Product Description

Dr. Dre's follow-up to his 1992 seminal rap album, also entitled 'The Chronic'. This 2001 edition follows the same formula as the first one. Dre's West Coast gangsta rap is fused with extensive sampling and old-school beats. Features a myriad of Death Row guests including Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Exhibit amongst others. Includes 'Still DRE', 'Let's Get High' and 'The Next Episode'.

Track Listing

1. Lolo (Intro) - Dr. Dre, Xzibit & Tray-Dee
2. The Watcher - Dr. Dre
3. Fuck You - Dr. Dre, Devin a/k/a The Dude, Snoop Dogg
4. Still D.R.E. - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg
5. Big Ego's - Dr. Dre, Hittman
6. Xxplosive - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Six-Two, Nate Dogg, Kurupt
7. What's The Difference - Dr. Dre, Eminem, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner
8. Bar One - Dr. Dre, Traci Nelson/Ms. Roq & Eddie Griffin
9. Light Speed - Dr. Dre, Hittman
10. Forgot About Dre - Dr. Dre, Eminem
11. The Next Episode - Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg
12. Let's Get High - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Ms. Roq, Kurupt
13. Bitch Niggaz - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Six-Two, Snoop Dogg
14. The Car Bomb - Dr. Dre, Mel-Man & Charis Henry
15. Murder Ink - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Ms. Roq
16. Ed-Ucation - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Ms. Roq, Eddie Griffin
17. Some L.A. Niggaz - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Ms. Roq, Knoc-Turn'al, Time Bomb, Koka Kambon, Defari, MC Ren, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner
18. Pause 4 Porno - Dr. Dre, Jake Steed
19. Housewife - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Kurupt
20. Ackrite - Dr. Dre, Hittman
21. Bang Bang - Dr. Dre, Hittman, Knoc-Turn'al
22. The Message - Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Rell, Thomas Chong
23. Still D.R.E. - Dr. Dre

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1718 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Running time: 73 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
How to follow the phenomenally-successful The Chronic album must have caused superstar rap producer Dr Dre more than a few sleepless nights. Five years on, for 2001 he's gathered a plethora of prime, new rap talent around him, including his prodigy-of-the-moment, Eminem, and Xzibit (who duet on boombastic anthem "What's The Difference?"); and is reunited with former compadres Snoop Dogg, Kurupt and MC Ren. While the lyrical preoccupations remain the same--sex, sess (marijuana), girls, guns and cars--the predictably flawless production has been cranked up way beyond the G-Funk formula that found him fame. "Still D.R.E." is driven by the persistent pluck of a harmonium; "Light Speed" is all spooky, retro-future funk; and "Forgot About Dre" boosts kinetic, Timbaland-style beats with insistent strings and squalls of guitar. All in all, there's more than enough on here to satisfy the hardcore that Dre is back and business is booming. --Chris Campion

Amazon.co.uk Review
Despite the number of guests on hand, Dr. Dre's decade-/century-/millennium-ending sequel to The Chronic is, like its predecessor, less a stack of posse cuts and more an elegantly seamless work from West Coast hip-hop's premier auteur. Deliberately cinematic in everything from its mix of moods to dramatic musical surges, 2001 is Dre's assessment of the gangsta life in medium shots. No longer fully immersed in violence and random sex, yet aware of their attraction, he often lets his guests blow steam about whatever is on their minds. When he takes stock of gangbanging circa late 1999, though, he drops his neutral tone; he even provides another half-joking but stern warning to protégé Eminem on "What's the Difference". Between his discovery of Slim Shady, visits from old pal Snoop Dogg, and, most of all, the masterful sound and flow of this CD, Dre should shut down all talk of his supposed irrelevance. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

A must have album...
2001 is easily one of the most influential, trendsetting and important albums in west coast rap/hip-hop. Bringing west coast into the 21st century. If you like this sort of music then its got to be in your stack. Dre's 'The Chronic' is equaly as good and worth having too, just alot more old skool than this. Some great skits too giving the album a humourous edge to boot. Anyone giving it a 1 star should go buy some Vanilla Ice. ;)

Great
Now, i thought i would like this straight off, but i didn't. It took about three listens to really sink in, then i knew Dre had released a killer. The best track is probably What's The Difference, but we all know about still D.R.E. I mean that is a TUNE!!!!
Snoop and Dre make a great partnership and i hope they do a collaboration album, as if they reproduce verses like on here, it will be hot!
Banging beats and hot rhymes make this a classic

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Somewhat mediocre.
This is an extremely patchy album. Dr. Dre has always shined as a producer, no question. He gave NWA tracks blasts of brass and live drums. He laid flute samples into his own debut, The Chronic. And here his production is more than up to scratch. Released in 1999, this album sees Dre move away from his old style and start playing around, being more innovative. The big budget productions here feature electric guitars, lush synths and brilliant string samples - if only the rapping was as good.

Dre is an interesting but not particularly talented MC; he had a few solo spots on NWA albums and he adds a few verses to songs by his proteges, but here - on his own solo album, no less - there is only one song that isn't 'feat. x rapper,' 'The Watcher,' which coincidentally is one of the best songs here. Unfortunately, Dre chooses to surround himself with completely mediocre fellows; Hittman is pathetic, Ms. Roq - that oh-so-rare thing, a female rapper; there's a reason for that - is worthless.

What redeems this album is when some of rap's bigger names make appearances, like Xzibit, Snoop Dogg and the soon-to-be-massive Eminem. Between them, they make this album's three singles, three tracks which are absolutely essential to any rap fan. 'Still D.R.E feat. Snoop Dogg' has one of the most recognisable samples in history, a true club banger; 'The Next Episode' is one of rap's finest moments and one of Dre's finest productions, laying gorgeous strings over a big beat; and then there's 'Forgot About Dre,' featuring Eminem bigging up Dre (in a much less hyperactive way than is his trademark) and one of Dre's best raps. He lists his accomplishments, revels in his past glories and platinum plaques and kicks out at the those who've criticised him because he can afford to feed his family.

Those three tracks render this album, which is at best a mixed bag, utterly essential.