Dr. Dre Starts New Label, Aftermath

Dr. Dre was a rapper who could create his own niche in the world of rap music and moved away from the political stance and the avant-noise as well as the party vibes of the genre of old-school rap. He left N.W.A in the year 1992 and formed his own label "the Death Row" along with Suge Knight.

However, in the year 1992, he left Death Row Records and Retaliated from the previous company by announcing the death of gangsta rap. He then formed his own label, "Aftermath". The bold steps of Dr. Dre earned the label critical respect although success was yet crawling far. During that time, his previous label The Death Row suffered heavy loses due to the death of Tupac Shakur and the Imprisonment of Knight on charges of racketeering. In the same year Dre's first album, under the Aftermath label came out as a various artist collection "Dr. Dre Presents…The Aftermath". Because of the crippling of the Death Row, all the mediation was on "The Aftermath". The album could not make a significant impact on the minds of the people, but his solo presentation, "Been There Done That" was a hit with the listeners.

The album that was released under the label The Aftermath proved Dr. Dre wrong about the death of gangsta rap. However, Aftermath could not match standards with the G-funk template even if they had hard-core rappers in their band. The album however, revealed Dr. Dre's skill and interest for the urban RB and soul that were freshly exciting than other hip-hop tracks of the contemporary time. Even if the urban productions of the album were hits, still the individual performers could not make much of an impact in the creation of the label.