This led to the album eventually being released simply as 2001. Priority Records at this point decided not to honor the original agreement and threated to sue if the Chronic trademark were to be used in any capacity by Dr. Dre’s lawyer: “Both sides agreed that we’d allow the other to use the title, and then let the public decide which one they preferred.”Īfter the Release of Death Row’s Chronic 2000, they were notified that Dr. When Aftermath found out that Priority and Death Row planned to use the same name for the album, according to Dr. Dre’s album since notification of the trademark use was required by Aftermath Records. Suge was tipped off about the name of Dr. Dre changed the name of this album to Chronic 2001 and a big budget promotional campaign began. Shortly after Death Row’s Chronic 2000 release, Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001\10 - Forgot About Dre.wav' WAVE. Dre - Chronic 2001\09 - Light Speed.wav' WAVE TRACK 09 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE 'Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001\08 - Bar One.wav' WAVE TRACK 08 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE 'Dr. Deathrow owned the trademark for The Chronic, as did Interscope Records, who previously distributed Death Row Records. Dre - Chronic 2001\07 - Whats the Difference.wav' WAVE TRACK 07 AUDIO INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE 'Dr. So my friend asks him Did you get any songs from Dre from his Hawaii beat making. This album was going to be called Chronic 2000 until Priority Records (who had become Death Row’s new distributor) decided in cohesiveness with Suge to call their Deathrow Compilation album Chronic 2000. So he plays a few songs from some other producers and everything sounds great. The following songs from 2001 were released as singles: “ Still D.R.E.,” “ Forgot About Dre,” “ The Next Episode” and “ The Watcher.”
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You’ve even got a ‘Pause for Porno.’ It’s got everything that a movie needs. So you’ve got buildups, touching moments, aggressive moments. It’s a movie, with different varieties of situations. Dre told The New York Times:Įverything you hear is planned. Dre 2001” as other names that were considered. The same article mentions “Chronic 2001,” “Dr. The album was originally supposed to be called ‘Chronic 2000,’ but Dre switched the title because his former label, Death Row Records, released a compilation album by the same name earlier this year.
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Media Condition: Media: Very Good Plus (VG+) Will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it. Its title caused confusion, as it was released in 1999 and went through several working titles. Dre - The Chronic (2xLP, Album, RE, RM) Label: Death Row Records (2) Cat: DRR 63000-1. It produced 3 singles that attained chart success and has been certified 6× Platinum by the RIAA as of August 2015 the album has sold 7,800,000 copies in the United States.įuck You (feat. Billboard 200 chart, selling 550,000 copies in its first week. The album debuted at number 2 on the U.S. 2001 exhibits an expansion on Dre’s debut G-funk sound and contains gangsta rap themes such as violence, promiscuity, drug use, street gangs, sex and crime. Dre returned with 2001, the follow-up to his debut album, The Chronic. Dre and Mel-Man, as well as Lord Finesse, and features several guest contributions from fellow rappers such as The D.O.C., Hittman, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Xzibit, Eminem, and Nate Dogg. It was released on November 16, 1999, by Interscope Records as the follow-up to his 1992 debut album The Chronic.