
On April 23, 1991, Eazy-E went up to the studios at Solar Records where he was greeted by Suge and a small entourage of men with pipes and Louisville sluggers. All that was standing in his and Suge’s way was Eazy. album, 1991’s Niggaz4Life, and he wanted out so he could finish work on his solo material. Dre was already done mastering the final N.W.A.

With an eye on becoming a music mogul, Suge saw Dre as his meal ticket. He’d been hanging around Ruthless as the D.O.C.’s bodyguard and had grown close to Dre during his conflict with the label. Users who reposted The Chronic - Dr.Pro football prospect turned hulking enforcer, Marion Knight, Jr., nicknamed Suge for the sweet sugar bear he was as a child, had a reputation for intimidation that was the stuff of industry myth: punching a guy through a closed door and dangling Vanilla Ice off a balcony.Published on Baronessmusicjunkie's New Stuff - Dr.Dre - Deeez Nuuuts (made with Spreaker) Published on the day the niggaz took over Genre Hip Hop e Rap Contains tracks 02 Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin') (feat Snoop Dogg & Colin Wolfe) Although a solo album, it features many appearances by American rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, who used the album as a launch pad for his own solo career. On The Chronic, he included both subtle and direct insults at Ruthless and its owner, former N.W.A member Eazy-E. Dre's first solo album after he had departed from hip hop group N.W.A and its label Ruthless Records over a financial dispute. The album is named after a slang term for high-grade cannabis, and its cover is a homage to Zig-Zag rolling papers.

Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1992 at Death Row Studios in Los Angeles and at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.

It was released on December 15, 1992, by his own record label Death Row Records and distributed by Interscope Records and Priority Records. The Chronic is the debut studio album by American hip hop recording artist Dr.
