Why The Chronic Is The Greatest Album In Rap History

[shopthatwrecks]

Interesting rebuttal! and I like it…but I will say that the Chronic did bring the full force wave of the G-Funk Era into HipHop! It wasn’t the first to introduce it but after the Chronic dropped with the G Funk,everybody and they momma started adding that shyt into the production of they’re albums including the East and GulfCoast!

it was wayyyy more g-funk in 90-91 than it was in 92..

shock g - sex packets..

spice 1 had the bay version

quik jus transferred the red tape over n cleaned up the gang shyt n police name dropping he did on the red tape...to quik is the name

then nwa dropped the last album....which was damn near perfection

 

[Juggalo Fred]

What is then?

The Great Milenko

 

[Sukairain]

I certainly think it is right up there. My favourite album is DJ Quik's Safe + Sound, but I recognise that The Chronic is a superior album even if it isn't my absolute favourite. Through no fault of DJ Quik's, he didn't have writers to work with of the talent of Snoop, RBX, Kurupt, Rage, The D.O.C. etc., unlike Dr. Dre.

 

[Edub]

WHY THE CHRONIC IS THE GREATEST ALBUM IN RAP HISTORY
JEFF WEISSNOVEMBER 19, 2012
If you try to remember the late fall of 1992, all you see is smoke. Smoke smoldering from the rubble of post-riot L.A. Smoke sepulchral from the barrels of freshly fired AKs. Smoke swirling from the zigzags of anyone able to purchase the bomb, the real sticky-icky, the chronic.



See also: The Making of The Chronic
https://www.laweekly.com/why-the-chronic-is-the-greatest-album-in-rap-history/
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums



All you hear is The Chronic — Dr. Dre's perfectly rolled joint, which soon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Dec. 15, 1992, release.

You might not agree that it is the greatest rap album of all time, but it's difficult to argue against its selection. Biggie or Nas' debuts may be more lyrical. A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory is looser. Wu-Tang and Outkast were more otherworldly and Public Enemy more incisively political. But no album before or since has blended those qualities like the rat-tat-tat murderer's row of Dre, Snoop Dogg, Daz, Jewell, Kurupt, D.O.C., RBX, Nate Dogg and the Lady of Rage. (For more see our feature story on the making of The Chronic.)

Hip-hop is omnivorous by design. It recycles old sounds and ideas and spits them back at semiautomatic speed. The Chronic was the culmination. It synthesized the previous quarter-century of soul music and expanded upon its possibilities.

No rap album had ever been that musical. Dre fused live instrumentation with a mosaic of Parliament, Donny Hathaway, James Brown and other impeccably selected soul and funk samples. This was G-Funk. Then he laid down some of the hardest and most hilarious raps and skits captured on tape.

“The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious.”

Kanye West wrote that in Rolling Stone, and no knows more about delivering on insane ambition than he. But The Chronic did more than extend rap's parameters — it simultaneously revealed its roots. Things went deeper than just sampling a song like Hathaway's “Little Ghetto Boy.” Dre, Snoop and the D.O.C. were connecting the blood red and marine blue gang warfare of South Central with the turbulence of the civil rights era. Things done changed. We were in the Boyz n the Hood era, and The Chronic twisted audio clips from the riots documentary Birth of a Nation 4x29x92 with the white-chalk narratives of 18-year-olds with itchy trigger fingers and homies named Lil Half Dead.

See also: Snoop and Bishop Don “Magic” Juan on the History of Pimp Cups

“The Chronic captured the reality that was with us — the black cloud over L.A. that existed after the riots. Robberies were at an all-time high. The National Guard was still in Compton. People were either very timid or very violent,” says Compton-bred Game, who was Dre's choice to steward the West Coast, gangsta-rap tradition to the next generation. “Even if you were from Nebraska, all you had to do was listen to The Chronic and you could feel like a gangsta.”

See also: Compton Rapper Game Returns to an Industry That's Gone Soft

Gangsta rap existed before The Chronic. By 1987, Schoolly D and Ice-T were banging on both coasts. The arrival of N.W.A proved that gangsta rap could even be considered a public enemy by the FBI. But The Chronic was the first to make it fun.

Lead single “Nuthin' But a G Thing” never left MTV rotation and became the nation's go-to party soundtrack. It went mainstream without losing its subversive edge.

Snoop and Dre may have terrified parents and even many of their fans, but they were embraced because they were funky and larger than life. They did for gangsta rap what Michael Jackson's Thriller did for black pop — shatter glass ceilings and rewire the national zeitgeist.

No great rap album has ever been so influential. It electrified Death Row's reign and introduced the world to the hydroponic slang of South Central. Suburban adolescents suddenly dreamed of being G's in baggy jeans and Raiders caps, flipping switches in a 6-4 Chevy — red to be exact.

From San Diego to the Bay, G-Funk became the de facto sound of most commercial West Coast street rap until the middle years of the next decade. Its influence spread to the sound of the South and Midwest, too — listen to the serpentine synth whines on Master P's “Bout It Bout It” and you can hear Dr. Dre's inspiration.

“The Chronic set the bar. If you wasn't bumping it, you wasn't bumping shyt. Even New Yorkers knew that,” says Freddie Gibbs, the current best gangsta rapper, who felt the record's effect on his native Gary, Ind. “A lot of rappers today brag that they're going to make their Chronic. But they won't. That was a one-time thing.”



See also: The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs



Even if you weren't down from day one, listening to The Chronic can still transport you into a foreign but familiar world. The street signs and stresses might look the same, but it is a land where the smoke never stops and the Slauson Indoor Swap Meet is always open. Maybe Snoop said it best: Perfection was perfected.

Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic.



See also: The Making of The Chronic
https://www.laweekly.com/why-the-chronic-is-the-greatest-album-in-rap-history/
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums



Why The Chronic Is the Greatest Album in Rap History - LA Weekly

It’s classic but…..No it is not….and the bolded is ridiculous and severely tarnishes the authors credibility AND the op’s….both yall some cacs wit wack ass hip hop takes

 

[Xtraz2]

Put the 40s and sherm stick down clown

 

[Rekkapryde]

WHY THE CHRONIC IS THE GREATEST ALBUM IN RAP HISTORY
JEFF WEISSNOVEMBER 19, 2012
If you try to remember the late fall of 1992, all you see is smoke. Smoke smoldering from the rubble of post-riot L.A. Smoke sepulchral from the barrels of freshly fired AKs. Smoke swirling from the zigzags of anyone able to purchase the bomb, the real sticky-icky, the chronic.



See also: The Making of The Chronic
https://www.laweekly.com/why-the-chronic-is-the-greatest-album-in-rap-history/
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums



All you hear is The Chronic — Dr. Dre's perfectly rolled joint, which soon celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Dec. 15, 1992, release.

You might not agree that it is the greatest rap album of all time, but it's difficult to argue against its selection. Biggie or Nas' debuts may be more lyrical. A Tribe Called Quest's Low End Theory is looser. Wu-Tang and Outkast were more otherworldly and Public Enemy more incisively political. But no album before or since has blended those qualities like the rat-tat-tat murderer's row of Dre, Snoop Dogg, Daz, Jewell, Kurupt, D.O.C., RBX, Nate Dogg and the Lady of Rage. (For more see our feature story on the making of The Chronic.)

Hip-hop is omnivorous by design. It recycles old sounds and ideas and spits them back at semiautomatic speed. The Chronic was the culmination. It synthesized the previous quarter-century of soul music and expanded upon its possibilities.

No rap album had ever been that musical. Dre fused live instrumentation with a mosaic of Parliament, Donny Hathaway, James Brown and other impeccably selected soul and funk samples. This was G-Funk. Then he laid down some of the hardest and most hilarious raps and skits captured on tape.

“The Chronic is still the hip-hop equivalent to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. It's the benchmark you measure your album against if you're serious.”

Kanye West wrote that in Rolling Stone, and no knows more about delivering on insane ambition than he. But The Chronic did more than extend rap's parameters — it simultaneously revealed its roots. Things went deeper than just sampling a song like Hathaway's “Little Ghetto Boy.” Dre, Snoop and the D.O.C. were connecting the blood red and marine blue gang warfare of South Central with the turbulence of the civil rights era. Things done changed. We were in the Boyz n the Hood era, and The Chronic twisted audio clips from the riots documentary Birth of a Nation 4x29x92 with the white-chalk narratives of 18-year-olds with itchy trigger fingers and homies named Lil Half Dead.

See also: Snoop and Bishop Don “Magic” Juan on the History of Pimp Cups

“The Chronic captured the reality that was with us — the black cloud over L.A. that existed after the riots. Robberies were at an all-time high. The National Guard was still in Compton. People were either very timid or very violent,” says Compton-bred Game, who was Dre's choice to steward the West Coast, gangsta-rap tradition to the next generation. “Even if you were from Nebraska, all you had to do was listen to The Chronic and you could feel like a gangsta.”

See also: Compton Rapper Game Returns to an Industry That's Gone Soft

Gangsta rap existed before The Chronic. By 1987, Schoolly D and Ice-T were banging on both coasts. The arrival of N.W.A proved that gangsta rap could even be considered a public enemy by the FBI. But The Chronic was the first to make it fun.

Lead single “Nuthin' But a G Thing” never left MTV rotation and became the nation's go-to party soundtrack. It went mainstream without losing its subversive edge.

Snoop and Dre may have terrified parents and even many of their fans, but they were embraced because they were funky and larger than life. They did for gangsta rap what Michael Jackson's Thriller did for black pop — shatter glass ceilings and rewire the national zeitgeist.

No great rap album has ever been so influential. It electrified Death Row's reign and introduced the world to the hydroponic slang of South Central. Suburban adolescents suddenly dreamed of being G's in baggy jeans and Raiders caps, flipping switches in a 6-4 Chevy — red to be exact.

From San Diego to the Bay, G-Funk became the de facto sound of most commercial West Coast street rap until the middle years of the next decade. Its influence spread to the sound of the South and Midwest, too — listen to the serpentine synth whines on Master P's “Bout It Bout It” and you can hear Dr. Dre's inspiration.

“The Chronic set the bar. If you wasn't bumping it, you wasn't bumping shyt. Even New Yorkers knew that,” says Freddie Gibbs, the current best gangsta rapper, who felt the record's effect on his native Gary, Ind. “A lot of rappers today brag that they're going to make their Chronic. But they won't. That was a one-time thing.”



See also: The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs



Even if you weren't down from day one, listening to The Chronic can still transport you into a foreign but familiar world. The street signs and stresses might look the same, but it is a land where the smoke never stops and the Slauson Indoor Swap Meet is always open. Maybe Snoop said it best: Perfection was perfected.

Follow us on Twitter @LAWeeklyMusic, and like us at LAWeeklyMusic.



See also: The Making of The Chronic
https://www.laweekly.com/why-the-chronic-is-the-greatest-album-in-rap-history/
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums



Why The Chronic Is the Greatest Album in Rap History - LA Weekly

while I don't necessarily disagree, this article was written by a cac.

 

[Waterproof]

This a toy post.
You fake watched too much mtv.
This thread is made by a prison industrial economy affected culture thief and toy too.

After two to tha head on live and let die.
Your fascination in real time.
should have been squelched.
As far as prison industrial economy gateway rap.

This shyt is the problem.

Don't give me that environment shyt either.
nikkaz saw shyt on tv and wanted to live viacom.

Now what'chu write.

Now watch chu deflect instead of answering the question.

Art Barr

Get the fucc outta here with that shyt, You ain't from the West Coast Homeboy, you don't know our culture or music. West Coast Gangsta Rap was always about social injustice we faced out here. You Cracca gibberish speaking muthfukka. I already busted your ass once before don't let me tap that ass again.

 

[Art Barr]

Get the fucc outta here with that shyt, You ain't from the West Coast Homeboy, you don't know our culture or music. West Coast Gangsta Rap was always about social injustice we faced out here. You Cracca gibberish speaking muthfukka. I already busted your ass once before don't let me tap that ass again.

What'chu write?
@Waterproof

Imma wait for you to not answer and run away.
You fake imaginary false narrative post toy ass goofie.

You as fake as ras kass.
Letting a ghost written toy.
bust him over tha head with a bottle.

Take yo lame goof ass tha fukk on.

You ain't apart of hiphop culture at all.
Stop with the deflection on gang culture.
When hiphop at its base new school way of thoufht core is:

Anti-gang
Anti-gay
Non violent

Yousa fukk'N false narrative spewing prison industrial economy affected lame and a sent off goofie.
Spewing shyt from mtv and viacom.
you bufford maug ass stud.
nikka a pawn from the government who got sent all the way the fukk off.

Now again what'chu write.

I bet you run away and never have an answer cause you not apart of hiphop.











Art Barr

 

[Waterproof]

What'chu write?
@Waterproof

Imma wait for you to not answer and run away.
You fake imaginary false narrative post toy ass goofie.

You as fake as ras kass.
Letting a ghost written toy.
bust him over tha head with a bottle.

Take yo lame goof ass tha fukk on.

You ain't apart of hiphop culture at all.
Stop with the deflection on gang culture.
When hiphop at its base new school way of thoufht core is:

Anti-gang
Anti-gay
Non violent

Yousa fukk'N false narrative spewing prison industrial economy affected lame and a sent off goofie.
Spewing shyt from mtv and viacom.
you bufford maug ass stud.
nikka a pawn from the government who got sent all the way the fukk off.

Now again what'chu write.

I bet you run away and never have an answer cause you not apart of hiphop.











Art Barr

In the words of Eazy E "bytch Shut The fukk Up"

You speaking gibberish, no one gives a fukk about your backwards jive talking Chicken shyt that you writing

Where I'm from it ain't what you write it's where your heart at you faggit.

Oh I get it you a sodmite, it's Anti Gay that's your beef with West Coast Gangsta Rap, trying to earn daps, yeah you feminine as hell

 

[I love Latina women]

In 2008, when Dr. Dre was interviewed and asked by Vibe Magazine if he saw The Chronic as "his defining effort", he said:

"I don’t feel like I’ve made my best record yet. The Marshall Mathers LP got the closest, but I don’t feel like I’ve hit that thing just 100 percent perfect, from the first note to the last note. I always use Quincy Jones as an example– he didn’t make his biggest record until he was 50 and he started when he was 14. So I feel like I have a lot of room to get that thing done." - Dr. Dre

Link to the interview

Dr. Dre's Interview From Vibe Magazine's 15th Anniversary Issue - XXL

 

[Xtraz2]

the chronic is a dope album one of the West Coast Classics seriously it's in the top two I don't think people could argue it's so popular but let's take a look at some of the records on it all honesty A record like bytches ain't shyt when I look back on it shyt was corny and tatseless the beat was fire but the hook was wild disrespectful I think the production. Held it together and I also think there was a interest from the general public to music non east coast as well at the moment

bytches ain’t shyt defined an era and was the root of now popular “non simp” culture

 

[boogers]

and nikkas 4 life is dre's best work

I prefer The Chronic... but I feel ya

Dre never got "out there" like this again. Tracks 2, 3, 11, and 16 are on some crazy Herbie Hancock/psychedelic/dissociated/hellride ish. ESPECIALLY tracks 3 and 16.

Track 16

Track 3 - This beat is wild. WTF is going on with those "HIIIIIIIIIIIII-YA!" karate chop sounds in the background? That weird fukkin harpsichord run towards the end of the loop? Beating RZA to the iconic Liquid Swords sample 4 years early?


I love the beats on this album. You can tell this is the time period where Dre started getting high. Straight Outta Compton might be more iconic, but this and The Chronic are what I'll be bumpin in the nursing home.

 

[Art Barr]

In the words of Eazy E "bytch Shut The fukk Up"

You speaking gibberish, no one gives a fukk about your backwards jive talking Chicken shyt that you writing

Where I'm from it ain't what you write it's where your heart at you faggit.

Oh I get it you a sodmite, it's Anti Gay that's your beef with West Coast Gangsta Rap, trying to earn daps, yeah you feminine as hell

Shut cho goof ass up.

You do not know whut tha fukk you talembout.
Chu a offbrand goofie.
That is why you still have not answered and deflecting.

Again goofie.
What chu write?

We waiting on yo toy ass to answer.

The longer you take.
The longer you easily recognizeable as a toy.

@Waterproof



Art Barr

 

[Why-Fi]

its a small tapestry of it's time, like a basquiat painting. a great work in that way, but not the best in history. and definitely not "songs in the key of life" status

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

its a small tapestry of it's time, like a basquiat painting. a great work in that way, but not the best in history. and definitely not "songs in the key of life" status

very well said!