Andre Romelle Young was born February 18, 1965. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to those record labels such as Snoop Dogg and Eminem. As a producer he is credited as a key figure in the popularization of West Coast G-funk, a style of rap music characterized as synthesizer-based with slow, heavy beats.

He is also credited with being one of the pioneers for Gangster rap Dr. Dre began his career in music as a member of the World Class Wreckin’ Cru and he later found fame with the influential gangsta rap group N.W.A with Eazy-E, which popularized the use of explicit lyrics in rap to detail the violence of street life. His 1992 solo debut The Chronic, released under Death Row Records, led him to become one of the best-selling American performing artists of 1993 and to win a Grammy Award for the single “Let Me Ride.” In 1996, he left Death Row to found his own label Aftermath Entertainment, producing a compilation album, Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath, in 1996, and releasing a solo album titled 2001, in 1999, for which he won the Grammy producer’s award the next year.

During the 2000s, he focused his career on production for other artists, while occasionally contributing vocals in other artists’ songs. Rolling Stone named him among the highest-paid performers of 2001 and 2004. Dr. Dre also had acting roles in movies such as 'Set It Off,' and the 2001 films 'The Wash' and 'Training Day'. Detox is to be Dr. Dre’s final album. He intended Detox to be a concept album. After several delays, the album was originally scheduled to be released sometime in 2009 by Interscope Records. Producers confirmed to work on the album include Focus…, Dawaun Parker, DJ Hi-Tek, DJ Khalil and many more.