Andre Young

Dr. Dre (born Andre Romel Young on February 18, 1965, in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American record producer, rapper, and record executive, one of the most successful and well-known producers in the field of hip hop musi

Dr. Dre (born Andre Romel Young on February 18, 1965, in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American record producer, rapper, and record executive, one of the most successful and well-known producers in the field of hip hop music.

Dre is best-known as for his collaborations with West Coast hip hop artists such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Tupac Shakur, and also as a former member of pioneering gangsta rap group N.W.A. He is also notable for being the co-founder of Death Row Records (with Suge Knight); and the founder of Aftermath Entertainment, a label distributed through Interscope Records that features multi-platinum artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, and more recently Busta Rhymes, Eve, Stat Quo, The Game and of course Dr. Dre himself.