Dr. Dre's Chronic Getting Reissued

07/20/09 12:10pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Dr. Dre's classic 1992 debut album, The Chronic, will be reissued as The Chronic Re Lit & From The Vault through Death Row Records on Sept. 1.

The reissue will include all of The Chronic's 16 tracks remastered with liner notes from producer Quincy Jones III and a DVD entitled From The Vault.

The DVD will feature videos for singles from The Chronic, promotional pieces and an unreleased, never-before-seen 30-minute interview with Dr. Dre (real name Andre Romelle Young) in the studio, where he discusses the future of hip-hop. It will also include seven unreleased and rare songs from Snoop Dogg (who then went by the Snoop Doggy Dogg moniker), Jewell, CPO and Kurupt.

The Chronic was Death Row Records' first release. It hit #3 on the U.S. charts and has sold over eight million copies worldwide since it came out. Vibe magazine voted it one of the 100 Essential Albums Of The 20th Century and it made #137 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time list.

Toronto's WIDEawake Entertainment Group bought Death Row Records at the end of 2008 for $18 million U.S. The label was founded by Dre and Marion "Suge" Knight, but was put up for auction after Knight filed for bankruptcy protection in 2006.