back to what I was doing and I remember every song vividly as you mentioned it I could just picture something I was doing back then it was crazy took me back down memory lane
i wasn’t born yet when this album dropped, i’m 18.
i do, however, have very fond memories of walking down the street listening to The Next Episode doing my paper route in the 5th grade. i felt like such a lil pimp making my money.
This was fresh bro keep doin the damn thang!
This album came out during my senior year of high school 2001 so I had to buy this CD. Too many songs to name but I like Still Dre, forgot about Dre, the next episode, the watcher, and explosive.
Foo this album came out in 1999. He named it 2001 because Suge dropped the Chronic 2000 which was supposed to be the original name for this album but Suge messed that up. So Dre upped Suge one and dropped 2001.
“2001” was one of albums we listened to while I visited a friends in the US. The other albums in heavy rotation were:
-And then there was X
-Born again
-Da real world
Dre and Ren was on HELLO which had all member except E
This is a great breakdown and thank you for putting me on to the next episode 93 its a banger
Damn the timing of nate dogg, i literally bought the album when it came out, after all these years, i still can not time it, not even by accident, not once
Hittman is the co-host to 2001 and I feel like he should’ve got a fair shot he was raw to me I remember asking about him forever and I remember ppl saying he died which made sense at the time he didn’t come out but to know he’s alive and well but didn’t drop on aftermath still blows my mind
1. The watcher
2. What’s the difference
3. Xxplosive
4. Still Dre
5. The message
How does everyone feel about Snoop Dogg removing the entire death row catalog off of Spotify and other streaming services and only wants to sell them as an NFT in the meta-verse? I get that Artists don’t get paid a lot of money from streaming, but at the same time, not everyone can afford an NFT, they just wanna listen to the album that’s it. If you wanna listen to the OG chronic album, it’s no longer on Spotify neither is doggy style, also, he’s trying to get a hold of 2Pac’s catalog next.
This is a great channel, a lot of history I didn’t know about. I respect it fam keep going 💯😎
I love how you do albums that people have loved and still listen too
Chronic 2001 is sonically better than the first Chronic. The way he used Mel Man, Royce, Knoc-Turnal, Scott Storch was crazy. My top five from this album go:
Housewife
Light Speed
Let's Get High
Ackrite
Next Episode
Not to mention Hittman had some of the best verses on the whole album and then to go on tour in the Summer of 2000 to support the album! Sheesh!
Nah
The first chronic was way better, sorry
Let’s Get High is super underrated
@@itim777Backstrokin by the Fatback Band...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This video is very informative and worth a few more watches! I like both Chronic albums. The first the reason I like it is because the songs got that funky party vibe, added with undeniable bounce. Chronic 2001 for me is more cenematic dark and a little laid back in the production process. Both albums just makes you want to either dance or zone out!
Iovine is straight cappin. According to Eminem (and Dre), Eminem gave a copy of the Slim Shady LP to a woman at the rap olympics, who eventually ended up getting a position at Interscope (by chance). SHE gave the record to Iovine, along with a bunch of other demos. Iovine forwarded the tapes to dre, and eventually Dre listened to it. He claims he never even realized Em was white until he showed up for that first recording session.
That was the Slim Shady EP not the LP, Dre produced Slim Shady LP.
@@Tommycruz90 true it was EP, not LP, but Dre did THREE songs on LP. That album was basically done before he got to Dre.
Brilliant retrospective it was a great album from start to finish as one of dr dres greatest work
I remember having this album when I was a kid. I had the edited version I bought from Walmart. Then I needed up getting the explicit one I was so excited! It had the chronic 🍁 on the cd 💿 I was so stoked! Lol the whole album was great!
love this album Me and my partnars use to cruise in my topless jeep jamming to this on sumernights back back in the day
Always a good evening when there's a new Clout vid
So incredible to see them wearing the Pirates gear while making a classic. Pittsburgh up!
i still listen to this album i grew up too it
Every hip-hop fan had this album
South Side California here.....when this album dropped there was alot of tension on the streets between gangs and fans due to what had transpired in the last decade....the album brought the people in california togerher by rapping the cali culture that everyone in the world loved....what was that????? LOWRIDERS... CHRONIC... CALIFORNIA... FINE ASS FEMALES... BBQS AT PARKS LA CULTURE....This is why i would have to say my best track is LOLO (Intro) when the album played for the first time it was like a movie co starring Xzibit and everybody was excited that we had Xzibit on the team....that intro its self made it known that this album is gonna be fucking hard....everybody was happy....ill never forget....people where happy that Dre went back to what we and the world loved and thats CALIFORNIA CULTURE.........AND THAT LOLO INTRO WAS THE MONIKER THE BATMAN SYMBOL THAT CALIFORNIA IS BACK WITH GOOD MUSIC FOR THE WORLD ........I NEVER PLAY THIS ALBUM WITHOUT PLAYING THE INTRO FIRST .....
Despite being born in 2001 I bumped this shit religiously. 18 years later I got the weed emblem and 2001 tatted on my rib cage
Became a fairly new subscriber, and I like what you're doing. Keep up the Great work King 💪🏽🙏🏽🔥🖤
Showing LOVE from LA
I was 10 when it dropped but i did not know it dropped. 1st time i heard the Still instrumental was in 2004
This video deserves an hour but I'm not mad at it 🔥
Watch you every night b4 bed bro. You part my routine bless yo
It came out as I was a freshman in college! Such an awesome time, and it was our soundtrack, so to speak. Side note, the MM LP had already came out that spring, and I’m embarrassed to admit this now, but since Em was a white rapper, I kind of dismissed him, and didn’t really listen to it or give him a chance. But then, when I heard Forgot about Dre, Em’s parts blew my socks off!! I was like, this is literally the best rapper I’ve ever heard! Been an Em fan ever since!
I definitely have to listen to the 93 next episode. Great video and commentary 👍👍
The unreleased 2001 tracks sound crazy too
Huh ?
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I was 11 when I snuck thos album home. Idk wtf they were talking about, but I was in love with the beats. It was nothing I've ever heard before. I literally thought at that age that the word chronic was the title they give rappers for having good music. I had no idea till someone explained it to me.
I lived in Pittsburgh for years and was in tune with the music scene. A lot of that album as done by east coast artists like Sam Sneed, Mel Man, Jay Z, Joe Beast both production and writing credits. You could dive wayyyy deeper but could insight.
Yes made it different sound than the frist one
it’s a lot of videos on the chronic og but not an actual video with sufficient information , it still deserve an actual full length video.
Classic for 1999, I remember getting this album. This was my first Dre album that I was old enough to get when it came out. My favorite song gotta be bitch niggaz but front to back it’s a classic.
Dope video!!🍻 Bro I still listen to 2001 today. Ive always wondered about the Housewife track. It was originally recorded for Kurupts album as Hos a housewife. If you listen to both versions it sounds like they re-recorded the song for Dre album. Speaking as a fan they both sound similiar but to keep it real everybody verse sound better on Kurupts album.
The production is so much more polished on 2001 tho… I love both versions tho and that kurupt album goes hard
I'm a bit surprised that you didn't bring up the fact that the beat for The Message was originally made by Lord Finesse.
Really? I heard Royce the 5,9 wrote it
@@gerrygizzygarcia2572 Royce did. The original beat was from a Lord Finesse record tho.
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@@kevs8225 oh ok I see
And Lord Finesse is credited in the album
An unsorted batch of some info not mentioned in the video.
There's a bunch of tracks that surfaced from his 1996 "Papa got a brand new bag" sessions including that smoking weed and OG Dre solo "California Love". Probably the album was supposed to have more Dre solo joints as "Been there, done that" and "Keep the heads ringing on" were also solo joints, which normally is very rare for Dre.
OG "the next episode" was indeed a leftover from Snoop's "Doggystyle" album. It was most likely cut at the very end of the album's development as it's still printed on the tracklist on the album's first pressing with "G's up, H's down". Because of the nature and quality of the sound the OG version sound very haunting and i absolutely love it.
I always thought "The Watcher", which is my favourite track off the album, was written by Nas. It's because i never really found Em to be "street" introspective (diff to general introspectiveness), which is something that Nas excels at.
I believe the album took a hard turn around mid 1998 when Em, X & Storch were added to the team. Before that apparently the theme for the album was sort of a continuation of the creepy futuristic style Dre had under Sam Sneed in the mid 90's. Around 2 years ago a tape surfaced with a batch of demo joints including possibly the earliest track for the album called "Airwave Terrorists" and possibly the very first variant of the "What's the difference". It was back, when Melman, Hittman & Diezel were the main guys behind the album. All of "What's the difference" versions have a different Dre verse. Technically if you combined all of them you would achieve a Dre solo joint.
There's an unrecognizeable amount of unreleased and never seen stuff off this album. Possibly the most known is "Malibu Dre", which was supposed to be the first single before "Still Dre" was finished. There's also a theory that some joints from Snoop's "No Limit Top Dogg" album were early leftovers from 2001 album. Snoop's album was released in mid 99, so a couple of months before 2001.
Last time i listened to "The Watcher" was quite some time ago and i wrote that part from memory. I decided to relisten to it and i admit i can hear Eminem all over the place. I always liked the tight yet bumpy stuff more so things like the aforementioned watcher, "Murda Ink" etc are more in my lane than Xplosive etc.
I gotta say bro I appreciate the work you put into these videos. I can tell you do a lot of research cause I know most of this stuff but it took me years of watching and reading shit, plus you got unheard demos I've never come across and whatnot, I definitely appreciate your hard work. also you delivery when you talk has improved and I can just tell you're a big fan so thats wussup, glad we got you on youtube so its not just all the weird white kids who dont know what they're talking about lol.
2001 is probably thr best collection of instrumentals ever heard on one cd
👏👏👏 well done my boyyy 1 of my favorite albums of all time!! Dre's Sound quality is unmatched 👌😄😄🔥🔥🔥🔥
My top five album of all times, a classic. Thx bro
This album stayed in my 💿 CD player in the the 1st chamber and I played it EVERY SINGLE MORNING and would open all of my windows in the warmer months blasting it on 10 waking up my neighbors ha ha ha 😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉❤❤❤.
Quality man nice one mate ✌️💚💯 Edinburgh Scotland in the UK booom 💥
I was just young&free back then. X-plosive, The Watcher, what's the difference, Still D.R.E, forgot about Dre top 5 tracks. every morning back then to start my day💯👑
Subscribed!!! Nice work 💯👊🏾
The first rap album I ever listened to "In Full" and on repeat Was Chronic 2001, This album was the start of me being a hiphop head
2nd was😮 Hot boys Guerilla Warfare, 🔥
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If you haven’t already please do the chronic 1992
I'm from the west of Ireland where are fighting with the Southside at the moment "Westside Till I Die" The Chronic is one of why top 5 albums respect from🇮🇪👍🏿
I had to go back and listen to the original version it was a beast it's like it warms you up for the keep your head ringing if it was going to be on that album both of those songs are party starters 😎
This is the first album I ever owned. I was recording the radio on cassette before that. 12-13 yo. Definitely in my personal top 10 maybe even 5
This album still sounds fresh in 2024
I'm from Jamaica and I love all of the song the 2001 album for real
This album I don't skip, I was disappointed Hittman didn't make it after contributing to this project.
I was 12 in sum kids home early smoking days n this was the soundtrack after nwa Dre returning with snoop and the whole death row movement was a big moment even here in London
Hitting you up from Compton
I was about to say "how could you have missed that 'The Next Episode' was a reference to 'Nuthin' But A G Thang'?" but then I remembered that I just realized the other day that the name of the band Raydio is a play on leader Ray Parker Jr.'s name haha!
Nice work homie 👌🏾
Im glad u made this video!🔥🔥 as my propic says this my fav hiphop album of all time! All tracks are great but if I had to share my top 5 it'd be 1. Still D.R.E.
2. Fuck You
3. Xxplosive
4. What's The Difference
5. Forgot About Dre
peace!🔥🔥🔥
This Album Was Released On November 16 1999 By Aftermath Entertainment And Interscope Records It Peaked At Number One On The Billboard Hot 100 Charts The Album Was A Huge Commercial Success Selling 785,000 Copies In Its First Week. Then It Sold Over Seven Million Copies And Was Certified 7x Platinum And Certified Seventuple Platinum On February 12 2000. It Won A Grammy For Best Album At The 2000 Grammy Awards. It Was Featured On Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Hip Hop Albums Of All Time List Being Ranked Number 36 In 2024. And On There 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time List Being Ranked Number 69 In 2023. It Got 4.5/5 Mics From The Source Magazine And On There Top Greatest Rap Albums Of The 90s List. And It Was Featured On NME’S Top Essential Recordings Of The 90s List Being Ranked Number 30 In 2015.
Sony Disc man era, I was 16
Australia 🇦🇺
Let’s go another banger
I have been looking for that beat about 7 mins in, only heard it once live as they performed g thang in 1995 . The best with Dogg gone at the beginning preceded by a scoody do sample … where can I find it ?
Good work💯
I think Nas wrote it.. Nas is also known to rhyme bars inside of bars Ny state of mind is a perfect example and on top of that Jay Z literally said get wrapped up in plastic when it happens that’s it ..in the takeover .. which was a Nas dis🤷🏿♂️
Dope 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The album is legendary fo sho 💫
I didn't realize all the verses that were written for Dre, but that's some dope collaborative collective type shii.
The song Forgot about Dre is what changed my life and got me on that Eminem tip
#ThankYouDre #whoopwhoop 🤙🔥
I was 10 and playing that album and MMLP back to back. I like 2001 as much as the chronic if not more.
I've been arguing with older heads about 2001 vs Doggystyle. I am definitely a 2001 fan and I don't think Doggystyle is on the same level as either chronic. I would really like to hear which ome you guys think is better.: Doggystyle or Chronic 2001?
Sonically Doggystyle is on the same level but you can’t deny the lushness that you hear on 2001. it’s like hearing the Magnum opus of that sound
The Chronic 2001 and The Chronic is like night and day. As a guy who isn’t a fan of east coast rappers, I was like, how did Dre fall off? His last album was The Chronic.
Dope overview 😎
That album was ok but after coming up on that first chronic it just wasn't the same. I think it was because it was my first time hearing Nate/daz/kurupt/rbx etc. That chronic 1 was sick , still in my top 5
One of my favorite albums of all times