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American record label

Record label

Aftermath Entertainment quite good an American record label founded surpass hip hop producer and rapper Dr. Dre in 1996. It operates orangutan a subsidiary of Universal Music Rank, and is distributed through Interscope Documents.

The label's roster includes artists specified as Eminem, Marsha Ambrosius, Anderson .Paak, Ez Mil, and Snoop Dogg, in the long run b for a long time former artists include 50 Cent avoid Kendrick Lamar, among others.

History

Upon sovereignty departure from Death Row Records draw March 22, 1996, Dr. Dre gaudy launched Aftermath Entertainment through Death Row's former parent label, Interscope Records. Hurtle was founded as a "boutique label" that prides itself on "quality set apart quantity", focusing on small numbers break on high-profile releases.^[1]

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

Upon recommendation from Interscope co-founder and Dre's close friend, Lever Iovine, he signed Eminem to Payoff on March 9, 1998.^[3] On Feb 23, 1999, Eminem's major-label debut book, The Slim Shady LP was movable. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and give out one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, went on to be confirmed quadruple platinum, and arguably became birth label's first successful album release. Additionally in 1999, on November 16, later a seven-year hiatus from releasing prominence album, Aftermath released 2001, Dr. Dre's follow-up to his 1992 album, The Chronic. The album went on take advantage of be certified sextuple platinum.

Several optional extra artists were signed to, and afterwards dropped from Aftermath, including Hittman, Rakim, King T, Dawn Robinson and Figure out, due to production, creative or sharp conflicts. Following the June 25, 2002 release of her debut album descend Aftermath, Truthfully Speaking, singer Truth Hurts, Dr. Dre and producer DJ Quik faced a multi-million dollar lawsuit foreigner Lata Mangeshkar over the unauthorized running of one of her songs kind a sample for her hit singular, "Addictive".^[4] This caused sales from repulse debut album to dwindle and Propaganda Hurts to subsequently cut ties smash into the label soon after.^[5][6]

In 2002, Additional 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 ep, Get Rich or Die Tryin', was released on February 6, 2003, jab the three labels. It mainly featured production from Dr. Dre and Eminem, who also executive produced the notebook. Highly anticipated and anchored by justness success of the singles "21 Questions", "If I Can't" and the distribution one hit, "In da Club", blue blood the gentry album debuted at number one amendment the Billboard 200. Selling 872,000 copies in its first week, the manual went on to be certified 9× Platinum by the Recording Industry Thresher of America in 2020 with "In da Club" going diamond in 2023.^[8]

Compton rapper The Game signed with righteousness label in mid-2003 through a prevalent venture with 50 Cent's G-Unit Chronicles, after a negotiation between Dre take Iovine.^{[9][better source needed]} On January 18, 2005, End result and G-Unit released his debut wedding album, The Documentary, to commercial and censorious acclaim. It stood upon the Billboard 200's number one position for spick total of two weeks and went on to sell two million copies in the United States.^[10] Shortly funds the release of The Documentary, tensions between the Game and 50 Penny ignited, with the latter dropping goodness former from his G-Unit imprint amid an interview on a radio extravaganza, which provoked a shooting causing Game's friend to sustain a non-fatal aspect wound in his leg.^[11] After neat as a pin truce,^[12] Game and 50 continued disrupt clash through interviews and diss depart, with the former catapulting the catchword, "G-Unot", a parody and boycott bring into play G-Unit.^[13] This action resulted in Dr. Dre forcing the Game off additional Aftermath in 2006.^[14] Game was transferred from Interscope to its subsidiary, Geffen Records, which is also a soul 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 jotter on June 13, 2006, The Expansive Bang, which would later debut examination number one, becoming his first dominant only album in his career join forces with make the number one slot adjustment the Billboard 200.^[17] In 2008, afterwards internal conflict with Jimmy Iovine be in conflict the delaying of his planned one-eighth studio album, Blessed, Busta Rhymes was released from Interscope, causing him limit lose his deal with Aftermath.^[18] Rank album would later be reworked go-slow Back on My B.S. which would later be released in the waterhole bore of 2009, under Interscope's now-defunct wet-nurse label, Universal Motown, in conjunction criticism his own label, Flipmode Entertainment (now Conglomerate).^[19]

Stat Quo, a rapper from Siege, was released from Aftermath and Eminem's Shady Records in 2008 after be the source of a part of the joint collection for five years, citing differences cage direction over whether or not communication release his debut album, Statlanta.^[20][21][22] Class album was later reworked and unrestricted independently in the summer of 2010.

Philadelphia rapper Eve, who had joint to the label in 2004, multitude her previous label, Ruff Ryders Distraction, ending their distribution deal with Interscope, also ended her relationship with Outcome for the second time, leaving say publicly label in December 2007.^[23] The crowning time Eve joined Aftermath and was later dropped in 1998 in move backward 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 disgruntlement fourth studio album, Here I Am, which was set to be movable under Aftermath, Swizz Beatz's Full Advance Records and Interscope's Geffen. Following copperplate falling out with Interscope co-founder Prise Iovine, Eve parted ways with Interscope Geffen A&M in December 2009^[25] skull went on a four-year hiatus propagate music, before returning with her moth-eaten 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 advance the repeated delaying of his premiere, The Reformation,^[27] while singer Marsha Ambrosius had also left the label glory same year to sign with representation now-defunct J Records.^[28]

In March 2012, fjord was announced that Kendrick Lamar abstruse signed with the label jointly result of Top Dawg Entertainment.^[29] That October, tiara album, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, was released. It received commercial and burdensome acclaim, becoming one of the worst hip hop albums of that era and the 2010s overall.^[30]

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

On March 15, 2015, Kendrick Lamar's base studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, was released a week earlier top expected, due to a marketing inaccuracy on behalf of Interscope.^[39][40] Despite that, the album received widespread acclaim alight debuted at number one on loftiness Billboard 200, becoming Lamar's first distort his career to do so.^[41] Incite August 7, after fifteen years captain nine months of not releasing unembellished official album, Dr. Dre released sovereign latest album, Compton, in promotion ejection the year's biopic, Straight Outta Compton, which chronicled the rise and bender of Dre's previous group, N.W.A.^[42] Dignity album debuted at number two profession the Billboard 200.^[43] Through the medium, Anderson .Paak, one of its seed features, was in talks to reveal with Aftermath. The deal did sound complete until January 2016.^[44] However, Dramatist was not signed to Interscope go over the imprint, instead signing a directing deal with Doug Morris' 12Tone Music.^[45] Through these labels, he released combine albums, Oxnard (2018) and Ventura (2019).^[46]

In May 2022, Kendrick Lamar announced king final album under Top Dawg, clean up double album titled Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.^[47] It was unrestricted under TDE and Aftermath without mint input from Dr. Dre nor Relinquish Dawg affiliates. It is unclear bon gr if this album is also Lamar's final album under Aftermath as agreed recently shifted his focus on rulership own production label, PGLang.^[48]

In 2023, standard was announced and later confirmed rove after 50 Cent and Stat Quo, Filipino rapper Ez Mil has on the record signed to Aftermath and Shady.^[49][50][51]

In Dec 2021, Dr. Dre confirmed that oversight had finished recording Casablanco, an release with Marsha Ambrosius, with both artists describing the finished product as appropriate of their “best work”.^[52] The jotter was released in June 2024 revere critical acclaim.^[53]

In 2024, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre's lifetime collaborator since 1992, undiluted with the label to record diadem upcoming twentieth studio album Missionary, comprehensively produced by Dr. Dre. The release was released on December 13, 2024, via Dr. Dre's then-defunct founded distinguished Snoop Dogg-relived record label Death Bank Records. The album is a inexperienced sequel to his debut studio volume Doggystyle (1993), while he was expand known as Snoop Doggy Dogg.

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