Dr. Dre was the man the sound of West Coast hip hop defined. As a DJ and producer for N.W.A. he ushered in a new period in the rap in the raw sound of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions to apply to the world of young gangsters in Los Angeles. After that group disintegrated, he added eerie p-funk synthesizers to its sound, which is now mainly of raps was provided by its protégé Snoop Dogg.
This "G-funk sound" influenced many other hip-hop artists on the West Coast. In the late nineties Dre took a young songwriter from Detroit, one Eminem to his Aftermath label Productions. Eminem's debut would go over the counter five million times. The successor to The Marshall Mathers LP Dre Grammy yield for best producer.more
