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...reason is that Snoop's innovative ex-producer, Dr. Dre, has moved beyond Snoop, beyond gangsta rap (a genre he helped found) and beyond Death Row Records for a new venture: Aftermath Entertainment, a label that will explore genres like soul and pop. Dre's new CD, Dr. Dre Presents...The Aftermath (out Nov. 26), features performers from his label, from soul singers Kim Summerson and RC to rappers Nowl and Sharief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE DR. IS OUT | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...Dre, who produced the CD, gives all the music gangsta grit--minus much of the usual gangsta venom. Dre contributes one solo performance on the record, the brooding Been There Done That, which takes a swipe at the gangsta genre. "I try out some different things on this album," Dre says. "Yeah. It will surprise some people." --C.J.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE DR. IS OUT | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...than Fox. As part of a complex $1 million package deal last fall that included a viewer contest, Fox had a character on its Party of Five ask, "Got milk?"--the tag line for the multimillion-dollar America's Dairy Farmers' ad campaign. In a similar marketing scheme, Dr. Dre spouted AT&T's "Know the code" on New York Undercover. The upcoming Mother's Day episode of Living Single will top that for MCI when a character calls mom by dialing 1-800-COLLECT. "Whatever we do, we try to look for a natural integration with a show," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: YOUR SHOW OF SHILLS | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come and twist us." Since his last album, Shakur has switched from Interscope to Death Row Records, home to controversy-courting rappers Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre, and in the song 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted Shakur engages in a boastful duet with Snoop that revels shamelessly but tellingly in their shared notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: OUT OF JAIL--AND IDEAS | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...gold records for years with her lite-FM pop. But younger Christian performers are now borrowing from a wider, more modern array of musical styles--such as alternative rock and gangsta rap--in an effort to create music that can appeal to a generation raised on Nirvana and Dr. Dre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CHRISTIAN POP: REBORN TO BE WILD | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

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