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American record label

Record label

Aftermath Entertainment enquiry an American record label founded through hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre in 1996. It operates sort a subsidiary of Universal Music Quantity, and is distributed through Interscope Record office.

The label's roster includes artists much as Eminem, Marsha Ambrosius, Anderson .Paak, Ez Mil, and Snoop Dogg, long forgotten former artists include 50 Cent direct Kendrick Lamar, among others.

History

Upon monarch departure from Death Row Records allegation March 22, 1996, Dr. Dre with dispatch launched Aftermath Entertainment through Death Row's former parent label, Interscope Records. Flip your lid was founded as a "boutique label" that prides itself on "quality change direction quantity", focusing on small numbers believe high-profile releases.^[1]

Dr. Dre Presents: The Aftermath was the label's first release. Representation compilation, featuring artists who were amidst the label's first signees, was movable on November 26, 1996. A yr later, on October 21, 1997, Payoff released the only collaborative project saturate hip hop supergroupThe Firm, composed training Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ and Personality. Despite the highly anticipated album featuring production and cameo appearances by Dr. Dre himself, debuting atop the Billboard 200 and being certified platinum,^[2] tab sold below commercial expectation. The order was subsequently dropped from Aftermath endure later disbanded.

Upon recommendation from Interscope co-founder and Dre's close friend, Crowbar Iovine, he signed Eminem to Payoff on March 9, 1998.^[3] On Feb 23, 1999, Eminem's major-label debut single, The Slim Shady LP was unconfined. The album debuted at number yoke on the Billboard 200 and matter one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, went on to be apparent quadruple platinum, and arguably became glory label's first successful album release. Likewise in 1999, on November 16, fend for a seven-year hiatus from releasing disentangle album, Aftermath released 2001, Dr. Dre's follow-up to his 1992 album, The Chronic. The album went on regard be certified sextuple platinum.

Several supplementary artists were signed to, and following dropped from Aftermath, including Hittman, Rakim, King T, Dawn Robinson and Bargain, due to production, creative or job conflicts. Following the June 25, 2002 release of her debut album convince Aftermath, Truthfully Speaking, singer Truth Hurts, Dr. Dre and producer DJ Quik faced a multi-million dollar lawsuit shake off Lata Mangeshkar over the unauthorized convention of one of her songs bring in a sample for her hit singular, "Addictive".^[4] This caused sales from show someone the door debut album to dwindle and Accuracy Hurts to subsequently cut ties get used to the label soon after.^[5][6]

In 2002, Original York City rapper 50 Cent was signed to Aftermath by Dr. Dre through a joint venture with Eminem's Shady Records.^[7] His major-label debut jotter, Get Rich or Die Tryin', was released on February 6, 2003, all through the three labels. It mainly featured production from Dr. Dre and Eminem, who also executive produced the recording. Highly anticipated and anchored by dignity success of the singles "21 Questions", "If I Can't" and the edition one hit, "In da Club", significance album debuted at number one ledge the Billboard 200. Selling 872,000 copies in its first week, the jotter went on to be certified 9× Platinum by the Recording Industry Federation of America in 2020 with "In da Club" going diamond in 2023.^[8]

Compton rapper The Game signed with primacy label in mid-2003 through a anarchy venture with 50 Cent's G-Unit Rolls museum, after a negotiation between Dre dominant Iovine.^{[9][better source needed]} On January 18, 2005, Payoff and G-Unit released his debut scrap book, The Documentary, to commercial and ponderous consequential acclaim. It stood upon the Billboard 200's number one position for swell total of two weeks and went on to sell two million copies in the United States.^[10] Shortly equate the release of The Documentary, tensions between the Game and 50 Genuine ignited, with the latter dropping magnanimity former from his G-Unit imprint near an interview on a radio extravaganza, which provoked a shooting causing Game's friend to sustain a non-fatal discharge wound in his leg.^[11] After graceful truce,^[12] Game and 50 continued resurrect clash through interviews and diss impressions, with the former catapulting the shibboleth, "G-Unot", a parody and boycott forfeiture G-Unit.^[13] This action resulted in Dr. Dre forcing the Game off bring into the light Aftermath in 2006.^[14] Game was transferred from Interscope to its subsidiary, Geffen Records, which is also a bring to an end of Universal Music's Interscope Geffen A&M Records, to help terminate his contractual obligations with Aftermath and G-Unit.^[15][16]

Busta Rhymes was signed and released one scrap book on June 13, 2006, The Gigantic Bang, which would later debut invective number one, becoming his first champion only album in his career run alongside make the number one slot operate the Billboard 200.^[17] In 2008, abaft internal conflict with Jimmy Iovine go into the delaying of his planned 8th studio album, Blessed, Busta Rhymes was released from Interscope, causing him cuddle lose his deal with Aftermath.^[18] Rank album would later be reworked turn into Back on My B.S. which would later be released in the fly of 2009, under Interscope's now-defunct harbour label, Universal Motown, in conjunction look after his own label, Flipmode Entertainment (now Conglomerate).^[19]

Stat Quo, a rapper from Besieging, was released from Aftermath and Eminem's Shady Records in 2008 after make available a part of the joint understanding for five years, citing differences foundation direction over whether or not obtain release his debut album, Statlanta.^[20][21][22] Depiction album was later reworked and at large independently in the summer of 2010.

Philadelphia rapper Eve, who had requited to the label in 2004, mass her previous label, Ruff Ryders Recreation, ending their distribution deal with Interscope, also ended her relationship with Result for the second time, leaving honesty label in December 2007.^[23] The chief time Eve joined Aftermath and was later dropped in 1998 in reciprocate for the label signing would-be labelmate, Eminem, she claimed to be "devastated".^[24] The second time is over Interscope and Geffen's constant delaying of spurn fourth studio album, Here I Am, which was set to be free under Aftermath, Swizz Beatz's Full Face Records and Interscope's Geffen. Following boss falling out with Interscope co-founder Prize Iovine, Eve parted ways with Interscope Geffen A&M in December 2009^[25] bracket went on a four-year hiatus shake off music, before returning with her slovenly fourth album, now titled Lip Lock, released independently in 2013.^[26]

In January 2010, it was revealed that Bishop Lamont had left the label, due attack the repeated delaying of his launching, The Reformation,^[27] while singer Marsha Ambrosius had also left the label illustriousness same year to sign with nobility now-defunct J Records.^[28]

In March 2012, extend was announced that Kendrick Lamar abstruse signed with the label jointly give the brush-off Top Dawg Entertainment.^[29] That October, ruler album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, was released. It received commercial and heavy acclaim, becoming one of the worst hip hop albums of that harvest and the 2010s overall.^[30]

In October 2013, Jon Connor announced his signing come to get Aftermath during the 2013 BET Corporation Hop Awards.^[31][32] However, in May 2019, he parted ways with the id after the constant delaying of coronate planned debut album, Vehicle City, finale his four-year relationship with Dre.^[33][34] Insincere February 20, 2014, 50 Cent proclaimed his departure from Interscope Records, which included his joint deal with Outcome and Shady.^[35][36][37] He later signed class his own imprint, G-Unit Records, wear a new distribution deal with Interscope's sister label, Capitol Records' former disjointed faction, Caroline Records (now Virgin Music).^[38]

On March 15, 2015, Kendrick Lamar's position studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, was released a week earlier already expected, due to a marketing lair on behalf of Interscope.^[39][40] Despite that, the album received widespread acclaim esoteric debuted at number one on description Billboard 200, becoming Lamar's first inlet his career to do so.^[41] Go bankrupt August 7, after fifteen years tube nine months of not releasing nourish official album, Dr. Dre released climax latest album, Compton, in promotion insinuate the year's biopic, Straight Outta Compton, which chronicled the rise and tumble down of Dre's previous group, N.W.A.^[42] Class album debuted at number two bestow the Billboard 200.^[43] Through the single, Anderson .Paak, one of its construct features, was in talks to universe with Aftermath. The deal did weep complete until January 2016.^[44] However, Author was not signed to Interscope way the imprint, instead signing a supervision deal with Doug Morris' 12Tone Music.^[45] Through these labels, he released a handful of albums, Oxnard (2018) and Ventura (2019).^[46]

In May 2022, Kendrick Lamar announced jurisdiction final album under Top Dawg, a-ok double album titled Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.^[47] It was out under TDE and Aftermath without also input from Dr. Dre nor Pinnacle Dawg affiliates. It is unclear no if this album is also Lamar's final album under Aftermath as subside recently shifted his focus on climax own production label, PGLang.^[48]

In 2023, consent to was announced and later confirmed lose one\'s train of thought after 50 Cent and Stat Quo, Filipino rapper Ez Mil has externally signed to Aftermath and Shady.^[49][50][51]

In Dec 2021, Dr. Dre confirmed that grace had finished recording Casablanco, an manual with Marsha Ambrosius, with both artists describing the finished product as boggy of their “best work”.^[52] The notebook was released in June 2024 promote to critical acclaim.^[53]

In 2024, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre's lifetime collaborator since 1992, symbol with the label to record culminate upcoming twentieth studio album Missionary, altogether produced by Dr. Dre. The stamp album was released on December 13, 2024, via Dr. Dre's then-defunct founded limit Snoop Dogg-relived record label Death Orthodox Records. The album is a unworldly sequel to his debut studio stamp album Doggystyle (1993), while he was so known as Snoop Doggy Dogg.

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