Dr. Dre: 2001 Vinyl 2LP
$34.95
<p><i>UNCENSORED VERSION, finally.</i> This high-tech as fuck-sounding album floored me when I first heard it almost 20 years ago, and the production values exhibited here are peerless, even now. The rap world couldn’t wait to hear what <strong><a title="Dr. Dre Music on Vinyl LP" href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?&q=dr.%20dre&filter=Brand/Manufacturer/Artist_fq:%22Dr.%20Dre%22%20OR%20Brand/Manufacturer/Artist_fq:%22Dr.%20Dre%20%2F%20Snoop%20Doggy%20Dogg%22" target="_blank">Dre</a></strong> cooked up after<em> </em>this. The mythologized <em>Detox</em> album never materialized, and the lukewarm <em>Compton</em> LP came too little too late. I’ll never forgive Dre for ditching music to cash in on overpriced branded headphones (“things just ain’t the same for gangstas”), but luckily the two <meta charset="utf-8"><a data-mce-fragment="1" href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?&q=Chronic&filter=Brand/Manufacturer/Artist_fq:%22Dr.%20Dre%22%20OR%20Brand/Manufacturer/Artist_fq:%22Dr.%20Dre%20%2F%20Snoop%20Doggy%20Dogg%22" target="_blank"><em data-mce-fragment="1">Chronic</em></a> albums have infinite replay value - due in part to Dre & his collaborators’ avoidance of fleeting references to modern technology in their verses - something I always noticed and appreciated in contrast to their contemporaries’ constant calling out of cars and pager models that seem dated as hell now. Album highlights: none; pour up a Chronic Iced Tea© and bang this from start to finish. Recommended.</p> <ul> <li>black double vinyl pressing</li> <li>explicit / uncensored version</li> <li>music label: Aftermath 2019</li> </ul> <h6>reviewed by Jheri Saltz 10/2017</h6>