DRIFT INTO THE VOID

Artist  | Dr. Dre
Title   | The Next Episode

Genre   | Rap                                  Format  | Maxi-Single
Source  | CD                                   Time    | 8:13

Label   | Aftermath Entertainment              Store   | 2000
Catalog | PDA 0033                             Rip     | 2025

Bitrate | 881 kbps                             Size    | 54.53 MB
Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1

01. The Next Episode (Clean) (Feat. Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg)     2:46
02. The Next Episode (Album Version)                            2:44
03. The Next Episode (Instrumental)                             2:43

Dr. Dre’s impact on rap, hip-hop, and pop music in general is nothing
short of revolutionary. His production informed the dominant trends for
several decades of rap, updating the noisy clamor of Public Enemy’s Bomb
Squad-produced tracks by bringing in funky rhythms for his breakthrough
work with his group N.W.A., single-handedly inventing G-Funk in the 90's
by reworking George Clinton’s spaced-out party funk into something
aggressive yet still commercially viable, and then abandoning the style
when it became too ubiquitous by the early 2000s.

Dre's rap skills were never as impressive as his production, but he
played to his strengths by giving game-changing proteges the majority of
time on the mike, first introducing the world to Snoop Dogg's laid-back
charisma and then to Eminem’s staggering technical abilities. Dre’s
multifaceted role in the music industry saw him forming labels Death Row
and Aftermath, the latter of which released massively important records
by 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, and Anderson Paak.

Along with production duties, label CEO status, and other business
ventures like his celebrity headphones-turned-streaming platform Beats
By Dre, the good doctor continued to slowly and steadily release music
of his own as the years went by, bolstering a discography full of
groundbreaking work like his 1992 debut "The Chronic" with projects
like his 2015 full-length "Compton", and his six-song EP "The Contract",
released in conjunction with Grand Theft Auto in 2022.