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Andre Romelle Young, better known as Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, owner of Aftermath Entertainment and ex-owner of Death Row Records.

He first came to prominence in 1984 as a member of the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, an electro hop group who were very successful in the underground California hip hop scene. He then found wider fame in the late 1980s as a member of the influential gangsta rap group NWA (Niggaz Wit Attitudes). The group, consisting of Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella and Arabian Prince, sold over nine million records in the late 1980s and produced smash hits like Fuck tha Police, Gangsta Gangsta, Straight Outta Compton, Appetite for Destruction and Alwayz into Somethin’.

Dr. Dre left the group in 1991 and, the following year, released his debut solo album The Chronic. It reached number three on the Billboard 200 and sold over three million copies, and is now widely considered to be one of the most important and influential albums on the 1990s. It also produced the Top 10 songs Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang and Fuck wit Dre Day, as well as the hit single Let Me Ride.

After appearing on a number of other hip hop artists’ records, including the 1996 number one singles California Love by 2Pac and No Diggity by Blackstreet, Dre released his next solo album in 1999, entitled 2001. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and sold over 500,000 copies in its first week – eventually shipping over six million copies worldwide. It also produced three hit singles: Still D.R.E, The Next Episode and the Grammy Award-winning Forgot About Dre (ft. Eminem).

In recent years, Dre has been credited with discovering hip hop megastars like Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent, as well as producing their Grammy Award-winning albums. However, he has still been recording his own material and, in 2010, will release his final studio album Detox.