Competing Over Chronic

In 1992, Dr. Dre and Death Row Records scored big| with the multi-platinumalbum, The Chronic. Now, while the artist and label have partedways, each wants to recapture the magic with a follow-up entitled TheChronic 2000. Dr. Dre's The Chronic 2000 will feature all newtracks by himself, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg. Death Row's The Chronic2000 will feature previously unreleased tracks and remixes by Dre,Snoop, 2Pac, and - are ya ready for this? - a Tupac Shakur sound-alike.While Death Row's version is scheduled to drop first (next month), Dre sayshe has no plans to change the title of his album.

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Song Stories

“Too Close”

Next | 1998

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'" 

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